Blog Tour: KINETICS

KINETICS

Nathaniel Koszer

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GENRE:  SciFi

 

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BLURB:

 

After stoking rebellions across the globe, six super-powered LO-ECs dealt a massive blow to the military by disabling their worldwide communication tower. But in doing so, they suffered grave injuries, and Spidre, the world leader, will not let them rest. As he desperately clings to power, there is only one course of action for the LO-ECs: hide and heal, then finally bring the fight to Spidre’s front door.

 

Breaching Spidre’s force field will require splitting up and launching simultaneous surprise attacks all over the world. And in some of these places, the military is the least of the LO-ECs’ concerns. They’ll also face legions of robots controlled by an eccentric oligarch, guerilla outfits led by their own super-powered LO-ECs, and the ever-present threat of being discovered and bombed into dust by a world leader with nothing left to lose.

 

If their power is enough to survive all of this, the reward for the LO-ECs is a confrontation with Spidre at his compound, complete with all of the secrets and plans he has amassed for the last twenty years.

 

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Excerpt One:

 

“So how do you feel? And I need you to be honest with me,” Symon asked.

 

“No pain. Honestly. Not from the jaw, not from my arm and not from the ribs,” Nadine replied.

 

Symon sighed. “Okay, I believe you. You are cleared for takeoff,” he said with a smirk.

 

As soon as Symon uttered those words, Nadine took  to the air and screamed at the top of her lungs. She started doing laps above Heinz field, circling ever higher and farther outward.  From the second Nadine had learned to fly, every takeoff had been for a purpose: fighting Spidre’s peacekeeper soldiers, saving Edgar so she could confess her love, escaping an ambush, playing her part in bringing down the Net Tower and crippling the military’s communications. Add to that an additional six weeks of being grounded due to injuries from the net tower assault, and it all made this into a moment of complete ecstasy for her. She hoped to follow this celebratory flight with a celebratory fight, but when she looked south, where the peacekeepers had decided to attack today, she could see them in retreat at the hands of Edgar, Naren, and Victor. 

 

As much as she wanted to get involved, she knew that if they had it under control, then strategically speaking she was more useful waiting at Heinz field in case another attack came from somewhere else. Spidre’s army had tried this strategy many times while she was recovering, and on a few occasions they’d almost succeeded. So she descended back to the field, toward a lonely orange glow at the northeast corner. It was Sera. She was awake but lying down on a mattress with a bunch of pillows propping up her back.

 

“Glad to see you didn’t forget how to fly!” Sera joked as Nadine landed next to her.

 

Nadine chuckled. “I spent 26 years trying to get off the ground. You are all lucky I ever came back down.”

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Interview:

Where are you from? Tell us a little about yourself!

I am originally from Brooklyn, New York, but in 2020 my family and I moved to the Bronx (New York City locals know how big a deal that is). I have a wife, two kids, two cats, and a forty-gallon fish tank. Outside of novel writing, I work for City government and have an interesting job that most people don’t know exists (I help manage the City’s vehicles).

Tell us about your book? How did it get started?

My latest book, Kinetics, is a direct sequel to my first novel entitled Latency, which came out in March 2024. Both stories follow a group of six individuals, the LO-ECs, who are superpowered by biotechnology gone awry. They fight to overthrow a militaristic world government that considers them too dangerous to live.

In Latency, the six LO-ECs find each other and unite to start a worldwide rebellion. In Kinetics, the government they’re fighting resorts to drastic measures as they desperately cling to power, and force the LO-ECs to bring the fight to the world leader’s front door.

As for how it got started, I have always been obsessed with sci-fi, and more specifically with teams of superheroes like the X-Men or the Justice League. Over years of consuming sci-fi content, I noticed one or two ideas that were touched on by other media, but never explored deeply. Eventually I got tired of waiting for someone else to write those ideas and did it myself, and thus Latency was born.

How do you create your characters?

The six LO-ECs are characters I’ve had in my head since elementary school. I vividly remember sitting at my desk in second grade, not paying attention to the lesson, and instead imagining fights between my characters and their villains. Over the decades more and more details and backstory came to each of them, until I finally had so much characterization that I couldn’t help but to write them down.

What inspires and what got you started in writing?

Apart from what I’ve mentioned above, my emotional inspiration for writing usually comes from feelings of anger and anxiety. About 10 years ago, my life was in a little bit of a rough patch and there was anger and anxiety in spades. I had a lot of trouble sleeping and no place to channel all this extra energy borne of negative emotions. Since I already had all these story ideas bouncing around in my head for decades, I decided to channel that energy into something productive, and used my sleepless nights to create the first draft of Latency.

Where do you write? Is there something you need in order to write (music, drinks?)

With two kids and a full-time job, I write wherever I can fit it in to my schedule. Kinetics was mostly written on my 13-year-old, Gen 1 Microsoft Surface tablet as I commuted to work. 

Coffee is mandatory before and/or during a writing or editing sprint. When I’m writing, I often choose a specific band that matches the aesthetic or feeling of my book and listen to their music over and over. When I was in college and writing papers for class, my artist was Gwen Stefani. For Latency, I listened to the band Tool. In between Latency and Kinetics I wrote a NaNoWriMo project about a teenage girl that could turn invisible, and the music for that was Studio Ghibli soundtracks. Finally, for Kinetics, I listened to Linkin Park non-stop.

How do you get your ideas for writing?

Most of my ideas come from reading other sci-fi and fantasy and noticing story ideas that could have been explored but weren’t. For Latency and Kinetics, it was the idea of our own human body heat being used as energy to power our lives. For the invisible girl book I mentioned earlier, it was the realization that there are many stories and plot lines involving men turning invisible, but very few of women doing the same. I figured if no one else was going to let these story ideas play out, it might as well be me.

What do you like to read?

I honestly wish I read more. And when I say read, I mean listen to audiobooks because actual reading makes me fall asleep immediately. Typically, I will find popular sci-fi or fantasy eBooks available through the New York Public Library, and while I am on the waitlist for those I will listen to anything that is available right at that moment.

What would your advice to be for authors or aspiring in regards to writing?

I never in my life expected to be in my current position: A published author with their second book in a series on the way. Luck had a lot to do with how I got here, but at the same time simply sticking with it was a huge component too. Most people who start novels don’t finish them, and that could have easily been me too. The fact that I stuck to it and finished the first draft of a full novel put me in rare air, and in a place where the next step was possible. 

Persevere. Write when it’s hard to do so. Obviously take care of yourself and take breaks when they’re needed but finish that first draft. Even if you never get it published, you still did something most people can’t imagine doing (and they will tell you this repeatedly every single time your book comes up in conversation).

Anything else you’d like to share?

Drive safety and wear your seatbelt!

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Nate grew up in Brooklyn NY, but now calls the Bronx home along with his wife and their sons. Nate grew up on all things sci-fi. Partly due to his chronic illness, Nate always had a special place in his heart for the X-Men, and especially the invulnerable Wolverine. This was heavy inspiration for his first novel, Latency a superhero sci-fi story which released March 5, 2024. His second novel, Kinetics, will release on March 4, 2025.

 

Website: https://natekoszer.com/

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/natejklol.bsky.social

Twitter: https://twitter.com/natejklol

 

https://www.amazon.com/Kinetics-Nathaniel-Koszer-ebook/dp/B0DP3JWQZF/ref=sr_1_1

 

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