Book Review of “Flashes of the Other World”

PR Log (Press Release) – Sep 18, 2006 – September 18, 2006 –Encinitas, California – Author Julie Ann Shapiro announces the book review of her new digital short story collection, Flashes of the Other World published by Pulp Bits and distributed by Digital Pulp Publishing. The review written by Meridith Gresher appears in the literary magazine, Long Story Short. (http://www.alongstoryshort.homestead.com/BookReviews.html)

Key Excerpts of the Book Review:
Flashes of the Other World” by Julie Ann Shapiro offers an original, often dark, and reliably quirky band of strolling players, human and inanimate, quick to perform her brand of magical realism, surrealism, and theatre of the absurd.

In The Hats, Ms. Shapiro explores family secrets: “I believed magic lived under the family’s hats. I always tried to remove everyone’s hats anxious to see a hidden marble, a gold coin, or a note written in invisible ink.”

“Flashes of the Other World” leaves this reader anxious for more from Ms. Shapiro wonderful prose magic.

Visit Long Story Short to see the entire review:
http://www.alongstoryshort.homestead.com/BookReviews.html

About Julie Ann Shapiro
Julie Ann Shapiro is a freelance writer and author of the story collection, Flashes of the Other World published by Pulp Bits and distributed by Digital Pulp Publishing. Her novels are represented by TriadaUS.
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, Spoiled Ink, Void, Footsteps to Oxford, Salome, Skive, 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, 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 view a sample of the collection online at http://pulpbits.com/author_preview/author_Shapiro001.html or visit the DPP Store at http://www.dppstore.com/

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