{"id":2,"date":"2008-08-16T13:01:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T19:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-10-16T20:01:59","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T03:01:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Beth Barany"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Beth<\/a>ABOUT BETH BARANY<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Beth Barany is\u00a0a\u00a0writer\u2019s coach,\u00a0a\u00a0keynote speaker and\u00a0a\u00a0marketing advisor for writers and publishers. The author of the bestselling books for writers,\u00a0The Writer\u2019s Adventure Guide: 12 Stages to Writing Your Book,\u00a0<\/em>Overcome Writer\u2019s Block<\/em>, and\u00a0<\/span>Twitter for Authors: Social Media Book Marketing for Shy Writers,\u00a0<\/em>she also publishes the monthly digital magazine,\u00a0Author Entrepreneurship Magazine<\/em>, to help authors create successful and sustainable careers. Beth is also the award-winning novelist of the young adult epic fantasy,\u00a0Henrietta The Dragon Slayer<\/em>, the first of\u00a0a\u00a03-book series.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0a\u00a0Master NLP Practitioner and Certified Creativity Coach, Beth\u00a0has\u00a0helped authors get their books written, edited and published for over 12 years, as well as guided them\u00a0in\u00a0effectively marketing and selling their work. Five of her clients\u2019 books have\u00a0been\u00a0best-sellers. Sign up for her newsletter and receive her free Writer’s Motivation Mini-Course at\u00a0www.BethBarany.com<\/a>. Also receive the latest issue and\u00a0a\u00a0free subscription to Author Entrepreneur Magazine at\u00a0www.authorentrepreneurship.com<\/wbr><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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More about Beth…<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n


\nBeth Barany coaches and teaches writers and those who want to write. She’s done so in two of her favorite places in the world (so far): the San Francisco Bay Area and Paris, France.<\/span><\/p>\n

Raised in Sonoma County, California, Beth knew she wanted to be a writer from a young age, and started at age 7 by writing her first book about her family’s cats with her brother.<\/p>\n

Beth started teaching writing by teaching it to ESL students in Oakland, California. Soon, they were surprised to be writing short stories in their new English-language skills, and most importantly, they were enjoying it. (Well, most of them were.)<\/p>\n

Certified as a Creativity Coach<\/strong> and an EFL-instructor, Beth is driven to help writers and authors get their message out into the world, gain confidence in their self-expression and discover how they can get noticed and sell books to their audience.<\/p>\n

AS A WRITER AND AUTHOR
\nDetermined to get published, Beth published her first journalism article in the Paris Free Voice<\/span> while she was living in the City of Lights in the early 1990s. It only took four tries and five rewrites!<\/p>\n

From working in journalism for 15 years, Beth switched her focus to fiction, and now writes fantasy and science fiction. She currently has a young adult fantasy novel under consideration by agents and editors.<\/p>\n

On her off-hours, Beth enjoys the outdoors, gardens, watches movies, and reads!<\/p>\n

Beth is married to singer\/song-writer and high school physics teacher, Ezra Barany<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More about Beth Barany, her work experience, go here: About Beth Barany<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More about here service here: Creativity Coaching & Editing Services<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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