About the Author

Books have always been an important part of the my life.  During a difficult childhood they became her friends, where she used her imagination to build a world without problems.

Writing was something she discovered she liked to do, and came easily to her, when she went back to college.  She once wrote a three thousand word term paper while sitting in a traffic jam.  After she began to write, she discovered she preferred children’s literature.  “Deep down inside I’ve never gotten older than twelve, where anything can happen and all things are possible.”

Martha Hite lives in the mountains of Western Maryland with her husband, Walter and their son Sean.  She likes to grow African violets, play bingo, and she’s hooked on several video games that she plays daily.  “Minesweeper is the only thing that kept me sane when Sean went away to college.”  She is a nurse at the University of Maryland Hospital in Baltimore, where she specializes in patients who have had strokes.  She is a voracious reader and an equally prolific writer.  She has finished three novels and several short stories that she hopes to publish soon.

As a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and a regular attendee at their conferences, this and her other critique group has helped her to hone her writing skills.