She's been a software engineer and software project manager. Once management discovered she was a rare commodity--a software engineer who could write--she wrote countless manuals, design documents, final reports, marketing proposals, and technical papers. She also married, obtained a Masters Degree, and produced two children.

Beth has been writing fiction since retiring and has finished six novels, a novella, and numerous short stories. She was active in two critique groups for over five years, but now meets with one. To learn the craft, she studied writing books, took workshops, went to conferences, and entered contests, some of which she won or placed in. She's a big believer in networking. She belongs to the following writing organizations: Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Pikes Peak Writers, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society.

Between writing spurts, she defends her meager garden from marauding mule deer and wild rabbits, and tries to avoid getting black-and-blue on the black and blue ski slopes of Colorado. She also loves water sports, particularly whitewater rafting/canoeing and snorkeling. If a water slide is around, she's on it--more than once. Growing up as a military brat, she enjoyed and thrived on travel. She's the family travel agent and has planned trips for her family to Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and all over the USA, including Alaska and Hawaii.