Good Morning, Booklovers!
Thank you for joining me this morning to welcome another writer to the Coffee Chat! Today's guest is John Bishop MD, author of the Doc Brady mystery series of medical thrillers.
Welcome, John! How do you take your coffee?
John: I like to drink my coffee black, and hot please.
Ally: Me too! While I pour, please tell readers something of your background.
Thank you for joining me this morning to welcome another writer to the Coffee Chat! Today's guest is John Bishop MD, author of the Doc Brady mystery series of medical thrillers.
Welcome, John! How do you take your coffee?
John: I like to drink my coffee black, and hot please.
Ally: Me too! While I pour, please tell readers something of your background.
Bio:
John Bishop MD is the author of Act of Revenge: A Doc Brady Mystery. Dr. Bishop has practiced orthopedic surgery in Houston, Texas, for 30 years. His Doc Brady medical thriller series is set in the changing environment of medicine in the 1990s. Drawing on his years of experience as a practicing surgeon, Bishop entertains readers using his unique insights into the medical world with all its challenges, intricacies, and complexities, while at the same time revealing the compassion and dedication of health care professionals. Dr. Bishop and his wife, Joan, reside in the Texas Hill Country.
Something unique/unusual that isn't in your regular bio: "I knew my father had been in the war, which would be WW II. He never discussed it. I occasionally would hear him quietly talk about an episode or two with his Army buddies, but those sorts of things were never discussed with the family. He remained active in the Army Reserve, which involved monthly meetings and a 2-week outing into the wilds of Ft. Polk in Leesville, LA. After he died, my mother gave me a box. She said my dad wanted me to have its contents. In that box were dozens of war medals...a Purple Heart, Medal of Valor, and a myriad of items that were awarded him during and after WW II. I would have loved to have discussed all his medals and awards with him when he was alive. For whatever reason, he could not. I am the son of a war hero, unknown to me until after his death."
For more information:
Wesite: https://johnbishopauthor.com
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20293392.John_Bishop
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/John-Bishop/e/B07WQJZ8KG?
John Bishop MD is the author of Act of Revenge: A Doc Brady Mystery. Dr. Bishop has practiced orthopedic surgery in Houston, Texas, for 30 years. His Doc Brady medical thriller series is set in the changing environment of medicine in the 1990s. Drawing on his years of experience as a practicing surgeon, Bishop entertains readers using his unique insights into the medical world with all its challenges, intricacies, and complexities, while at the same time revealing the compassion and dedication of health care professionals. Dr. Bishop and his wife, Joan, reside in the Texas Hill Country.
Something unique/unusual that isn't in your regular bio: "I knew my father had been in the war, which would be WW II. He never discussed it. I occasionally would hear him quietly talk about an episode or two with his Army buddies, but those sorts of things were never discussed with the family. He remained active in the Army Reserve, which involved monthly meetings and a 2-week outing into the wilds of Ft. Polk in Leesville, LA. After he died, my mother gave me a box. She said my dad wanted me to have its contents. In that box were dozens of war medals...a Purple Heart, Medal of Valor, and a myriad of items that were awarded him during and after WW II. I would have loved to have discussed all his medals and awards with him when he was alive. For whatever reason, he could not. I am the son of a war hero, unknown to me until after his death."
For more information:
Wesite: https://johnbishopauthor.com
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20293392.John_Bishop
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/John-Bishop/e/B07WQJZ8KG?
INTERVIEW:
Ally: What inspired you to write your featured book?
John: I was an orthopedic surgeon and have been an avid reader my entire life. My favorite books have always been medical mysteries in the form of such authors as vintage Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. Back in the 1990s, I had a good deal of time on my hands, having retired from the publishing/presentation world of academic medicine, and was spending my time taking care of patients. We had a beach house in Galveston, and I would sit in an upstairs
alcove and ponder writing the "great American novel.”
One day, after attending the funeral of a child of one of my friends and partners, I started writing about the grief associated with the loss of a child. That morphed into writing about the death of the child which needed to be fictitious, so I then added a murder mystery scenario and came up with the first novel called ACT OF MURDER.
By then I had been bitten by the writing bug and continued to create stories and novels. My wife Joan found an agent in New York, who tried to get me a publishing deal but was unsuccessful. Undaunted, I continued to write, and produced ACT OF DECEPTION, ACT OF REVENGE, ACT OF NEGLIGENCE, AND ACT OF FATE. After that last book, I gave up and abandoned the writing career.
