Beth Buck saw her first episode of Star Trek in second grade and has had stars in her eyes ever since. Her notebooks from middle school on are full of short stories and beginnings of novels set on space ships and alien planets, with time travel, intergalactic war, and adolescent inter-species romance.
Foolishly, she chose not to major in creative writing college because she wasn’t sure she would be able to do something that fun in real life. She should have had an inkling that it was something she should be doing when she spent nearly all of her semester abroad in Egypt working on her (as yet unpublished) novel instead of doing her Arabic translation homework.
When she realized her senior year that she loved writing and loathed translating Arabic newspapers, she began to suspect that she was in the wrong line of work but by then it was too late to switch majors. It took another couple of years and a few kids before she had her Isaac-Newton-style epiphany that yes, writing is something she could do in real life.
After that, she jumped in with both feet. Since then, she has published several short stories, a couple of personal essays, over 60 articles on emergency preparedness, and has a middle grade serial called Faith and Patience in progress. Maybe she might even get that novel published.
In addition to her writing pursuits, Beth was the acquisitions director for Immortal Works Press until 2020 and presents at writing conferences around Utah. When she’s not writing, she spins on her spinning wheel, practices Shaolin Kempo, and commands her small army of children.
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