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 a 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.”

TJ’s The Pearly Gates of Purgatory series’ novel sequence is “One Big Story”…not-yet-published…an epic 15-book continuing series…of narrative fiction… Southern Gothic, gritty confessional… Prepare the flashlight for binge reading 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 audacious, tragicomic novels follow the path of triumph over tears, trauma, raunch, rivalry—delusions to dust, dreams to gold. Yes, melodrama, good versus evil, and larger-than-life characters.

The creative work snares the reader with a thrilling new literary voice. The fresh, bold approach is captivating and groundbreaking. The distinctive style explodes with an authentic first-person persona and a perspective that subverts genre expectations. All sequential novels are written, not proposed. The daring storyline and characters are suitable for page-to-screen adaptation for TV and/or streaming platforms. The unreliable and unforgettable narrator defies all expectations. The sweeping saga is set in Palm Beach, New Orleans, and Dallas, beginning in the Big ‘80s.

These semi-autographical novels with a strong emotional core feature a powerful storyteller voice—complexity with clashes. A blend of personal truth and fiction. Books that simultaneously skewer and memorialize dangerous situations and captivating worlds, with a sense of time and place, of identity, and of the shifting sandglass ways the story’s protagonist-heroine-anti-heroine sees herself and others.

The explosive, all-original, tell-all sweeping saga is unlike any other work, and its writing style is unlike any other author's. 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 “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 Creative Writing short-list novel-in-progress 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, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway. She holds the highest level of a Florida Certified General Contractor's License.