Poet uses print on demand to publish her poetry and raise funds for UNICEF.
Thanks to author Paul Lima for inviting me to write a special guest post on his blog.
There is a special GIFT (which you have to wait to open until Thursday June 21, sorry 🙂 for all interested readers of my poetry and this blog, if you read all the way to the end!
Heather
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Hi everyone! Happy New Year. ! It’s been a great but busy start to 2012. Here’s an update:
NOOK BOOKS
You’ve been ‘Liking,’ reviewing and reading my books Where the Butterflies Go and Leap on Lulu, Amazon, iBooks, and now on the Nook! Can I tell you how exciting it is to see you finding these books in all these places? The Nook! The Nook! A little time was all it took 😉
Please please please review and rate the books after you read them – even one line and those little yellow stars or thumbs-up helps other readers decide if they should even just download a sample. Every little click helps.
I now have sound files of my poetry readings easily accessible on a page via my Facebook page. Please Check it out!
‘The Groovy Granny’ has made its way to rural Kenya to a children’s home for orphaned and needy children. I learned about the Canadian charity Hearts for Change through my writing for the Queen’s Alumni Review magazine. It didn’t take long into my conversation with VP Jenny Caldwell to realize I wanted to donate some of the proceeds from book sales of Leap and Where the Butterflies Go to this incredible organization. I also sent them the book so that they could read it to the children when they visited before Christmas. Jenny sent me some photos from their visit just last week. Those children’s wide smiles are enough to convince me I need to write another rhyming children’s book soon!
THE CANADIAN LEAGUE OF POETS SHOW
In mid-December I was invited to read with other members of The League of Canadian Poets at a special benefit performance and party all rolled into one. It was so much fun, and besides, hubby and I had a great excuse to go out on a date before the show. Mmm…Thai Food 🙂 It was wonderful to see old writer friends and meet new ones. I’m hoping to use the same venue -Casa Del Popolo cafe-bar and performance space on Blvd. St. Laurent – for my launch party for Carry On Dancing in mid-April 2012. Stay tuned!
THE COUNT DOWN
Carry On Dancing will be out in March 2012! Not long now. I’m excited. Are you excited? We should get excited. Get up and dance!
Or, maybe just tell someone 🙂 or Tweet about my upcoming book release. There are links at the bottom of the page for sharing information about my publisher and my book and its early reviews with others on Facebook, Twitter, Linked IN, and more. That’d be swell 😉 Thanks so much!
Finally, thanks for being a regular reader of this blog. There’s a lot of traffic out there. I appreciate you crossing through it all to visit me.
Hugs,
Heather
The Groovy Granny made its way to children at Hosanna Children's Home in Kenya through Hearts for Change http://heartsforchange.ca
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This explains (much better than I ever have been able to!) why I have always felt so strongly about donating half the proceeds from my first two poetry collections to Unicef’s Gift of Education. I’ll keep giving a portion of the proceeds from those two books to Unicef’s Gift of Education Program, to give educations to girls (and boys) in developing countries. I am blogging today about http://girleffect.org/give in hopes that you too can spread the word. If you can’t give, then please blog or tweet about the incredible campaign that is The Girl Effect! Please watch this video and visit other posts for the Girl Effect campaign http://www.taramohr.com/girleffectposts/ Take two minutes, and change our world.
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Look what arrived in the mail yesterday–the certificate for the latest Gift of Education donation I made on behalf of readers of Where the Butterflies Go and Leap. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and wishes for a 2011 filled with love, laughter and good surprises for all my other readers. Thanks so much to those of you who have bought my books–you’ve just helped make an entire school of young children happy.
May I ask one more thing of you? My latest poem, “Words,” with themes of anti cyber-bullying and anti gay-bashing, is, to my surprise, taking on a life of its own–over 50 comments, and readers are posting it on their own blogs, Facebooks, and even tweeting about it. I’m thrilled, because you never know who it might be able to help–and with the holidays here and so many kids off school, I’m sure cyber-bullying will be at its height. So, please do continue to pass it on (just link back to here okay? ) Thanks again for reading.
Cheers
Heather
Our December 2010 Gift of Education Through sales of WTBG and Leap, we gave a simple yet necessary gift: pencils to a whole school.
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Heather Grace Stewart 