Beth Black

Visit the "Free Samples" page on this site, and you'll find a short story I wrote about the way a lot of characters feel as they navigate...

My love for literary devices goes back to UCI, where the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms became my favorite writing resource. I...

There's a reason they call it wordplay. Study language enough, and it becomes play to choose tropes that express more than the action or...

It began quietly. I was launching a novel called Where You Go, I Go and needed to draw attention to it. This is a monumental challenge...

Bonnie didn't like her odds in this place, surrounded by fossils in wheelchairs — the lame, the doomed, the decaying, the moribund.

What would it mean to become a professional writer?

It's one thing to read a story. It's another to know the tale that wags it.