About the Author

Melodye Faith Hathaway is a free-lance writer, motivational speaker, specializing in loss and grief, poet and author/publisher. She currently is the co-host for "The Smoking Glass Hour" with Baron Glass on Blog Radio Talk Show, Waco 4 State. She writes for many online publications. "The Lightning Bug Named Blue" is her fourth self-published book; her first was published in September of 2012. She is an active member of the LinkedIn Social Media Marketing Group, the Writers and Authors Circle Group and the Fundraising Professional Group. Her career experience spans the healthcare, law enforcement, marketing and journalism fields. Melodye plans to publish her latest project, "For the Love of Jeremy", in the fall of next year. She resides in Hiawatha, Kansas with Roger, her husband of over twenty one years, along with their dogs: Jake and Cheddar, and enjoys everything that living in a small community offers. Melodye created the story "The Lightning Bug Named Blue" when she was 12 years old and she would tell the story to all the children she babysat for. She published this book to share as a legacy to her grandchildren, to highlight her grandson's artwork, and to share poem contributions written by another author/poet, Helen Knabe of Hiawatha, Kansas. Melodye feels this is an excellent mesh of three generations coming together. Her website is: melodyehathaway.weebly.com where you may contact her for speaking engagements, books she has published, or her handcrafted beaded book marks. She enjoys blogging, and you may follow her at: melodyehathaway.wordpress. You may also follow her on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter.