Mary Elizabeth Thomas is a well known author, blogger and public speaker based in Colorado Springs. Mary's work includes a story she is creating as a romance novel called "Red Flags". In addition to her novelettes, she has a motivational page on Facebook called Quitting is Not an Option. On that Facebook motivational page, she writes under the name of Susan Garthwaite Gelder. There are plans for publishing in the Summer of 2015 an exciting time travel historical novel called "An Outlaw for Christmas". That story is based in and around her hometown of Colorado Springs.