Meet Charity Bishop, Author, Editor and Hopeless Dreamer

Where Stories Come Alive and History Gets Magical

Charity Bishop didn’t set out to become an author. She simply couldn’t help herself. It all started on a rain-soaked afternoon when an eleven-year-old girl, thumbing through a Garfield detective parody, had an epiphany that would change her life: people write books. That revelation hit like lightning, and young Charity immediately sat down to pen her first masterpiece… a noir mystery featuring a feline detective, naturally. From that moment, there was no turning back. The floodgates opened, and stories poured out with the unstoppable force that can only come from discovering your life’s purpose before you’re old enough to drive.

Over the past three decades, Charity has evolved from that enthusiastic kid writing detective cat adventures to a sophisticated storyteller who weaves historical fantasy, magical realism, and Christian horror/suspense with equal parts intellectual rigor and creative abandon. Her journey hasn’t been without its storms. She’s lost entire manuscripts to computer crashes, wrestled with crippling self-doubt, and battled the inner demons that whisper she’ll never translate the vivid worlds in her imagination onto the page perfectly enough. But here’s the thing about Charity: she’s got the kind of stubborn determination that turns setbacks into comebacks. Every loss, every moment of despair, has only sharpened her craft and deepened her understanding of the human condition she explores so fearlessly in her work.

What sets Charity apart isn’t just her imagination (though she’s got that in spades!). It’s her voracious appetite for research and her genuine passion for understanding human nature in all its complicated glory. She doesn’t just write historical fantasy; she lives and breathes the periods she explores, diving deep into archives and primary sources until she can practically smell the gunpowder of the American Revolution or feel the sway of the Titanic‘s deck beneath her feet. Whether she’s crafting a haunted assassins’ school in Napoleonic France or conjuring a magical library in India, every detail is grounded in meticulous research and an analytical mind that asks the hard questions about power, hypocrisy, and the shadows that lurk in every human heart.

But Charity isn’t some ivory-tower academic. She’s refreshingly, delightfully human. This is a woman who sews elaborate gowns for Monster High dolls, is happily ruled by her beloved cats, and believes pepperoni pizza and Mountain Dew are among life’s greatest pleasures. She’s spent decades haunting every corner of the internet under various usernames, diving into fandoms with enthusiasm, and connecting with fellow story-lovers wherever they gather. Her personality (creative, intellectual, analytical, and genuinely funny) infuses every page she writes. She doesn’t just want to entertain you (though she absolutely will); she wants to walk in her characters’ shoes, make sense of history’s mysteries, and explore the unknown territories of human experience right alongside you.

Her books are where all these elements collide in the best possible way. Readers who crack open a Charity Bishop novel can expect flawed but likable characters, tall, dark, and appealing anti-heroes, atmospheric settings that transport you across time and space, and plots that twist and turn with heart-pounding suspense. There are wailing banshees and dream-invading villains, mournful strangers and soul-crushing revelations, romance and horror and magic all tangled together in stories that refuse to fit neatly into any single genre box. From Victorian suspense to 1920s horror, from the Tudor court to the decks of doomed ships, Charity’s imagination knows no bounds, and neither does her commitment to exploring the big themes that keep us all up at night: faith and doubt, power and corruption, hope and despair, and the eternal question of what makes us human.

What drives Charity forward is a passion that burns bright and refuses to be extinguished. She writes because she must, because she has stories bursting to get out, because she wants to make sense of the chaos and beauty of human nature, because she believes in the power of narrative to illuminate truth. She stands firmly against the forces that diminish humanity: the sin that corrupts hearts, the hypocrisy that poisons communities, and the abuse of power that crushes the vulnerable. These aren’t abstract concepts in her work; they’re the real obstacles her characters face, the battles they fight, the darkness they navigate to find their way to hope.

This corner of the internet is Charity’s home base, the hub where all her passions and pursuits converge. Here, you’ll find not just information about her books, but glimpses into the mind of a storyteller who lives and breathes her craft, who questions everything, who laughs at herself, and who invites you to explore the magnificent, messy, magical landscape of human experience through her eyes. Every book she writes is a piece of her; her hopes and fears, her questions and discoveries, her belief that even after the darkest night, dawn eventually breaks. So pull up a chair, stay a while, and discover why readers keep coming back to the wonderfully weird and deeply human worlds Charity Bishop creates.