Ellen Fisher

The Nerd. I have a fatal weakness for nerds... in fact, I married one!

I can't look much beyond the fact that I have a baby due in February. I guess my goals are to continue writing around four children (it should help that I got a laptop for Christmas!), and to get several things published this year. I want to publish at least three things under my own name, and two things under my pen name. I also intend to write another novella targeted to Brava by March or thereabouts and submit it to Kate Duffy. I expect to write nothing but novellas and shorts this year, as babies are not particularly conducive to novel writing, IMHO!

In non-writing goals, I need to lose weight and get back in shape after the baby is born, so I foresee a lot of time spent on my elliptical trainer and exercise bike .

*Snort* That's my husband, I'm sorry to say. Straight from life. I married an Eagle Scout and it still shows.

Thank you for your kind comment about my writing, Sylvia. The interesting thing is that my first book, a historical, was deadly serious. I didn't learn to write humor until later. And for some reason I STILL can't write a humorous historical... to me, historicals are serious and contemporaries are humorous. I don't know why, but I just do what the voices in my head tell me to do and don't worry about it too much :shock: !

Ellen F.