Jessie’s first career was as a software engineer and still wonders how she became an author given how different creatives tend to be from the logical engineer type. The queen tries to save her people but things spiral out of control.

The novels of the “Rogue Queen” series are romantic science fiction works set in a universe where the land is devastated leaving people starving. She had already announced a novel in the works and since it takes up to two years for work to get published, she wanted something to keep them hooked. Her debut work “The Queen’s Gambit” first ran as a serial on her blog as she wanted to give her audience something while they waited for “Polaris Rising” to get published. She would later become friends with Gordon and Ilona who make up Ilona Andrews, even though she loved their works long before that. However, her biggest influence was Ilona Andrews and the novel “Magic Bites” is one of the first that she read that made her want to become an author. A lot of the classics she read during this time included the likes of “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy,” “The Dragonriders of Pern,” “Dune,” and anything she could find by Tolkien. Some of her earliest memories are checking out the huge stacks of books at her local library. Jessie Mihalik has always been a voracious reader and cannot remember a time when she was not reading. When she is not writing her novels, she can be found reading books she gets from her shelves, trying out the newest board games or playing coop video games. Even though she loves geeky things, she is now a professional author and pens her novels full time. While she now considers herself an author, she started as a software developer having graduated from college with a bachelor’s in Computer Science.

“Polaris Rising” novel her debut novel was published in 2019 and became a bestselling title and the breakthrough she needed as an author. She published her debut work “The Queen’s Gambit,” the first of the “Rogue Queen” series of novels in 2018. Jessie Mihalik is a romantic science fiction and urban fantasy author that is best known for the “Consortium Rebellion” and “Rogue Queen” series of novels.

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