Friday Midday Links: YA fiction permeating every area of publishing

2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (ABNA) winners – Amazon and Penguin Group (USA) Name Alan Averill and Regina Sirois Winners of 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest. Both receive publishing contracts and a $15,000 advance from Penguin Group. A shortlist is compiled byauthors, agents and editors and the customers of Amazon voted for the winners.

Regina Sirois was born and raised outside of Kansas City. She minored in Creative Writing, but never found the right inspiration for a stor...