Martha A. Hood

Martha A. Hood was born in Santa Monica, CA, and grew up in LA. She began writing in 1978, sold ten true confession stories, then tried writing novels and plays. In the mid-1980s, she turned to writing speculative fiction stories and hasn't quit because she likes it. It also happens she has had some success: her stories have been published in Pulphouse, Interzone, and Tales of the Unanticipated, among other places. She lives in Irvine, CA, with her husband, ten-year-old daughter, some rabbits, and some cockatiels. She will eat almost anything except liver and beets, and she recently heard an appetizing recipe for beets.

Inside a Bear is her first book.

12/99 update—Ms. Hood tried the interesting recipe for beets, and it didn't cut it. She says, "It was better than any beets I've ever had, but they still tasted like dirt."

Your publisher is hard put to understand this comment as the gentle, full-bodied earth-flavor is the salient of the good beet experience.

ISBN 1-929611-00-5
Inside a Bear and Other Dark Places
by Martha A. Hood