Paperback and Kindle Ebook Are Now Available!
Lamb is available now at this link:
Holy guacamole. Only 45 years in the making. I’m not marching to the beat of a different drum, I tossed the drum overboard and drifted around the world for 4+ decades like a message in a bottle.
New subscribers, please allow me to catch you up:
Hi! I’m Troy Ford—aka MTF—and after a 34-year episode of writer’s block, I finally wrote my first (unpublished) novel in 2020 during Covid lockdown.
Lamb is my second novel, which I began as a serial here in my newsletter, Ford Knows Books.
I’m also the creator of Qstack | The LGBTQIA+ Community of Substacks which champions the work of the many queer writers and creators on the Substack platform.
Originally from California, I moved to Spain in 2019 with my husband and our AmStaff Terrier. We live in Sitges, a little beach town half an hour down the coast from Barcelona.
Here’s a link to an earlier post about the excruciatingly liberating process of obtaining an author photo for the upcoming publication of Lamb:
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Pray with me, all ye who have ever needed professional photos for publicity, media, books, and whatnot, and were completely blindsided by the effects of gravity, weather, and consternations accumulated since the last time someone managed to capture your soul on film and really show YOU in all your hoary glory.
And a link to Lamb’s Origin Story:
Lamb ♣ Table of Contents + Origin Story
Lamb Two friends on different but parallel paths, from private school through college and their raging twenties, until the abrupt, mysterious end of their friendship.
A brief synopsis for those new to Lamb:
D is shaken when his mercurial friend Lamb vanishes just before they're set to move in together. The news of his death three years later shadows him like a ghost.
Sifting through Lamb's journals decades later, D uncovers a raw, intimate portrait of a sensitive misfit navigating a world that never understood him.
From their first meeting at an elite all-boys school to the chaos of 1990s San Francisco, Lamb's story unfolds in a tangle of tenderness and rebellion, anguish and adventure. Through journal entries, letters, poetry, and stories, Lamb is a coming-of-age in snapshots that captures the dazed spirit of young men searching for belonging in the aftermath of the AIDS crisis.
A Tales of the City for Generation X—a dark afterparty of gay awakening.
I want to thank Kathleen Clare Waller and Eleanor Anstruther for so generously providing author blurbs. I am immensely indebted to both of you beautiful humans.
And just a final few words ~
There were many, many years when I thought this moment would never come (and if I’d waited for a traditional publisher, it still might not—Viva the Indie Publishing Revolution!)
It’s completely surreal to me that I have an actual book, that I wrote, for sale. My brain has not quite caught up.
In the meantime, I must also thank the many readers who have been cheering for me, have encouraged and Liked and Commented and supported me both on Ford Knows Books and Qstack, and to whom I am immensely grateful.
The Substack writers community has changed me in ways large and small, and for once, I’ve run out of words to express how much you mean to me.
You are—each and every one—The Best. 💜🙏🎩💜🐈⬛🙏💜
That looks incredible! I think it needs to be a T-shirt.Congratulations Troy.
Brilliant cover, Troy. It’s pitch perfect.