Author: Beth Rubin

Beth began writing funny stories to avoid long division and household chores—and to entertain her friends. She introduced graffiti to the girls’ restroom of Maplewood Junior High and warmed the principal’s bench as a reward for her creativity. When not sneaking smokes in the high school parking lot or bleaching her hair, she worked on the school newspaper and yearbook. Through some unexplained glitch, she went to college and graduated in four years with a useless degree. Moving on, she married and served time at a Washington, D.C. trade association, performing slave labor for a bunch of old Southern white guys. Beth raised her little darlings (now almost as old as she is), while juggling a career in journalism and editing. She gained a following with her family humor column in the ‘80s and covered the D.C. dance scene. (Wait, how did that get in here?). She’s published several travel books, a novel, “Split Ends”; and hundreds of features for print publications and the Web. Working both sides of the aisle, she edits and coaches other writers. Inspired by her first Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop in 2013, she’s blogging like crazy at Beth, Bad and Beyond and writing a book about her eccentric family’s (mis)adventures. She wants to be rich and famous. But she’ll settle for rich. www.bethrubinauthor.com