Stephen Hawley Martin is a former principal of The Martin Agency, a firm that over the years the firm has created well-known advertising for such clients as GEICO [Gecko], Virginia Tourism ["Virginia is for Lovers"], Mercedes Benz, UPS, Colonial Williamsburg, and many others. He was also the CEO of a spinoff of Martin, Hawley Martin Partners, that grew rapidly and after only three years under his leadership was acquired by the New York Stock Exchange holding company, Interpublic. Today, he is an author, ghostwriter, and the owner and publisher of The Oaklea Press Inc., a book publishing firm with more than 220 books in print. He is also the author of more than three dozen books, including six business titles under his own name and five novels. Listed in Who's Who in America, he is the only three-time winner of the Writer's Digest Book Award, having won twice for fiction and once for nonfiction. He has also won First Prize for Visionary Fiction from Independent Publisher magazine, First Prize for Nonfiction from USA Book News, and a Bronze Medal for Visionary Fiction from Readers' Favorite Book Reviews.