Featured Interview With Lindsey Lamh
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
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.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
Lindsey’s been mulling over her story ideas since high school, but didn’t sit down to write seriously until 2015. Jeffrey passionately supported Lindsey’s “hobby” of writing, begging her to “stop starting new projects and just finish something!” (a plea every author needs to hear at some point).
Despite his excellent advice, Lindsey didn’t complete a project until 2021. Around this time, she received a diagnosis for a condition which is so rare and unresearched, a treatment plan has yet to be established. Suffering through an invisible type of illness alienated Lindsey from many of her support systems, resulting in a season of depression.
While slogging through this dark time, writing became a distraction from the inescapable gloom. Lindsey pressed onward by putting words on a page, learning more about herself and mental health in the meantime. She recognized she was grieving; she mourned the losses caused by her condition, and she mourned the shattered ideologies which had given shape to her life before depression broke the mold.
In 2021, Lindsey Lamh completed the first draft of a fantasy romance novel which weighed in at 170k words and was only the first installment of a 3 or 4 book series. The original idea for the story came from an email chain she and Jeffrey wrote back and forth—Lindsey giving a paragraph or two of story, and then a few optional directions the story could take from there, and Jeffrey writing back with his choice. It was a fun exercise, and one of the many ways Jeffrey has supported Lindsey in her creativity and self-expression.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
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.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
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.
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