Hi there, thank you for visiting my website. I am Amanda Renée Bishop, published playwright and aspiring fiction author. I consider myself a bit of an oddity in the writing world. I did not dream of becoming a writer as a child nor as teenager. No, if you would have asked me what I wanted to be as a child, I would have said Marine Biologist–all because of a little movie called Free Willy, (hello child of the 1980’s)! However, there were some flaws in my plan as, well, I don’t really like to swim, I grew up hundreds of miles from the ocean (in Nebraska), and the thought of being deep down on the ocean floor, yikes! As a teenager, I felt the Lord calling me into youth ministry and that is what I have done in one capacity or another for the past twenty years until recently transitioning out of that ministry. That brings us to the present.
Would you believe, I hadn’t read fiction as an adult until a few years ago?!?! Yes, it is true, as my husband would sit and read a good fiction book, I only had eyes for the non-fiction. Then one day it happened, I opened a fiction book–I honestly don’t know for sure which book it was–but I think it was a Karen Kingsbury title. That was all it took, I was hooked.
While writing plays are more of my comfort zone, I’m stepping out and testing the waters of Christian Fiction. I would love to have you come along for the ride. It’s sure to be full of up’s and downs and lots of fun along the way!
When I’m not writing you are likely to find me homeschooling my two children, hanging out with my hunky husband Shane, gardening, or enjoying the beauty of nature.