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
Amazon Author page: https://www.amazon.com/Susan-C-Fischer/e/B07PRL6G2D?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1563205029&sr=8-1
Facebook page:
susanfischerbooks
Twitter @susanfischer.
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