Following a forty-five-year plus career in public relations/marketing/media relations, Wanda Fischer decided to devote her writing talents to telling stories through fiction. She has self-published two full-length novels and four short stories. Her first novel, Empty Seats, is a coming-of-age book with baseball as the backdrop. Wanda has been a baseball fan for many years and used her interest in the sport to weave that knowledge into a novel that earned much acclaim, as well as an appearance on a national radio show, "Only a Game." She was also selected to be a one-day public address announcer at Fenway Park between the Boston Red Sox and the Minnesota Twins.
Her second novel, A Few Bumps, was just released in June 2023. Still Doing Time, which began as a sequel to Empty Seats, is in the final stages of publication and is expected to be published in August 2024. A Few Bumps is a huge departure from her first book, since it's a romance novel focusing on two people who meet by chance on an airplane in a snowstorm. And there's a ghost. A ghost angel.
Wanda's an avid tennis player and plays competitively. She runs an all-women's senior team affiliated with the United States Tennis Association.
She has hosted a folk music program on the Albany, New York-based National Public Radio affiliate since 1982. Folk Alliance International inducted her into its Folk DJ Hall of Fame in 2019. In 2023, she was also inducted into the Thomas Edison Music Hall of Fame, along with several other national music dignitaries who began their careers in New York State's Capitol District. In addition to her radio activities, she is a singer/songwriter and has produced one CD and has appeared on several other recordings.
Wanda and her husband Bill have been married for fifty-one years; they have two adult children and seven grandchildren. They live in Schenectady, New York with their dachshund, Oscar.
