Tim Johnston, author of the new novel ‘Descent,’ visits the Bookworm of Edwards

By caramie schnell

For parents, author Tim Johnston’s debut novel “Descent” is the ultimate nightmare, which is, in part, why it makes for such a gripping read. Johnston started writing the book in 2007, when he was doing carpentry on his father’s vacation home in Frasier, near Winter Park. When he loaded up his tools in Iowa City and drove to Colorado, he had no plans to start writing a novel, he said. But then “day by day, the story started to take hold.”Johnston was in the middle of painting a bathroom when he finally put down the paintbrush and started writing. The …

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