Harold Fisher, a veteran Washington, D.C., radio newsman, says he was greatly influenced by his mother and the parties she would host with her sorority sisters at the family's home in D.C.

"They would be sitting around having a glass of wine and talking about their relations and what their husbands and boyfriends were or weren't doing to make them happy, and that made a tremendous impression on me," Fisher said. "I began to look at loving relationships not from the point of view I'm most comfortable with, which is a man's, but from what women are going through."

Host of the popular 'Daily Drum' public affairs radio program on the Howard University radio station WHUR, Fisher has left behind his reporter's pad and pen and mined his more emotional side to produce his first novel under the pseudonym Rosefogg, called 'Two Weeks Until the Rest of My Life.' ...

Fisher, who is married and has an 11-year-old daughter, gets in touch with his feminine side to produce his book, which tells the story of a career woman's unexpected erotic whirlwind romance with a younger man. Fisher calls it an adventure that ultimately makes her challenge everything she has ever known or experienced about love, passion and ambition.

"Having spent so much time round women and being raised by them after my parents separated and divorced, I knew I would have to tap into those memories to write a book that explores romance," Fisher said. "A lot of men don't actively pursue romance, but women are high on that issue in there lives, and I am in the book."

Fisher, 45, makes no apologies for being a romantic. And he suggests men, especially black men, get in touch with their romantic sides if they want to make their women happy.

"Brothers should be more expressive," Fisher advises. "Romance isn't a practical thing, it's pure passion. Men need to know how to buy flowers and know some of the most romantic things they can do that won't cost them a dime. A man can be macho and and manly, but talking to the person who is the object of your desire, you need to open another part of yourself to experience the full potential of a relationship."

Though Fisher has worked as a television news anchor and reporter in Florida, Alabama, Ohio, New York and Missouri before coming to WHUR, he said the idea of writing a romance novel was a longtime desire.

"I started this book in the '90s, so its been in the works for a long time," Fisher said. "I was writing poetry since I was a teenager. I've always been consumed with romance."