Flashes Of The Other World, Short Story Collection By Author, Julie Ann Shapiro Is Now Available From Pulp Bits

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August 23, 2006 For Immediate Release



Flashes Of The Other World, Short Story Collection By Author, Julie Ann Shapiro Is Now Available From Pulp Bits

August 23, 2006 –Encinitas, California – Author, Julie Ann Shapiro announces the release of her new digital short story collection, Flashes of the Other World from Pulp Bits, who has connected exceptional literature to a critical audience since 2002.

While ebooks have taken businesses by storm they’ve been a bit slower to receive recognition in the literary circles. All this is changing as major book publishers launch ebook divisions. It may well be the wave of the future for literary, character driven story collections and a vehicle for authors to tap into and nurture a growing reader base.

Julie Ann Shapiro is a colorful and gusty writer with over twenty-five stories published. Her story, “Bio Clock and Nutty Photos" received the Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2004. Julie has long recognized the power of the Internet, where she is vastly published both as a fiction writer and as a freelance writer.

When questioned why a digital story collection, Julie said, “why not.” With two novels making the traditional rounds of book publishers via her literary agent, Triada US, releasing a story collection seemed an immediate way to connect with readers and build a fan base, further leveraging her literary career.

Most stories in Julie’s collection are 1-2 pages and ideal for reading digitally. The story collection itself is a fast and haunting read that pits the unusual with the usual in a way that only author, Julie Ann Shapiro can deliver.

Flashes of the Other World is a quirky collection where magic realism, traumas and the absurd meet. From talking spirits to wine bottles and dimes that have their say it’s one wild, surreal world.

Relationships are spun on their sides as characters delve into the murk of life and grapple with their pain, obsessions and sanity.

In various stories characters are haunted by dreams and objects, whether it’s a decorated doll in Bio Clock and Nutty Photos, a Million Writers Award - Notable Stories of 2004, or Circles of Gala, the mother daughter tale of the missing outfit. Or the story of the Hats where a dark secret lurks amidst the differing head covers.

Couples have their day too, as seen in Skin, a story of an east-west coast relationship or in Push where the wheels of a shopping cart spin lovers around. Or in the tale of the Itchy Feet where a shoe fetish interferes with a couple’s bliss.

Things turn goofy when the vegetables break out of the refrigerator in Grandpa Said Don’t Mix Peas and Carrots and in Whipped Frumery where a can of whipped cream espouses the meaning of life.

About Julie Ann Shapiro
Julie Ann Shapiro is a freelance writer, short story author and novelist. She lives in the coastal community of Encinitas, California. Published Short Stories/Essays have appeared in the San Diego Union Tribune, North County Times, Los Angeles Journal, Pindeldyboz, Sacred Waters/Fire: (Adams Media 2005), Story South, Word Riot, Opium Magazine, Insolent Rudder, Elimae, Cezzane’s Carrots, Mad Hatters Review, Writers Post Journal, Spoiled Ink, Void, Footsteps to Oxford, Salome, Skive, Barfing Frog, Millennium Shift, Mega Era Magazine, Science Fiction and Fantasy World, Green Tricycle, Long Story Short, All Things Girl, Ultimate Hallucination, The Glut, Somewhat, Uber, Moon Dance, The Quarterly Staple, Journal of Modern Post, Rumble, Long Story Short, Cellar Door Magazine (Spring and Summer Issues 2005), Edifice Wrecked, Espresso Fiction, Flash Fiction – Coffee Cup Series Issue I & II and ISM Quarterly.
For more information about Flashes of the Other World, contact Julie Ann Shapiro, (858) 779-9174, julie@julieannshapiro.com, http://www.julieannshapiro.com or visit a sample of the collection online at http://pulpbits.com/author_preview/author_Shapiro001.html.

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