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About Martha
Martha is a screenwriter and author who writes four-quadrant action adventures, Hallmark-style romance features, and family features. Her Christmas romance THE TWELVE DISHES OF CHRISTMAS EVE is a finalist in Emerging Screenwriters' Family and Holiday Competition and a semi-finalist for Emerging Screenwriters Genres Competition. She is also writing an historical drama feature adaptation of her middle-grade book FIRE AND FORGIVENESS, the true story of a nun and her brave schoolgirls who were caught in the midst of the Civil War burning of Columbia, SC.
Martha is an award-winning former TV news and special projects producer, writer, reporter, videographer, and editor, with 20 years' experience producing, writing, and collaborating on live and taped TV programs. She is also a retired technical editor for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center. Yes, people always ask if there are little green aliens stashed there. She can neither confirm nor deny! :-)
Loglines
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Lady Templar: The End of the Earth Fantasy ⋄ Adventure A timid researcher hunting for her birth father in Ireland travels back in time and helps her knight Templar ancestor hide a powerful Biblical relic from all who would misuse it—including her likely father.
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The Twelve Dishes of Christmas Eve Romance ⋄ Comedy When a laid-off special projects manager who’s ignorant of her Polish heritage is hired to arrange a traditional Christmas Eve dinner for a 95-year-old homesick Pole, she works with a challenging immigrant chef to deliver the unique holiday dishes and heartfelt customs of their homeland.
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Hidden Halos Family ⋄ Comedy When his dad goes missing in action overseas, a ten-year-old science nerd enlists his jockish BFF and saint-obsessed little sister to make a miracle happen for an elderly neighbor, in the hope that God grants a miracle for his dad.
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Fires of Forgiveness Historical ⋄ Drama The true Civil War story of a nun who confronts a fierce Union general and his army, her convent’s runaway slaves, and a crisis in her faith as she fights to save forty schoolgirls from the destructive Civil War burning of Columbia, SC
Awards
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Semi-finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Genre Competition, THE TWELVE DISHES OF CHRISTMAS EVE
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Finalist, Emerging Screenwriters Family & Holiday Screenplay Competition, THE TWELVE DISHES OF
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Quarterfinalist, Stage 32 One-Hour TV Drama Pilot Contest
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Local Emmy, news story reporter/videographer
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NATPE International IRIS, Live special producer
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Alfred L. Dupont-Columbia University Awards citation, documentary writer/producer/editor
Education
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