Local Author Susan Kaye Quinn Signing Her New Novel, Open Minds

For her second published novel, Open Minds (Book One of the Mindjack Trilogy), author and Palatine resident, Sue Quinn, has dived into science fiction for young adults, creating a future telepathic world where one girl’s inability to read minds makes her painfully isolated … until she discovers she can control thoughts instead.

When everyone reads minds, a secret is a dangerous thing to keep.

Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can’t read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can’t be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mindreader and the best friend she secretly loves. When she accidentally controls Raf’s mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf. But lies tangle around her, and she’s dragged deep into a hidden underworld of mindjackers, where having to mind control everyone she loves is just the beginning of the deadly choices before her.

REVIEWS

Five star advanced reviews have already started to pour in:

"Wow oh Wow! I just inhaled this book. Quinn is an amazing author with an even more amazing imagination. In some ways Kira reminds me a lot of Katniss from the Hunger Games series." – TwiMom101 Book Blog

"I’m not entirely sure Susan Kaye Quinn didn’t jack into my mind herself to make me fall in love with this book! This book is full of awesome.” – Jade Hanke’s Review

"Wow – just when I was getting a little bored of YA a book like this comes along and just wows me back! … I was holding my breath right up until the last page." – Mel's Random Reviews

Open Minds will appeal to teens and adults who enjoy paranormal adventure with a science fiction twist. Open Minds is the first in a planned trilogy. The second book, Closed Hearts, will release in 2012.

About the Author
Susan Kaye Quinn is better known in the Palatine community as Sue Quinn, recently retired member of the District 15 school board, where she served from 2007-2011 . Although she has a bunch of engineering degrees, including a Ph.D. in environmental engineering, she has had a life-long love affair with books and greatly admires the power they hold to transform children’s lives. For the last three years, she has been writing stories for children and teens. Her first published novel was a teen love story (Life, Liberty, and Pursuit) and she has a short fiction published in the Summer Breeze Anthology (to support Breast Cancer Research). Susan is currently writing Closed Hearts (the sequel to Open Minds) as well as a fantasy novel and a science fiction novel for children ages 8-12.

EVENT

Susan will be signing her newly released teen paranormal/science fiction novel Open Minds at the Caribou Coffee on November 5th. Paper copies of Open Minds will be available for purchase, along with copies of Susan’s debut novel, Life, Liberty, and Pursuit (a teen love story).

For more information, see the Mindjack Trilogy website.