Rysa Walker
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Rysa Walker | |
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 Walker in 2013. | |
| Born | |
| Occupation | Author |
| Period | 2012–present |
| Literary movement | Science Fiction / Time Travel |
| Notable awards | Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (2013) |
| Website | |
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Rysa Walker is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries. Her first novel, Timebound, was the 2013 Grand Prize winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.[1]
Walker was born and raised in Northwest Florida. After graduating from St. Andrews University in North Carolina, she earned a PhD in political science from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[2]
Career
After teaching political science and history at various universities, she began writing fiction full time in 2014.[3]
Walker's first novel, Timebound (The CHRONOS Files Book One), was originally self-published as Time's Twisted Arrow in 2012. In January 2013, she entered the book into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, competing against 10,000 self-published and unpublished novels.[4] The Publishers Weekly review of the book during the competition called the book's heroine, Kate Pierce-Keller, the "Katniss Everdeen of time travel," adding that the "story reads like a mash-up of Jack Finney’s 'Time and Again' and Erik Larson’s 'The Devil in the White City.' In the end, this novel works as a contemporary, sexed-up tribute to one of those great old Heinlein juveniles from the 1950s."[5]On June 15, 2013, Timebound won the grand prize for the contest, leading to her receiving a $50,000 advance and a contract with Skyscape, an Amazon Publishing imprint.[6]
Timebound has been translated into fourteen languages. Five additional CHRONOS novels were published through the Skyscape and 47North imprints beginning in 2016. A separate science fiction series, The Delphi Trilogy, was published by Skyscape beginning in 2017.[7]
In addition to science fiction, Walker also writes mysteries as C. Rysa Walker.[8]
Reception
Time's Edge, the second book in The CHRONOS Files, appeared at number ten on the The Wall Street Journal's bestselling fiction e-books list for October 30, 2014.[9]
The Delphi Effect was a finalist for the 2018 International Thriller Writers Awards,[10] a 2017 Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Science Fiction,[11] and a 2017 Junior Library Guild selection.[12]
The Publishers Weekly review of Now, Then, and Everywhen lauded the "twisty narrative that expertly blends the past and the future. Fans of intelligent time-travel stories will be rewarded."[13]