Ally: After setting aside those early attempts, how did you get your first book published?
John: Several years ago, my son's wife started writing a novel with her father. He would repeatedly ask about those books I had written when the kids were young. I ignored him for a while due to the painful memories of writing five books which never got published. One day, after his persistence, I rummaged through the "old forgotten memory box" and produced a small plastic case, inside of which were five floppy disks...the John Bishop novels, produced on a MAC desktop computer many years ago. He took the disks, said he would try to revive the texts, but thought it unlikely he would be able to recover the words after all that time. Besides, floppy disks? Forgotten and outdated technology.
Quite some time passed, and it was on Father's Day a couple of years ago that he gave me a gift-wrapped present. I opened it and to my shock, it was a bound professional copy of a novel called ACT OF MURDER. He had retrieved the first novel, gone through the publishing process at Amazon, and made me a published author after all those years. I read the book twice and decided it wasn't bad. I found a wonderful publicist Anna Sacca through Fauzia Burke at FSB Associates, and a wonderful editor Erin Willard, and now the first three books have been released with the fourth to be released in March. What an incredible turn of events. I have returned to writing the Doc Brady mystery series, and am thankful that I am able to rekindle those dreams from so many years ago.
Ally: Do you know the book’s ending before you start writing?
John: I do not have a clear picture of the ending of a book when I begin writing. I have an idea about a story line, then just sit down and start typing on a laptop computer. Much of the story I make up as I go. Sometimes I will venture down the wrong path and have to re-route myself. But I have been fortunate to be able to write "off the cuff" so to speak. Friends of mine will ask me how in the world do I come up with all this stuff??? I had a lot of life experiences being a doctor for 25 years. Also, I have played the piano since age twelve, and have played in many bands and with many people from different walks of life and have learned a great deal about human nature. Many of the characters I write about are represented by people I have come in contact with over the years, with names changed to protect the innocent...or guilty, as it may be.
Ally: What is your next writing project? Anticipated release date?
John: In the new novels I am working on, Dr. Jim Bob Brady and his wife Mary Louise have changed venues. Brady came into some money, and briefly retired, but then re-surfaced out in the Hill Country of Texas, where he plies his trade as orthopedic surgeon still but continues in his quest for justice and truth part time as a mostly unwanted investigator. Since resuming my writing, I have written four more Doc Brady books, ACT OF ATONEMENT, ACT OF MERCY, ACT OF GREED, and ACT OF DECEIT. I am working on the tenth in the series, ACT OF MADNESS.
Ally: I’m curious to see which of the quick answer questions you chose.
John:
Ally: What inspired you to write your featured book?
John: I was an orthopedic surgeon and have been an avid reader my entire life. My favorite books have always been medical mysteries in the form of such authors as vintage Michael Crichton and Robin Cook. Back in the 1990s, I had a good deal of time on my hands, having retired from the publishing/presentation world of academic medicine, and was spending my time taking care of patients. We had a beach house in Galveston, and I would sit in an upstairs
alcove and ponder writing the "great American novel.”
One day, after attending the funeral of a child of one of my friends and partners, I started writing about the grief associated with the loss of a child. That morphed into writing about the death of the child which needed to be fictitious, so I then added a murder mystery scenario and came up with the first novel called ACT OF MURDER.
By then I had been bitten by the writing bug and continued to create stories and novels. My wife Joan found an agent in New York, who tried to get me a publishing deal but was unsuccessful. Undaunted, I continued to write, and produced ACT OF DECEPTION, ACT OF REVENGE, ACT OF NEGLIGENCE, AND ACT OF FATE. After that last book, I gave up and abandoned the writing career.
Ally: After setting aside those early attempts, how did you get your first book published?
John: Several years ago, my son's wife started writing a novel with her father. He would repeatedly ask about those books I had written when the kids were young. I ignored him for a while due to the painful memories of writing five books which never got published. One day, after his persistence, I rummaged through the "old forgotten memory box" and produced a small plastic case, inside of which were five floppy disks...the John Bishop novels, produced on a MAC desktop computer many years ago. He took the disks, said he would try to revive the texts, but thought it unlikely he would be able to recover the words after all that time. Besides, floppy disks? Forgotten and outdated technology.
