by Joni M Fisher | Feb 2, 2023 | Book Reviews
In Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead, Inspector Armand Gamache, haunted by two previous cases and injured from one, retreats to Old Quebec City to conduct research. At the Literary and Historical Society, he finds obscure historical battle information. The “Lit and...
by Joni M Fisher | Jan 29, 2023 | Book Reviews
Detective Margaret Nolan is sent to investigate a body found after an earthquake in Malibu. This leads her uphill to a magnificent home where a large party ran into the wee hours. The body belongs to actor Evan Hobbes who attended that party. Wading into the cesspool...
by Joni M Fisher | Jan 2, 2023 | Book News
Looking for mystery, thrillers, suspense, and romance without gore, profanity, or erotica? Find your next favorite author here and try out new books without spending a fortune… This list offers a mix of bestsellers, award-winners, and emerging new authors of...
by Joni M Fisher | Dec 21, 2022 | Book Reviews
In March, 2020, D.L. Wood launched her Secrets and Lies Series with Secrets She Knew. The audio version narrated by Dana Dae presented a smooth, lovely narrative voice to this page-turning journey! Boston Detective Danielle Lake has been haunted by the death of a high...
by Joni M Fisher | Nov 8, 2022 | Featured In
General Aviation News writer Joni M. Fisher has found her fortune in crime, recently winning an award for her fourth novel in the Compass Crime series. The instrument-rated pilot’s latest book, East of Evil, won the Silver Award in the categories of unpublished...
by Joni M Fisher | Nov 8, 2022 | Featured In
LOCAL WRITER WINS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.: The Florida Writers Association, Inc., (FWA) has announced East of Evil won two prestigious Royal Palm Literary Awards. East of Evil won the Silver Award in the categories of unpublished Mystery or Crime,...
by Joni M Fisher | Nov 4, 2022 | Aviation, Writing Life
Jack Brown’s Seaplane Base continues to train more pilots in the fine art of flying seaplanes. In 2003 Jack Brown’s Seaplane Base celebrated a milestone–40 years of continuous seaplane instruction. Brown’s Seaplane Base has trained more people to fly seaplanes than...
by Joni M Fisher | Nov 4, 2022 | Aviation, Featured In
If you fly long enough, you will experience a problem in flight. Maybe you’ll hit a bird. Maybe your wings will ice up. Maybe you’ll get distracted in your pre-landing check and forget to lower the gear. Fuel lines get vapor lock. Gunk clogs the fuel injector. A bug...
by Joni M Fisher | Oct 29, 2022 | Writing Life
The Space Coast Writer’s Guild hosted me to lead a workshop, “Editing Down to the Bones,” in Melbourne, Florida. My best advice is not to edit until you complete the first draft. If that’s all anyone learned from the workshop, then follow it, and you will thank me. I...
by Joni M Fisher | Oct 29, 2022 | Book News
So, I submitted my manuscript to the Royal Palm Literary Awards contest because the judges gave wonderful feedback on what they liked and what they saw as needing improvement. The Compass Crimes series overlaps a few categories, so I entered it into two categories:...