Fallen (7 page)
Authors: Susan Kaye Quinn
Tags: #gritty, #Dystopian, #contemporary fantasy, #series, #Paranormal, #Dark Fantasy, #anthologies, #cyberpunk, #future noir, #serial, #Short Stories, #urban fantasy
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Your facebook-cheering and post-sharing and mandates to “write faster” are the best motivation. Special thanks go to Pete Westwood for letting me borrow his name for Anna’s evil manager, even though he’s not evil. My critique partners in this series—Dianne Salerni, Leigh T. Moore, and Matthew MacNish—have been a crucial part, every step of the way, of making this crazy-pants serial-writing thing work. I’m hugely indebted to them and their rapid-fire turn-arounds for critiques!
If you’ve made it this far, you may recognize the elements of a novel in the structure of series to date. It’s not a coincidence that there are nine episodes and they’re bundled in sets of three—like a trilogy of three short novels or three acts in one very long tale. We’re about to embark on the final act, the third “book” in the set, and I promise (Episode 7 is called
Promise
after all), that there will be an “end” to Season One. As a writer, I hope it’s one that the reader won’t see coming, even for those who’ve marched every step of the way with me. And my wish is that it will make you glad you took the trip.
We’ll see if I can pull that off…
Thanks for taking the journey with me!
Susan Kaye Quinn is the author of the bestselling Mindjack Trilogy, which is young adult science fiction. The Debt Collector series is her more grown-up SF.
Susan grew up in California, got a bunch of
engineering degrees (B.S. Aerospace Engineering, M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering) and worked everywhere from NASA to NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research). She designed aircraft engines, studied global warming, and held elected office (as a school board member). Now that she writes novels, her business card says "Author and Rocket Scientist," but she mostly sits around in her pajamas in awe that she gets paid to make stuff up.
All her engineering skills come in handy when dreaming up dangerous mind powers, future dystopic worlds, and
slightly plausible steampunk inventions. For her stories, of course. Just ignore that stuff in the basement.
Susan writes from the Chicago suburbs with her three boys, two cats, and one husband. Which, it turns out, is exactly as much as she can handle.
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