Debbie Bishop's Blog

Effective immediately, The Road Unveiled, a contemporary Christian novel written by Tim Bishop and published by Open Road Press, is available for sale in paperback and ebook. It’s the second book in the Bicycle Adventure Series.

In The Road Unveiled, former missionary Lauren Baumgartner takes the lead role, journeying alongside Doug Zimmer. Both are characters from Bishop’s debut novel, The Persistent Road. With a free spirit but a broken heart, Lauren dreams of bicycling places in America he...

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The Southern Christian Writers Conference has selected The Persistent Road by Tim Bishop as the winner in the 2023 Notable Book Awards for self-published fiction.

The Persistent Road is a novel about a man who loses all he once cherished and embarks on an epic bicycling adventure to find out if life is still worth living. It engages the reader on issues of the heart, such as grief, loneliness, and depression. Two Christy Award-winning novelists, Katie Powne...

Effectively immediately, The Persistent Road, a contemporary Christian novel published by Open Road Press, is available for preorder.

Tim Bishop’s debut novel follows the plight of Doug Zimmer, who loses all he once cherished before embarking on an epic bicycling adventure to find out if life is still worth living. The story broaches issues that have become rampant in American culture: loneliness, depression, and suicide. The book has been endorsed by five award-winning authors of Christian f...

This June, Open Road Press will release Tim Bishop’s first novel. The title is revealed in the video below, the cover in the bottom video.

You can preorder The Persistent Road at this webpage. To stay abreast of developments, join Tim’s newsletter and enjoy a free e-book of life lessons courtesy of Tim and Debbie Bishop.

From the back cover:

After losing all he once cherished, Doug Zimm...

I’ve been hard at work on a novel in the past few years. I intend to write more than one of these – in fact, I’ve already started the second one. To gain some credibility as a novelist and exchange updates with readers, it became apparent that I needed an author-branded website and a newsletter to go with it.

The Open Road Press site is still a viable destination for our publishing matters. But in anticipation of my first novel’s release, which won’t likely occur until late 2022 or early ...

Grab some soda and popcorn, because the Kendrick brothers are at it again. This Friday, August 23, they officially release their sixth movie, Overcomer, to cinemas in North America. I had the pleasure of screening this movie as part of the Christian Worldview Film Festival held in Franklin, Tennessee, in mid-March.

When Overcomer begins, you may feel like you’re being treated to a remake of the Kendricks’ breakout movie, Facing the Giants (2006). Alex Kendrick reclaims his coach’s whistle in...

Do you believe that “God sees us according to our destiny, not our history”? Kate Battistelli does. She’s the author of The God Dare, which hit bookshelves on June 1. She’s also the mother of Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Francesca Battistelli.

No slouch in her own right, Kate Battistelli co-starred on Broadway alongside Yul Brynner in The King and I. Furthermore, she brings a wealth of spiritual wisdom and insights to her latest book, in which she shares candidly from her own stru...

Over the weekend, Open Road Press officially released two paperbacks to the market with another release upcoming in a month. Thanks to its new distributorship through Small Press United, a division of Independent Publishers Group, titles previously published only in e-book format have been formatted for print and set up on a print-on-demand basis.

The first such title, Metaphors in Motion: Wisdom from the Open Road by Tim and Debbie Bishop, contains eight lessons included in the original manu...

Wheels of Wisdom: Life Lessons for the Restless Spirit has won its fourth 1st-place book award and its eighth award overall. Best Book Awards selected the seeker’s devotional as the winner in the Christian Inspirational genre of its 2018 contest. For more details, here’s a news release from the contest sponsor announcing the results.

In September, Wheels of Wisdom was selected as a semifinalist in the broad nonfiction genre of the annual Kindle Book Awards contest. The honor was its second e-...