Ellie Slott Fisher

New reviews and giveaways have been popping up left and right, including the rare perspective of a son and husband!

Reviews:

Not Quite Susie Homemaker

Reviews and Giveaways:

Stay at Home Dad (No end date listed, but if you can send Lakers tickets, it’s a guaranteed win!)

Crystal & Company (ends April 19)

Susie Says (ends April 20)

The Mom Maven (ends April 22)

Obsession Reviews (ends April 23)

This, That, and T’other (ends April 20)

Sweeps4Bloggers (ends April 22)

Gaffney’s Gabs (ends April 23)

Jeanne’s Ramblings (ends April 23)

Mommy’s Memorandum (ends April 23)

Double Shot of Espresso (ends April 25)

Several new reviews of It’s Either Her or Me (including giveaways) have been posted around the web. You can read them at:

Reviews:

It’s All in Your Family…Now in the Wilmington, NC, StarNews

It’s Either Her or Me: Book Review on Bella Online: The Voice of Women

It’s Either Her or Me on Who Says 7 is Enough?

Reviews and Giveaways:

Things I Can’t Say (ends April 14)

Being Me (ends April 15)

Are You Listening? (ends April 15)

Kerri’s Klutter (ends April 18)

Crystal & Company (ends April 19)

Obsession Reviews (ends April 23)

This, That, and T’other (ends April 20)

Sweeps4Bloggers (ends April 22)

Jeanne’s Ramblings (ends April 23)

Mommy’s Memorandum (ends April 23)

It’s Either Her or Me is my third book that has to do with relationships, yet this one has been so anticipated, its presales were significant. But why? I like to think it’s because I have a loyal following (beyond my mom) but the real reason is that this is a subject most women are dying to talk about. Incognito.

Dozens of women have contacted me through email saying that, even if they have a pretty good relationship with the other woman, they still have unresolved “issues.” This feeling is so even sided, that when women write to me about HER, I have no idea if they are talking about their mother-in-law or their daughter-in-law.

And both would be mortified if the other one knew they were.

As a journalist, I interview men and women, and sometimes children, who are relevant to my topic. I love anecdotes, believing that we feel more connected when we hear and relate to what someone else is going through. The difference between the subjects in my first two books on single parents and dating, and those in It’s Either Her or Me, is that the former ones are perfectly fine being thanked in the acknowledgments by their real identities. (I change their identity elsewhere in the books). This time around very few of the women – moms or daughters – agreed to be acknowledged.

What’s different is that I am writing about ongoing relationships. I could comfortably write about the bad dates I had in Mom, There’s a Man in the Kitchen and He’s Wearing Your Robe, because I KNEW those relationships were over. But that may not be the case when I consider the significant others my son has had. Even ones from the past could at some point be in the present. I’m not going to risk saying or doing anything to him to forever destroy that relationship.

So I get it. Since a mother-in-law and a daughter-in-law have to get along at least superficially, their identity is safe with me.