David Bishop is a well-known American author, celebrated for his engaging and entertaining mystery novels. Prior to becoming a writer, Bishop worked as a financial analyst, where he developed his analytical skills and learned to create events that help a story come to an intriguing climax. His job now as a writer is to come up with compelling characters and events that keep readers guessing and engaged until the end. He creates heroes, villains, and victims, and likes to make them fun and interesting with habits, tics, and talents that help flesh out the characters.
Bishop's novels resonate with a worldwide audience due to the universality of his themes and ideas. He writes in a strong and confident manner, engaging readers on a more intimate level, and providing them with clear goals and ambitions for his characters. Bishop's protagonists have distinct personalities, and it is clear where they are heading and who they are. His characters are so well-developed that they seem to leap off the page and become real to the reader.
David James Bishop is a New Zealand screenwriter and author, who was a UK comics editor during the 1990s. He has since become a prolific author and received his first drama scriptwriting credit when BBC Radio 4 broadcast his radio play Island Blue: Ronald in June 2006. Bishop has won several awards for his scripts, including the PAGE International Screenwriting Award in the short film category for his script Danny's Toys, and was a finalist in the 2009 PAGE Awards with his script The Woman Who Screamed Butterflies. He has also written for television, including an episode of the BBC medical drama series Doctors, called A Pill For Every Ill, broadcast on 10 February 2010.
David Bishop's first novel was released in October 2011, and since then, his mysteries have maintained a constant presence on Amazon Best Selling Lists in multiple categories of mystery novels. He has been listed numerous times among the 100 best selling authors of mysteries, including appearances among the top 10. Bishop writes several series characters, including Matt Kile, Maddie Richards, and Jack McCall. The stories within these series are independent and can be read in any order. Bishop was born in Washington, D.C., and prior to becoming a novelist, he worked as a financial analyst. As a writer, he conjures up occurrences designed to quickly bring the story to a roiling boil, inventing people and making them fun and interesting with habits, tics, and talents that help flesh out the characters.