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Is The Illusory Prophet (Singularity #3) still set to be released this month? ( March 2016)
Susan Kaye Quinn Unfortunately no, that's been delayed. I need to update the description!
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Hi I have read your second book in the Singularity series but it does not even show up on here. Is that something you can add on your end?
Susan Kaye Quinn That's strange that you're not finding it, but GR can be glitchy that way sometimes. But The Duality Bridge is definitely on GR! Here's the link:
http://smarturl.it/TDBonGR

Thanks for reading the books!
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Happy birthday! Any big plans? :)
Susan Kaye Quinn Awww... thanks! I went out to lunch with a friend, dinner with the family, drank merlot and watched True Blood. And I wrote a little. #perfectday :)
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Hi Susan! I was curious how many books will be in the Singularity series and if you have any tentative release dates for them?
Susan Kaye Quinn Hi April! I've just decided to release The Duality Bridge (Singularity #2)... TOMORROW! Watch your newsletter for that (you're subscribed to my newsletter, right? That's the best way to be notified of new releases.)!

As for how many books, I've been somewhat vague about that because I want to leave room for as many books as it takes to do the story justice. Right now, it's looking like 5 novels for Eli's story (the main series), 6+ short stories (Stories of Singularity), and a prequel (Day Zero).

Approximate release schedule:
The Legacy Human (Singularity #1) - available
The Duality Bridge (Singularity #2) - releases tomorrow (8.18)
Singularity #3 - March 2016

Restore (Stories of Singularity #1) - available
Containment (Stories of Singularity #2) - 8.24 in the Dark Beyond the Stars anthology
Defiance (Stories of Singularity #3) - 9.18 in the Future Chronicles Anthology
Augment (Stories of Singularity #4) - Sept 2015 in the Cyborg Chronicles

All the short stories will be released individually in December 2015.

Thanks for trying the stories!
Sue
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Hello Susan, I'm almost finished with The Legacy Human. I recently watched Transcendence (with Johnny Depp as the main actor) and in the movie they mention the Singularity... I was wondering, did you get inspired by that movie specifically? Or did you have your own ideas and then started investigating about the subject?
Susan Kaye Quinn Brenda - The Legacy Human was actually written before Transcendence was released - in fact, I started outlining a year before that! There were two sources for my initial idea spark for The Legacy Human. The first was a general idea that came to me in a long drive to a conference (6 hours in the car!) - my initial concept was about a boy in love with a robot. It was a reverse-Pinocchio story, the inversion of the famous Asimov story Bicentennial man, a story about a robot who wanted to become a man. The second inspiration came when I sat down to outline the story - that's when I stumbled upon Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near (a non-fiction book about Kurzweil's belief that computers will soon be more intelligent than humans). That's when I first became aware of the idea of the Singularity as a *movement* and not just the theoretical idea of computers gaining sentience. After outlining the series, I spent a lot of time in research, then writing, then... I actually held back the story from publication for a year (for a variety of reasons). Hollywood started putting out Singularity/AI movies last year (2014) and even more so this year (2015) - HER, Transcendence, Automata, Chappie, Ex Machina - but I believe they still have a way to go. This is very much the *idea of the decade* and I expect to see it explored a whole lot more in fiction - both on the screen and in books. And my Singularity series - the novels and the short stories - are my personal contribution to that growing lexicon of the imagination. :)

Thanks for the great question!
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Hi Susan, just purchased Locksmith. Wondering how long took to write?
Susan Kaye Quinn Hi Michael! Thanks for getting The Locksmith! That's a curious question (how long it took to write). In one sense, it took years... because I was convinced I was done writing the Mindjack series for quite some time. But then the right nudge (the editor of The Telepath Chronicles wanting a story from me) came along, and the right headspace (a long flight to California in which to dream up a story) appeared... and suddenly I had a story bursting out of me. Of course, I had already written three novels and four novellas in the Mindjack world, so much of that universe was already intimately known to me. When I actually sat down to put fingers to keyboard, it probably took me a week to draft and edit.

Stories are often like that - years in the making, sometimes months or weeks in the actual getting of words on the page.

I hope that answers your question!
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I just entered the give away for open minds but I just checked my kindle and I already own it. Is there a way to either not be in it or make sure I'm not picked? I'll feel bad if I do happen to get picked (I never do but it'll be sad if I do this time lol) I want to make sure someone gets it that doesn't already have it. So sorry!
Susan Kaye Quinn First of, how sweet of you to be concerned! Second, thanks for reading Open Minds! And Third, I don't control picking the winner, but if it's you, I'll trust you to pass it on to someone else (and I'll pick someone randomly from the entries and send them one as well). Thanks for entering!
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