The Bow of Heaven by Andrew Levkoff wins Gold from eLit Book Awards

April 20, 2012 - PRLog -- Since it was first published in the fall of 2011, Levkoff's novel of a slave's rise to power in one of Rome's richest household's has rarely been out of Amazon's Top 100 historical novels about ancient Rome.

The Other Alexander is the first book in the epic trilogy, The Bow of Heaven. Alexander, a young Greek philosophy student, wrenched from a life unlived, must submit to the will of an empire. In a world without choice, he uses his cunning and wits to gain the trust of one of the most powerful men in the Republic.

Yet no matter how high he climbs, or how deeply he falls in love, Alexander's life is still bound to the will of another. When his master becomes blinded by revenge, the fates of both owner and owned become slaves to a terrible choice. A choice which will topple the empire one has ruled, and the other has been forced to serve.

Levkoff's book may be found here:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005UO0QMI.

eLit Awards
The 2011 eLit Awards are an industry-wide, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the electronic publishing industry.

The contest is presented by Jenkins Group Inc., a Michigan-based book publishing and marketing services company that has operated the popular Independent Publisher Book Awards contest since 1996.

About the Author
Andrew Levkoff grew up on Long Island, New York, got a BA in English from Stanford, then put that hard-earned degree to dubious use in the family packaging business. After a decade of trying to convince himself to think 'inside' the box (lots of them), he fled to Vermont where he attempted to regain his sanity by chopping wood and shoveling snow off his roof for 8 years. Like a fine cocktail, he was by then thoroughly chilled; what could be better after this than no sunshine for 13 years. That's right - Seattle.

For the past 7 years he has been taking the cure in Arizona, where his skin has darkened to a rich shade of pallid. Here it was that he finally realized, under the heading of hopefully-better-late-than-never, that he needed to return to his first love - writing. Andrew lives in Phoenix with Stephany and their daughter, Allison, crowded into close proximity by hundreds of mineral specimens they have collected while rockhounding. "They're just a bunch of rocks," says Allison. Ouch.

You may visit Andrew at http://www.andrewlevkoff.com/