Welcome My Special Guest - Gordon A. Kessler

First, let me tell you a little about Gordon Kessler.

He is a former US Marine parachutist, recon scout, and Super Squad team leader, with a bachelor's degree in creative writing. He is a Master Instructor for Johnson County Community College, National Academy of Railroad Sciences, and the BNSF Railway. He has taught novel writing for Butler County Community College, English Composition for Hutchinson Junior College and has previously indie-published the thriller novels Jezebel and Dead Reckoning, and a book about the novel-writing craft, Novel Writing Made Simple. He is a founder and former president of the Kansas Writers Association and tries to stay connected to writers and the writing industry by doing speaking engagements at writers conferences and for writers organizations, and has dones his own "The Storyteller" seminar in Wichita, Lincoln (Nebraska), Kansas City, and other Midwestern cities based on his Novel Writing Made Simple book. His websites, http://www.writersmatrix.com/ and http://www.indiewritersalliance/ are landing pages for writers to help them in their writing endeavors.

Now, here's Gordon--


Thanks for allowing me to guest on Sexy Lady!

I thought I’d talk about Brainstorm’s “sexy lady”. Her name is Sunny McMaster, and she’s a gentle, athletic and intelligent woman, a mother of a young daughter and a devoted wife. But she’s thrown into an incredible situation, where she has to leave the mother/wife behind and fight to find and save her husband Daniel McMaster. It’s completely against her nature—a different world than she’s ever been exposed to.

She must join a military mission to save thousands of lives in order to find her long missing mate. She’s the key to the success of this super-secret action—without her, the mission will fail and her husband will be lost forever—actually, they’ll all me killed.

She has an old friend among the rescuers, Major “Jax” Jackson, who was also best man at her wedding and Daniel’s best friend. Jax must push her past her limits, physically and emotionally in order for success. Her endurance is tested at an incredible level, and she must put herself at risk in ways she’s never imagined.

But will she make it? Will she endure? When Jax gets the word that she’s been killed, he’s devastated. Will he be able to continue, even though Sunny is the only one who can save Daniel, and in turn, thousands of citizens in the small mountain town of Gold Rush?

Read Brainstorm and find out. The eBook is on sale during this blog tour for only $.99. Follow the links from my website, or go directly to Amazon.com or Smashwords.com to buy or sample.
http://www.amazon.com

You can view the new and really neat trailer at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eDjWJFbRdI

Thanks for the opportunity to talk about my thriller, Brainstorm. Please blog me your questions!

Great idea - Gordon is giving away, the winner's choice of a basic Kindle, Kobo, Sony Reader or Nook to one randomly drawn commenter.) The more times you leave a comment on his tour the better chance you have to win. The tour dates can be found here: http://goddessfishpromotions.blogspot.com/2011/06/virtual-book-tour-brainstorm-by-gordon.html

In Brainstorm, Gold Rush seems to be just another sleepy little Colorado community full of friendly, caring citizens, quaint cottages, and a sort of quiet peace, held gently by the picturesque mountains that surround it. However, something isn't right in Gold Rush, and early on a Monday morning Robert Weller awakens with a cautioning and insuppressible voice inside his head. He soon finds a secret behind every door, a motive with every glance, and a lie beneath every spoken word.


After meeting a strange but beautiful woman named Sunny who insists they were once lovers, people begin dropping dead around him and his world twists upside down as paramilitary teams hunt him, and his own wife and friends turn against him. Weller is thrown into the middle of a military mission to rescue thousands of the town's citizens from a plot to destroy the Free World.

Time is running out: Weller, Sunny and thousands of innocent citizens are facing nuclear devastation. Major “Jax” Jackson and a U.S. Air Force Para Rescue team are their only hope—but how can Jax and his PJs save them all, armed only with nonlethal weapons?

“...as exciting and fast-paced as a thrill ride on a dive bomber, a maelstrom of action, violence, murder and mayhem, way too much fun to put down...based on an actual black CIA program known as ‘Project Stargate. Kessler...really knows his stuff. An outstanding novel.”— Douglas Preston, bestselling author of The Codex, Relic and Book of the Dead and many more.

"...a wild ride into the reality of human consciousness...a kickass adventure story that will have you thrumming through the pages well into the night...handled with stunning effect."— James Rollins, bestselling author of Black Order, Sandstorm and Map of Bones as well as many others.


Excerpt:

“He left you behind to die, like he did several thousand other folks. You don’t have anything to fear from me. You probably passed my little group in the stairwell. We just want to get out of here, just like you.”


Again they eyed each other. This time one of them said, “I told you. I told you they were going to blow this place.”

“Shut up,” said one of the guards in the middle. I figured he must be in charge.

“Come on, Top,” the first guy said. “We don’t have much time.”

“All right,” the leader said. “But we’re going to kill this ass, first.” He raised his gun, and I felt like I’d run out of options. They all wore the copper-lined helmets—my psychic gift would be useless.

I yelled out to my zombies in a bottom-of-the-barrel attempt, “Get them.”

The few of my night-shirted morons that I could see standing on the other side of the stairwell doorway window stood motionless, but it bought me a second as “Top” glanced back toward my group of blanks.

His head cocked and he grinned. He turned back to me, his rifle barrel aimed at my chest.

* * *

Fast forward, Harvey says.

And I go into future mode.

The world is in slow motion. Although my thoughts shift to high gear, I cannot move faster than my adversaries. But I see their movements in advance and know when they will make them.

As the gunman squeezes the trigger, I lurch to one side. Two bullets exit the muzzle of his gun, spinning out with smoke and nitrate debris. My body edges to the side, feeling as cumbersome as a huge aircraft carrier, and the tiny missiles, like torpedoes in the water, come at me. The first will clearly miss. The second bullet becomes a tremendous concern, for I see its green tip and know that the leader’s weapon is loaded with armor-piercing rounds. Guessing what I now wore was likely the latest generation of armor, it still wouldn’t guarantee against penetration from a zippy little 5.56 X 45 mm round at close range, let alone armor piercing. Ten feet away, I twist my torso, a fast jerk in real time, a snail’s crawl in my fast-forward vision. And the projectile zips to me, my side twisting back mere centimeters to avoid it, and it strikes me. The bullet enters the body armor, and although the blood is yet to flow, the blazing pain yet to be felt, I know that it has found flesh.

Hoping it has not ruptured a vital organ, I continue the twisting into a spin, getting out of my assailant’s aim, then leaping toward the initial gunman.

The entire group begins to bring their guns to bear on me.

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Again here are some links for Gordon
http://www.readersmatrix.com/
http://www.writersmatrix.com/
http://www.indiewritersalliance.com/
http://www.facebook.com/gordon.kessler1


And remember to leave comments for your chance to win an ebook reader.

Thanks Gordon for stopping by, best of luck with your awesome book,

Anita