In the novel, 17-year-old Kate Pierce-Keller has to deal with sudden time shifts that cause members of her family to vanish. Timebound is widely considered to be a science fiction and Young adult fiction novel with a focus on time travel.
Timebound, the first novel in the Chronos Files series, was released on December 1, 2013, for Kindle users through the use of the Kindle First program, and was released in print on January 1, 2014.
Īfter she won the award, Walker quit her day job working as a professor at the University of Maryland University College so that she could focus full-time on writing.
On June 15, 2013, it was announced that Timebound had won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and that Walker would receive the grand prize, along with a contract with Skyscape Publishing, an Amazon Publishing imprint. Also, a new cover was released for Timebound. On May 21, 2013, it was announced that Time's Twisted Arrow was a finalist for the 2013 award and that now, owing to Amazon's official rights over much of the marketing of the book, it would be called Timebound instead of Time's Twisted Arrow. Amazon had changed a lot of the prizes and awards from previous years, as previously the grand prize winner would receive only $15,000. In January 2013, Walker decided to enter Time's Twisted Arrow into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, a book contest pitting 10,000 self-published and unpublished novels with a grand prize of $50,000 and a publishing contract being given to the winner of the contest, and a prize of $15,000 and a publishing contract being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. 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. Most of the jobs I've held have involved some sort of writing, as well." Walker moved away from Florida when she was seventeen years old.įor graduate school, Walker attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and received a PhD in Political Science. 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. She lived in several different cities and towns in Florida before finally settling in Wewahitchka, Florida when she was 10 years old. Rysa Walker was born in Pensacola, Florida. Since then, she has published two series of novels, along with several short stories and other works. Her first book, Timebound, won the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in 2013. Rysa Walker is an American science fiction writer.
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