Spent a lot of time in the Monterey Peninsula over the years and my mentor & colleague Al Weber lived near Ansel who I got to visit as a teen then later take his Yosemite Workshop.
My colleagues Bautista/Moon teach the basics and above in digital in Pacific Grove, now a lot virtually and Kim Weston is a master of B&W, inheriting a lot of good photo genes and still does workshops. Another local icon and master is Hunter Witherill.
Though I used to first use a b&w scanner back in the late 1980s for b&w scans then used to blend channels in Photoshop, then evolving using the B&W layers and also basic B&W conversion in ACR/LR, my preference for the best B&W is to use DXO/Nik Silver Efex since it's a fast and easy way to get your image into the ball park. If I'm doing a bunch of conversions, many times I'll start in ACR just to speed up the process. I'm seldom working on Singular Images (BTW, another AA title worth checking out), and usually have to process dozens at a time for various projects and clients.
One of the presenters on the recent Dave Cross Photo Summit II virtual conference was Daniel Gray and he had a few nice tips and an ebook with good info.
It's been many years since I've cracked a book on how-to regarding B&W digital, but I'd say, just look at lots of work on line and published in books. Find a style you like then start trying to emulate, then evolve so you don't have to start at ground zero. With practice and experimentation, you should do well.
In any case, what once took hours to craft in the lab, now takes but minutes or seconds to accomplish and while my printer cranks away making a great photograph, I can be starting on the next image! My prints today are even better than what I did in the darkroom so many years ago and I'm not killing hours to craft a single print, let alone dealing with all the chemicals and vast quantities of water, only to start the process all over when there was more fine-tuning needed along the way.