**POPE ANNALISA WINS 4 NATIONAL BOOK MEDALS! **

(New York, NY, April 26, 2010) — We are pleased to announce that author Peter Canova’s new book, POPE ANNALISA, has won both the Nautilus and the Independent Publishers Book Awards for fiction. The book swept the prestigious Nautilus Book Awards winning two Silver Medals and one Gold Medal in two different categories, VISIONARY FICTION and SPIRITUALITY. It has also taken another medal in the Independent Publishers Book Award.

The path to the Nautilus Gold Medal Award was unanimous at all three judging levels and the book obtained the highest scores in its category seen in some years.

The Nautilus Awards has one of the most rigorous judging processes of any national book award contest. The book must pass three panels of judges located across the U.S. The judges’ panels are composed of people with successful careers as editors, writers, librarians, schoolteachers, and bookstore owners. The process is a deliberate course of examination and scrutiny designed to sort and separate books as they are measured against a carefully prepared list of notable characteristics.

The IPPY, or Independent Publishers Award, is the largest book award competition in the world with nearly 4,000 total entries.