Michael Donaldson asked Susan Kaye Quinn:

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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