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110,000 Words of Hope #Bushfire #Relief #Australia @AussieFiction

So far, it is estimated that 12 million hectares of Australian land have been burned in this year’s ‘Black Summer’ bushfires, at least 32 lives have been lost, and over 2,700 homes. Entire communities have been devastated and it will take time to recover: physically, mentally and financially. The WWF Australia has also called for immediate global support, declaring this “the most devastating bushfire season the country has ever seen”, with around 1.25 billion animals being killed across Australia, including thousands of koalas and other iconic species such as kangaroos, wallabies, kookaburras, cockatoos and honeyeaters.

The Australian Speculative Fiction community – myself included – therefore asked the question, ‘What can we do to help?’

Born from the smoke and ashes, Stories of Hope is an anthology of 70+ fantasy and science fiction tales based on the theme of ‘hope.’

All money raised from the sales of this book will be donated to the WWF Australian Wildlife and Nature Recovery Fund and the Red Cross Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund.

The anthology will be released on 27 February 2020, and you can pre-order your copy here for only AUD $4.99: https://books2read.com/storiesofhope/

Plus, when you buy a copy, you receive 110,000 words of hope! My story is a flash fiction called ‘Breakthrough’, I hope you enjoy it!

If you can, please also share this link so, together, we can raise as much as we can for those in need! Thank you! You rock!

Zena Shapter

Zena Shapter writes from a castle in a flying city hidden by a thundercloud, reaching across age and genre into the heart of storytelling. A multi-award-winning author of speculative and contemporary fiction, she teaches writing at festivals, libraries and schools, judges various literary awards, mentors and edits other writers, and encourages everyone to value the importance of creativity. She loves movies, frogs, chocolate, and potatoes, though not at the same time!

3 Comments:

  1. Zoya
    11 February 2020 at 9:45 am

    Ordered! Great cause and can’t wait to read your story.

  2. Zena Shapter
    27 February 2020 at 8:39 pm

    UPDATE: #StoriesOfHope is on the Amazon bestseller list! Woo hoo! Congratulations to all the authors and to publishers Australian Speculative Fiction Group!

    Together we can support the WWF Australian Wildlife and Nature Recovery Fund and the Red Cross Disaster Relief & Recovery Fund.

    FYI – as of 27 Feb 2020:
    #1 is by an established New York Times bestselling author.
    #2 is a bushfire charity anthology by Aussie romance writers.
    #3 is ‘STORIES OF HOPE’, which even managed to knock out Mr Stephen King’s 2016 anthology

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