In 1993 Richard Paul Evans published "The Christmas Box," an 87-page paperback he originally wrote as a gift for his family that would eventually yield a $4.2 million advance from Simon & Schuster. Twenty years removed from his very sudden success with “The Christmas Box,” Evans is still selling beaucoup books — except that now he’s concurrently producing best-selling titles in very distinct genres via his The Walk and Michael Vey series. The Walk is inspirational fiction, a five-part series about a man who walks from Seattle to Florida after losing everything important in his life.