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Great news! The first book in the Salar series will be published by Loose ID!!! More details to follow soon. I’ve been posting excerpts from the third in the series, Curse of Salar, which is my current WIP. In celebration of an actual publishing contract, this weekend I’ll post from Touch.
Touch of Salar
The sun pierced a crevice in the mountains and M’lan raised a hand to shield his eyes. He stood on a desert battlefield littered with the wounded, the dying and the dead. He let the blood-smeared sword in his other hand drop. Dawn cut across the broken earth in a fiery lance, the anger of the god Salar exposing man’s cruelty in shocking, vivid detail. Blood everywhere, limbs hacked, horses screaming. Hundreds of cold sightless eyes, all turning toward him. M’lan stepped forward and tripped over a body at his feet. He fell, not onto a rock-strewn desert, but marble steps.
About Touch of Salar
Touch of Salar is a high fantasy, m/m erotic romance. In the kingdom of Rakkan, in a culture ruled by gods, temples and magic, a young monk with the ability to channel the healing powers of the god Salar falls in love with a wounded warrior he knows only as The Major. Relations between the classes are forbidden, and things become even more complicated when the monk discovers that the man he is obsessed with is a king’s assassin. If M’lan is found out, he will be put to death, possibly by the Major himself.
Alexis Duran 
Oh what a gruesome sight! Great details and that must have been some battle!
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Vivid description of battle. Well done and big congratulations on your contract with Loose ID!
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Remarkable scene ending with waking from a dream? Puzzled reader here admiring and wondering.
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Great detail! Maybe one snippet about the smell? I imagine it stinks!
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Congratulations on the sale to Loose Id! A very grim excerpt here today but very well written. Great 8!
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Congratulations on the sale! Breathtaking description in this excerpt.
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Great description of a battlefield at dawn. I especially like the way the sun reveals the gory scene. Congratulations on the contract!
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Wonderfully described scene! It’s no doubt you landed a contract with quality writing like this. Congratulations to you!! 🙂
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Nice, strong imagery there. Nice job!
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Congrats on the Loose ID contact! You’re writing is so descriptive!
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Great snippet. You put me there, into the scene, surrounded by death and destruction. Well done. And a cool concept.
Congratulations on the sale! I have also just sold a book to Loose Id and am very excited;).
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Yeah for us!!
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Thanks for the congrats, everyone! I’m so excited. Your comments have really helped me.
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Vivid description that makes me cringe while reading. Not in a bad way, but because war is carnage.
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Oh, yay! Congratulations!!! So happy for you and happy we get to read this soon!
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Wow, such vivid description, got the image and feel of the place right away 🙂
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