The winners of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, presented during Comic Con in San Diego, can be seen here.
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Amy Lloyd won the inaugural Daily Mail & Penguin Random House First Novel Competition for her manuscript Red River, the Bookseller reported. As winner, Lloyd receives a £20,000 (about $26,255) advance as part of a publishing deal with PRH imprint Century, as well as the services of literary agent Luigi Bonomi.
Selina Walker, one of the judges and publisher of Century and Arrow at PRH, said: "The response to the competition and the number of entries was unprecedented, so whittling them down to just six was tough. But we did it, and our six shortlisted entries were of a really high standard and so varied in content that it's been a pleasure and a privilege to read and evaluate them. We are hugely pleased with our winning entry and look forward to publishing it in 2017--but all of our shortlisted authors have great narrative voices, an original way of looking at the world around them, and the ability to tell spellbinding stories. I congratulate them all and wish them the very best of luck with their novels."