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'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entered the book into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, where she competed against 10,000 self-published and unpublished novels.[4] The Publishers Weekly review of the book during the competition called the book's heroine, Kate Pierce-Keller, the "Katniss Everdeen of time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]
Reception
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 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]
