Amber Kizer’s Uproarious New Novel About Sophomore Year in High School
Amber Kizer is not one of those authors who wrote complete books at the age of three and always knew she wanted to be a writer.
When she faced a rare chronic pain disorder her freshman year of college, she knew she was going to have to learn to live outside the box. After one writing workshop, she fell in love with telling stores and she’s still going strong with her first novel, the hilarious Gert Garibaldi’s Rants and Raves: One Butt Cheek at a Time.
Her characters tend to be opinionated, outspoken, and stubborn—she has no idea where that comes from.
A food lover, she plans trips around menus, wishes cookbooks were scratch and sniff, and loves to make complicated recipes—especially desserts. When she’s not reading from a huge stack, she’s coaxing rose bushes to bloom, watching delightful teen angst on television, or quilting with more joy than skill.
Listen as Amber reads an excerpt
She takes her tea black, her custard frozen, and her men witty. She lives in the Seattle area with a menagerie of animals that seems ever changing. An avid learner, she focused on the writing craft and her unpublished works won awards from PNWA, San Diego RWA, and the Saskatchewan Romance Writers. Her first young adult series sold at auction to Delacorte Press with Gert Garibaldi’s Rants and Raves: One Butt Cheek at a Time premiering, in hardcover October 9, 2007.
Kizer was selected to tour with The Random House Teen Voices tour October 9-18, 2007 visiting: Pittsburgh, Miami, Austin, San Francisco and Seattle. A book premiere party for the community of Whidbey Island will be held October 20th at The Front Room and Hub at Bayview Cash Store from 7-9PM.
The star of Amber’s series Gert Garibaldi has been called “honest, brash, and outspoken†and her books take on traditionally taboo subjects. The second in the series FROM BUTT TO BOOTY will be out fall 2008.