Rom-Coms with Real Mess, Real Magic, Real Heart.
It’s Remarkably Great release day! Thanks to all my new and longtime readers. Here’s a vid of me doing a brief reading from RG, taken today in our backyard.
You can get the new book here. Reviews and shares on your social media and by word of mouth are much appreciated!
Heather 🙂
Remarkably Great is available to pre-order NOW on Kindle or order it when it’s launched August 1, 2015! This is a stand-alone story – you don’t have to have read Strangely, Incredibly Good to enjoy its content, but of course reading both is twice the fun.
Prefer print? No worries – you can now order it from Amazon worldwide and Amazon.ca in September. Print copies will be $14.99 plus shipping & handling. You can also order printed copies via Paypal by contacting writer@hgrace.com and making note of your request.
Thanks so much for your interest and support! Please share this post where you can.
Heather 🙂
I believe Remarkably Great has a new cover: I’m in love!
How do my readers feel about this one compared to the red one with girl on motorbike?
Please vote in comments below.
Yup, Cat is not a blonde, but book covers and movies cast women differently than how they were described in the book all the time. I think the picture depicts Cat and Gene’s passion well….without his shirt cheesily ripped off like 98 percent of the romance novels out there!
Thoughts?
Thanks!
🙂 Heather
You have to be creative and think outside the box (or, er, inside the tub) a lot when you’re a little-known author with a small, independent, Canadian publisher. As hard as it is to get new people to discover your work, you can’t give up. One technique not working? Try something new. Something different. You have to try things that you haven’t seen others doing yet.
When I self-published Three Spaces (2013), people were just getting into e-reading, but I wanted to encourage paperback sales, too. I was looking over my own book in the bath one night (I rarely re-read my own stuff but our daughter had handed me a copy, ‘Here Mommy, you should relax and read this!’ ) when hubby decided to take photos of me to be funny. I told him to delete them but he didn’t. So as much as you think it was an ingenious idea, it was rather accidental. When I looked at the photos later, I realized that in all except a few photos you’ll never see ;), everything that should be covered up was covered up in suds. I then had the idea that one or two of those photos would be perfect to share to encourage paperback sales ( ‘No ereaders in the tub’ was the slogan). The rest is literary history! (ha! not quite. but such a fun little campaign).
It worked well, and made such a fun business card; one that started many interesting! conversations with new readers. So, with the OK from my publisher Morning Rain Publishing, we decided to do a similar ‘bathtub shoot’ for Strangely Incredibly Good. This time around, I knew the photos would be posted, so I was much more shy. “Bill, am I all covered up? You sure?” He’d smirk and throw lots more suds at me, then shoot the photo. It was a lot of fun!
Since most of you have been following my blog for over five years now (Wow! Thanks!) I thought I’d present BOTH final photos (the one with the beer, and the one with the wine – told you I had fun shooting these photos!) here as well as one that had an Instagram filter added to it. Feel free to share them. In fact, I ask that you do!
Oh, and if you’ve read the book, please give it a brief review on Amazon and Goodreads. Even two words will do! Every review helps.
Thanks so much for reading.
Heather
The one with the beer – not photoshopped –
The one with the wine, with Instagram filter (wow! looks like it’s sunny in there now!):
The one with the wine, original unphotoshopped:
THREE SPACES
5.0 out of 5 stars
A self-contained trilogy of insight in microcosm and macro-wisdom January 16, 2014
By Carl J Dubois
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
The concept of “Three Spaces” is more genius than appears at first glance. Public Space and Personal Space are prelude and context for Cyberspace, and they set up beautifully the expression of the mixed emotions inspired by the new connectivity we find ourselves navigating in this changing world.
“Dances With My Daughter,” in the Personal Space section, reveals — perhaps more than anywhere else — the poet, the woman, the mother, the wife, the person — the author and thinker coming to terms with all of life’s demands, and the juggling act required by them, but mostly the liver of life who knows where the real stuff resides, and why we juggle.
It is instructive, accessible reflection from someone who finds the time to observe in a briefly detached way before rushing back into all of life’s entanglements, commitments and momentum. So wonderful too how often it feels communal, as if she is expressing what we feel but struggle to say.
Open it to any page and enjoy the simple wisdom and honest revelations of self from a soul whose writing feels like her balancing act — beauty found in the spaces between all of our appointments, and like gifts rather than some obligation we have to read it so we can move on to the next thing on our list. You will want to keep it close by, to see what gifts it reveals next time.
Heather Grace Stewart 