Rysa Walker

Early life

Rysa Walker was born in Pensacola, Florida. She lived in several different cities and towns in Florida before finally settling in Wewahitchka, Florida when she was 10 years old. When discussing where her passion for writing came from in an interview in 2014, Walker said, "I've been writing since I was a little kid." "(Also), most of the jobs I've held have involved some sort of writing, as well." Walker moved away from Florida when she was 17.

For graduate school, Walker attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received a PhD in Political Science.

Career

On October 1, 2012, Walker published her first novel, Time's Twisted Arrow, which was a 351-page novel that was published with the help of Kindle Direct Publishing.

In January 2013, Walker decided to enter Time's Twisted Arrow into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest for 2013, a book contest pitting 10,000 self-published and unpublished novels with a grand prize of $50,000 and a publishing contract being given to the winner of the contest, and a prize of $15,000 and a publishing contract being given to the four other finalists. Amazon.com had changed up a lot of the prizes and awards from previous years, as previously the grand prize winner would receive only $15,000.

On May 21, 2013, it was announced that Time's Twisted Arrow was a finalist for the 2013 award and that now due to Amazon's official rights over much of the marketing of the book, it would be called Timebound instead of Time's Twisted Arrow. Also, a new cover was officially released for Timebound. On June 15, 2013, it was announced that Timebound had won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and that Walker would receive the grand prize award, along with a contract with Skyscape Publishing, which was another change in the award, as in past years the grand prize winner would receive a contract with Penguin Books USA.

After she won the award, Walker quit her day job working as a professor for the University Of Maryland University College so that she could focus full-time on writing.

Timebound, the first novel in the Chronos Files series, was released on December 1, 2013 for Kindle users who used the Kindle First program, and was released in print on January 1, 2014. The book rose nearly instantly in the Amazon Kindle charts, at one point reaching #2 and remaining steadily in the Top Ten for all Kindle books for the first one to two weeks after its publishing. The sales began to die down a little bit after that, but it still remained in the Top 100 for the next few months on Kindle lists.

Timebound is a fictional novel that is generally considered to be a YA (young adult) novel.

In the novel, 17-year-old Kate has to deal with sudden time shifts that cause members of her family to vanish. She figures out that she is the only one who can save half the population from an evil religious group called the Cyrists, led by a man named Saul, who is the genetic grandfather of Kate.

As a result of the initial success of Timebound, Walker released a novella on April 25, 2014 called Time's Echo to provide some background information on some of the events that occurred behind the storyline of Timebound. Since the release of Time's Echo, Walker has released several other novellas that have been written for the purpose of giving her readers additional information about the characters and events in the series.

On October 21, 2014, Walker released Time's Edge, the second novel in the Chronos Files series, which depicts Kate's quest to save the Earth from Cyrist conquest.

On October 20, 2015, Walker released Time's Divide, which is the third and final novel in the Chronos Files series.

On October 11, 2016, Walker released The Delphi Effect, which is the first book in her new series, The Delphi Trilogy.

For each of Walker's novels and her novellas, audiobooks have been released on Audible.com. Timebound's audio book was released on January 1, 2014, the same day as its official publication, and was narrated by Kate Rudd. The audiobooks for Time's Edge, Time's Divide, and The Delphi Effect were also narrated by Rudd. Time's Echo's audiobook was released on June 12, 2014, and was narrated by Nick Podehl. Some of her more recent novellas have been narrated by Podehl, whereas others have been narrated by Rudd.

The Chronos Files series

The Delphi Triology series

Chronos Stories

The Chronos Files series

Personal life

Rysa Walker is a pen name. Walker currently lives in Cary, North Carolina with her husband and her two sons.