“His diaper comes up to his chin!”
Children love reading this visual story of undersized baby Max who changes with the seasons of Maine.
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Lost in the clutter of her favorite professor’s office, Very Little Baby is Beth Buechler’s (pronounced “BEEK-LER’s”) resurrected children’s story. Once performed onstage at an elementary school in Maine, then “The Story of the Very Very Very Very, Very Very Very Very, Very Very Very Little Baby” has since become a read-with-your-child book.
Its sequel, Max’s Baby Brother is currently in the works.
The following upcoming book descriptions include blue links to images of drafts of cover ideas:
Bite the Hand is Beth’s horror-thriller novel still in progress. It involves reality TV and errant pedigree dogs inexplicably turning on their masters.
Tales and Ghost Tails is an assortment of ghost stories, some with repeat, beloved characters practicing the paranormal. Its story titles include the following: “Ghost Dog,” “Ghost Cat,” “Ghost Bird,” and “Penny Ghost.” A disembodied tale of a dog, the death of a cat obsesses its expectant-father owner, a bird communicating with a motherless young woman, and a hoarder with possessed dolls fill these pages.
Ghost Writer began as “Near,” a short-story-turned novella which takes place in the Catskills, New York. Narrated by Richard Proximity, the ghost himself, his manuscript has been found by a young boy on a dare.
The Old Lady and the Octopus is another novella—a tale of a new genre Beth is calling “Covid Lit.” Newly widowed Helen Pollack finds herself in a paranormal nightmare after she thinks she can escape her denial of her husband’s death by staying at a rented cottage on Lake Michigan.
Beth taught adult education in Maine for fourteen years. She studied fiction with John Gardner in the late 70s, returned to creative writing courses in the late 90s, and is currently writing and polishing several books. The only one not exclusively fiction is “creative non-fiction,” a family literacy read-with-your-child book.
Beth organizes a local feedback group, Eddy Street Fiction Authors, which meets on Zoom every two weeks. She also created and continues to organize an online-only writing group, Beth's International Beta Writers, aka, BIBW.
Beth teaches fiction writing to senior learners twice a year for for the Forever Learning Institute in South Bend, Indiana.
She also facilitates the Federation Book Club for the Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley once a month.
More on Wise Women of Chelm: This collection originated at Binghamton University, thanks to a workshop run by John Gardner and Milton Kessler in 1978. Jumping ahead to 1999, Beth won the Steve Grady Award for Fiction at the University of Maine, Orono. At the same time, a collection of eleven of her stories were highlighted as the portfolio feature in “The Puckerbrush Review”— a literary journal—then published by the poet/professor Constance Hunting.
Several holiday tales by Beth were published in “The Waldo Independent,” of Belfast, Maine. After moving to Indiana, a monthly newsletter, “Our Community News,” published Beth’s Chelm story, “Salted Fish,” in three installments. As a community contributor, Beth has been organizing and writing a description of The Jewish Federation Book Club’s sessions for “Our Community News” since 2016.
In 2002, Professors Welsh Everman, Constance Hunting, Tony Brinkley, and Elaine Ford, helped supervise Beth’s first completed version of Beth's Wise Women of Chelm. It became her Master of Arts thesis at the University of Maine, Orono. It contains a special acknowledgment to Paul Blasenheim, Beth's father, who gave her, her mother, sisters, and extended family and friends a lifetime of love for stories, humor, and the joys of Jewish culture and Yiddish. Beth uses Paul’s spellings of the Yiddish—an arguable decision.
What Beth thinks of as the third life of this collection includes a new set stories of the actual "wisening up" of Chelm’s population in an attempt to deconstruct their reputation as a town of fools. Chelm, the town itself, has decided that it’s become critically important to truly become considered wise, even if that means educating girls. . .
Beth is constantly working with her writing groups while learning the art of self-publishing. Once she completes her polishing her book projects and conquers formatting issues, launch dates for all the above will be announced.
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