Cat Over Clock

B Elizabeth Bell lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband Jeffrey, their cats Artemis and Tansy and spirit cat, Basil.

Her first novel naturally combines her lifelong fascination with ghosts and love for the epistolary.

B loves cooking, eating, playing Dungeons & Dragons, and collecting rocks from any location, but especially the Oregon Coast or the mountains and deserts of Arizona. She shares a weekly writing practice with her generative group, the Fly-by-Nights, is a short-story contributor to the Truck Wine anthology, and has written online at Cat Over Clock. B is a volunteer writing workshop facilitator at the non-profit organization, Write Around Portland.

She is currently writing and researching a late 19th century epistolary set in Jerome, Arizona. Told through Madam Shaw’s letters to family and friends, the reader will follow the madam as she sets out to open her own brothel in the hills of gold. She takes the Transcontinental from the Midwest to California. Tragedy strikes and she boards a wagon—determined to take a chance in the new southwest territory of Arizona. It’s a haunting, humorous, and raw tale that has been keeping the Fly-by-Night writing group entertained since beginning the journey, which B is writing entirely by hand as they did in the 1800s.

Pour out a glass of wine with me and bring the box of tissue over, I want to go back in time with you, I want to go over book collections and hear that letter read out loud one more time!

Have hope. Poetry saves the world.

In kindness,

B Elizabeth Bell