Thursday, March 21, 2013

If you like LOOPER... (even if you don't)

This new series by awesome writer-friend Susan Quinn (link) is FANTASTIC. I'm telling you. She's releasing a new installment every week, but you can get #1 Today for only 99 cents. Here's the scoop:

The Debt Collector 
by Susan Kaye Quinn

From the author of the bestselling Mindjack series comes a new future-noir serial, The Debt Collector. The first episode, Delirium, launched Wednesday (3/20).


What’s your life worth on the open market?
A debt collector can tell you precisely.

Lirium plays the part of the grim reaper well, with his dark trenchcoat, jackboots, and the black marks on his soul that every debt collector carries. 

He’s just in it for his cut, the ten percent of the life energy he
collects before he transfers it on to the high potentials, the people who will make the world a better place with their brains, their work, and their lives. 


That hit of life energy, a bottle of vodka, and a visit from one of Madam Anastazja’s sex workers keep him alive, stable, and mostly sane… until he collects again. 

But when his recovery ritual is disrupted by a sex worker who isn’t what she seems, he has to choose between doing an illegal hit for a girl whose story has more holes than his soul or facing the bottle alone—a dark pit he’s not sure he’ll be able to climb out of again.

Contains mature content and themes. For YA-appropriate thrills, see Susan’s Mindjack series.

Delirium is approximately 12,000 words or 48 pages and is one of nine episodes in the first season of The Debt Collector serial. 

This dark and gritty future-noir is about a world where your life-worth is tabulated on the open market and going into debt risks a lot more than your credit rating. You can find out more about the series at the Debt Collector website and facebook page. The Debt Collector newsletter is a special list just for episode releases.

Early Praise
 “The street-smart science of LOOPER meets the cold, just-the-facts voice of DOUBLE INDEMNITY in this edgy, future-noir thriller that will have you holding your breath, looking over your shoulder, and begging for more.” —Leigh Talbert Moore, author of The Truth About Faking, The Truth About Letting Go, and Rouge
“Do you owe more than your life is worth? No worries. A more deserving person than you can benefit from that excess life—and someone else will get paid with it. Enter the Debt Collector.” —Dianne Salerni, author of We Hear the Dead, The Caged Graves, and The Eighth Day (HarperCollins 2014)
The first three episodes of Debt Collector will be released a week apart, starting Wednesday 3/20. The remaining episodes will release every two weeks. Delirium can be found on AmazonBarnes & NobleiTunes, KoboOr add it to your TBR on Goodreads.


Susan Kaye Quinn is the author of the bestselling YA SF Mindjack series. Debt Collector is her more grown-up SF. 

Her steampunk fantasy romance is temporarily on hold while she madly writes episodes to keep Lirium happy. Plus she needs to leave time to play on Facebook

Susan has a lot of degrees in engineering, which come in handy when dreaming up dangerous mind powers, future dystopias, and slightly plausible steampunk inventions. 

Mostly she sits around in her pajamas in awe that she gets make stuff up full-time.

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The series is so SO good. I promise you will love it.

In other news, I'll have that survey info for you next week. If you haven't filled it out yet, hop on over (link). And have a super week-end reader- and writer-friends~ <3

10 comments:

Jessica Bell said...

I already read it and posted a review. It's SOOOOOOO GOOOOOD!!!!!

Natalie Aguirre said...

Sounds fantastic. Thanks for sharing this.

Pat Hatt said...

Sounds like a great idea, doing a season serial.

Laurel Garver said...

Cool concept (both the book premise and the serial format)! I just tweeted about it.

Dawn Ius said...

I read Jessica's review and immediately added this book to my TBR pile. Love the concept!

M Pax said...

Congrats to Susan!

DL Hammons said...

LOOPER messed with my head. Is Susan going to mess with my head? :)

LTM said...

@Don--YES! She is. And you will love it. :D <3

Matthew MacNish said...

This series is the shizzle, my nizzle.

cleemckenzie said...

Another book to put on my list! Susan's a super writer.