- unsigned copy from Amazon.com

Product Description: Angels have appeared universally throughout history in folklore, art, and in many religions. They bring messages from heaven to us mortals here on earth. Angels may bring tidings of great joy or urgent warnings; their messages may be musical or may be communicated in the smiles of cherubic babies. Their images resonate with innocence and grandeur, beauty and awe. Their powerful wings enable them to fly far above our earthly struggles yet they can swoop down to save us. Angels speak through human beings, and some would even say there are angels in our midst. Among Angels celebrates the human angels -- all around us -- who inspire us by bringing us peace and tranquility, innocence and joy, hope and love. Like the prequel, Open Hearts, this book will include a personal foreword and art by Jane Seymour, quotes from literature, spiritual texts, and personal stories that honor the importance of the angels among us. (text taken from amazon.com)

OPEN HEARTS: If Your Heart Is Open, It Can Never Stay Broken
by: Jane Seymour
Format: Hardcover; 128 pp.
ISBN: 0-762-43662-X
Publisher: Running Press
Pub. Date: December 22, 2008
Price: $14.95
**NOTE: This book is no longer able to be purchased directly from Jane with her autograph. However, you can send your copy of the book for her to autograph if you wish. Instructions can be found with autograph requests in the FAQ's.

- unsignined from Amazon.com

* Also available in all Kay® Jewelers and Jared® the Galleria of Jewelry stores.

Product Description: Jane Seymour has partnered with Kay® Jewelers to offer a fashion jewelry collection designed by the actress - 'Open Hearts by Jane Seymour' -- with pieces ranging from $50 to $1500. This companion book is filled with inspirational quotes and Jane's 'Healing Hearts' artwork, speaking to every kind of love in people's lives. Served up like the fine pieces of Seymour's jewelry, 'Open Hearts' is a precious keepsake to treasure forever." (text taken from amazon.com)

MAKING YOURSELF AT HOME: finding your style and putting it all together
by: Jane Seymour
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0-756-62892-X
Publisher: DK Publishing
Pub. Date: March 19, 2007

"Celebrate your style—have fun and
discover the artist within you."
—Jane Seymour

No one knows better than Jane Seymour how essential it is to put it all together. An acclaimed actress, devoted wife, and mother of six, Jane is also an accomplished artist, talented fashion designer, published author, and noted philanthropist.

Jane is adored by fans and critics alike for the roles she's played in her vibrant career. When not acting, Jane—an accomplished artist—devotes her time to her family, her friends, and her home. In Making Yourself At Home Jane opens her home to readers and offers tips, techniques and advice on creating personal spaces within one's own home.

"When I invite people into my home, I immediately welcome them into my world."
--Jane Seymour

Unlike other home design books that require would-be decorators to invest a small fortune in furnishings and decorative pieces, Seymour encourages readers to use what they already have to make their homes beautiful and elegant—an approach that is both affordable and practical. Making Yourself At Home will inspire budding home decorators to have fun, take risks, discover beauty, and turn their homes into havens of peace, joy, and serenity.

Filled with intimate and personal anecdotes about entertaining and painting, about how much photographs of her family mean to her, and about the challenges she's overcome throughout her life, Jane's stories provide a practical perspective on the art of home decoration that is at once encouraging and inspirational.

A multiple Emmy and Golden Globe winner, recipient of the Officer of the British Empire (OBE) in the year 2000, actress Jane Seymour has proven her talents in virtually all media—from the Broadway stage to motion pictures to television. In addition to her critically acclaimed work as an actress, Seymour also has successful careers as a designer of housewares and as a painter, exhibiting her painting and artwork in prestigious galleries around the world. Putting It All Together coincides with the recent launch of her new home line, created in partnership with Saks, Inc.

REMARKABLE CHANGES: Turning Life's Challenges into Opportunities
by: Jane Seymour & Pamela Patrick Novotny
Format: Hardcover; 224pp.
ISBN: 0-060-08747-1
Publisher: Regan Books, 1st ed. (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers)
Pub. Date: Apr. 15, 2003 (hardcover)
Pub. Date: July 6, 2004 (paperback)

Various reviews:

~In this inspiring memoir, internationally beloved actress Jane Seymour reveals how she embraces and learns from the many changes in her life.

~Film and television actress Seymour has had a life full of change and challenges -- including giving birth to twins a few years back. In this book she explains just how she did it and how she has built a happy and successful life.

~Jane Seymour, an acclaimed actress with more than 50 motion pictures and television programs to her credit, has written her sixth book, Remarkable Changes. Seymour says this latest work revolves around seven signposts of change — stops we all visit, and perhaps revisit, on the turbulent voyage of life.

From the Publisher:

Now fifty, Jane Seymour--the eternally beautiful star of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and countless other television shows and films--is a living testament to the rewards of embracing midlife and its challenges eagerly and gracefully. In Remarkable Changes, she leads the reader through the challenges of those years--from the physical changes that come with the territory to the emotional transformations that accompany this passage of life.

