"CyberChrist" Honored As An International Book Award Winning Finalist

LOS ANGELES - June 15, 2015 - PRLog -- May 21, 2015 - LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES  –  USA Book News announced the winners and finalists of THE 2015 INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS (IBA) on May 21, 2015 for titles published in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

The Thriller/Adventure Award-Winning Finalist "CyberChrist" is the story of a prize winning journalist who receives an email from a man who claims to have discovered immortality by turning off the aging gene in a 15 year old boy with an aging disorder.

The forwarded email becomes the basis for an online church built around the boy, calling him CyberChrist. The church claims that the boy is the second coming of Christ online.  The federal government tries to shut down the church, but its website replicates faster than they can stop it. While church and state battle over religious freedom online, the media and the state battle over freedom of speech.

Author Matthew J. Pallamary's historical novel of first contact between shamans and Jesuits in 18th century South America, titled, Land Without Evil, was published by Charles Publishing and received rave reviews along with a San Diego Book Award. It was also adapted into a full-length stage and sky show, co-written with Agent Red and performed by Sky Candy, an Austin Texas aerial group. The making of the show was the subject of a PBS series, Arts in Context episode, which garnered an EMMY nomination.

His memoir Spirit Matters, detailing his journeys to the jungles of Peru, took top honors in the San Diego Book Awards’ Spiritual Book Category, and was an Award-Winning Finalist in the National Best Book Awards. It was also released as an audio book, narrated by the author. Originally from Dorchester Massachusetts, Pallamary has lived in San Diego for the past 36 years. For more about Pallamary, or to book him for speaking engagements or interviews visit www.mattpallamary.com.

His recently published tribute to Ray Bradbury, a short story collection titled “A Short Walk to the Other Side” was an Award Winning Finalist in the 2014 International Book Awards and in the USA Best Book Awards.

Other Mystic Ink books have won the following awards:

International Book Award - 1st Place - Nonfiction New Age - The Infinity Zone
San Diego Book Award - Award Winning Finalist - The Infinity Zone
National Best Book Awards - Award Winning Finalist - Spirit Matters
San Diego Book Award - Best Spiritual Book - Spirit Matters
San Diego Book Award - Land Without Evil

International Book Award - 1st Place - Writing/Publishing - Phantastic Fiction

International Book Award - Award Winning Finalist - Eye of the Predator

Mystic Ink’s titles have also won the acclaim of noted writers, among them Ray Bradbury, Charles Champlin - L.A. Times Critic Emeritus, Charles M. Schulz, Barnaby Conrad, Victor Villasenor, David Brin, and noted psychologist Stanley Krippner.

Based in San Diego since 2000, Mystic Ink Publishing is an independent publisher focusing on works of a spiritual, shamanic, new age, or transcendent nature as well as dramatic works of Phantastic Fiction © in the paranormal genres of magical realism, horror, supernatural thrillers, and science fiction.

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