Virginia Smith left her job as a corporate director to become a full time writer and speaker with the release of her first novel Just As I Am. Since then she has contracted eleven novels and published dozens of articles and short stories. In March of 2008 she was named "Writer of the Year" at Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference. Her recent novels include Age before Beauty, book 2 in the Sister-to-Sister Series, Scent of Murder, and A Taste of Murder, which was recently named a finalist for the Daphne du Maurier Award. In 2008 she was named "Writer of the Year" at Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference. An energetic speaker, Virginia loves to exemplify God's truth by comparing real-life situations to well-known works of fiction, such as her popular talk, "Biblical Truths in Star Trek." www.virginiasmith.org