Amanda Albright Still, selected by readers as one of Houston's Favorite Authors, is a compulsive reader who enjoys just about every genre. She started writing to keep her imagination happy when she was between books to read. The part she enjoys most of being a writer is speaking to groups and finding that people share her enthusiasm for history, for adoption, and for books. When not writing, her husband, college-age daughters, and she toil at restoring a Victorian house on Galveston where she believes those old walls have stories to tell. While some people are known by name to waiters at elegant restaurants, the Stills are known to the guys at the salvage yards