Melikian’s Journey to Virginland–One of Top 4 books in Literary Fiction
Two Harbors Press (for Author Armen Melikian) [publicity@journeytovirginland.com]
For Immediate Release
July 05, 2011
Contact (or Review Copy Request):
Emily Weiss,
Hillcrest Media Group
emily@TwoHarborsPress.com
Tel. 612.455.2294 ext. 210
author contact for interviews:
armen@JourneyToVirginland.com
ForeWord Reviews has just announced the winners of the Book of the Year Awards. The winning authors were honored at a ceremony during the American Library Association Conference in New Orleans. They were selected by a panel of librarian and bookseller judges.
Los Angeles author Armen Melikian’s Journey to Virginland: Epistle I, a novel that proposes an original vision of human transformation, is one of the four winners in the highly competitive Literary Fiction category. It received the only “Honorable Mention” from a list of 14 finalists. Journey to Virginland is published by Two Harbors Press of the Hillcrest Publishing Group.
“This is the third prize Journey to Virginland has won over the last three months,” said Emily Weiss, marketing director at Two Harbor’s Press. “Journey to Virginland recently won the Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for Best Fiction, and was recognized as one of the top books in Humor/Comedy by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.”
“This is indeed an unusual book,” added Weiss. “Publisher’s Weekly, the leading publishing industry magazine, encapsulates the gist of Journey to Virginland with the assessment: ‘Dog vs. God. In an iconoclastic story, Dog demolishes the foundations of Western civilization.'”
Book Cover
ForeWord’s founder and publisher, Victoria Sutherland, spoke at the awards ceremony and announced the winners: “Today’s celebration of our Award winners and finalists is the culmination of a very intense but rewarding year-long effort by everyone on staff at ForeWord Reviews. All of our editors become invested in certain genres, titles, and authors, and the award ceremony is very emotional. To make the announcements at ALA is especially satisfying.”
Leia Menlove, a distinguished member of ForeWord’s review team, describes Journey to Virginland as “an engrossing, brilliantly crafted read; a searing commentary on the world and its inhabitants.” Menlove adds, “Melikian’s prodigious writing talent and ability to show the world’s history in a different air creates an entertaining ride into warring religions, warring cultures, warring sexes, and the histories and raison d’etre behind each. Melikian is an astonishing writer who teaches his reader about the world and the human condition through tragedy and humor.”
Journey to Virginland is in certain respects reminiscent of the novelistic tapestries of James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Umberto Eco, and others. With its ebullient style, innovative language, and kaleidoscopic yet highly calibrated thematic range, it is an extraordinary example of a literary revolution in the making.
For a list of worldwide booksellers and ordering information, visit the Order page at www.JourneyToVirginland.com
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Armen Melikian
About the author: Armen Melikian holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from American University in Washington, DC. He has also studied mathematics at a number of universities including Harvard. Abandoning both politics and science, he has instead devoted himself to literature. Journey to Virginland is his debut novel. Melikian lives in Los Angeles.
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