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Stories of Heartwarming Efforts by #Bloggers #atozchallenge

I don’t socialize often in real life, and online, I’m shy, at best. I’m upset sometimes by flaming wars, by needless, venomous bitching, and of course, trolls, whether on blogs, or on Amazon. But I know that in life, whether online and offline, it works best to focus on the positives. If enough people focus on positives, the negatives would shrink back — as darkness always does, from light.

So, focusing on the positive stories I’ve seen and shared on the internet in the past week:

Bridget Zinn’s first YA novel, Poison, is being released by Hyperion on
March 12, 2013. Unfortunately, Bridget died from cancer in May 2011 at
the age of 33. Being published was Bridget’s dream. Now, nearly four
years to the day from her diagnosis, her novel is at last reaching
readers. On her behalf, her friends and family want to celebrate her
accomplishment and help get her book into the hands of readers, and this is how bloggers are helping out.

Chad Morris and Shelly Brown have much to celebrate because Chad’s first book, The Inventor’s Secret,
has just been launched. But their
daughter Maddie, was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The
good news is that she is recovering from successful surgery,
and we can all do our bit to help make her smile: Maddie loves moustaches! So fellow blogger Shallee McArthur has
organised an awesome giveaway whereby we must blog, tweet and Facebook
our moustachioed faces to lift Maddie’s spirits.

Overcoming Adversity: An Anthology for Andrew edited by Nick Wilford : A collection of seventy moving and uplifting original pieces – real
life, flash fiction, and poetry – about battling against the odds and
the ultimate triumph of the human spirit. The contributors include
Amazon bestselling authors Alex J. Cavanaugh and Kyra Lennon, and the cream of upcoming talent.
The anthology is part of a fundraising effort to send the editor’s
stepson, Andrew McNaughton, to a specialist college in England. Andrew
has cerebral palsy, and is a remarkable young man with a promising
future.  A bunch of writers got together to help Andrew to college by contributing to the anthology. Many bloggers are buying and blogging a book that runs the full gamut
of human emotions, ultimately leaving you inspired and glad to be alive.

Please consider sharing the stories, and buying the books. Spreading the love never hurts.
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Less than two weeks to go to the A to Z April Blogging Challenge. Are you participating? Would you like to help out Challenge co-host Livia Peterson? She has been busy, and hasn’t found a team of helpers who will support her with co-host duties. I must give a huge shout out to the team of kind and generous ladies who are holding me up as I struggle with my co-hosting duties: Rosalind Adam, Misha Gericke, Pam Margolis and Mina Lobo. Please visit them and give them some comment love — if not for them, I would have been drowning right now! Livia needs some awesome bloggers to help her out. Will you be one of them?

Damyanti Biswas

Damyanti Biswas is the author of You Beneath Your Skin and numerous short stories that have been published in magazines and anthologies in the US, the UK, and Asia. She has been shortlisted for Best Small Fictions and Bath Novel Awards and is co-editor of the Forge Literary Magazine. Her literary crime thriller series, the Blue Mumbai, is represented by Lucienne Diver from The Knight Agency. Both The Blue Bar and The Blue Monsoon were published in 2023.

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