Virginia Beach Author Wins 2015 Readers’ Favorite ‘Gold Award’ for Fiction Thriller in Int’l Book Award Contest
Virginia Beach, VA (PRWEB) September 11, 2015 -- Author-attorney R.N. Shapiro’s debut novel “Taming the Telomeres” was awarded the Gold Award for fiction thrillers in the 2015 Readers’ Favorite Int’l. Book Award Contest. The Amazon release of the biological thriller, “Taming the Telomeres,” has attained over 50,000 downloads since its November 2014 release, gaining Amazon Best Seller status on June 5, 2015. ‘A masterpiece’ and ‘spellbinding page turner’ are just some of the praises showered on this cutting-edge biological thriller, according to Bloomberg Businessweek (3/23/2015).
Annually the contest fields books by thousands of entrants on an international basis, from independent authors, small publishers, and publishing giants like Random House, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, and past contestants include J.A. Jance, James Rollins, and #1 best-selling author Daniel Silva, as well as celebrity authors like Jim Carrey (Bruce Almighty), Henry Winkler (Happy Days), and Eriq La Salle (E.R., Coming to America).
“Taming” features high school senior Amanda Michaels who suffers amnesia with regard to everything before the jet crash that only she survives. She loses her parents and her memory in the aftermath, and once Amanda learns she may possess biological secrets that competing intelligence agencies will kill for, she has no idea who to trust, unwittingly caught up in a web of biological espionage.
R.N. (Rick) Shapiro is an author, law blogger, prolific U.S. inventor (holding 18 U.S. patents) and also a practicing Virginia Beach, Virginia trial attorney. Rick received his college degree from the University of Maryland, served as staff assistant to a U.S. Congressman, and graduated from George Mason University School of Law with distinction.
The author of Taming the Telomeres researched the medicine and biology in the novel for nearly 3 years before completing the fiction thriller manuscript, and drew from his experiences as a trial attorney, and as a Capitol Hill staff assistant. Rick resided in the Washington, DC area during college and law school, and explored Middleburg, Virginia, Georgetown, and several of the geographical areas that appear in Taming the Telomeres.
Author Contact info (for interviews or news stories):
Author website: http://www.RNShapiro.com
Facebook site: tamingthetelomeres
Twitter: @tamingtelomeres
Via email: RNShapiro1(AT)verizon.net
Via mobile phone: 757-335-4222
For Sale on Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/oj5b7j5
Rick Shapiro, Challedon Publishing, http://www.RNShapiro.com, +1 (757) 335-4222, [email protected]
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