Category: Poems on Making a Difference

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Do They Know It’s Christmas?

Hey gang. Great news: Until Dec. 31, 2012, Where the Butterflies Go (my first poetry collection) and The Friends I’ve Never Met (my most recent work ) will be reduced to $1.99 on Kindle.
That means I make a little less than $1 a book – but instead of donating half proceeds as I have been doing, Graceful Publications will donate ALL proceeds from sales of these two books, as well as proceeds from sales of my 2nd collection, LEAP -to Hearts for Change – an incredible, hardworking Canadian charity that helps orphaned and needy children in Kenya, and is working toward helping needy Canadian children in the near future.
My books are available in several countries now on Kindle, and it only takes seconds to download an ebook. IMAGINE the differences we could make in these childrens’ lives if even just 100 of you buy copies!
New pencils. New books. School fees! Please share this note and consider giving $1 to a great cause.
♥ ♥ ♥ (P.S. Sales from Kobo, Nook, and iBooks will count too, but I can’t reduce the book prices quickly enough on these systems- but if you buy them there in this time period I will donate 🙂 )
Merry Christmas everyone,
Heather xx
The Groovy Granny made its way to children at Hosanna Children's Home in Kenya through Hearts for Change http://heartsforchange.ca
The Groovy Granny made its way to children at Hosanna Children’s Home in Kenya through Hearts for Change http://heartsforchange.ca   This is Mercy, our sponsored child.
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Sale! Sale! Sale!

In case you don’t follow me on Facebook or Twitter, I wanted to let you know that today and tomorrow only, November 24 & 25th, 2012, my publisher is having a Holiday Sale on all their books.

Printed books are just $10.99 when you shop at their site http://wintergoosepublishing.com and their ebooks are $2.99 at their site, on Kindle and Bn.com. Don’t forget that you can download free reading software from Amazon.com if you dont have a Kindle!

My first collected poems, Where the Butterflies Go, is just 0.99 on Kindle until midnight EST tomorrow, the 25th.

I want to take this opportunity to thank you for buying The Friends I’ve Never Met on Kindle – it was my biggest selling item for first-day sales on Kindle ! and I’m thrilled you were interested and shared about it with your friends and family.

Happy rest of weekend!

Heather

Go to Amazon.com and click on KINDLE to get your free software
so you can read Kindle books anywhere – on your laptop, desktop,
or phone!
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The Groovy Granny: Reviews!

Thanks to Kim Larocque and her beautiful blog Muse in the Valley for her fantastic review of and back-story to The Groovy Granny ebook!

Review of The Groovy Granny

More reviews of this book are listed here: Reviews of Heather’s Poetry

(All reviews are posted on that page, but reviews for Carry On Dancing aren’t posted yet. I have been so busy touring with that book I haven’t had time yet to post reviews. You can however check out all customer reviews on Amazon here: Reviews of Carry On Dancing)

On bad days, do you feel like a monkey has messed your hair? Or perhaps
a lion is rummaging through your closet, telling you what to wear? Illustration
copyright Kayla Stewart, The Groovy Granny, Graceful Publications 2012.

Thanks again for reading & sharing my poetry.

Best wishes,
Heather

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The Butterflies Go FREE – ONE DAY ONLY!

I feel like giving away gifts!

Sept. 12th, 2012

12:01 a.m. until 11:59 p.m. – grab your Kindle or your Kindle App and download a free copy of Where the Butterflies Go!
P.S. I’d really appreciate you buying my two other poetry collections, Leap and Carry On Dancing, while you’re at it. Why not get a complete trilogy ? :} It will give me some incentive to keep on writing for this fourth collection I’m slowly putting together!

Love,

Heather

Please share and tell friends about my other collections
at Amazon: http://amzn.com/e/B007GRA4Y2
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#AmWriting

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It’s not just another hashtag. When I use it, I mean it 🙂

Yes, I really am writing,and loving it! But this time, I can’t share all of it. I want to keep some surprises for you for my fourth collection.

I’ve been back at it, writing and editing poems every morning, as well as working on my speech
for the Ban Righ Centre’s Speaker Series, October 12th. I’ll be speaking there at noon. Having attended Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, I’m so excited to return. I’ll be reading from Carry On Dancing while there, and will also sign books and read while at Chapters Kingston (in the mall) on Saturday, Oct. 13th. I hope some of you can join me there.

What’s to become of this blog? I have 500-some loyal followers; I don’t want to let you down. I’ll continue to post photo-quotos and am hoping to get a few Interviews with Poets up in the near future. I’d also like to do a weekly writing exercise with you. If any of you are into posts about poetic form (Villanelle, haiku, two of my favourites) and then attempting that form, let me know. You may just nudge me into doing this with you weekly, but I’d need to know if there’s interest there.

Thanks for sticking around! We’ll have lots of fun.

Cheers,

Heather