Rysa Walker


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.

Early life, family and education

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.

Career

After teaching political science and history at various universities, she began writing fiction full time in 2014.
Walker's first novel, Timebound, 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she entered the book into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, competing against 10,000 self-published and unpublished novels. 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."Timebound was announced June 15, 2013, as the winner of the grand prize, a $50,000 advance and a contract with Skyscape, an Amazon Publishing imprint.
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.
In addition to science fiction, Walker also writes mysteries as C. Rysa Walker.

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.
The Delphi Effect was a finalist for the 2018 International Thriller Writers Awards, a 2017 Amazon Editors' Pick for Best Science Fiction, and a 2017 Junior Library Guild selection.
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."

The Chronos Files

Novels

  • Timebound
  • Time's Edge
  • ''Time's Divide''

Novellas

Time's Echo – NovellaTime's Mirror – NovellaSimon Says – Novella

Short stories

  • Whack Job
  • 2092
  • ''The Gambit''

Graphic Novel

  • ''Time Trial''

Chronos Origins

Novels

  • Now, Then, and Everywhen
  • Red, White, and the Blues
  • ''Bell, Book, and Key''

Short stories

Anthology

  • ''Time's Vault''

The Delphi Trilogy

Novels

  • The Delphi Effect
  • The Delphi Resistance
  • ''The Delphi Revolution''

Novella

  • ''The Abandoned''

The Icarus Code

The Cold Light of Stars First Watch of Night
  • ''Dark Little Worlds''

Enter Haddonwood (with Caleb Amsel)

Novels

  • As the Crow Flies
  • When the Cat's Away
  • ''Where Wolves Fear to Prey''

Thistlewood Star Mysteries (as C. Rysa Walker)

Novels

  • A Murder in Helvetica Bold
  • Palatino for the Painter
  • A Seance in Franklin Gothic
  • Courier to the Stars
  • ''Comic Sans for the Ex''

Coastal Playhouse Murder Mysteries (with C. Rysa Walker)

Novels

  • Curtains for Romeo
  • Arsenic and Ole
  • Offed Off-Broadway
  • ''Exes, Stage Right''

Serial

  • ''Improbable: The Outlandish Adventures of Miriam Cole: Seasons 1-11''

Personal life

Walker currently resides with her family in Cary, North Carolina.