About

TJ Fisher is an award-winning published author of nonfiction and fiction works. She is a recognized storyteller, writer, novelist, social critic and tastemaker. A native Floridian and longtime Town of Palm Beach (“the Island”) beach-block resident, TJ previously owned an historic 1850s French Quarter home on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. She became noted for her 1959 pink Cadillac Convertible named Lulabell. The Advocate | Baton Rouge book editor previously labeled her “suitably outrageous and eccentric to represent New Orleans.”

Stay tuned for more information on her forthcoming The Pearly Gates of Purgatory series…an epic 15-book continuing series…of narrative fiction… Prepare the flashlight to binge read in bed at night. The panoramic tale is cranked all the way up. Big emotions. Big conflicts. Big twists. Big shocks. Unlikely settings, scenes and unexpected collisions. The explosive all-original and tell-all sweeping saga is not like any other work, and the writing style is not like any other author. The series is set in New Orleans, Dallas and Palm Beach. The forthcoming sequence of not-yet-published title(s) are: Baby Doll Gombo (#1), Zin-Zin (#2), Flambeau (#3), Quadrillée (#4),Tableau (#5), Peristyle (#6), Mascarade (#7), Promenade (#8), Société (#9), Zansét (#10), Repasser (#11), Confrondre (#12), Rouler (#13), Procession (#14), Vieux Gold (#15).

TJ is a longtime member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA), Directors of America (DGA), Writers Guild of America East (WGAE), Screen Actors Guild- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), Dramatists Guild (DG), Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (“Television Academy”/ATAS), Dramatists Guild (DG), Actor’s Equity Association (AE), Authors Guild (AG), and other professional guilds and associations.

A former journalist and columnist, her previously published award-winning nonfiction works Orléans Embrace with The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carré and Hearsay from Heaven and Hades: New Orleans Secrets of Sinners and Saints garnered major kudos and national literary honors. The critical acclaim included IBPA Benjamin Franklin double gold for “Best New Voice Nonfiction” and the “The Bill Fisher Award for Best First Nonfiction Book" and triple silver. The equivalent of literary Oscars. She also snared a gold IPPY Award, Nautilus Book Award, gold and silver National Best Book Awards, Eric Hoffer Award, Southern Independent Bookseller Alliance honors and the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society Faulkner-Wisdom short-list novel mark of distinction. Additionally, TJ authored Vieux Carré Chic: The Art of Overindulgent Home Décor.

Southern Author TJ, self-admittedly as irreparably complex, flawed and charismatic as her characters, is a colorful storyteller. A complex character of dichotomy…with seeming contradictions…all her virtues collide and coexist with her faults. It’s complicated but never boring.

TJ Fisher is also a Palm Beach Broker Associate | Luxury Realtor with Compass Real Estate. She serves as the WE ALL DREAM IN GOLD Group Principal Agent. Her office is located 150 Worth Avenue #232, ocean-block in the Midtown heart of the Town of Palm Beach, in-between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway. She holds the highest-level of a Florida Certified General Contractor's License.

Other Works

  • Vieux Carré Chic: The Art of Overindulgent Home Décor

    2010
  • Hearsay from Heaven and Hades: New Orleans Secrets of Sinners and Saints

    2008
  • Orléans Embrace with The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carré

    2006

Awards and Recognition

  • IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold for “Best New Voice Nonfiction”
  • IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold for “The Bill Fisher Award for Best First Nonfiction Book"
  • IBPA Triple Silver Awards
  • IPPY Gold Award
  • Nautilus Book Award
  • National Best Book Gold and Silver Awards
  • Eric Hoffer Award
  • Southern Independent Bookseller Alliance Honors
  • Pirates Alley Faulkner Society Faulkner-Wisdom Short-List Novel Mark of Distinction

Press and Media Mentions