Beth M. Howard eBooks

Beth M. Howard has been a journalist for more than 25 years specializing in personality profiles, adventure travel, and outdoor sports.  She has written for Shape, Elle, Travel & Leisure, Fitness, and many other magazines.  Her assignments have taken her sky diving, dog sledding in Alaska, scuba diving with sharks, and competing in the Eco-Challenge, a ten-day multi-sport race through Utah’s wilderness, which she and her team successfully finished.She has worked as a senior editor for Sports Traveler and a contributing editor for Sports Illustrated Women.  She has been a producer for MSN.com’s Women’s Channel and for MSNBC.com’s 2002 Winter Olympics official Web site.  For six years she freelanced for Microsoft Corporation as the content editor for Bill Gates’ annual CEO Summit.

She received a Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, graduating in three years with an emphasis on communications and environmental studies.  She has worked and lived throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia.  She continues to practice speaking French, Spanish, and German, though, admittedly, she gave up on Japanese and has forgotten most of her Swahili.

Currently, Beth is living in Eldon, Iowa, in the famous American Gothic House, where she runs the Pitchfork Pie Stand, writes for magazines, and is developing a TV/web series about pie. Her story and her blog, “The World Needs More Pie,” has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, New York Times, Readers Digest for iPad, Midwest Living, Spirit (SW Airlines’ in-flight magazine), and many other national publications.