Instructor: Beth Daniels
Start Date: Monday, July 6, 2026
End Date: Friday, July 31, 2026
Type: Group.io
Duration: 4 Weeks
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $20; Non-Member – $25

While giants and dwarfs are naturally occurring in the human gene pool, where the heck do dragons, leprechauns, unicorns, kraken, mermaids and mermen, sirens, medusas, and all the half human and half not human gods and residents of Asgard and other worlds show up so regularly on Earth?

Are they creations of shamen smoking highly toxic weeds, or were they sighted on our planet in the past? And if so, where did they come from?

I’m guessing they live in other dimensions, and sometimes those dimensions get too close to Earth and rub a hole in the fabric of the universe that allows sightseeing and souvenir acquisition without needing a passport to be flashed. It’s either that, or the consumption of hallucinatory plants.

But let’s bypass the psychedelic trip and let curiosity have us scrambling through the hole into another world. At a guess, I’d say this could well be imagination heaven. This is dimensional travel without Marvel involved, but a fascinating new world to be the stage for some new characters to tread.

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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