Amazon customers have selected Rysa Walker as the winner of the sixth annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest for her young adult book, Timebound. The Carey, North Carolina writer will receive a publishing contract with a $50,000 advance. Timebound will be available on October 22, 2013 via Amazon Children’s Publishing’s Skyscape.
“Rysa’s novel is one of those up-til-dawn reads that you just can’t put down, so it’s no surprise Amazon customers gave her this award,” stated Daphne Durham, Editor-in-Chief, Amazon Publishing. “We are looking forward to sharing all of the 2013 ABNA winners’ books with readers this fall.”
Other contest winners included Ken Moraff in the General Fiction category for It Happened in Wisconsin. Jo Chumas was named the winner of the Mystery/Thriller category for The Hidden and Evelyn Pryce won for her romance, A Man Above Reproach. J. Lincoln Fenn is the Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror winner for POE. These four winners will each received contracts from Amazon Publishing with a $15,000 advance.
The Timebound Plot:
Walker’s Timebound was inspired by her love of history and science fiction and explores how the choices we make affect our future. In the novel, 17-year-old Kate learns that she’s inherited a genetic license to time travel when her grandmother shares a strange blue medallion, an even stranger tale about future historians, and the unshakeable conviction that the fate of half the planet lies in Kate’s hands.
Source: Amazon
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