Quite some time passed, and it was on Father's Day a couple of years ago that he gave me a gift-wrapped present. I opened it and to my shock, it was a bound professional copy of a novel called ACT OF MURDER. He had retrieved the first novel, gone through the publishing process at Amazon, and made me a published author after all those years. I read the book twice and decided it wasn't bad. I found a wonderful publicist Anna Sacca through Fauzia Burke at FSB Associates, and a wonderful editor Erin Willard, and now the first three books have been released with the fourth to be released in March. What an incredible turn of events. I have returned to writing the Doc Brady mystery series, and am thankful that I am able to rekindle those dreams from so many years ago.
Ally: Do you know the book’s ending before you start writing?
John: I do not have a clear picture of the ending of a book when I begin writing. I have an idea about a story line, then just sit down and start typing on a laptop computer. Much of the story I make up as I go. Sometimes I will venture down the wrong path and have to re-route myself. But I have been fortunate to be able to write "off the cuff" so to speak. Friends of mine will ask me how in the world do I come up with all this stuff??? I had a lot of life experiences being a doctor for 25 years. Also, I have played the piano since age twelve, and have played in many bands and with many people from different walks of life and have learned a great deal about human nature. Many of the characters I write about are represented by people I have come in contact with over the years, with names changed to protect the innocent...or guilty, as it may be.
Ally: What is your next writing project? Anticipated release date?
John: In the new novels I am working on, Dr. Jim Bob Brady and his wife Mary Louise have changed venues. Brady came into some money, and briefly retired, but then re-surfaced out in the Hill Country of Texas, where he plies his trade as orthopedic surgeon still but continues in his quest for justice and truth part time as a mostly unwanted investigator. Since resuming my writing, I have written four more Doc Brady books, ACT OF ATONEMENT, ACT OF MERCY, ACT OF GREED, and ACT OF DECEIT. I am working on the tenth in the series, ACT OF MADNESS.
Ally: I’m curious to see which of the quick answer questions you chose.
John:
- a memorable book you’ve read - Sycamore Row by John Grisham
- a book you're currently reading - A Time for Mercy by John Grisham
- an author (living or dead) you'd love to take to lunch - Michael Crichton
- ebook or print - I prefer print books.
- type of music you prefer - I play Blues, Country and old Standards on the piano, and listen to the same genres.
Act of Deception (A Doc Brady Mystery)
Genre: Medical Mystery/Thriller
PG-13
Drawing on his years of experience as a practicing surgeon, Dr. Bishop entertains readers using his unique insights into the medical world with all its challenges, intricacies, and complexities, while at the same time revealing the compassion and dedication of health care professionals.
It’s 1995, and Houston orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jim Bob Brady has been sued for medical malpractice; a mysterious infection caused a knee replacement to end up as an amputation. Donovan Shaw, a ruthless plaintiff’s attorney, has taken the case and doesn’t seem bothered by the fact that he and Brady share a number of friends.
And Brady isn’t the only one in his practice being sued. How is Shaw getting his inside information? Can the patients afford to say no to filing lawsuits, even if the claims aren’t valid? Through a series of twists and turns, Brady once again doggedly goes into “sleuth mode” to get to the truth of the matter—even after his life is put in jeopardy. Will he survive, only to find himself at the mercy of the wild and wooly Houston court system? Is this whole mess his fault? Or is there an act of deception involved?
Buy link (kindle and paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Act-Deception-Medical-Thriller-Mystery/dp/1734251123/
Genre: Medical Mystery/Thriller
PG-13
Drawing on his years of experience as a practicing surgeon, Dr. Bishop entertains readers using his unique insights into the medical world with all its challenges, intricacies, and complexities, while at the same time revealing the compassion and dedication of health care professionals.
It’s 1995, and Houston orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jim Bob Brady has been sued for medical malpractice; a mysterious infection caused a knee replacement to end up as an amputation. Donovan Shaw, a ruthless plaintiff’s attorney, has taken the case and doesn’t seem bothered by the fact that he and Brady share a number of friends.
And Brady isn’t the only one in his practice being sued. How is Shaw getting his inside information? Can the patients afford to say no to filing lawsuits, even if the claims aren’t valid? Through a series of twists and turns, Brady once again doggedly goes into “sleuth mode” to get to the truth of the matter—even after his life is put in jeopardy. Will he survive, only to find himself at the mercy of the wild and wooly Houston court system? Is this whole mess his fault? Or is there an act of deception involved?
Buy link (kindle and paperback): https://www.amazon.com/Act-Deception-Medical-Thriller-Mystery/dp/1734251123/
Other books in the series: https://www.amazon.com/John-Bishop/e/B07WQJZ8KG
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