Rand Bishop enjoyed a 45-year music-business career as a major-label recording artist, touring musician, hit songwriter, platinum record producer, talent development executive, and music publisher. He garnered a Grammy nomination, several BMI Awards and more than 300 songwriting credits with artists as diverse as the Beach Boys, Heart, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Indigo Girls, Cheap Trick, and Sheryl Lee Ralph.

Bishop has authored six books, award-winning and optioned screenplays, a stage play, numerous essays and, for six years, contributed a bi-monthly column to American Songwriter Magazine. Medium lists Bishop as a Top LGBTQ writer on its platform.

Long Way Out is Bishop's second novel. He resides in Newport, Oregon, where he acts as music director for the Oregon Coast Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.