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Interview with Herro Raymond, author of Kinetic: The First Alliance

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Tell us about Kinetic: The First Alliance

Kinetic focuses around five youths that are born with amazing kinetic abilities due to an intergalactic war that is being waged light years away. The story mainly follows Alexander Carter, an adolescent from Houston, Texas. Alex is just an average teenager trying to make it through high school when life takes a turn for the fantastic and the bizarre. One night, he finds an alien named Shyra in his bedroom. She tells him that Earth is threatened by the Zenakuu, a planet originally known for traveling to other planets to mine resources. Unfortunately the Zenakuu traveled to an uncharted planet and began to drill. They unknowingly unearth a visceral species of insect-like parasites that can consume whole civilizations in mere days. In order to save the galaxy from this threat the captain of the ship initiated the self destruct which would systematically blow up the entire planet. He succeeds in doing so, but chunks of the planet are sent hurling back towards their home world. Once there, the monstrous insects go to work eating everyone and everything in sight. The planet sends out a distress call to their sister planet Kalryn, but after weighing out the danger, they decide not to help.

Years after Zenakuu was presumed dead from receiving no aid, they attack and invade their sister planet Kalryn. By the skin of their teeth the Kalrynians are able to fend them off, but the Zenakuu swear they will have their revenge, each time invading other planets, and bringing their newly enslaved races to join the fray.

Finally, Kalryn had enough, and the council decides to recruit other worlds to help fight as well. They send a guide to Earth to unlock and train teenagers to use kinetic energy such as Pyro, Electro, Aero, Hydro, and Geo kinesis. Now Zenakuu has their sights set on Earth, Shyra tells Alex that she has come to train gifted individuals, known as Kinetics also known as ESPers (people with extrasensory perception), to guard the Earth from the Zenakuu threat. He and a handful of teens are the planet’s last hope of survival. She takes Alex to her ship, where he trains to be one of the few elite superheroes with the power to fight the aliens who have come to Earth fully intending to win a brutal intergalactic war.

The story is about the ongoing war between the two planets and the teenagers who have been torn away from their families to help fight a battle they originally had nothing to do with. The fate of humanity, and the galaxy, is now in Alex’s hands, and he has no idea what he’s gotten himself into.

Oh wow, what genre is it?
The book is a young adult/ sci-fi novel with heavy aspects of action, drama, and romance. Basically it has a little something for everyone.

Complete this sentence for us: If you like____________, you’ll love Kinetic: The First Alliance.
If you liked the Avengers movie and Avatar: The Last Airbender (series, not movie) you will probably love my book.

What are you most proud of with this book?
I would say I am most proud of the amount of time and research I’ve put into it. I didn’t rush the story at all, if that makes sense. I originally came up with the concept in 2004, and I’m only releasing it now in 2012 so, needless to say, I waited until I thought the story was strong enough to stand on its own. I also spent countless hours making sure the science-fiction aspect of it could be viewed as “Science-fact.” Everything in the book is plausible as long as you believe Aliens really do exist somewhere out there.

Which of these marketing tools have you found most effective – Twitter, Facebook or Amazon reader reviews?
Facebook ( www.facebook.com/KineticAlliance ) and Twitter (@AllianceKinetic) are nice if you have supportive friends and family but I truly love and appreciate the customer reviews I get. Whether they be good or bad I take them into consideration, and with the help of our fans we will make the next book in the series even stronger.

“We”? Tell us about yourselves.
Gregory “Herro” Raymond grew up in New Jersey until graduating from high school. After that, he lived in Florida for four years where he attended college, earning a degree in graphic design and fine arts. He then came up with the concept for “Kinetic,” in 2003, where it went by a different name.

Though falling on hard times financially he spent the next several years picking himself back up, and building the story of “Kinetic.” Upon completing college he moved back to New Jersey to be around friends and family. There he landed a job in optometry and selling cars to make ends meet. That is where he first met Laz Matech. The two became good friends, and together revamped “Kinetic,” into the powerhouse, nail-biting novel it is today.

Laz Matech has lived his life in New Jersey, mostly in a small town known as South River. He always found writing interesting but not the reading side of literature as much. He attended a Vocational and Technical school for High School where he studied carpentry and cabinet making. After High School he decided not to attend college, or pursue his talents in the carpentry field, but kept busy with several part-time jobs before getting into the car industry where he sold vehicles alongside Gregory “Herro” Raymond. The two spent the next two years rigorously coming together to co-write the action-pack romance, Kinetic.

Where can we buy your book?
On Amazon ( US , UK ) and Barnes and Noble .

What’s next?
Book 2 is on the way as soon as we’re done promoting for book one, so keep your eyes peeled for our next installment of the Kinetic series.

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