Billie Best is an accomplished author recognized for engaging stories that delve into themes of midlife reinvention, relationships, and feminism. Her writing is characterized by a candid and relatable style, appealing to readers navigating similar life transitions.
Her professional background is in technology. She writes about women inclined to move fast and break things—brave, unapologetic, independent thinkers.
She began her career in the music business managing rock bands on the East Coast as they navigated the transition from analog to digital equipment and instruments. She moved on to marketing communications working for the largest bookstore in Boston as they migrated their advertising from paper-based to computer-based systems. Then she caught the internet wave working for big tech companies and joined the dotcom boom in the early days of the worldwide web.
In 2001, she quit the corporate world, studied agriculture, and learned to farm. After her husband died, she farmed chickens, goats and cows, living with her beloved dog on a dead end gravel road for seven years before she took off on a road trip that landed her in the Pacific Northwest where she lives today.
Memoir “How I Made a Huge Mess of My Life (or Couples Therapy with a Dead Man)” by Billie Best – A darkly humorous memoir about the complexities of marriage and midlife reinvention.
Essays “I Could Be Wrong” by Billie Best – Quick reads, funny stories, and inspiration.
Novel “Clitapalooza: Her Flower Blooms Power” by Billie Best – A sex-positive thriller that blends feminism, humor and adult romance.
