Thursday, August 1, 2019

Susan Fischer - Connecting Faith and Fiction


Faith has always played a major role in the life of Bradenton author Susan Fischer. She is a Christian mediator and a speaker with several ministries, leads a Bible Study group, and is a member of the Order of Daughters of the King. So it should come as no surprise that her faith would spill over into her writing as well.
 
A native of Michigan, Fischer received a bachelor’s degree from Eastern Michigan University and went on to earn her Juris Doctor degree. She practiced personal injury law in the Detroit area until 1988. “I was tired of winter and burned out where I was working,” she recalls. “I wanted an adventure, so I moved to Florida.” This turned out to be a decision that set her on the road to writing.

Although she had spent some time teaching high school English and journalism while living in Michigan, Fischer’s actual writing experience had been limited to poetry and some short stories. It was after joining a Christian writer’s group in Bradenton that she decided to try her hand at a novel. “I enjoyed the creativity involved in dreaming up a title, characters, plot and conflicts,” she says, though she found the editing process more of a challenge. “Revising the first draft was the most difficult and time-consuming part,” she admits. “It takes more concentration and perseverance to keep going over the same paragraph, making it better, more active, less passive, more showing and less telling.” She credits the members of the Oasis Writing Group with helping her achieve her dream of completing her first book: a Christian romance titled Her Next Dance.

Fischer describes Her Next Dance as “a passionate romance which also touches on current topics such as sexual discrimination and harassment in the workplace, the MeToo movement, the opioid crisis, and ranch land preservation issues.” The main character, Lauren Miller, is a 30-something attorney juggling the demands of a full-time career and the challenges of being a single mother to a teenage son.  Lauren’s main source of solace is ballroom dancing. When she meets Marco Gonzalez, an attractive dance instructor, sparks fly.

Fischer drew inspiration for the character and the story from her personal experiences as an attorney and mediator, as well as her love of dancing.  “What I like best about the book is that if you follow the steps and directions given by Marco, you can learn how to do some popular dances such as the Salsa, cha-cha, swing, and waltz,” she explains.

Fischer is currently hard at work on the second of what she plans to be the “Dancing into Romance” series – Dancing with a Cowboy, another Christian romance novel scheduled for release in the fall.  The story centers around Elaine MacDonald, a young paralegal who moves to Florida to escape an abusive relationship. When she’s invited to a ballroom dance class, she meets a handsome ranch foreman who is attracted to her, but she is reluctant to begin a relationship because of the secret fear that still haunts her. 

Fischer hopes her books will help encourage and inspire her readers. “You can have love in your life even though you’ve been hurt in the past,” she says. “Try new things. Open yourself up to new adventures. God has a plan or purpose for all of us. It’s up to us to discover what our purpose is. He wants to give us the desires of our hearts. All we have to do is ask Him.”


For more information, visit the author’s website: SusanFischer.org 


 Facebook page:  susanfischerbooks

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