Dave Lambert
Get to know David
 David Lambert David Lambert is the author of ten published books, including the gold medallion award-winning Jumper Fables, coauthored with Ken Davis, and his novel The Missionary. Five of the ten have been novels. His short fiction has been published in periodicals as diverse as TQ, The Chariton Review, Sand, Virtue, Moody, Guideposts for Kids, and Story. David has an M.F.A. in fiction writing from the University of Montana. He has held a variety of positions in publishing, including managing editor of a youth magazine and founding editor of two others. He spent eighteen years as an acquiring editor at Zondervan, most of that time as Executive Editor for fiction, and most recently, three years as senior fiction editor at Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. He has acquired and edited numerous bestsellers and prize-winners. David also sits on the Editorial Board of Jerry Jenkins’s Christian Writers Guild and wrote the Guild’s fiction curriculum. He currently heads Lambert Editorial Services and is Editorial Director for Somersault, a new publishing services bureau.
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Dave’s Workshops Pre-Conference Option:
Fiction Mentoring Clinic
You’ve begun your novel, maybe completed it. You love it; your mom loves it, but so far no publisher has felt the same. In this session, we'll examine the first chapter or two of your manuscript, looking for strengths to develop and weaknesses to correct. We'll devote time to a detailed examination of the work of each participant, and the instructor will offer specific suggestions. We'll also spend time on an overview of the rapidly changing world of publishing, and how those changes affect the path to publication for your book. Each participant must be willing to read the first ten pages of all the manuscripts. This is a great opportunity to learn from one of the best Christian fiction coaches in the country. Class limit: 8 students.
Class limit: 8 students.
Breakout Session:
A Sequence of Scenes
William Sloane said: “In its pure essence, a work of fiction is a sequence of scenes from page one to the end.” Yet too many novelists include, besides scenes of characters in action, everything from summary to sermonizing in their fiction. We’ll discuss how to write fiction in scenes only—and also how to effectively get into and out of a scene, how to select and organize scenes, and how to recognize the essential tasks required in those all important first few lines of every scene.
Applying Great Storytelling to Nonfiction Writing
Cindy and Dave Lambert
Rudolph Flesch said, “The only thing that’s truly readable is a story.” You can make your nonfiction more readable—and therefore more publishable—by applying some of the techniques used by great storytellers: use of dialog, descriptions of action, building of suspense, concentration on human characters, creation of mystery, and other techniques. After all, the teacher after whom we all pattern ourselves—Jesus—was renowned for using stories to convey great truths.
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