Biography 

Amber Leigh Williams has always been a small town, Southern girl with a compulsion to write. When her fourth grade teacher handed out her first writing assignment, she discovered a very special love of writing and hasn’t stopped scribbling on paper corners since. From the moment she picked up her chewed #2 pencil and began writing her own version of Cinderella, she unknowingly set off on winding path to write what she loved most: love stories.  

Of course, it took her a while to get there. As soon as she discovered the computer in her parents’ bedroom and set off to hone her Microsoft Word skills, she was never far from the keyboard where she spent hours upon hours writing a series of short-story capers. The protagonists were teenage twins, Hunter and Spade, and their two best friends, Leah and Ward. A year went by and they were growing up…and falling in love. Soon the mystery series had spent its powder and was morphing into young adult romantic comedy.  

Amber’s writings went into deeper waters in her early high school days by abandoning Twins and Co. and embarking on a high school series about five freshmen at Perry Hall High Academy. The romantic comedy was put on the backburner to make room for melodramatic shenanigans much like those on the popular television show Dawson’s Creek. By the time she moved on, the series consisted of three manuscripts tucked tidily into a large three-ringed binder where she could easily go back and walk the angst-ridden halls of Perry Hall anytime—which she admits to doing on occasion.  

The year the Academy saga ended, Amber read her first romance novel. At fourteen, the fun she’d had buried between the pages of Sweet Valley High and The Babysitter’s Club was fading. Her mother handed her salvation: Nora Roberts’ Carnal Innocence. With it she stumbled across a revelation. The need to write a great story was now the need to write a great love story. She’d circled around it for years. She decided to take the plunge.  

It was a historical entitled Love Among the Ruins. While reading The Diary of Anne Frank, she’d discovered a fascination with World War II. After viewing a movie made by Hallmark called In Love and War, her interest fixed on Italy’s turmoil during that period of unrest. A story began to unravel. She opened her laptop and began to tell it.  

December 2004, the novel was complete. The rush of completion fueled her to finish a sequel within a month. The year of 2005, six more romance manuscripts were completed. Four books in a five-part series about her hometown and two single titles, a suspense entitled Denied Origin and an adventure called Fox & Hound.  

In September 2007, Amber had just completed her thirteenth manuscript when she got The Call from Red Rose Publishing. They wanted to publish Fox & Hound. Two months later in November, The Wild Rose Press offered her a contract for Denied Origin. With these acceptances, several years of hard work paid off and a dream came true.  

Amber is a member of Romance Writers of America and Secretary and PRO Chapter Liaison of the Gulf Coast Chapter of RWA. She enjoys being a stay-at-home writer, spending as much time as possible with her three labs and her husband, Jacob. They live on the Gulf Coast of Alabama where she plans on writing romance for the rest of her life! 

A FEW FAVORITES 

Quote: “Life’s about little more than knowing what’s right for you and getting on with it.” — Hal Rubenstein  

Zodiac Sign: Taurus 

Zodiac Year: Tiger 

Organizations: Romance Writers of America (RWA), Gulf Coast Chapter of RWA (GCCRWA), RWA PRO, WritingGIAMx2, Young at Heart, Red Rose Publishing, The Wild Rose Press 

Movies: Because I Said So, Becoming Jane, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Chicago, Cinderella Man, Chronicles of Narnia, French Kiss, The Greatest Game Ever Played, Gone with the Wind, The Holiday, The Italian Job, The Lake House, The Notebook, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Sense and Sensibility, Sleepless in Seattle, Under the Tuscan Sun, You’ve Got Mail 

Music: All Saints, Tony Bennett, Michelle Branch, Flyleaf, The Fray, Etta James, Elton John, Jack Johnson, Norah Jones, Alicia Keyes, John Mayer, Frank Sinatra 

Books: Boy's Life, Pride and Prejudice, Sweet Caroline, Kate Remembered, The Diary of Anne Frank, Bird by Bird, The Hours After, Love Stories of World War II, Mrs. Kennedy, The Official Nora Roberts Companion, The Corporate Veil 

Authors: Jane Austen, Philippa Gregory, Sophie Kinsella, Julia Quinn, Nora Roberts, J.K. Rowling, Nicholas Sparks, J.R. Ward, Elizabeth White