Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr

Kirtley.

Hello, and welcome to episode 329 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Holly Lambert.

She's worked as a staff writer and story editor on The Expanse,

which is currently my favorite show on TV.

And she also co-wrote a graphic novel called The Expance Origins, which explores the backstories of some of the show's major characters.

And now here's her interview with Holly Lambert.

All right, so we're here with Hollyallee Lambert. Welcome to the show.

Thank you. It's great to be here.

Okay, so it says in your bio that you came to Los Angeles when you were 17 to pursue acting, writing, and producing.

So just tell us a bit about what that was like

and what your goals were at that time.

I had transferred out of University of Washington.

I was there for a very short time studying journalism and

initially I basically just wanted to get to the sun in Southern California and

I had heard that they had some good, you know, journalism programs at Chapman.

And so I ended up transferring there into the journalism program, broadcast journalism. And I had to take a screenwriting class and when I was in the class

I was like oh my gosh this is it I want to do screenwriting because growing up I grew up in a small town outside of Seattle and the idea

of writing for television or movies never even occurred to me that that was like a job a

real job and I didn't actually grow up watching much TV or film. It was, you know, that go outside and play, sort of time on the farm.

So it was like a whole new door had opened a window into this other world and I, you know, shortly after that changed my, my emphasis and to the screenwriting film program.

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