Each week, an accomplished published author takes over the YEM Twitter account for Thursday’s Twitter Takeover. Each week, the YA author will answer questions, tell stories, and give advice on our social media. This week Nancy Richardson Fischer will be taking over our Twitter account.

Nancy Richardson Fischer’s newest YA adventure novel is The Speed of Falling Objects (Inkyard Press). The book is about a young woman who has to face her fears about the wild outdoors and her own insecurities when she and her estranged father are in a plane crash in the jungles of the Amazon rainforest and have to fight for their lives.

Richardson Fischer is an extreme sports devotee who has traveled all over the world cycling and climbing mountains. She also has an extreme phobia of spiders and other creepy crawlies, which feature prominently in the book and about which she had to do extensive research.