From understanding the three stages of change, to making every moment significant, she helps us find the true value in our life transitions, from marriage and divorce to career changes to milestones in the lives of our parents and children. Whether we initiate change in our life or it is thrust upon us by circumstances beyond our control, Jane shows that we should stop "dealing" with change and start actively incorporating it into our lives, using the hard-won wisdom we've all gained through the years.
Holding up as an example her own life and the lives of those closest to her, Seymour empowers us to accept life shifts and teaches us how to take even the toughest situations and turn them into strengthening tools. She talks about her own experiences with divorce and remarriage, children and stepchildren, and her new twin boys, and she describes her indomitable mother's difficult years in a World War II prison camp in Indonesia. Her best friend faced her own challenges when learning to understand her son's mental illness, and another friend started a grief recovery organization when his wife and son were murdered.

We all need to face the beginnings and endings that make up our constantly changing lives. And this warm, inspiring book shows that we can all learn how to make each change remarkable.

From the Critics (Publishers Weekly):

Readers know Seymour best as the beautiful TV star of Dr. Quinn, but the actor, nee Joyce Frankenberg, is also a painter and devotee of all things self-help. Thus, this straightforward, simplistic book is Seymour's contribution to the personal growth genre. Full of spiritual advice on how to cope with kids, marriage, divorce and illness, the book features such chapter headings as "Find Guidance in the Spiritual." Seymour underscores her central theme-be positive-by citing her own story and her mother's internment at a Japanese POW camp during WWII. Seymour also includes vignettes of others who've triumphed over loss and adversity. Whether noting the tragic accident that crippled her longtime friend Christopher Reeve or sharing the travails of women who endure cancer or diabetes, Seymour trumpets the need for hope and optimism. As such, she shares, in a restrained way, her own disappointments in love, her friendships with ex-husbands and her determination to champion the blended family. The Emmy Award winner believes we can choose to make the most of our circumstances, whatever they may be. She's candid about Hollywood rejections, but also about how she was often offered plum roles at particularly low points in her life. Not surprisingly, she's a big believer in leaving the past behind: "I think if you give it time and patience and leave yourself open to whatever the next experience... will be, you'll surprise yourself."

From ALA Booklist Reviews:

Self-help books rarely tell us anything we don't already know, but sometimes they manage to restate the obvious in a way that is, well ... helpful.

So it is with actress Seymour's advice on making the most of change. It's hardly a new subject, in fact, the personal-growth industry has been living off change for years. Had any of us saved the handouts from the last few "Change in the Workplace" seminars we've been forced to attend, it's very likely we could find most of Seymour's wise words buried in there somewhere: "Get comfortable in order to let go"; "Take an honest look at yourself"; "Adversity CAN produce great change." Sound familiar?

Fortunately, Seymour proves a more engaging counselor than your garden-variety business consultant. She builds her commonsensical advice into a sort of autobiography, which she supplements with anecdotes about how her friends grew from their travails. Throughout, she maintains a chatty, comfortable tone that draws readers into the story and makes the advice seem less prefabricated.

Seymour has had plenty of opportunity to test her commitment to change, and her fans will be most interested in hearing the details behind the actress' divorces, financial setbacks, and near-death encounters, including complications during the birth of twins when she was 45. Expect interest in the book to be accelerated when Seymour tries out her ideas on Oprah's ever-needful studio audience. -- Ilene Cooper

From From Terra Wellington's ' Balanced Living:

Remarkable Changes: Turning Life’s Challenges Into Opportunities

My next favorite is by Jane Seymour. Remarkable Changes (ReganBooks, May 2003, $24.95) came to my office door on the day I really needed it; I read it in one day and absolutely loved it.

The premise of the book is that we all experience change in life, with a lot of it not so friendly. Yet, change can be positive if we look at it with the right perspective and attitude.

Granted, the former Dr. Quinn has enough years on her (she’s in her 50s) to have some comforting hindsight. But her multi-dimensional insight makes a lot of sense and teaches you how to better deal with the ups and downs of life.

If you want to read a book that gives you true hope in adversity, a better understanding of the universe, or how to navigate life’s bumpy course, this is for you.

TWO AT A TIME: HAVING TWINS
(THE JOURNEY THROUGH PREGNANCY AND BIRTH)
by: Pamela Patrick Novotny, Jane Seymour, Sheryl Ross, MD
April 2001 (224 pp., Hardcover)
April 2002 (paperback)
ISBN 0-671-03677-7

See pictures from Jane's booksigning in New York.

"One baby is a miracle. To be given two at once is a gift beyond words," writes Seymour, already a successful children's author, in the introduction to her debut child-rearing book. The star of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman here gives a personal account of having twins at age 45.

Best described as a diary of her pregnancy interwoven with advice and information on tests, ultrasounds, amniocentesis, exercise, and general dos and don'ts, this is not the story of an average mother's pregnancy (the star could afford special care, clothing, grooming, etc.). Yet her voice is compelling and reaches out to comfort and assist anyone expecting twins.

Also, Seymour and coauthor Novotny's counsel is sound, with clear insets that answer leading concerns. (Novotny authored the library standby The Joy of Twins, written in a similar style.) A good choice for public libraries, given the popularity of the author and the paucity of useful books on twins.

image: Guide cover JANE SEYMOUR'S GUIDE TO ROMANTIC LIVING
by: Jane Seymour
Format: Hardcover (211 pp.)
ISBN: 0-689-11786-8
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Pub. Date: October, 1986

Published in 1986, this was Jane's first book. In it, she uses anecdotes and examples from her personal experiences to give advice on how to keep the romance alive in any relationship. This book is out of print, but used copies appear on Amazon or eBay from time to time.