Valerie Ormond retired after a 25-year career as a naval intelligence officer and founded her current business, Veteran Writing Services, LLC. She provides companies and organizations professional writing, editing, and consulting services. Valerie's three novels - Believing In Horses; Believing In Horses, Too; and Believing In Horses Out West - have won thirteen national and international awards including Gold Medals in the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA) book awards and first place in the National Federation of Press Women's national communications contest. Multiple publishers have featured her fiction and non-fiction stories and poems in books, and she has published articles in magazines and newspapers since college...a long time ago. For more information, please see her website at www.BelievingInHorses.com.