Crime meets art
Coming October 13
Adulting comes hard for a prodigy who has spent her childhood trying to fit in. Now 22, she has a master's degree in art history, a job at an art gallery, and an arrest record. She's trying to stay out of trouble, but trouble finds her.
My Story
If you seek mystery and suspense stories with a closed-door romantic subplot, you’ve come to the right place. Author Joni M. Fisher writes contemporary crime novels in the classical mystery style. Her stories feature strong heroines who face whatever life throws at them rather than waiting to be rescued. Bonds of family, faith, and friendship connect the ensemble cast in the award-winning Compass Crimes series. Each book features a woman who seeks justice after a crime has turned her life upside down.
In addition to writing novels, Fisher enjoys reading, traveling, shooting paper and steel targets, and flying. An instrument-rated private pilot, she reports for General Aviation News. She also conducts workshops for writers' groups and as a guest speaker at universities. She lives with her husband in central Florida and North Carolina. The FBI has her fingerprints on file.
She is hard at work on the next series, which features crime in the art world.
Joni M. Fisher
Author
The Compass Crimes Series
Upcoming Readings & Events
August 26-30, 2026
Memphis, TN
The American Christian Fiction Writers Conference and StoryFest
I've been invited to lead a workshop again, this year. Each year, hundreds of veteran authors and those just learning the craft of Christian fiction gather in a setting like this to hear skilled instructors, inspiring keynoters…to gain from the insights of industry professionals…to interact with other writers…and to present their ideas to agents and editors looking for stories like theirs, or to mentors who can help them move forward in their writing career. If you write Christian fiction—or want to learn how—the ACFW conference is an investment worth making.
September 19, 2026
Fort Myers, FL
Suspense & Thriller Writing Workshop
Hosted by the Gulf Coast Writers Association, this workshop presents suspense and thrillers as carefully engineered experiences of anticipation, dread and uncertainty. Rather than relying on constant action, it shows writers how to build tension through high stakes, ticking clocks, foreshadowing, dramatic irony, red herrings, sensory detail, dilemmas, cliffhangers and strategic pacing so readers keep turning pages. The workshop emphasizes that suspense works best when readers care deeply about the protagonist and understand what is at risk. It explains how to deepen that emotional pull through character vulnerability, deep point of view, unresolved fears and impossible choices that force the hero into painful decisions.