Beverley Blount lives in El Paso, Texas and Mexico City where she has completed 30 years of training teachers in her Montessori schools. She is now consulting in schools in Mexico and the United States. Under her pen name, B. Palma, she has written seven bilingual books in the Palo Alto series for young adults. Palma's books weave her husband's tales of growing up on his family's haciendas with her own adventurous teens in the Mexican countryside. Their lifetime love of horses is reflected in these Palo Alto adventure books. Silversuit III is her first Science Fiction adventure book and Silversuit I and II will soon follow, tying the 100 years back to the last Palo Alto book; Love's End - And Then. Blount's most recent book; The Blount Guide to Phonic Reading, is the result of her life's work in sharing with children and adults her passion for reading.