A life-long sailor, Normandie Fischer has been writing and editing professionally since the seventies. Her fiction has garnered numerous awards, including best in women's fiction in 2011, The Marlene (Washington, DC, RWA) and The Catherine (Toronto RWA). Her second book, Sailing out of Darkness, will be released in 2013.

Normandie studied sculpture for several years in Perugia, Italy before returning stateside to complete her degree with special honors in English. She and her husband divide their time between their waterfront home in NC and their waterborne sailing home, Sea Venture, lately returned from Pacific Mexico. For more information, you may contact her at: normandie@normandiefischer.com.