Modern romance meets ancient myth
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Fourteen year old Grace doesn’t know it yet, but she’s been around for three thousand years waiting to fulfill her destiny to become one of the Three Graces of Greek Mythology. Forces are battling for her love, her body and her destiny. Now all she needs to do is survive the war.
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Grace Awakening
Book One: Awakening Dreams
ISBN 978-0-9877296-0-6
In Awakening Dreams, set in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Grace discovers the devotion of Ben that has followed her through time. She also discovers the evil forces that are determined to destroy her. As she weathers attacks and begins to find her own strength, Grace awakens to the other reality that her dreams reveal.
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The ebook Grace Awakening: Awakening Dreams was released July 2011.
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Grace Awakening
Book Two: Awakening Power
ISBN 978-0-9877296-1-3
In Awakening Power, Grace has re-located to the Shuswap and must learn to live without Ben’s physical presence in her life. As the attacks increase, she prepares for the great battle to save the man she loves, their life together, and the joy, beauty and radiance that fuel all artistic endeavours in the world.
Release of the ebook Grace Awakening: Awakening Power is set for February 2012
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Grace Awakening
(paperback, including both Book One and Book Two)
Although Grace Awakening was written as a YA (Young Adult) novel, it definitely crosses genres as there seem to be a lot of 40-something ladies who are compelled to stay up all night reading! Grace Awakening is Twilight meets Percy Jackson as modern romance meets ancient myth.
The paperback omnibus version, including both Book one and two, is set for release Spring 2012.
Curriculum Guide
A curriculum guide has also been drafted focusing on myth, poetry and elements of story. This will be available for download Winter 2011/12.
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Grace Awakening Groups
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Interview with Shawn about writing Grace Awakening
Meanings of the Character’s Names
Several male characters reflect specific Greek words for love
The teachers’ names come from inspiring educators
Your book sounds amazing. Congrats on getting published.
Thanks Heather! Keep your eyes on Amazon. Time is flying toward publication date!
Grace Awakening is the next step for Twilight fans. There are several levels, from simple escape to complex allusion, poetry, and syntax. Teachers will find multiple stepping stones for differentiated learning. This book is one of the most compelling, teachable YA novels I have read, and I have read voraciously. I most like that I can recognize these various characters in my own students, and I love the familiar Canadian and Pacific Northwest setting. Shawn’s use of our landscape as a secondary home to the Greek gods is inspired. She finds and creates layers of meaning, filling them with sweetness to create good literary baklava! I am very excited that she is continuing the tradition in Grace Beguiling, which promises even more!
I like your use of this section of the painting for Grace. You can go to the wideshot for Beguiling. Can you use it for cover art? If not, get a student to do a “in the manner of” representation. I also look forward to Grace Charming, or whatever C word you find appropo. There are so many wonderful stories of inspired love in literary tradition. Heloise and Abelard? If you keep moving from Greece to Italy up into France, or was it Gaul then? I am very excited in the meantime to learn about Petrach and Laure from someone who will do all the legwork and serve it up in a lovely novel for me!
Yes, Heloise and Abelard are on my list to consider in the future, although their story is a little too close to Petrarcha and Laure for my liking.
I don’t know about the rights for the Botticelli painting. It’s over 500 years old, so if they have public domain it’s probably in it, but I’m not sure that applies to paintings. Perhaps the Uffizi in Florence owns reprint rights. I’ll have to explore that. Beguiling could just be Venus, actually, and C could be another detail…
Who am I? Someone who does not read fantasy. When I read a book I want to believe it is real and fantasy does not do that for me. Grace Awakening is an exception. Maybe it was the setting I could relate to (BC!), or the authentic characters; I’m not sure what it was but I was able to suspend my disbelief and immerse myself in Grace’s world. It was a pleasure to read!
That’s high praise coming from you, Vivian. I appreciate it.
Can’t wait to read Grace! It’ll be like a Birthday present to me in July!
I think the book sounds amazing, but I would like to recommend a better book cover. It isn’t that eye-catching and it makes me not want to read the book. Like don’t get me wrong, I shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, but maybe you should improve it a bit, because in reality, an aesthetic book cover combined with a beautifully written book is destined to go far. I’m just saying, no hard feelings.
I appreciate your frankness. We had a poll with several designs and the two that tied are the two shown for the two books on the webpage. The colour and dimensional image are quite fantastic on glossy paper, but I have wondered if it translates well enough to thumbnail. Thanks again.