About Gene Kizer
creator of this web site

I am nearly through with the manuscript for my book, The Elements of Academic Success, How to Graduate Magna Cum Laude from College (or How to Just Graduate, PERIOD!). It will be available this summer, 2008. Please contact me now at BonnieBlueStaff@comcast.net to purchase today, at a discount, one of the first copies, which will be signed and numbered.

I can also help you buy or sell real estate in Charleston, South Carolina. I'm a Realtor with Charleston's number one company, Carolina One Real Estate. Please visit my real estate web site at www.GeneKizer.com, which also has a good dose of Southern and specifically James Island history on my blog, www.JamesIslandBlog.com.

I also shot and produced the World History 101 and 102 series at the College of Charleston. Please visit that web site at www.WorldHistory101-102.com.
 

  • Biography

  • Writing and editing

  • Video shooting and editing, and DVD production

  • Turnkey web site design and hosting, especially for the SCV, UDC, Reenactors and other organizations that need Payment Buttons so you can take credit cards for dues, donations and organization merchandise

    At middle age I decided to finish my college degree, which I had started 25 years earlier. I love history and literature and worked extremely hard, graduating magna cum laude from the College of Charleston in 2000 with an A.B. Degree in History. I did a bachelor's essay for History Departmental Honors entitled "Economic Arguments and Justifications for Southern Secession, 1850s to 1861". I won the Outstanding Student Award for the College of Charleston History Department in 2000 as well as History Departmental Honors, and the year before won the American History Award sponsored by the Rebecca Motte Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. I have 15 hours toward a masters in English from the University of Charleston, but am not currently taking courses because I am concentrating on my real estate career, and writing.

    I am divorced. I have two GREAT boys from a previous marriage, Trey and Travis, 19 and 14, who are exactly like me (love the South, love sports, especially running). They live with their mother. All three of us Kizer Boys have a string of 10K (6.2 mile) Cooper River Bridge Runs to our credit, and this year (2008) we ran our 13th in a row! I started Travis when he was two-years-old and registered as an official runner, on my shoulders the whole way. We were featured in the 2005 Bridge Run magazine for our streak. Even though I run four or five times a week, BOTH boys have been beating me for years in the Bridge Run and I'm damn proud of it!

    I am a writer and can do any kind of writing, from ghost writing an autobiography, to writing a company history, to technical writing, scholarly research and writing, and children's stories. I am also a book editor with references.

    I have also done professional video and DVD work having shot, edited, and produced all 77 volumes of The History and Literature of the South. I also shot 80 volumes of World History 101-102 (www.WorldHistory101-102.com) with Dr. Clark G. Reynolds, one of the most prominent naval historians in the country, who was a professor of history at the time at the College of Charleston. I also shot and produced Gone But Not Forgotten, and am currently producing a videotape and DVD of the history and burial of the first crew of the Confederate submarine, CSS Hunley, which took place in 1999.

    I am pursuing the production of videotapes and DVDs on fascinating topics of Southern history and literature. If you have an interesting lecture or music program you have made, please let me know because I might be able to turn it into a marketable commodity that will benefit lovers of Southern history all over the world. If you have something coming up, I might be able to travel and shoot it if you can cover expenses. Because I am producing this web site at my own expense, I can not pay a royalty, but if you want to get your talk or program on tape or DVD, please call and let's discuss it.

    Turnkey web site design and hosting is a specialty, especially for the SCV, UDC, Reenactors and other organizations that need Payment Buttons so you can take credit cards for dues, donations and organizational merchandise. Small to medium-size jobs can be done quickly including registering a domain name. We can also have your site registered with 50-100 search engines instantly. For more information please click here: Web Site Design and Hosting.

    The best way to contact me is by e-mail at BonnieBlueStaff@comcast.net. My mailing address is P.O. Box 13012, James Island, S.C. 29422-3012.

    Hope to hear from you soon!

Gene Kizer


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