Stacey Sauter is a native of the Washington, D.C. area and grew up in Bethesda, Maryland. She received an undergraduate liberal arts degree from the University of Maryland where she minored in journalism, and followed that with a career at NBC, starting as a legal coordinator in the broadcast network's Washington, D.C. corporate headquarters. From there she worked as a publicist at the network's Washington News Bureau, managing publicity for programs such as "The Today Show," "NBC Nightly News" and "The Today Show." Moving more deeply into the area of news production, Sauter worked on the national news desks for both NBC Radio and Television in New York while attending Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. In 1987 she relocated to Seattle where she took on several senior level executive positions for three national and local political campaigns, then later served as an on-air journalist for KSTW-TV. After relocating to Manhattan in the mid-1990s, Sauter began to pursue her true passion - writing fiction. As a stay-home mom following the birth of her daughter, Sauter finished writing her first suspense novel, Immaculate Deception, which was published by Penguin in 1997 and received a Readers' Pick award by the Washington Post. A second suspense novel, One False Move, was also published by Penguin in 2000 and was eventually optioned for movie development by Quentin Tarantino. Moving back to her native city of Bethesda, Sauter took some time off from writing to raise her daughter, but returned to writing and publishing with the release of a political thriller, Ways and Means (Bannockburn Press, 2010). During that time she finished another suspense novel, but also began work on Bouillabaisse (Thornton Creek Press, 2018), a book which was inspired by true events. A coming-of-age, family drama, Sauter said this book took the longest to write as she had to let the many characters marinate enough before the story fully matured and the characters all had a chance to tell their stories. Following the release of Bouillabaisse, Sauter is gearing up to writing an historical suspense novel, as well as a non-fiction book on real estate. When not writing she is an active real estate agent with Long and Foster and Christie's International where she's been repeatedly recognized and honored as one of the top selling agents in the greater metropolitan area of Washington, D.C. She is also the recipient of four consecutive "Top Producing" agent awards by Washingtonian Magazine, and is a member of an elite corps of luxury specialists in her company.
