Award-winning communicator, writer, and strategist Tim Bete (pronounced “beet”) is the author of four books, including Guide to Pirate Parenting, which provides sage advice on how to get gum or a giant octopus out of your child’s hair and how to convert your minivan into a pirate schooner. In addition to his books, Tim’s writing has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies, Ohio Outdoor News, and many regional magazines and newspapers.

Tim has served as a national marketing manager, communications director, magazine editor, copywriter, publisher, and run a non-profit organization. His media relations work has placed articles in the Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News , USA Today, and BBC Radio, among others outlets.

Tim has an MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship from Indiana University and is a graduate of Harvard University's Achieving Excellence in Community Development program. He has served on many local, state and national committees, including the NeighborWorks Real Estate Advisory Committee, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Communications Committee, the Leading Age Ohio Advocacy Committee and the Unify Dayton Strategic Planning Committee.

In addition to his many communications awards, Tim is also a Dayton Business Journal “40 Under 40” award winner and a Dayton/Montgomery County Convention & Visitors Bureau Ambassador Award winner.

Tim has been a speaker at the Will Rogers Writers' Workshop, National Society of Newspaper Columnists Conference and the Catholic Imagination Conference, among other national events. He has served as a judge for the Outdoor Writers Assn. of America craft contest, Erma Bombeck Writing Competition, and National Society of Newspaper Columnists annual competition.

While Director of a national writers' workshop, Tim set the World record for the longest Mad Lib, which was based on the book Moby Dick. His hobbies include pushing his luck and skating on thin ice—although he prefers fishing on thin ice to skating on it.