Greetings everyone and a very happy holiday to all!
I am not going to ramble today. Instead, I will get straight to the
point: my book, Dance with Your Heart: Tales and Poems That the Heart
Tells, has been published today, right on time for Christmas! I am very
thrilled. You can put it on your wish list for Christmas or give it as a
gift to a booklover friend. Below, I included the press release. You can
learn more about the book and view its cover image at
http://www.shirleycheng.com
Remember, to ensure that your book will be received before Christmas,
you must place an order this week and have them ship it this week, no
later than the 13th for priority shipping. Unfortunately, I only have
one copy available with me, so I cannot accept any autographed orders. I
will keep you posted on the progress of my other book release.
Dance With Your Heart: Tales and Poems That the Heart Tells, the latest
book from child prodigy Shirley Cheng, is filled with inspirations,
lessons and magic. Be prepared to be touched, taught, and tickled by the
stories and poems contained between the covers of Dance With Your Heart.
In Dance With Your Heart, the reader will discover and visit worlds
never before visited. Inch alongside a tiny snail as she goes through a
journey of self-discovery in The Gift of Uniqueness, and learn that
cooperation is the key to working successfully, yielding desirable
fruits in the story, The Raging Sun and Rain. The poems, which range
from thought-provoking to inspirational, could only have been written by
Shirley Cheng. Her language is simple, yet lyrical, and she writes with
sincerity, clarity, and wisdom rare for her youth.
Most of the stories take only a few minutes to read; yet from Shirley's
words - from her poems and her stories - you'll feel the full spectrum
of emotions. You'll laugh, you'll weep; and when you close the book for
the last time, you will do so a changed person, so prepare yourself to
take flight.
Shirley was born in New York in 1983, and received no schooling until
she was eleven years old. Having achieved grade level in all areas after
only 180 days in a special education class in elementary school, she was
transferred to a regular sixth grade class in middle school. Shirley
quickly developed a voracious appetite for reading, at times reading as
many as three books a day, and a passion for writing prose and poetry.
One of her stories, Mary Miller, the Elusive Lady, was published by
Poughkeepsie Journal in 1997, and her poem, The Colors of the Rainbow,
was published in the anthology Celebrate! New York's Young Poets Speak
Out in 1999. Shirley lost her eyesight at the age of seventeen, and
hopes to earn science doctorates from Harvard University after a
successful eye surgery.
She is also the author of Daring Quests of Mystics, published at age
twenty, and The Revelation of a Star's Endless Shine: A Young Woman's
Autobiography of a 20-Year Tale of Trials and Tribulation, her own life
story - a quest to overcome blindness, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis,
and to triumph over tremendous adversities.
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