Susan Kaye Quinn has published through a small press as well as successfully sold over 50,000 ebooks since indie publishing in 2011. She is the author of the bestselling YA SF Mindjack Trilogy, the more grown-up future-noir Debt Collector serial, as well as the upcoming Third Daughter, a steampunk fantasy romance. She also writes middle grade and non-fiction (the Indie Author Survival Guide). It's possible that she bores easily. 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). All her engineering skills come in handy when dreaming up dangerous mindpowers, future dystopic worlds, and slightly plausible steampunk inventions. 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. 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.