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Charity Bishop

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Charity Bishop is an author of historical fantasy, magical realism, and Christian horror/suspense who has been writing stories since a rainy afternoon at age eleven sparked her lifelong obsession with narrative. Over the past three decades, she has crafted intricately researched novels set everywhere from Napoleonic France to the doomed decks of the Titanic, always exploring the complexities of human nature with a blend of intellectual curiosity, creative abandon, and surprising humor. When she's not diving deep into historical archives or battling her inner demons of self-doubt, Charity can be found sewing gowns for Monster High dolls, being owned by her beloved cats, and dreaming up the next world for her readers to explore. Her work stan ...more

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Charity Bishop I get to live in a thousand different time periods, a thousand different lives, with a thousand different interactions and adventures, all from the sa…moreI get to live in a thousand different time periods, a thousand different lives, with a thousand different interactions and adventures, all from the safety and relative freedom of my own desk chair. I get to learn lots about bygone cultures, nurture relationships, confront evil, fight dragons both real and imagined, and try out new writing techniques. And, I get to brush shoulders with other writers, share ideas, trade books around, and just overall 'fangirl' over great literature with fellow creatives ... and that's lovely.(less)
Charity Bishop She should have said not a chance in hell. If she had, she might still be alive.
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“And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement, and trespass charges already mentioned, and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy anymore. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after, without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done...which proves that you can be excused for just about anything if you are a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions.”
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