The Southern Collective Experience
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Yes, Echo is my real name. No, my parents weren’t hippies. My late father, Bob Montgomery , started out as one half of a teenage duo called Buddy and Bob in Lubbock, Texas . I was born the year after his best friend Buddy Holly died, and Dad named me after Buddy’s old girlfriend, Echo. My dad wrote songs, produced music and founded his hit record factory House of Gold Music on Music Row in Nashville . I grew up knowing that you could make a good living from words, That’s what I’ve been doing for the past f
When sending queries to editors in New York City from our newlywed nest on Chicken Road in Lebanon, Tennessee, proved less than successful, my husband Kevin Garrett and I loaded up a truck and moved to the Big Apple. I figured the best way to break into the magazine business was to become an editor. I worked at McCall’s (a women’s magazine) and Venture (a business magazine that competed with Inc. ) for five years before going freelance in 1988.
Since then I’ve written for more than 100 media outlets including: AARP, American Way, Delta Sky, Private Clubs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Health, Parade, Success, Inc., The New York Times, Virtuoso Life, Hemispheres, and Atlanta Magazine. A former contributing writer to Money, Business Week, Management Review , Investor’s Business Daily , New You and The Atlanta Business Chronicle , I’ve been interviewed on Good Morning America , CNBC, CNN, NY-1 and have done more than 100 radio interviews support
The Southern Collective Experience
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