Peter Canova, Award-Winning Author of Pope Annalisa

Peter Canova has first hand experience with the unusual phenomena portrayed in his books such as telepathy, remote viewing, intuitive medical readings, and psychic healing. He spent much of his life seeking to understand the forces that link humanity together at an unseen level. Peter’s former businesses—luxury hotel development, shipping, and import/exporting—carried him around the world, giving him an insider’s view of international politics, finance, and the mentality of foreign cultures. Athens, Rome, London, the Middle East, Thailand, and Africa were the crucibles that melded business, political, and economic intrigues in Peter’s experience, giving him real life stories that could make best sellers in and of themselves. Peter received a First Place Literary Prize for his very first short story at the highly respected Santa Barbara’s Writer’s Conference in California. Shortly thereafter, he took first place out of 500 entries in Francis Ford Coppola’s online Zoetrope magazine for his first publicly circulated short story, The Blood of our Departed. Peter continued his track record of writing excellence with the publication of Pope Annalisa, which almost immediately won the Nautilus and Independent Publishers Awards in quick succession, followed by the 2010 National Best Book Award as a finalist in Visionary Fiction. In Pope Annalisa, he explores an ancient spiritual tradition which cut across not only Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, but also the so-called pagan mystery schools of ancient days. He has twenty-five years of voluminous research behind him in both mainstream and alternative religious/spiritual studies. His s hope is that this cross-over novel, part thriller and part spiritual wisdom text, will point to a new paradigm transcending the dead end dogmas of religious, cultural and gender differences that have caused so much suffering in the human community.