A professional writer his entire life, he has never wanted to earn his living any other way, says Fisher. If he had, he says cheerfully, he surely would have been rich and famous. But far less happy. A former freelance writer, journalist, newspaper columnist, corporate communicator and ad agency creative director-copy chief in San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Miami and Portland, Oregon, he now lives and writes books by the blue Ocean on Southwest Washington's Long Beach Peninsula.