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About Me

I wrote five novels about my problems and then I ran out of problems so I wrote movies because you don't have to have problems to write movies. After a few years of that I developed all new problems so I went back to novels and that's where I am now.
If you want the bio stuff, keep reading. If you don't, stop here. I suggest you go to bed, or read a book. Make yourself useful.
"He was born in Oklahoma and his mother's name was Thelma Liz." That's a Ray Wylie Hubbard song but I lived it. I spent my summer rite-of-passage years in Wyoming. I worked over 40 entry-level jobs including driving an ice cream truck, skinning elk, cooking in a Chinese restaurant, trail inventory for the Forest Service, gardener for the Rockefellers, pizza parlor manager, belt buckle buffer, and countless dishwashing jobs. Throughout this period I lived most of the year on public lands, first in a tent and later in a Cheyenne tipi. The more mind-numbing jobs have helped me to hone my creative skills, but all of these experiences have helped me to learn to appreciate life and its inherent follies.
I have published eight novels and a book of columns. I wrote eleven screenplays for hire; two have been made into movies. I turned forty with no phone, TV, or flush toilet and spent more time talking to the characters in my head than the people around me. Now have seven phone lines, four TVs I don't watch, three flush toilets, and a two-headed shower. My wife and I recently adopted a little girl from China. I'm now living happily (indoors) with my family (wife, Carol; son, Kyle; daughter, Leila) in Jackson, Wyoming. Click here and find yourself in the Tim Sandlin web site. Books, reviews, scripts, rare poetry, photos, trivial facts. No need to click if you don't want to. Click here to see what my current novel, Jimi Hendrix Turns Eighty is like. Click here if you want to see what my upcoming novel, Rowdy in Paris is like.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who reads books. Even better would be folks who buy books.

My Blog

GroVont IV is a wrap

            So, I finished the fourth GroVont novel last Wednesday.  Its called Lydia, at the moment, and will probably stay that way.  I like the womans name titles  Madame Bovary, Anna Karenin...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:14:00 GMT

I’m Searching for a Research Assistant in Prison

A couple of years ago USA Today ran one of those Top Ten lists that they love so much. It was the Top Ten Most Beloved People in America. I didn't make the list. But a couple months later they ran ...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:08:00 GMT

Advice to Young People Who Would Shoot Up Coffee

Don’t do it.
Posted by on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:47:00 GMT

Spare Change for a Condo

For much of my youth, I lived outdoors six to nine months of the year. I figured that’s the price you pay for chasing your own dream instead of someone else’s. Lord knows, I’d rath...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:56:00 GMT

The Most Evil Man in America

Ralph Nader, of course. Here's why: There's a lot of people running this country or wanting to run this country who don't agree with me. Some, such as the water wads in charge now have done terribl...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:41:00 GMT

My Mom Knew Your Mom in High School

Here's a piece I wrote a couple years ago. The next week I got four calls from regional newspapers wanting to do a story on Day Care Air. Journalists have no sense of humor.One of the mixed blessing...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:21:00 GMT

The Tinkerbell Diet

A couple years ago Randolph Proust, his lovely wife Chelsey, and their children Lester and Brittania camped at Lava Creek Campground in Yellowstone National Park. One hot afternoon, after lunch, a yo...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:16:00 GMT

Roll the Credits

Blog 41Self-Evident Truth 1  Ninety percent of getting what you want is knowing what you want.Headline in the Jackson Hole Daily News: Suicide Bomber Strikes Again. Does that raise red flags with a...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:05:00 GMT

Rowdy’s Last Page

Rowdy Talbot (Dothan and Pud's cousin, for those of you who follow the GroVont epic) is a bullrider and poet. Deep thoughts are his calling. Rowdy believes in certain core Self-Evident Truths  state...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:57:00 GMT

The Punch Line

My daughter Leila turned seven last month and she doesn't know what she wants to do with her life. For a couple of years, she dreamed of managing a hotel in China, when she grows up. She researched ...
Posted by on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:29:00 GMT