Interview With Author Lindsey Lamh
Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Lindsey Lamh has been crafting creative playscapes her whole life. Her love of reading fuels her passion for storytelling. As a child, she read every book in the house and devoured whole stacks of novels from the library, working through classic literature with the excitement of a budding philosopher. Her favorite school assignments were creative writing and essays.
Lindsey attended college in Chicago at Moody Bible Institute, where her educational course was redirected from Christian ministry to the broader, more practical focus of Biblical Studies.
She married her husband, Jeffrey, in 2013 and they now have six children and a perfectly Golden family dog named Radagast. They live in South Carolina and keep busy with homeschooling, Jeffrey’s entrepreneurship, and Lindsey’s society for Christian women.
Lindsey published her debut novel in October of 2023 and is working on a fantasy series.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
A portrait hangs in Linwood Manor, depicting the Bancroft family with their matching grey eyes and brown hair. Seven years ago, they were together in the spacious old house. Alive. Now…
Only Ambrose and Matilda Bancroft remain.
Ambrose Bancroft returns to London society with his younger sister, hoping they’ll leave ghosts of memory behind. They have only each other left. While Ambrose attempts to draw Mattie out, dragging her to balls and threatening to seek suitors for her, his sister recoils from his meddling. Finally, when Ambrose compels her to attend art class before she’s ready, Mattie paints something horrific enough to banish them from society in public disgrace.
At Linwood Manor, Mattie and Ambrose aren’t as alone as they think. Taking advantage of Mattie’s desperate need to find freedom, a vanishing room lures Ambrose’s sister into an illusory paradise. When Ambrose vows to get his sister back, by force if necessary, he finds himself up against an otherworldly power bent on her destruction and Mattie’s bitterness turned to hatred.
When Mattie commits the ultimate betrayal, Ambrose realizes he never stopped protecting her long enough to learn what she really wanted. But before he learns to let her go, Ambrose is broken in body and mind, far beyond his capacity to endure.
When the dust settles, will Mattie be lost to him forever? Will Ambrose be the last of the Bancrofts?
“A Voracious Grief” is gothic horror about grief and friendship. Life-altering grief can wear the oddest clothing. For Lindsey Lamh, it looked like losing a family member, but not to death; chronic pain that’s depressing but not debilitating; suicidal thoughts underneath a calm, cheerful persona. When no one understood her hardship, when all they had to offer were platitudes, Lindsey longed to find empathy. That’s why she writes—because she’s not the only one who’s been there.
“A Voracious Grief” is a novel that asks big questions about how we evolve beyond our traumas. It gives voice to silent suffering, reflecting what it looks like to be overwhelmed by grief. It’s a story about family ties twisted with fear. It’s about embracing pain, and daring to hope.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
Lindsey’s favorite genres are historical fiction, Victorian fiction, fantasy, short stories, poetry, and literary fiction that doesn’t fit neatly into a genre.
Within those categories C.S. Lewis is her favorite author–he’s written plenty of fantasy, poetry, and literary fiction to satisfy her love of variety! Other inspirational others include Madeleine L’Engle, Alison Croggon, Laura E. Weymouth, Naomi Novik, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, and Helena Sorensen.
“A Voracious Grief” was inspired by reading a short story by Ray Bradbury (The Veldt) and includes epitaphs of Emily Dickenson’s poetry on grief.
What are you working on now?
In 2024 Lindsey is undertaking a new project, a fantasy series exploring the ostracized “Other” and how compassion arises out of curiosity.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Lindsey believes in building the author-reader relationship, and so she focuses her promotional energies on in-person events and marketing opportunities. Her local library and craft market have provided connection points with readers, and she’s always looking for new, creative ways to meet book lovers. She also sells books and merch through her website and a payhip online store.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Don’t settle for pleasing yourself. You are far too easily pleased. Instead, do your best to cultivate your skills and create something that’s the best you can do before you get unbiased, professional help to help you push yourself even further.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Writing a book is like building a cathedral–it’s going to crumble and fail to awe unless you get really good at crafting a single, perfect brick. And then go on to create a thousand more (a single brick being equivalent to a scene).
What are you reading now?
I’m challenging myself to read the best literary fantasy as research for my new writing project. So I’ve chosen twelve books, one for each month of 2024! I’m currently reading “Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell” by Susanna Clarke.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I think this will be a quiet year for me. I need to learn more about marketing, more about editing, more about drafting. And a lot of that will be learned through practice, I think.
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
“Out of the Silent Planet”, “Perelandra” and “That Hideous Strength” by C.S. Lewis, as well as his myth retelling “Till We Have Faces”.
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