Beth Harbison

Beth Harbison’s first book was actually a re-write of the end of Black Beauty, where all of the horses came back to life and it had all been one big mistake. Clearly she had a yearning to write soap operas, but she actually started her writing career with three cookbooks for Random House.  That was followed by a children’s history book about bread, with activities and recipes, called Loaves of Fun for Chicago Review Press.  That book was a Family Channel Seal of Quality Award recipient.

            After that, she shifted into fiction writing, and wrote twenty-two light, fun fantasy romance novels for Silhouette Books.  Her romances were translated into more than thirty languages.

            In 1997, Beth moved to St. Martin’s Press to write longer commercial fiction.  The first of those books became Shoe Addicts Anonymous, the New York Times bestseller and life has been busy ever since. Several books have been optioned for feature films and A Shoe Addict’s Christmas was made into a Hallmark Countdown to Christmas movie starring Candace Cameron Bure, and drawing the mockery of no less than Stephen Colbert. In 2021, Harbison moved to William Morrow and produced The Cookbook Book Club and Confessions of the Other Sister. She is currently working on two new books she’s not spilling the beans on yet.

           In 2023 Harbison added ghostwriting to her workload, doing mostly NDA-protected memoirs for everyone from reality TV stars from the Real Housewives franchises on Bravo TV to a former Disney child movie star, and several TikTok personalities. She is the co-host of the podcast Nameless Best Friends with her children Paige (author Paige Harbison) and Jack (band Thalo).