Featured Interview With Kerry Gordon
Tell us a little about yourself. Where were you raised? Where do you live now?
I was born in Kingston, Jamaica, moved to Brooklyn, and then Queens, New York as a young child, then later moved to Central Florida with my family, where I still call home. I’m a freelance writer for Demand Media Studios with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and “Blind Sky” released in 2014 is my first book. I would like to travel more, as my destinations so far include Bonn and Cologne Germany, and Paris France. I enjoy tea, reruns of Sex and the City, all Marvel Comic book movies, yoga, and trying foods from different cultures.
At what age did you realize your fascination with books? When did you start writing?
I had a collection of R.L. Stine books, encyclopedia Britannica and read a lot of Daniel Steel’s book around the age of 10 years old.
I’ve been writing since I was little, jotting my thoughts or ideas in journals or notebooks, but I began writing professionally when I became a freelance writer for Demand Media Studios a few years ago and started writing my first book in 2012-2013.
Who are your favorite authors to read? What is your favorite genre to read. Who Inspires you in your writings?
I enjoy various types of books, genres and authors, and some of my recent favorite authors are Brad Thor, Nicholas Sparks, Sara Gruen, Stephanie Meyer, and David Baldacci.
Just about all the books and authors I have read have influenced me in some sort of way,, so I take away what I enjoy the most and make it into my own when I write for inspiration.
Tell us a little about your latest book?
“Blind Sky” is my first book and I was inspired to write it after watching a program on the History Channel discussing the Lost City of Atlantis. The Lost City of Atlantis is surrounded by centuries of myths, mysteries and stories of a highly advanced civilization that some say once existed, but suddenly disappeared and could possibly be underwater.
So the idea and concept of an advanced group of citizens living on earth but under secrecy was born, and as my ideas continued to develop, I knew I wanted this world of prestige, unimaginable power and advanced technology to collide with modern day society.
In the book, the main character Sky, enlists with Logue agency, one of the top agencies in Australia, and becomes one of their top assassins at 18 years old. And as the agencies only female promoted to the agencies classified missions, she can only rely on herself.
And on assignment to capture Lars, an enemy of Australian Government with an insatiable thirst for power, Sky embarks on a treacherous operation to befriend Galen who belongs to division 19, a division separate from all other divisions in Australia and one bounded by secrecy.
Unfortunately for Sky, Division 19 has unspeakable power and anyone threatening exposure is hunted, leading Sky on a high stake mission of life and death, with no room to fail, or it might be her last.
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