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About Ellie Fisher

Recognized by the national media as a relationship expert, Ellie is the author of Mom, There's a Man in the Kitchen and He's Wearing Your Robe (Da Capo Press 2005) and Dating for Dads (Bantam Dell 2008). She also contributed to the anthology, Single Woman of a Certain Age and is currently is working on a third book (due out 2009 Bantam Dell) that deals with the female-to-female relationships that swirl around a guy's life; i.e. the ones between his mom, sister and significant other.

A print journalist with more than 25 years of experience, Ellie has been featured in CHILD, Working Mother, Parents, Essence, Complete Woman, and numerous regional magazines. A former reporter and editor for United Press International, and landscape designer, she has also edited a magazine for professional landscape designers. It was during that time, Ellie's husband of 15 years suddenly died. In her late thirties with two small children at home, she unexpectedly found herself doing something she had long ago given up: dating.

First lesson she learned: Begin dating when you feel you're ready and ignore the judgmental comments of married people.

Second lesson: Your parents won't be waiting up for you. Your children will.

Third Lesson: If your blind date cuts his salmon into neat little squares which he devours in sequence so as not to upset the grid and talks about his ex-wife's new marriage, it's okay to let him pick up the tab and never see him again.

Ellie's personal dating experiences from having sex for the first time in 20 years with a man other than her husband, to carelessly marrying - albeit briefly - a man she found though a personal ad, give her the empathy, understanding and ability to communicate with people in similar situations.