Fallen Angels Reviews would like to welcome author Ellen Fisher. In the Mood, is Ellen’s newest releases and is available from New Concepts Publishing.


Hi Ellen and welcome back to FAR. It’s been a while since you’ve been here with us. Please tell us about yourself and what you’ve been up to since your last visit.

Hi! I’m a stay-at-home mom (with four kids, ranging from ten to almost six months old) who writes romance in several different subgenres. I think the last time you’d interviewed me, I’d just released my second historical romance, Love Remembered. Now I’ve had eight romances for NCP and nine romances overall, with one more due out any day now. I’ve written historicals, contemporaries, futuristics, and a fantasy romance. I’ve also written a children’s book (under the name of Elly Sanders) called The First Grader From Outer Space for New Age Dimensions Publishing.

In the Mood was recently released. What’s it about?

In the Mood is a contemporary romantic comedy. Here’s the blurb:

Jude Patterson, a sexy romance author, just doesn't get how to create believable and steamy love scenes. They’re boring and stilted, so he seeks assistance from someone who really knows what women want…

Alyssa Stone can’t believe such a famous and sexy man could write such awful love scenes. She offers her assistance on a whim, but as the lessons progress, she discovers he can teach her a thing or two, and before long, they're in the mood for a lot more than writing...

What can fans expect to see from you next?

My next novella is Farthest Space, part of the anthology Tripping Through the Universe. Farthest Space is a spoofy futuristic, loosely related to my contemporaries All I Ever Wanted and Isn’t It Romantic? Tripping Through the Universe is an anthology of humorous futuristics. I’m thrilled to be included, since the other stories are all written by incredible authors—Jaide Fox, Ashley Ladd, and Shelley Munro. It should be released very soon.

Tell your fans something about you they would never guess.

I can’t live without Mountain Dew. Pitiful, but true…

It’s summer vacation and you have 4 kids at home, how do you find time to write?

Fortunately, the baby (almost six months old) sleeps late in the morning. I get up around 6:15, when my husband gets up to go to work, and let the older kids fend for themselves for a while. This gives me a nice block of time to get writing done (and blogging, and surfing the internet, and reading, and…). The baby usually naps for a few hours during the afternoon, too, so I can work then too if necessary. If I can’t get my work done for some reason, though, I don’t beat myself up about it… I know I won’t always have time to write every day, and that’s okay. I’m a very erratic writer, anyway—a while back I wrote 97 pages in five days, but generally I’m much slower than that. I usually have to wait on inspiration, which comes in its own time… when it comes at all!

Of all things you have accomplished, is there one accomplishment you are most proud of?

Four accomplishments, actually… my kids, all of whom are beautiful and brilliant. (Okay, the baby’s claim to brilliance right now is an impressive ability to stick his toes in his mouth, but I’m quite certain he’s going to be brilliant, sooner or later.). They can all be nuisances, naturally, but overall they’re awesome kids and I’m very proud of them.

What is your favorite part of a book to write?

Oooh, tough question. I love the beginning of a book, because it usually comes into my brain fully formed, and writing it down seems more like taking dictation from some outside source than actually creating it. I also love the ending, because typing “The End” is hugely exciting after you’ve been working on a manuscript for months. I’m not overwhelmingly fond of the middle, though—like a lot of writers, I find writing the middle of a story to be about as much fun as having teeth pulled!

When it comes to writing, is there someone you turn to for advice?

Definitely—my husband. He operates as my critique partner, reading all my books several times and telling me bluntly (sometimes a little too bluntly!) where the problems are. He finds all sorts of things wrong with them, from logic flaws to spelling errors. Without him, my books wouldn’t be nearly as well written!

You write in several genres, do you have a favorite? How do you make the transition from a historical to writing a fantasy?

My favorite subgenre is contemporary romance. But I love switching back and forth—I get bored when I only write one genre for any length of time-- and I intend to continue writing in both contemporary and futuristic romance. I don’t plan to write any more historicals, although you never know what might happen someday. But switching back and forth between genres isn’t hard; I’ve done it so much I’m used to it. I often write on a contemporary in the morning and a futuristic in the afternoon. It’s just a matter of remembering which “voice” I’m using, and making sure the snarky humor from my contemporary doesn’t bleed over into my oh-so serious futuristic!

If you could be invisible for one hour, what would you do and where would you go?

Oh, just like Harry Potter! I think my answer is much the same as any other mom’s… I’d go sit in a corner somewhere and revel in the fact that my kids couldn’t find me. I’d love to sit in my library, concealed by my invisibility cloak, and read quietly, without the constant interruption of kids shrieking, “Mom! She hit me! Mom!!”

If you were going to turn to a life of crime, what kind of criminal would you be?

I truly can’t see myself turning to a life of crime, partly because I’m painfully honest and partly because I’m not really the criminal mastermind type… I’d be sure to be caught :-). So what kind of criminal would I be? A really bad one, I suspect!

Is there anything else you would like to share with us?

Your readers can find excerpts of my books, articles on writing, and the all-important photos of my baby on my website. And I blog daily; my journal can be found at http://ellenfisher.blogspot.com.

Thanks so much for taking the time to interview me!

Thank you Ellen, for being here with us today. For more information on Ellen Fisher and her books, visit her website.


Interviewed by: Jaymi