About Don Fisher
Don Fisher writes Both Business books (35 years as a business executive) and romantic comedy novels. He has a passion for people and their stories. He writes about real people, the ones clocking in, dealing with ridiculous coworkers, and somehow finding love in the chaos of everyday life. With Seventeen books published and a style that's been compared to Seinfeld meets The Office, he finds humor in break rooms, cubicles, and all the absurd moments most people just try to survive.
When he's not writing about Business applications or unlikely romance, Don manages a workforce development program in Indianapolis at a social mission furniture company, helping homeless and former addicts and incarcerated men rebuild their lives through skills training and employment. Thirty five years in manufacturing and organizational leadership taught him that the best stories come from watching real people navigate the messy, funny, heartbreaking work of just showing up.
He's been married for 31 years, which gives him plenty of material.
Currently, he's working on a leadership business book called "The Last Manager" HOW AI IS REWRITING THE RULES OF LEADERSHIP Due out in April. He is also just finished a self-help book called Broken Enough: A Practical Guide to Self-Rescue—because transformation doesn't have to be theoretical, and sometimes the best advice comes from someone who's been in the trenches.
Split Pea Soup
Warning: This book contains strong opinions about canned soup, suspicious gas station roller hot dogs, a coworker who compiles workplace injury statistics that he definitely makes up, and a first date that somehow survives against all reasonable expectations.
Greg Turner has spent four years at Budget Foods convincing himself he's "figuring things out." Mindy Coppis has spent three years at the Gas Oasis doing the same. They are both lying to themselves.
When Mindy wanders into Greg's soup aisle looking for split pea - the fruitcake of the soup world - she gets more than directions. She gets a full lecture on soup social dynamics, a coworker named Dennis who applies hand sanitizer like lotion and calculates the statistical probability of their relationship, and somehow, against all odds, a reason to come back.
For the record, Mindy's last boyfriend wore a cape to parties and owned a ferret named Gandalf. Greg is already ahead of the curve by just showing up.
Test Subjects
What if your soulmate was the person sitting next to you while testing a motivational pillow that screams?
Julia needs rent money. Garrett needs to prove his ex-girlfriend wrong. Neither of them expected to find love in Suite 407 of a depressing office building, testing products that should never have been invented, from Bluetooth-enabled potato peelers to edible deodorant to smart rings that track your every move.
This book is for everyone who's ever been broke enough to do something ridiculous for money. It's about finding connection in unexpected places and building something real while the world around you is absolutely absurd.
Test Subjects offers readers a slow-burn romance with genuine emotional depth, wrapped in sharp humor and satirical takes on consumer culture and the gig economy. Unlike traditional meet-cutes involving coffee shops or chance encounters, Julia and Garrett's relationship develops over months of shared suffering, terrible sandwiches, and increasingly ridiculous product testing sessions led by their overly enthusiastic moderator, Brenda.
The novel features a diverse cast of memorable supporting characters, including Donna, a sixty-three-year-old Greek woman who knits through every focus group and dispenses wisdom whether anyone asks for it or not.
Old Money
Ethan and Lily's marriage is in a rut. Their Friday date night is a complete disaster. They end up at Margie's Diner, where the health code is a suggestion and hope goes to die.
Then they meet Frank Castellano, an old-time wise guy.
Frank is 82, dying of cancer, and has a confession: fifty years ago, he buried $575,000 from an armored car robbery. He remembers exactly where. He just needs help digging it up.
What follows is four days of questionable decisions, illegal excavation, and the growing realization that sometimes the only way out of your comfortable, suffocating life is to commit light felonies with a senior citizen you just met.
Student loans don't pay themselves. And apparently, neither do therapists.
Old Money —Marriage counseling was never this illegal
Digging Up Trouble
Dale, Ruby, and Mark are not heroes. They're not detectives. They're just three people who stumbled into something way over their heads and managed to survive mostly through a combination of luck, panic, and the kind of desperate decision-making that makes for good comedy and terrible life advice.
This book is for everyone who's ever worked a job they didn't particularly like, made a purchase they couldn't afford, or gotten involved in a plan they should have walked away from. It's for everyone who's ever looked at their bank account and thought, "What if I just... found money somehow?"
Spoiler alert: metal detecting is not the answer.
But it makes for a pretty good story.