Rysa Walker | |
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Born | Pensacola, Florida |
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. She is a graduate of St. Andrews University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a PhD in Political Science. [2] 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entered the book into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, where she competed against 10,000 self-published and unpublished novels.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 was announced as the winner of the grand prize, 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]
Time's Edge, the second book in The CHRONOS Files, appeared at #10 on the bestselling e-books list of the Wall Street Journal on 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]
Walker currently resides with her family in Cary, North Carolina. [14]
Rysa Walker | |
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Born | Pensacola, Florida |
Occupation | Author |
Period | 2012–present |
Literary movement | Science Fiction / Time Travel |
Notable awards | Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (2013) |
Website | |
www |
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. She is a graduate of St. Andrews University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned a PhD in Political Science. [2] 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, where she competed 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 was announced as the winner of the grand prize, 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]
Time's Edge, the second book in The CHRONOS Files, appeared at #10 on the bestselling e-books list of the Wall Street Journal on 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]
Walker currently resides with her family in Cary, North Carolina. [14]