About Stephen

Stephen Hawley Martin is a marketing communications professional and consultant who specializes in brand creation and rejuvenation. He is also a publisher, editor, and the author of more than three-dozen books, including five published novels, half a dozen business management titles, as well as quite a few self-help books and metaphysical investigations. Known by his friends as "Steve," he is a former principal of the world-renowned advertising agency, The Martin Agency, the firm that created the GEICO Gecko and “Virginia is for lovers.” Today, Steve consults with business owners, top executives, and marketing directors about actions they might take to improve the sales of their brands. He is also known as an award-winning author. Listed in Who’s Who in America, Steve is the only three-time winner of the Writer’s Digest Book Award, having won twice for fiction and once for nonfiction. He has won first place for fiction from Independent Publisher and first place for nonfiction from USA Book News. He and his wife live in central Virginia and have three children. Their oldest is a copywriter for an advertising agency, their middle child is a market research analyst, and the youngest has just graduated college and taken a position as a product analyst at Home Depot Headquarters in Atlanta.