Sally Valentine is a native Rochesterian, who has been both a student and a teacher in the Rochester City School District. She was inspired to write The Ghost of the Charlotte Lighthouse after reading a series of mystery novels by Margaret Truman Daniels that are each set in a different historic site in Washington D.C. She wants the children of Rochester to have a series of books like that to help them appreciate their hometown. The next books in the series are Theft at George Eastman House, What Stinks? An Adventure in Highland Park, Lost at Seabreeze, and most recently,STORMED. She has also published an award winning poetry book, There Are No Buffalo In Buffalo. Each poem in the collection is about a different place in New York State.