Rysa Walker Wins Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Jun 17, 2013

Rysa Walker from Cary, N.C., has won Amazon's Breakthrough Novel contest with her YA title, Timebound. With the award, Walker lands a book deal with Amazon – Timebound will be released by Amazon Children's Publishing's Skyscape imprint on October 22 – and a $50,000 advance. In Timebound, a 17-year-old girl finds out she has what Amazon called a "genetic license" to time travel.

The other four winners are: Ken Moraff (General Fiction, It Happened in Wisconsin); Jo Chumas (Mystery/Thriller, The Hidden); Evelyn Pryce (Romance, A Man Above Reproach); and J. Lincoln Fenn (Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, POE). Each of these winners will also receive publishing contracts with Amazon and a $15,000 advance.

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