Bookshop Interview with Author Paul Lamb (Episode #183)

In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Paul Lamb discusses his new book, One-Match Fire. Paul describes this novel as a love story—involving the love between grandfather, father and son, as well as the love they all share for a little cabin in the Ozarks. The cabin is a place where the characters can leave their lives behind and just be themselves. That setting was inspired by Paul’s own cabin in the Ozarks, and he admits that the cabin in his novel became a character itself with its own emotional journey. Paul also explains that he never intended to write this novel. In fact, it was never meant to be more than a short story. But when that short story got published, Paul decided to write another one…and then another and another. He wrote ten short stories in all, and by that time he decided there was probably enough to sit down and finally draft a novel. In this episode, I’ll chat with Paul about his writing journey, his plans to write more books featuring the characters from One-Match Fire, and why he believes “everybody is a story.”

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