San Diego, CA (1888PressRelease)
November 05, 2007 - Award winning fiction author, Julie Ann Shapiro announces the publication of her novel, Jen-Zen and The One Shoe Diaries from SynergeBooks.com and the advance reviews.
In the novel a successful photographer is haunted by the memory of a girlfriend he lost and the connection he feels to her while photographing shoes. Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries is a modern Cinderella story filled with love, lost shoes and whimsy.
When given an advance copy of the novel the Executive Director of the Southern California Writers Conference, Michael Steven Gregory stated, “Haunting and hypnotic, Shapiro's debut novel will long linger in the reader's mind. JEN-ZEN illuminates the beauty to be found in the dark vacuum of unfathomable personal loss, and inspires. “
In an upcoming review which will be published in the December issue of New Myths editor, Scott Barnes stated that,” This a singular book, original in voice, thoughtful in tone and that the shoes seem to be telling Brad something. Jen-Zen has had an accident and is trying to communicate from somewhere beyond. Can Brad use his photographer’s art to rescue his true love?”
Synerge Books is now taking pre-orders for Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries trade paperback which will be available in December. The ebook and CD-Rom version of the novel are now available from Synergebooks.com.
About Julie Ann Shapiro
Julie Ann Shapiro http://www.julieannshapiro.com is a freelance writer, novelist and short story author. Her fiction is best described as literary, quirky and in the magic realism vein. Julie 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 sixty published short stories including the story collection, Flashes of the Other (August 2006 Pulp Bits) distributed by the Dppstore.com.
For more information about the novel, Jen-Zen and The One Shoe Diaries visit Synergebooks.com http://www.synergebooks.com/ebook_oneshoediaries.html.
Contact Information
Contact Julie Ann Shapiro at Julie ( @ ) julieannshapiro dot com, or at http://www.julieannshapiro.com.
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