Releasing 'The Aquila Trials'
It’s finally out! My maiden novel ‘The Aquila Trials’ has been a dream in the making for more than twenty years. Well, sort of. At the end of the last millennium, when I was interviewing HIV specialists, LGBTQ activists, AIDS patients, and pharmacists before the launch of an antiretroviral drug of a pharmaceutical company, I had not the faintest idea that my interactions with them were sowing the germ of an idea that would later materialize in the form of a novel. In the years in between, I became a marketing communications professional who secretly dreamt of conducting groundbreaking scientific research in a white lab coat, with beakers, funnels, and flasks. (Funny, how my protagonist had the exact opposite fantasy.)
During my career break after two kids, I began writing what was originally intended to be a short story, but over the months, ideas and information kept coming my way, and before long, I was thoroughly steeped in all things ‘pharma.’ Today my dream has materialized vicariously through this book. After more than three years of study, discussions, and keystroking, ‘The Aquila Trials’ has ultimately come to fruition. It is a high point in my life. :)
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