Bette moved to Sonoma County in 2009 where she began to work for a portfolio of international wineries doing sales and marketing. When she moved to Kansas City in 2018 her goal was to make a life for herself and her family that allowed her to pursue writing and start a sourdough bakery, both of which she has been doing ever since.
Her current project is the satirical fantasy romance Once Upon a Trope, inspired by her viral videos on TikTok poking fun at popular fantasy and romance tropes. She is also working on two more books set in the same world: a humorous Baba Yaga retelling that takes inspiration from The Wizard of Oz, and a story about a monster rescue/conservation center and the volunteers that try to keep it afloat, sometimes literally.
Bette lives on 7 acres in a casually haunted house with a pond full of secrets, a bakery full of witchcraft, two kids full of raccoon-energy, two dogs full of bad decisions, and one heroic, exhausted husband.
About Bette
Bette was born in San Francisco, California. As the oldest of three in a family of book-lovers she became a voracious reader from an early age. Some of the authors who have had an enduring effect on her are Patricia Wrede, Agatha Christie, PG Wodehouse, Oscar Wilde, Charlotte Brontë, Tamora Pierce, Terry Pratchett, Tanith Lee, and Robin McKinley. In her free time she wrote essays on her favorite authors and created original works of fiction, nearly always writing in the fantasy genre.
After graduating from UC Santa Barbara in 2004 with a degree in Art and a minor in Art History, she formed an interactive performance group with 8 prop fabrication and costuming professionals. She created original characters and scripts and performed live at venues in the Los Angeles area between 2006-2009. The group also created a viral YouTube series, The League of S.T.E.A.M. and Bette appeared in the pilot episode of The World of Steam which sold to the Jim Henson Company for development.
Bette moved to Sonoma County in 2009 where she began to work for a portfolio of international wineries doing sales and marketing. When she moved to Kansas City in 2018 her goal was to make a life for herself and her family that allowed her to pursue writing and start a sourdough bakery, both of which she has been doing ever since.
Her current project is the satirical fantasy romance Once Upon a Trope, inspired by her viral videos on TikTok poking fun at popular fantasy and romance tropes. She is also working on two more books set in the same world: a humorous Baba Yaga retelling that takes inspiration from The Wizard of Oz, and a story about a monster rescue/conservation center and the volunteers that try to keep it afloat, sometimes literally.
Bette lives on 7 acres in a casually haunted house with a pond full of secrets, a bakery full of witchcraft, two kids full of raccoon-energy, two dogs full of bad decisions, and one heroic, exhausted husband.