Sherwood Moody Announces Publication of “Natasha and the Tree”


LONG BEACH, CA – May 28, 2009 Author Sherwood Moody releases his new children’s novel “Natasha and the Tree”.
“It took fifteen years to write,” Mr. Moody once told a reporter for a local ... more

Sherwood Moody Announces Publication of “Natasha and the Tree”


LONG BEACH, CA – May 28, 2009 Author Sherwood Moody releases his new children’s novel “Natasha and the Tree”.

“It took fifteen years to write,” Mr. Moody once told a reporter for a local Long Beach newspaper. “I started it in college. I learned how to write while creating the story. Then it took years to figure out how to find its voice. But I found it finally. A decade and a half later, draft after draft, but I found it.”And now it is finally available, published by Inkwater Press.

In the contract with Inkwater Press, if Sherwood Moody sells 500 books in one year, he’ll be offered full distribution and marketing.
You must buy from Inkwater's site, however, for the sale to count toward the 500.
https://www.inkwaterbooks.com/product_info.php/products_id/526

For the cheapest prices, order the book through Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/dp/159299413X) and BarnesandNobles.com (http://search.barnesandnoble.com///e/9781592994137/?itm=1). You can also special order the book at you’re local Borders and Barnes and Noble.

Natasha is the main character in the story, based on Sherwood Moody’s own sister when she was in middle school. She lives in Smile Valley, a suburban neighborhood where she feels isolated by her family and neighbors, particularly after the death of her mother; she finds comfort and identifies with the tree. One day, sitting under the tree after school, moping and grieving over her mother’s death, Natasha jumps up and realizes that the tree is talking to her; he tells her all about the druid’s path—a journey of magic and truth. Feeling a sense of hope, Natasha agrees to the journey, walks into the mouth of the tree, and steps down a spiraling stairway into a land of her own imagination. She meets many characters along the way: Mr. Pi, Kara the giant, Gorge the troll, the man with a thousand faces—all characters who force her to question her identity and help her endure through her grief. The skinless man, Demola, and the Queen, however, do everything in their power to stop Natasha from becoming a druid. They work for an evil company trying to control nature, turn children into adults, and maintain the power of the world. In the end, Natasha must conquer these villainous characters, along with her own internal villains, and become a druid, finding happiness within herself.

Sherwood Moody holds a Creative Writing Degree from California State University Long Beach. Chiron Review and Outside Writer has featured his poetry; and he’s been published by Pearl, Edit Red, Re/Verb, Bottle of Smoke Press, Tears in the Fence, Black Spring Press, Hay Wire Press, The Brown Bottle, Peaky Hide, and several other poetry magazines. In 1999, he won the Lucid Moon Poetry Contest for a poem entitled, ‘There Are So Many Canyons And Valleys In The Skin Of An Orange”. Two excerpts from his novel Awake were published in a Paul Krassner book in 2003. Sherwood’s first chapbooks of poems were published in 2006.


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