![]() I evaluated my options, pulled my manuscript from agents, made a business plan, and leaped with both feet into the indie pond. Suddenly there was this alternate path available, and authors were making real money at it. Then I queried another ( Open Minds, young-adult SF)-while agents were enthusiastically asking for full manuscripts, self-publishing started to break out. I queried and shelved my next book (middle-grade science fiction), discovering in the process that agents could love a book and still have no idea how to sell it. ![]() My first book was published through a small press. I’m primarily an indie author, but I’ve traveled both paths to some extent. Why did you decide to self-publish instead of going the traditional route? She talked to us recently about her career and writing. Chronicles, and has been optioned for Virtual Reality by Immersive Entertainment. ![]() Quinn’s work has appeared in the Synchronic anthology, The Telepath Chronicles, The A.I. ![]() Quinn is the author of the Singularity series, the bestselling Mindjack Trilogy, and the Debt Collector serial, as well as other novels and short stories. Pursuing the indie route, she is a bestseller in the science-fiction and speculative-fiction genres. A former rocket scientist, Susan Kaye Quinn’s career path morphed into writing once she became a mother. ![]()
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