About the Author
Beth Brown is a connoisseur of freckled faces, anthropological oddities,
and dry wit. Her creative career began not
with writing, but with visual art and illustration. This probably
explains why she still prefers to write with a paper and pen.
Beth turned her focus
toward words after learning that the history and legends she had been
researching as a hobby were quickly slipping away with the previous
generation. Her non-fiction books became a mission to preserve the
events of the past while making them fun and entertaining for modern
readers. She managed this by pairing her love of history with another
passion - the search for ghosts.
Beth began investigating the paranormal
in 1989 when a mentor sent her to interview the owners of a 250-year old
home practically overflowing with spirits. Photographs and audio
recordings made that day ignited her curiosity about life after death
and set the wheels in motion for two decades of research. In 2007, Beth
founded the Virginia Society of Paranormal Education and Research (VASPER)
to provide a venue for training, networking, and resource-sharing for
paranormal investigation teams throughout the region. She is a
Professional Member of the Rhine Research Center in Durham, NC, and is
currently conducting ongoing experiments with real-time spirit
communication.
Beth and her
research of the paranormal activity at Sherwood Forest Plantation in
Charles City County, Virginia, were featured on the Emmy-award winning
program
Virginia Currents,
episode #1923, which aired March, 2010. She has served as a paranormal
consultant to several media outlets, including A&E Network, CBS, PBS,
and Discovery. Beth appeared as a recurring judge in
the new Travel Channel series
Paranormal Challenge
with Zak
Bagans,
which debuted in June, 2011. She
instructed
one of Hollywood's finest, Eric Roberts, how to investigate a haunting
in Celebrity Ghost Hunt with Chip Coffey (of Psychic Kids
and Paranormal State) on the Biography Channel in July, 2011.
A passionate supporter of the DIY arts movement,
Beth founded the publishing house Iron Cauldron Books in 2007. The
company's goal is to provide a publishing outlet for writers of "fringe" topics
without having the artistic merit of their work altered to suit the market,
and they are scheduled to release two new titles in 2011. Beth currently
serves as the Senior Editor at both Iron Cauldron Books and Haunted
Times Magazine.
Beth Brown lives in
Richmond, Virginia. She is available to
lecture about writing, publishing, Virginia history, Voodoo and other
folk religions, and paranormal phenomena for
libraries, museums, festivals, and independent bookstores in the
Southeast. Please
contact her
for more information or to secure her as a speaker for your event.
If you are a member of the
media and would like to schedule an interview, please request a
Press Kit
(pdf)
Latest Works(Click Images to Purchase)
NOW AVAILABLE!
Richmond Macabre:
Nightmares From the River City
offers fifteen short stories of
ghosts, vampires, zombies, and unnamable
terrors that dare you to peer into the shadows of the River City, but
you must first be certain you are prepared to glimpse the horrors that
lie within...
NEW! Wicked Richmond
exposes a closet full of historical skeletons in Virginia's capital
city. Tales of murder, deception, and even of pirates tried and executed
in the heart of downtown will lead readers on a journey into the evil
side of the city's past.
 WINNER
-
2010 Library of Virginia
People's Choice Award
Haunted
Plantations of Virginia spotlights 20 historic homes and the
author's explorations of the ghostly encounters reported at each. Find
out why the tales of murder, suicide, hidden fortune, and heartbreak at
these sites cause spirits to linger.
 Haunted
Battlefields leads you on a literary journey to thirteen of
Virginia's most haunted Civil War sites in search of spectral residents.
Visit Cold Harbor, Henry House Hill, and the Bull Run Bridge at
Manassas, Fredericksburg's Sunken Road, Grant's Headquarters at
Appomattox Manor, and many more ghostly places!
 Conducting
a Paranormal Investigation - a Training Guide
Originally
developed as a training manual for the Virginia Society of Paranormal
Education and Research (VASPER), this guide is now available to all
beginners and would-be ghost-hunters hoping to capture evidence of the
supernatural for themselves.
 From
a Witch's Kitchen - Celebrating Seasonal Magic in Every Meal
This
cook's reference balances the comforts of winter, the fresh tastes of
spring, the revitalizing flavors of summer, and the abundant harvests of
autumn in one spell-binding book. Brown has packed nearly 100 vegetarian
recipes into this collection that showcase nature's bounties at their
peak from three generations of kitchen witches.
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Special Projects
PAGE A DAY 365
Beth's yearlong
writing adventure, "Page
a Day 365", comes in the wake of her recently completed Trinket a
Day project. Every day during 2012, she is drafting at least one page of
her upcoming Southern Gothic novel entitled Whitehall. Readers
are invited to follow the book's progress while learning about valuable
writing resources, methods of motivation, and tips of the craft.
TRINKET A DAY 365
Inspired by fellow Richmonder
Noah Scalin's "Skull
a Day" project, Beth began a creative journey on January
1, 2011 that ended on December 31, 2011. The "Trinket
a Day 365" adventure spotlights her jewelry-making skills and offers
readers a look at her unique daily creations. Artists of all types are
invited to participate in creative challenges, explore visual and
written art prompts, and absorb a little motivation from Beth's blog
posts about the processes involved in making art. The project and a bit
of Beth's advice on setting goals for creativity can be found in the
book
Unstuck from Voyageur Press.
THE FULL SPECTRUM (RADIO)
Beth Brown and Rusty O'Nhiall, the
team who brought you Mysterious & Unexplained, are together again
on this exciting and informative talk
show. On The Full Spectrum,
Rusty and Beth have stepped outside of their usual format to bring
together a show that explores a wide variety of topics including
science, history,
current events, forensics,
parapsychology, conspiracy theories, the paranormal, and more. Nothing
is left out in their search to bring listeners a show that will leave
them questioning and wondering about the world's mysteries.
The Full Spectrum airs
internationally on digital radio via PsiFM Radio. In the US, catch the
show every Monday night at 8 PM Eastern
on
the web.
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