I love your writing! And thank you for supplying a photo of the landscape that inspired this story. …the day was still just an ordinary spring day-night still waiting far beyond the curve of the world… (p. I cradled close against my chest as if I had two hearts but only one of them beating, then carried him away from the woodshed, into the pale spill of morning light. For example, here’s a line from page one of Echo Mountain: Lauren Wolk: Thank you, Anne, for inviting me.ĪBW: I want to start with the flow of your writing-how you describe common experiences in new ways.

Deadline to enter: Tuesday, March 16, 2021, at 11:59 PM.Ī.B. Lauren also writes for adults, pens poetry, and is a mixed-media artist, and today she’s here on my blog to talk all-things writing-related.īut first, a book giveaway! Hop to the end of this post to sign up for a chance to win your own copy of Echo Mountain, then come back to read a bit about Lauren’s process in writing such a wise and heartfelt story. Now that I’ve read it, I can’t wait to read Lauren’s other books, including Wolf Hollow, which won a Newbery Honor in 2017, and Beyond the Bright Sea, which won the Scott O’Dell Award in 2018 (among many awards, too many to name). Echo Mountain is a fabulous new story from the award-winning Lauren Wolk, out in 2020 from Dutton/Penguin Young Readers.

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