About Me

I am Billie Best, a writer of blog posts, essays and short stories, and an author of books, brazen, sly and curious about the future. My background is technology. I write about women inclined to move fast and break things. We are brave, unapologetic, independent thinkers.

I began my career in the music business managing rock bands in Boston and New York City. I moved on to marketing communications working for the largest bookstore in Boston. Then I caught the internet wave with the dotcom boom in the early days of the worldwide web until I had the resources to quit the corporate world and buy a farm. After my husband died, I farmed chickens, goats and cows with my dog on a dead end gravel road for seven years before I sold the place and took off on a road trip that landed me in the Pacific Northwest where I live today.

Memoir – A complicated woman finds her passion and it wrecks her marriage.

Essays – Quick reads, funny stories, inspiration.

Novel – An audacious sex-positive thriller about an AI hallucination that happens when a woman’s AI toothbrush talks to her AI vibrator.

Billie Best and her parents moved to Ute, Iowa in 1955.
Iowa, 1955
Billie Best and her family moved to Amarillo, Texas in 1957.
Texas, 1959
Billie Best and her family moved to Illinois in 1960.
Illinois again, 1961
Billie Best has two brothers.
Illinois, 1966
Billie Best moved to New York City in 1974.
New York City, 1974
Billie Best and Chet Cahill got married in 1985.
Boston, 1985
Billie Best and Chet Cahill had a dog named Henry.
Berkshires, 2000
Billie Best got her first flock of chickens in 2003.
Berkshires, 2003
Billie Best got her first cows in 2005.
Berkshires, 2005
Billie Best did a one-woman show about death.
Berkshires, 2009
Billie Best farmed alone.
Berkshires, 2011
Billie Best moved to Oregon.
Portland, Oregon, 2017
Writer Billie Best founded Widowspeak Publishing company
Founded my own publishing company, 2020
Released my memoir March 2020
Met a man and fell in love 2020
Released my collection of essays & short stories November 2020
Released my first novel February 2024