I love Ami Simms books! She's out of Flint, Michigan and really knows her stuff. I found her book 1001 quilting tips (I think that's the title!) and then she came to visit our guild in Ohio and asked us to make some quilts for a book she was writing. Mine was selected as part of the book - Patchwork Designs from Ancient Rome - she'd gone to Ostia Antica near Rome and took pictures of the mosaic floors and we made those photos into quilts. (If you have the book - my quilt is called "In Hopes of a Garden" after the Steppenwolf song on the For Ladies Only album.)
Ami is the nicest person, and she's a great inspiration.