Tim Bishop asked Tim Bishop:

I see you have a novel releasing in June. How did that come about?

Tim Bishop Sorry, I'm a little tardy answering this question. The Persistent Road, my debut novel, released in June of 2023.

My wife, Debbie, and I met a man on one of our bicycle tours whose demeanor and unforeseen plight inspired this story. I wrote a lesson about him in our award-winning Wheels of Wisdom. He came into a restaurant in the high desert of Oregon complaining about the religious zealots who tried to convert him at the campground the night before. Not only were they unable to persuade him, but they also stoked his disdain for religion. He was downright angry and miserable.

Being people of faith, Debbie and I couldn't understand what might have made him so belligerent. I was so intrigued with his reaction that I decided to find out what happened to him - both before we met him and after. I discovered just that when I wrote The Persistent Road, which tells Doug Zimmer's story. It received the 2024 Ames Award for General (Christian) Fiction.

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