Brandy Martin is a freelance writer and former production crew member on television shows such as MTV's Making the Band. She graduated with a degree in English from Mills College, and spent a year working as a freelance grant proposal editor. She also spent years working in the music industry as a press kit writer for San Francisco Bay Area hip hop artists. She enjoys writing young adult fiction novels, as well as screenplays. She has also contributed articles to online sites such as eHow.com and Firehow.com offering a range of advice from personal finance to landing a job working for music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs.