While we await its release, I’d like to celebrate this long winding journey from blogger to self-published poet to poet with a publisher (yay!) by giving away one of the first copies, hot off the presses.
To enter my giveaway contest, please LIKE my Facebook Page and share the page and news about the release of Carry On Dancing with your friends. Then simply post a comment on my Facebook Page to let me know that you’ve shared! You’ll be entered to win a signed copy of the book. Contest ends 9 p.m. EST March 1st.
Carry On Dancing will be available on Amazon by mid March and Amazon.com and Amazon sites worldwide a few weeks after that, as well as on bn.com, Boyer Bookstores in the Montreal, Quebec region, and on Kindle and Nook Books.
As with all my collections, signed copies will be available via Paypal by emailing a request to me.
Thank you for reading this blog and buying my poetry collections, for sharing news about them with your friends and family, and for your comments and ‘thumbs ups.’ They make my day!
Best wishes,
Heather
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Every morning, I’m given a fresh start. The gift of a new day. I can see the sunrise, feel the wind on my face, hear the one I love saying my name. I can make today matter.
Every morning, I'm given a fresh start. The gift of a new day. I can see the sunrise, feel the wind on my face, hear the one I love saying my name. I can make today matter. ~Heather Grace Stewart
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I cannot thank you enough for the star-ratings and reviews you’ve been leaving for me this past year on various websites.
I now have a good collection of reader reviews of ‘Leap’ on Lulu.com, on the U.S. iBooks, Canadian iBooks, and Amazon.com. I suppose I should be collecting these reviews all in one place, so, here goes!
Oct. 3, 2011
*****
arkofthetwilight
on Lulu.com 'Leap' featured in iBooks under 'Great Canadian Poetry' August 2011
“What to say about Leap? Heather Grace Stewart pitches her poetry somewhere between the world we see and regret not having the strength to change as adults, and the world as it can only be experienced through the eyes and words of a child. At times her work betrays an honesty and sadness that breaks the heart both through shocking honesty and the capacity to make people understand her unique but identifiable feminine standpoint. I will never regret my purchase of this collection. Heather Grace Stewart is a rare and brilliant talent, no matter which poetic medium she turns her hand to.
October 3, 2011
“Buy and read Leap by @hgracestewart, it’s a fantastic collection and easily worth ten times its $2.99 price tag.”
Poet Adam White, on Twitter
A wondrous synthesis of technological and organic beauty.
Painfully raw in parts, utterly hilarious in others – always sincere.
A great read altogether.
Shawn Halayka
June 2011
*****
This book is fabulous!
by Larry Leitner
Leap is the second compilation of poetry by this talented Canadian. As with her first book “Where the Butterflies Go”, She is able to take you on a journey of the emotions of life. She is able to see life more clearly that almost anyone I have read. There are times she is able to see it through the eyes of her young daughter who happens to be on the book’s cover. There are poems about Loss, Love and Life in general. There will be tears, there will be laughter and everything in between. Beautifully illustrated by Ms. Grace Stewart’s own Photography.
“These accomplished but unforced pieces, engage, entertain and enliven.” Tom Phillips, UK poet and reviewer, Various Artists
“..so direct, political and feminine by turns that it can take your breath away. A must for new and already hooked fans.” -Sally Evans, poet and Editor, Poetry Scotland.
April 2010
By Kimberly Jurado
Wow! From the cover photo to “page from my notebook” in the back, I thoroughly enjoyed this work of art! Refreshingly modern poetry with timeless sentiment woven throughout. Autumn Will, Valley, and Five Thousand Friends (FUN social networking poem) are three of my favorites from this collection of real life poems and photographs. I discovered the author through an Internet search for “facebook, friends, poem” and her work has intrigued me ever since! A big thank you to Heather Grace Stewart for being in tune with the world and for believing in the power of poetry to connect people — whether they are friends, strangers or even a world apart.
Mar. 28, 2010 By Elisa Lorello
Heather Grace Stewart has outdone herself with this collection. These are modern poems for a modern world, full of humor, sincerity, moxie, and sensual beauty. The accompanying photographs add a sense of wonder and depth, and make you want to jump into every scene. Heather Grace Stewart has taken the Leap into greatness, and we cannot help but follow in her footsteps. A must-own for every woman (and man, too!).
Mar. 25, 2010 By Adam Taylor
Buy this.. now! Don’t walk, don’t run…. LEAP! As always Heather captures tiny pieces of life and magnifies them into their most radiant and decadent. A pleasure.
*****
Apr. 28, 2010 By Robert Gervais
The poem ‘Forever August keeps calling me back to my copy of Leap. By way of contrast, I love the black and white instantaneity/foreverness of ‘Coping.’ Heather Grace Stewart has a fine hand that knows how to dip into the emotional well and then paint outside the lines, outside the box, outside of herself, where everyone else is. She has a gift of looking inside a minute, seeing what makes it tick and then explaining it to us. Bravo.
*****
Mar. 8, 2010 By movemout Absolutely love this book! Heather is such a gifted poet. She captured me from the first words, I could not put this book down until I had read it all. Now to read it again and again and savour it. Thanks Heather, what a wonderful gift to the world!
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I’d like to share my reading with those readers who weren’t able to attend and asked to see it. So, here’s Part I of what will be a four or five-part post (in 3 minute segments). I’ll post Part II today (Three poems from Leap), and save the other parts for another day. Someone did videotape the actual reading at Paragraphe Bookstore, too. I’ll share that on vimeo once I receive that clip.
Thank you so much, readers. It all began here, on this blog, with me introducing you to my poetry in the collection, “Where the Butterflies Go.” You’ve shown me nothing but support and friendship since the summer of 2008–and we’ve managed to fund two children’s educations, help out a small school in India, and get pencils for an entire school – twice. Thanks so much for reading and sharing news about my poetry with others. Never stop leaping!
Heather
P.S. Both my poetry collections -in print and digital format – are 15 percent off their already-low prices (ebooks just $2.99 and $1.99 ) till end of day Sept. 26 at http://www.lulu.com – type in OKTOBERFEST305 at checkout.
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