Welcome! So you're an antiques lover, too. My life-long love for antiques began when I was a little girl in Danville, Virginia. My parents loved antiques and they made every piece, whether a desk or a teacup, fascinating. Mother (a history and English teacher) plied me with history and family lore, while my father (an engineer) showed me how to tell the difference between an 18th- and a 20th-century piece. I must have listened, because one day when a new family was moving in down the street, I reported that they only had "new furniture," not antiques. After college and graduate school where I studied my other great love, literature, I became involved in historic restoration projects and, for a couple of years, worked in an antiques shop. That's when I decided to combine my loves and write about antiques. Amazingly, my first antiques book, Why You're Richer Than You Think, (later reissued as Emyl Jenkins' Appraisal Book) landed me a 3-day stint on Good Morning, America. I followed it up with many non-fiction books -- some about antiques, others like Southern Christmas and Southern Hospitality about the South, and I even wrote a cookbook, From Storebought to Homemade, that was featured on QVC. Still, I was dying to try my hand at fiction. After all, an article in The Smithsonian had called me a "Detective of the Decorative Arts." So I created the protagonist, Sterling Glass, and began working out plot lines. But it took another 20 years for me to finally get up enough nerve to really begin writing Stealing with Style. Could I have done it earlier? Who knows? What I do know is that I've never had so much fun. Sterling Glass's capers and adventures are wild flights of my imagination spurred on by my love for antiques. These days my husband, Bob Sexton, and our huge Maine Coon cat, Priscilla, live in Richmond, Virginia, where I'm having a ball dreaming up schemes and characters for Sterling to encounter...for as Sterling's mother tells her (and me) at the end of Stealing with Style, "That's the thing about surprises...they're so damn surprising."