I’m really glad I did, because Annabelle and I had a therapeutic time together. I’m a fast writer in a slow industry, so I figured, well, I’ll start and see. Once we got through that, I could focus on what mattered. I knew it, and my editor helped me take a couple steps back and look at what was there just because I was being self-indulgent or distracted. My Own Lightning was a hard book, and I had something like eight subplots, all kinds of things that didn’t belong in that book. RS: I always wonder, when writers write a sequel to a book that they didn’t originally plan to have a sequel, do you ever say to yourself, goddammit, why did I have that happen? Now you’re stuck with it. It was an interesting experience, writing a sequel to Wolf Hollow during the pandemic. I ignored the advice of my very wise editor and wrote the most difficult book I’ve ever written. I wanted to see how she was going to grow from that, adjust to it, learn from it.
She’s the first of my book daughters, and I miss her, and I miss the family.” This was right around when my father died, and the world was crazier than it usually is I think I wanted to go back to a safe place and people I love, and revisit Annabelle, but I also wanted see what she was going to do with her life after some terrible things had happened in Wolf Hollow.
Why would you do that?” I said, “Because I keep going back to Annabelle and the farm in my head. First of all, Wolf Hollow ended without loose ends. When I told my editor I was planning to write a sequel, she said, “You’re out of your mind. Lauren Wolk: The exact opposite of what you describe. Roger Sutton: After Richard Peck wrote A Long Way from Chicago, which was a Newbery Honor book, and it became as successful as it did, his editor said to him, “Well, you are writing a sequel.” So, I want to know the story behind Wolf Hollow, a Newbery Honor book, and its sequel, My Own Lightning. With My Own Lightning, Lauren Wolk returns to the characters and setting of her first novel for young people, the Newbery Honor-winning Wolf Hollow, published in 2016. Talks with Roger is a sponsored supplement to our free monthly e-newsletter, Notes from the Horn Book. To receive Notes, sign up here.
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