Bibliopothecary
A free guided fiction craft book club
It's a two-part process:
Once the year is underway, we'll be sharing suggested reading milestones, providing reading questions to guide your process, and hosting live discussions helmed by Dr. Beth Ball, the creator of this program.
Dr. Beth Ball is the author of numerous fantasy novels and acclaimed tabletop roleplaying games
Dr. Beth Ball is a fantasy novelist, tabletop RPG designer, and English professor with over ten years of experience teaching writing. After spending her childhood dreaming of becoming an author, she published her first novel, Buried Heroes, in 2020 and has since published three other novels, earned her PhD, and has three more novels slated for release in 2025, including her first LitRPG under a pen name.
Beth’s approach to teaching writing centers around mindset and personalizing the creative process. She also believes that stories choose their writers for a reason, so if there’s a story pressing on your heart, you are, innately, the person who needs to tell it.
What Beth has found as an instructor and, probably even more, what she’s found as an author, is that the writing journey begins as one of belief—even before we begin weaving tales that captivate readers’ imaginations, we have to first believe in ourselves, that we can be the person to bring the stories of our heart into being, that we have what it takes to real-ize them and share them with the world.
If you’re willing to take that first step of faith, Beth can help you navigate the craft, patience, and process to see your fiction-writing dream come true.
If you're ready to complete your dream program in 2025, this is the program for you. (You do not need to enroll in Write Your Novel Already! to participate in Bibliopothecary.)
Quarter 1 Read: January-March 2025
Quarter 2 Read: April-June 2025
Quarter 3 Read: July-September 2025
Quarter 4 Read: October-December 2025
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