Author, Tree Street Kids
Each heavy rain sets everyone on edge. Since the floods, the towering trees, the still-under-repair mountain roads, and the compromised bridges beneath our cars and tractors and feet feel fragile, like clay models built by a boy dreaming of other lands…
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What does nature tell us about tragedy and recompense? About eternity? About God?
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It’s nearly time for the BIG GIVEAWAY to celebrate the August 5 release of Jack and the Red Giant, book 6 in the Tree Street Kids series for kids 8-12.
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Amanda Cleary Eastep I never know what may meet me over the mountain in the morning. It isn’t the crows anymore—just the sunrise. Maybe a sliver of yellow light between the bluish peaks and the gray clouds until it’s shoved back by January’s insistence on muted greens and rusts and blacks. Maybe an orange and […]
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Two things that inspired the writing of my third book in the Tree Street Kids series for kids 8-12 (Moody Publishers) were historic efforts to reach people who didn’t have easy access to books.
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The western North Carolina floodwaters had receded enough for my husband to make it to the town nearest our “holler.” There, he gathered with others at the local radio station, all desperate for any Wi-Fi connection that might enable them to get word to family and friends that they were alive and safe.
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Why do kids in western North Carolina need books when they don’t have drinkable water? It was hard not to wonder this…
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We can tend to over romanticize the people who exhibit this virtue, especially in times of severe trial.
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The important word here is (no, it’s not “hairy beasts”) INSPIRATION…
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Our creative journeys can sometimes feel like wandering in the desert—the isolation of the work, doubts in our abilities and relevancy, the silence of audiences . . . the “long obedience” in the direction of the “promised land” of success (however we or society define that).
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Amanda Cleary Eastep 