by Troy Lambert | Aug 25, 2014 | Advice for Authors, Opinion
If you stop and think about it, it will make you sick. All the talk surrounding Robin Williams and the topic of art, acting, music, and manic behavior over the last few weeks has gone to the extreme. So why add my two cents? Because I write from a place of pain, and...
by Troy Lambert | Aug 4, 2014 | Advice for Authors, Opinion
One of the greatest things you can do to improve your work is to share it with others before it is “done.” In fact, you could even allow someone else to contribute to it, or you could contribute to theirs. Even when the writing is done, and the dreaded edits have been...
by Troy Lambert | Jul 30, 2014 | Advice for Authors, Event
I’m a hard worker. I’m not bragging, more confessing. I am a workaholic. I’d go to meetings to try to find a cure, but who has time for that, right? Then this last weekend I took off to Garibaldi, Oregon to share a booth with a friend and fellow author at their sole...
by Troy Lambert | Jun 17, 2014 | Advice for Authors
A poem that encapsulates the Samuel Elijah Johnson series. You can see a video version here. Enjoy! The audio version is below. Trapped. Stained glass, iron bars. Wooden pews and metal cots. Hymnals with cardboard covers and leather clad Gideon Bibles. Words...
by Troy Lambert | Feb 17, 2014 | For Readers
You put someone in a box long enough, without light, food, or water soon they embrace darkness, and it becomes part of them. But that’s not what I did. A part of me revealed itself, and I let it play in the sunshine, let it run around in the light, smell the air,...
