AUTHOR BIO -- KIMBERLY CAUSEY

For over 10 years, Kimberly Causey has been the "Ralph Nader of Furniture". She has taught over 100,000 readers how to save 50%-90% off fine furniture from nationally known brands like Thomasville, Drexel-Heritage, Henredon, Century, Bernhardt, Baker, Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, Pottery Barn, and hundreds more.

Kimberly draws on her experiences from working in the wholesale home furnishings industry for over 10 years to teach the average consumer how to shop like an industry insider. Interior decorators, manufacturers, and other industry insiders certainly don't pay retail when they decorate their own homes, and neither should you!

Contact Info:	Kimberly Causey c/o Home Decor Press P. O. Box 671312 Marietta, GA 30066 kim@smartdecorating.com (678) 947-1750
Home furnishings industry background:	Author, public speaker, media expert on consumer issues related to home furnishings, interior decorator, home furnishings factory outlet manager, custom drapery workroom manager, custom window treatment designer and fabricator; showroom assistant at the Dallas World Trade Center, the Atlanta Market Center, and the High Point International Home Furnishings Market; customer service manager for a worldwide decorative pillow and chair cushion factory, and high-end decorative pillow designer.
Media background:	Over 200 interviews on local and national TV news programs all over the U. S., including "The Today Show", "Good Morning Texas", "Good Day Atlanta", "Northwest Afternoon", the WGN noon news in Chicago and the WCBS noon news in NYC. Over 100 radio interviews all over the US. Over 300 seminars at bookstores and libraries all over the US. The Furniture Factory Outlet Guide, 2009 Edition , was originally released in January 2009.  Reader's Digest (June 2003), Self Magazine (January 2004), and Consumer Reports Money Advisor (July 2004) have all highly recommended this title to their readers.  "Shopping Nation", a new show on the Travel Channel, will feature this book in their debut episode to air in September 2004. The Furniture Factory Outlet Guide has been recommended by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Chicago Tribune, the Dallas Morning News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Orange County Register, the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, the San Diego Union-Tribune, and Bottom Line/Personal (a consumer newsletter reaching over 2 million subscribers). Thousands of consumers have turned out to bookstores to hear the author speak. Michael Finney also highly recommended the book on his consumer advice show on KGO-AM in San Francisco, one of the most-listened-to consumer talk shows in the U. S. The Insider's Guide To Buying Home Furnishings has received very favorable reviews and mentions in over 100 major daily newspapers, including the Hartford Courant, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Orange County Register, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Kansas City Star, the Indianapolis Star, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Providence Journal, the Newark Star-Ledger, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, and the Baltimore Sun. Consumer's Digest, House Beautiful Decorating and Remodeling, Working Mother, and Your Money magazines all recommended the Insider's Guide very highly to their readers. The Insider's Guide To Buying Home Furnishings is the best-selling interior decorating book in total copies sold nationwide since its publication in 1996. It outsold all other interior decorating titles during 1997, 1998, and 1999, as measured by total nationwide bookstore sales.
Books:	The Furniture Factory Outlet Guide, Third Edition (Home Decor Press, $24.95, ISBN 1-888229-43-8) Published January, 2003.  Most recently updated version released February, 2004 The Furniture Factory Outlet Guide, 2002 Edition (Home Decor Press, $24.95, ISBN 1-888229-42-X) January, 2002 The Furniture Factory Outlet Guide (Home Decor Press, $24.95, ISBN 1-888229-41-1) June, 1999 The Insider's Guide To Buying Home Furnishings (Home Decor Press, $24.95, ISBN 1-888229-21-7) 1996, fully revised in 2004
Detailed biography:	Kimberly's parents founded and ran House of Causey, Inc., manufacturer of high-end designer pillows and chair cushions for fine furniture stores and interior designers in the U. S. and Canada, for over twenty years. They showed their products in many wholesale trade centers over the years, including the Dallas World Trade Center and the International Home Furnishings Market in High Point. Kimberly worked extensively in all parts of this company. House of Causey, Inc. designed and manufactured the Ethan Allen line of decorative pillows and chair cushions for over 10 years worldwide. Kimberly Causey designed decorative pillows carried by Ethan Allen, Haverty's, and other high-end furniture stores. House of Causey, Inc., designed and made decorative pillows for a number of celebrities' homes over the years through interior designers: Rose Kennedy, Ron Howard, Tammy Wynette, Perry Como, Mrs. Henry Ford III, and Donald Trump (the restored Mar-a-Lago mansion in West Palm Beach). Kimberly worked at House of Causey, Inc., for ten years. She ran the factory outlet store, supervised the interior designers employed at the outlet store, worked with interior designers and retail stores in the customer service office and wholesale trade center showrooms, and set up and maintained the company's computer system. Later, she worked in her family's custom drapery and bedspread workroom. In 1992, Kimberly began writing her first book for interior designers, The Decorative Fabrics Cross-Reference Guide , which was published in 1993. The book teaches interior decorators and interior designers how to save money on wholesale fabric purchases by cross-referencing fabrics among various distributors and tracing them back to the original manufacturer. The book is based on research Kimberly did when buying fabrics for the designers who worked at her family's factory outlet store. Kimberly's first consumer book to the public, The Insider's Guide To Buying Home Furnishings (Home Decor Press, $24.95), was published in 1996 and fully revised in 2002. The book teaches consumers how to get the best bargains and the best quality on furniture, fabrics, wallcoverings, carpeting, lighting, custom window treatments, custom bed treatments, down products, and decorative accessories. The book also discusses how and when consumers should hire interior designers and how consumers can be their own decorators and buy directly from many wholesale sources. This is a common practice in the industry which Kimberly observed at House of Causey's showrooms in the Dallas World Trade Center, the Atlanta Market Center, and the High Point International Home Furnishings Market.  This title has sold over 80,000 copies. Kimberly's next book, The Furniture Factory Outlet Guide (Home Decor Press, $24.95), was published in June, 1999. It goes into more depth about furniture factory outlets and deep discounters, listing details about the types of furniture and discounts each has available. This book also includes photos of the outlets and discounters, and photos of many outlet bargains.  This title is now in its third edition and has sold over 40,000 copies. In January 2003, The Furniture Factory Outlet Guide, Third Edition , was released. Currently, Kimberly travels all over the US giving media interviews and teaching seminars on decorating bargains..