Ken Moraff in Ithaca, New York, whose winning book is It Happened in Wisconsin, is the general fiction category winner, about a Depression-era baseball team and the dynamics of its players relationships. They each have been given a contract with a $15,000 advance. These four authors now are first prize winners. When Amazon Publishing releases it on October 22, it will be titled Timebound.Īnd will have been re-edited and prepared with its new cover as a fully vested catalog offering from the Skyscape imprint, part of Amazon Children’s Publishing.Īs long as you’re sitting there weeping, I’ll just mention Walker’s four co-finalists in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award competition. The novel for which author Rysa Walker has just received that advance started life as the self-published Time’s Twisted Arrow. She got a publishing contract and a $50,000 advance for her debut YA self-published novel. My feet have started to touch the ground again.
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