Jen-Zen & The One Shoe Diaries ™ talks to the masses as the Dickesonian serials did but 21st Century style, by reaching readers online. The novel itself speaks of love, loss and the longing for connection in the most unlikely of places in the lost shoes themselves!
Author Julie Ann Shapiro reports, "I'm excited to be following the path of Charles Dickens by offering a serialized novel." Delivering serialized novels digitally is a new twist on a popular way of offering novels that dates back to the 19th century as popularized with Charles Dickens. These forms of novels were popular with factory workers and were the video game and TV of their day.
While books were serialized in the Dickens era, modern technology makes the process even easier and more efficient than ever. There's no need to worry about a book selling out, being unavailable at your favorite book shop or planning the time to run by and buy it when it comes out. This is why serialized novels‘ time has come,
The new serializing trend in novels is catching the attention of leading media outlets, along with innovative and traditional publishers. The Wall Street Journal's article, Boundless Possibilities, dated September 11, 2006 cites, "As 'networked' books start to appear, consumers, publishers and authors get a glimpse of publishing to come." While this is true, many publishers are just starting to test this medium. The Wall Street Journal further stated that Farrar, Straus & Giroux, a publishing imprint of Germany's Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, has posted several new pages of Robert Frenay's "Pulse: The Coming Age of Systems and Machines Inspired by Living Things" at PulseTheBook.com http://PulseTheBook.com seven
days a week since April 10. Unbridled Books, another book publisher is also serializing the novel, Golem Solem. They're offering the novel chapter by chapter to subscribers between early May and November prior to the print
launch.
Pulp Bits http://www,PulpBits.com, an electronic independent press, will be offering Julie Ann Shapiro's novel, Jen-Zen & The One Shoe Diaries ™, beginning in February and delivered in eleven monthly installments throughout the year.
About Jen-Zen & The One Shoe Diaries ™
Everyone has seen one lost shoe on the side of the road. After experiencing Jen-Zen & The One Shoe Diaries™, you will wonder about its untold story.
Haunted by the memory of a lost girlfriend, a successful photographer finds himself first fascinated then obsessed with shoes – but only lost shoes! In an off beat love story, Brad struggles with grief and finds whimsy in a world where lost shoes keep popping up, challenging his sanity and the very notion of what makes the heart tick.
About Julie Shapiro
Julie Ann Shapiro http://www.julieannshapiro.com is a freelance writer, novelist and short story author. She is the winner of the 2006 Best Little Christmas Story Contest and received recognition as a Million Writers Award Notable Stories of 2004. Julie has over thirty published short stories including the story collection, Flashes of the Other (Pulp Bits August 2006). Julie's novels are represented by TriadaUS http://www.geocities.com/
Contact Information
For more information about Jen-Zen & The One Shoe Diaries ™ contact Julie Ann Shapiro, (858) 779-9174, julie@julieannshapiro.com and visit the Oneshoediaries.com website.
