Amber Kay Ferguson

Amber Kay: Conservative columnist, Christian editor and web designer

Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.
--T.E. Lawrence

WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?

Amber Kay Ferguson has been winning writing contests since high school, where she snagged the Texas High School Press Association's General Column Writing competition two consecutive years (a record), along with numerous additional awards in UIL editorials and "Ready Writing."

In 2001, Amber captured first place in Hollywood's "Mona Schreiber Prize for Humorous Fiction & Non-Fiction," followed by wins in several other contests, including Faith in Fiction's Christmas competition and Long Story Short's Essay contest. Her most recent win was the 2007 "Talk Like a Pirate" competition, sponsored by Harvest House Publishing. Amber served as a judge in the 2003 Tulsa Fellowship of Christian Writers humorous writing contest, and also judged the 2005 Abilene Writers Guild personal essay competition.

Humor, especially culture and political satire, is Amber's first love. She also enjoys writing feature stories, with a passion for people who see life through a unique set of spectacles. For example: the question is not what an Elvis impersonator does, but why would one choose to impersonate Elvis? What mental or emotional payback does one get from that?

Amber used to write hotly intense, morbid personal essays, consistently achieving better than a 90 percent acceptance rate in that genre´ and winning numerous competitions for her bleeding introspection. But she gave up that nasty habit after receiving fan mail about one of her morbid contest wins ... if fan mail qualifies as readers saying a writer made them sob. There are no samples of that writing, or even complimentary readers' comments about it, on her site. That door is closed.

Amber believes if she possesses any ability to touch people through her words, she wants to make them think, make them feel, make them laugh ... even make them curse her (for her brilliant ideas, of course). But she'll never again intentionally burden her readers with tears.

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