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LEAP on Kobo and Kindle; WHERE THE BUTTERFLIES GO on Sale!

Thanks for your wonderful support in buying LEAP on the Kobo! Sales were fantastic in its first week out on the Kobo, and I really appreciate those five-star ratings!

Check out Leap on the KOBO here

I’m thrilled to announce the long-awaited release of LEAP on the KINDLE. Thanks very much to my regular readers for giving me that little shove (“Heather! Do It! Now!” ) to get this book out there digitally. LEAP is now on iBOOKS in several countries, NOOK BOOKS, KOBO and KINDLE, SONY READER and soon beside its paperback version on THE COPIA

Where the Butterflies Go in paperback has benefited from some fantastic REVIEWS lately with the most recent at The River and I want to thank those reviewers for taking the time to write about the collection and share their thoughts on it with others. Where the Butterflies Go is now on sale at AMAZON in their 4-for-3 sale, and so thanks to the new reviews and this sale, lots of new readers are finding it. It’s so touching to me that people are grabbing this book off the shelves again four years since its release!

Graceful Publications last made a $100 donation to UNICEF GIFTS OF EDUCATION in the summer. If you keep supporting these two books as much as you have since Jan. 2012, I think I will be able to announce another donation long before summer 2012 arrives.

Thank you so much for reading, commenting, tweeting and LIKING–for sticking with me every step of the way!

Best wishes and Happy Valentine’s Week! Here’s a visual treat to thank you ~ sorry I cannot deliver these home made chocolate lollipops to each and every one of you readers, but perhaps I will make some for one of my readings in the near future, or for the Carry On Dancing launch party  🙂

Heather

With Love & Gratitude, Heather
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Carry On Dancing March 2012


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Fresh start

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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You’ve found me on the Nook! A little time was all it took.

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!

http://api.soundcloud.com/users/10556407   << Heather’s Spoken Word Clips

And if you didn’t catch my video clip of my Oct. 1st bookstore reading, here it is again:

https://hgstewart.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/my-oct-1st-bookstore-reading-via-vimeo/

HOSANNA CHILDREN’S HOME

‘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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Where the Butterflies Go Review in iBOOKS (four stars): ‘These poems are like a key’

‘A willful and successful destruction of boundaries’  **** (4 stars)

by Shawn Halayka, Dec. 24, 2011 under Where the Butterflies Go in iBOOKS

Anima and animus. Love and sorrow. Past and present. An array of dualities are presented to us in these poems, accurately depicting both the beauty and horror of life at the same time in a masterful way that gives no ground to useless pretense or extraneous detail. Most importantly to me, these dualities are not presented as paradoxical or contradictory, but rather wholly integrated. The end result is quite illuminating.

What really hit home for me were the poems about Challenger/Columbia and the tragedy of Di. These specific poems are deceptively short — it may have only taken a few minutes to read them, but then it took me much longer to process the resulting flood of memories related to my own childhood and young adulthood. These poems are like a key, and one’s own life is the vault.

I can only assume that some sort of fancy voodoo magic was implemented by the author, because I am fully enchanted by these poems. Superb work, as usual.