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Volume I · A Reader's Invitation

Turning experience into empowerment.

Mindset-shifting books for readers ready to reflect, grow, and write the next chapter — on their own terms.

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Marco Lomax holding his Presidential Gold Award certificate and medal
Marco Lomax Founder · Presidential Gold Award recipient
Readers holding their copies of Finding What's Missing Marco Lomax at a Lomax Publications book signing Marco Lomax with a reader at a community event Marco Lomax sharing the books in the community
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A house built on lived truth.

Lomax Publications isn't just a catalog — it's a quiet promise that the hardest chapters of life can become the most useful words a stranger will ever read. Every book we print begins with a person who has walked through something real.

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Craft over noise.

Good writing is slow work. Great writing is slower still. We edit with a reader in the room — the one who needs this book more than they know — and we keep editing until the signal is clean.

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Books that outlast a scroll.

In an era of infinite feeds, our readers reach for something heavier — something with weight in their hands and weight in their thinking. That's what we publish. That's all we publish.

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In his own words.

Marco speaks the way he writes — direct, unhurried, and built from lived experience. Hear him share the heart of Finding What's Missing — what the program is, who it serves, and why putting the pieces together changes lives.

"A book becomes sacred the moment someone reads it and returns different."
— The Lomax Credo
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Every edition. One message.

Finding What's Missing — Marco Lomax's framework for putting the pieces back together — in an edition for every reader.

Finding What's Missing Original Edition

A remarkable autobiography where Marco Lomax confronts his struggles and continuous poor decision-making through his life — the necessity of sit-downs as a child, setting a vision, and facing challenges instead of running from them. Convicted and sentenced to 25 years for a crime he did not commit, Marco's story is a message for every reader to take heed to their life-given lessons.

Finding What's Missing Youth Edition

Created to help minors understand what's going on inside their minds and hearts, transition through difficult situations, and express their thoughts and feelings through writing, artwork, or both — thought-provoking questions requiring self-reflection, honesty, and the belief that they can succeed in putting the pieces together in their life.

Finding What's Missing Workbook · Adult Edition

A thought-provocative questionnaire for the individual who has not had a "come to yourself moment." The questions enclosed help define your purpose in life — a tool for self-analyzation, built from the hard questions Marco had to ask himself throughout his own journey of growth.

Finding What's Missing Workbook · Facilitator's Guide

A powerful companion to the Workbook, designed to spark honest dialogue, personal reflection, and emotional growth in group settings. With crafted discussion prompts, clear definitions, and real insights from incarcerated participants, this guide equips leaders to run transformative conversations in recovery, re-entry, and therapeutic environments.

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Readers who returned different.

As featured on air

"What Up Baltimore!" with Dr. Lady J

Baltimore radio host Dr. Lady J shares Finding What's Missing with her audience — calling out Marco's story as a message her city needs to hear.

WUBO 24/7 Radio · LadyJMedia
Letters from the inside

These are real words from readers writing to Marco — many from behind the same walls he once wrote from. Lightly transcribed, otherwise untouched.

"Everyone's story is different, but I was able to relate on a personal level. The point of reading is to get a message — and properly comprehend it. I know I was meant to read this book and spread this message as well."
A reader
Letter · Finding What's Missing
"If I take the same energy I used doing bad and use it for good, I don't have to look over my shoulder anymore. I can move without watching out, stay out the way, and have a better outcome."
A reader
Letter · Finding What's Missing
"Man, you strong. I see you been going through a lot of tough obstacles as a kid. I can kinda relate — I lost my brother in 2012. So I understand and feel your pain."
A reader, age 25
Letter · Day 1
"I would recommend this for young males like myself who are a victim of the system — to read and digest the message the author is putting out there, slowly."
A reader
Letter · Finding What's Missing
"She recommended I buy your book to find what's missing in my life. I'm on Chapter 5, but the previous chapters spoke to me — we have a lot in common. Thank you for these 7 chapters, brother. You've inspired me to write my own autobiography. Stay up, King."
Keic Hicks Jr.
Letter · May 5, 2023
The actual letters

Written by hand. Sent from the inside.

These are the real pages readers mailed to Marco. Tap any letter to read it in full.

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Off the page, into hands.

Book signings, community events, and readers across the city meeting the work face to face.

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01 · Where are you in your story?
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