Best Paris Stories to be released in paperback on May 31, 2012

For immediate release: 

Best Paris Stories to be released on May 31, 2012

ISBN: 978-0982369852

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Cover design by Lydia D'moch.

BEST PARIS STORIES

For some, Paris is home, for others, merely a dream. For Gaston, it is a bench, the anchor of his life. For Sue, a romantic city filled with scandalous, dark-eyed men, for Frank an all-consuming fire, for Mme Santinelli a ghost she'd hoped to forget. By turns humorous, bittersweet, historical or surreal, each of these carefully selected stories invites us to explore a different facet of Paris.

BEST PARIS STORIES brings together the winning short stories of the 2011 Paris Short Story Contest with works by Jeannine Alter, Bob Levy, Lisa Burkitt, Nafkote Tamirat, Marie Houzelle, Jo Nguyen, Julia Mary Lichtblau, Mary Byrne, Marie Houzelle, Jane M. Handel, and Jim Archibald.

The BEST PARIS STORIES were selected by distinguished judges Elizabeth Bard, Cara Black, Janet Skeslien Charles, Charles and Clydette De Groot, Penelope Fletcher, Nicola Keegan, Anne Korkeakivi, Diane Johnson, Robert Stewart, Heather Stimmler-Hall, and Charles Trueheart in collaboration with Paris Writers News and the remarkable Editorial Committee formed by Beth Arnold, Janice Abbott, Jennifer K. Dick, Mary Duncan, Kristin Espinasse, Karen Fawcett, Mary Ellen Gallagher, Nancy Gerbault, Hilary Kaiser, Dimitri Keramitas, Barry Kirwan, Marcia Lebre, Kai Maristed, Thirza Valois, Christopher Vanier, and Eve Zuckerman,

BEST PARIS STORIES will celebrate the this new publication at The American Library of Paris on May 29 at a literary event that will be open to the public.

If you are a Book Reviewer,  Book Blogger, Travel writer, Paris organization or Publication based in France and you would like to receive a review copy of Best Paris Stories, please contact Summertime Publications with "review copy" in the subject line..

Paris Short Story Contest announces winner of the Editorial Committee Prize

We are delighted to announce that the winner 

of the 

Editorial Committee Prize 

for the 

Paris Short Story Contest 

is:

 DESOLEE MONSIEUR 

by 

Julia Mary Lichtblau




Stories Nominated for the prize were:

MY SUNDAY WITH GOD by Bob Levy

I THINK THEREFORE I AM by Haminudhin Mohd Derus 

TANGO by Julia Lichtblau

THE CONVERSATION by Virginia Gilbert

DESOLEE MONSIEUR by Julia Lichtblau

A VOIR by Nina Atkinson

SPARE LOVER by Marie Houzelle

GETTING THERE by Cathy Altman Nocquet

TRACES by Christopher Clark

LOVE THY FRENCH NEIGHBORS by Angie Ho Guyoton

THE KINE AND SARKOZY by Martin Raim

A PINCH OF TARRAGON by Lisa Burkitt

WOMAN, BLOSSOMING by Susanne Kamata

The winning stories selected by the finalist judges will be announced on Tuesday.

(Click on SHORTLIST to see the list of stories under consideration)