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In 2007 my life changed. Our last child was going off to college and we were looking for our next business venture. Chicken Soup for the Soul was for sale and we were interested. As we evaluated the business, one of my jobs was to read 100 of the old Chicken Soup for the Soul books to understand “the product.�

I remember laughing and crying so much that I had to change my two-week contact lenses every week because I was ruining them with my tears. Those 100 books, containing 10,000 real-life stories from real people, became my crash course in Chicken Soup for the Soul advice and wisdom. That was the beginning of a new life for me. Now, 12 years later, I’ve read and edited tens of thousands more stories in the 165 new books I’ve published.

Everyone tells me I’ve changed. I feel different: more relaxed; more compassionate and less judgmental; more grounded and grateful for everything that I have; and way more knowledgeable about what makes people tick. I truly believe that reading Chicken Soup for the Soul stories has helped me through a lot of challenges—my mother dying, my father getting dementia, my cancer treatment, and now, COVID-19 and the way it’s affecting my family, friends, and colleagues � plus the damage it’s doing to our business because most bookstores are closed.

Here in the epicenter—the NY metro area—we’re plugging away making new books for the future. In the meantime, because we can all use a little Chicken Soup for the Soul, we decided to make our iconic book, the one that started it all, free as an e-book. You can download it wherever you like to get your ebooks. You’ll get all the classic stories from the original Chicken Soup for the Soul book, plus 20 bonus stories from 20 of today’s best-known motivational speakers and authors.

Stay home if you can, and stay safe. We hope the stories in this book will make everything just a little bit better for you.


Amy Newmark