Author Sterling R. Walker has been writing since she was old enough to spell, filling notebooks and—more recently - laptops, with her stories. She earned a BA in English from North Carolina State University, with a focus on Creative Writing. The Orphan Ship is her first published young adult science fiction novel. It's received good reviews and was awarded a 2012 silver medal from Children's Literary Classics. Walker's exciting sequel to The Orphan Ship, The Lost Sheep, was published in October, 2013. The final book in the trilogy, The Last Orphan, was published in December, 2014. In February, 2016, she released The Orphan Ship Trilogy on Kindle, which combines all three books into one volume. She released Vesta Exiled: Vesta Colony Book One, in June, 2018, and Vesta Divided: Vesta Colony Book Two, in October, 2019. Book three in the trilogy, Vesta's Survival, was released in February, 2021. The Vesta series is YA sci-fi combined with paranormal clean romance. Sterling R. Walker lives in North Logan, Utah. She is divorced and lives with two of her six adult children. She also has a daughter-in-law and one grandson. Sterling offers a development editing service for indie authors called Sterling Edits. She does content editing at reasonable prices with quick turnaround.