international showcase for design." Based in New York City, Klensch traveled overseas three or four months a year to report from the other fashion capitals of Paris, Milan, Tokyo, and London. She also covered fashion and design from Bali, Beijing, Havana, Madrid, Manila, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, and Sydney. The network estimated that over the years her coverage was seen by 200 million viewers worldwide. She set a goal for herself "I wanted to remain with my program to cover fashion and design into the new millennium." Although she still had more than two years left on her contract, she decided to leave CNN in 2001, and asked to be released to devote herself to other non-television interests. Published works In 1995, (together with Beryl Meyer) she wrote Style, a practical, illustrated advice book focused on helping women to define and develop a personal, individual style. Style was published by the Perigee imprint of the Berkley Publishing Group. It reached audiences worldwide. After leaving CNN in early 2001, she turned her attention back to writing. She created a monthly jewelry column for the Internet magazine Gem.net, and wrote articles for Elle Decor, House Beautiful, Architectural Digest, and others. In June 2002, Forge Books, a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, signed Klensch to write a series of four mystery novels featuring television news producer Sonya Iverson as amateur sleuth. The first novel, Live at 10:00, Dead at 10:15, was published in hardcover in September 2004, followed by the paperback in 2005. The second, Shooting Script, came out in October 2005. The third, Take Two, was published in December 2007. The fourth, The Third Sin, was published in hard cover in 2014. Other notable professional activities While still at CNN, she wrote a weekly nationally syndicated newspaper advice column on personal style for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and served as contributing editor of The Connoisseur magazine. She also became a regular lecturer on fashion and design for professional organizations as well as costume departments of art museums in Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Toledo, Ohio, and at Auburn University and the Savannah College of Art and Design. In 1994, she made a cameo appearance in Robert Altman's film Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter) and in several episodes of the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Honors and awards Her honors included: Council of Fashion Designers of America's