An award-winning novelist, Beth is a speaker, teacher, coach, and co-founder of the Barany School of Fiction that she runs with her husband, Ezra.

Here are the fun nuggets from our interview: Fun nugget #1: Finding a writing community can help you to navigate the vast and unknown (often overwhelming) world of fiction Fun nugget #2: There are are robust, tested methods out there that allow you to save time (and therefore money) in writing your fiction work Fun nugget #3: Fiction writing can turn work into play :) Fun nugget #4: Perfection is the enemy of get it done Fun nugget #5: A self publishing checklist can help you to chart out your journey and keep you organized. Beth also suggests a "meta document" where you keep all of the information about your book in one place.