Beth Myrle Rice

Beth founded Purple Stripe Publishing in January 1998 to produce both a tree-free chapbook of her poetry entitled Your Tree & Collected Poems for Personal Freedom and a free-to-the-Seattle-public newspaper called Hemp Activist Times. She began writing Clips & Consequences: a memoir in 1996 but her manuscript was repeatedly pushed to the back burner due to ever shifting life circumstances. Each time writing resumed a transformation occurred in the manuscript reflecting personal growth, healing, a shift of consciousness; invariably following a “Tst! What were you thinking, Beth?” The story brought to pages between covers in 2011 represents what Beth considers to be the right book. Beth has been a member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association since 2005. And, this year has joined Book Publisher NW.In addition to reading and writing Beth loves to bake, particularly cookies and cinnamon rolls of the sticky yum gooey kind. She also loves to crochet: hats, scarves, afghans... She does not use patterns preferring to wing it; while knowing to get the best fit or best look often means ripping it out and doing it again to the tune of having crocheted the one item two or three times when done. She is a huge fan of music and dancing in many genres and styles.Beth is trying to decide if it's awkward or just plain silly to write about herself in third person. Is this perhaps a common dilemma with all self-publishers?