Instructor: Beth Daniels
Start Date: Monday, May 4, 2026
End Date: Friday, May 29, 2026
Type: Group.io
Duration: 4 Weeks
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $20; Non-Member – $25

Fiction in video and print form have introduced us to all kinds of aliens from elsewhere in the cosmos. E. T. stole our hearts, “Harry” of Resident Alien seesawed between wiping them out or growing more human himself. Star Trek and Star Wars gave us lots of diversity among aliens. Some of movieland’s aliens were monsters. Some, like those in H.G. Well’s War of the Worlds got felled by Mother Nature herself killing them off with earth disease much like the native tribes were whittled down by European ones. And then there is Mork from Ork.

But we’ve also had stories where there is no way to recognize an off-planet visitor is any different than we are.

So, let’s invent one. AND a story to go with it! Or a series! Perhaps even have one visit Earth back in history to sketch some Nasca lines! I’d say that the sky’s the limit on this but since we’re talking the cosmos as an origin point for this visitor, there’s really no limit to where our imaginations can take us!

About the Instructor:

Beth Daniels’ career as a novelist had a slow start. Life got in the way, but by 1989 she had written and rewritten (several times from scratch) three books. One combination romantic comedy and romantic suspense, one romance with a ghost lending a hand, and a historical that took her characters across the Oregon Trail to the California turn off headed for Gold Rush San Franciso. As summer ended back in 1989, she got her first call from an editor who wanted to go to contract on a book. Within six months, all three manuscripts had sold, and she was on to cranking out further stories.

She’s gone by several pseudonyms in the 35+ years since her first book was released, and she’s jumped genres time and again. She took the leap to writing twisted comedic fairytales then to series with paranormal elements but still mystery and comedy stirred in while teaching dull old English composition at local colleges and being the live-in caregiver to her parents. Currently she writes urban fantasy mystery comedy in both short series form and novel length as J.B. Dane.

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