Welcome to another exciting edition of Weekend Writing Warriors. Well, I was supposed to start on the promo for my release coming up in January, but then I realized I was ONE snippet away from finishing Chapter 2 of From Mars, With Love. I know, it seems like we should be much farther along, but at ten sentences a pop, it takes a while.
Last week Eli finally found out he’s not being returned to Earth by his rescuers, but dumped at the unwelcoming outpost on Mars, which was definitely not on his to-visit list.
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The man in black still stood there, pausing as if mildly interested in Eli’s plight. He shrugged and nearly smiled.
“Good luck with that,” he said, and sauntered past. Eli stared after him, taking deep breaths and calming himself before he said something unfortunate to the well-armed marine.
“Who is that, anyway?” he asked her.
“You never saw him,” she said, looking at Eli with a stern, don’t-mess-with-me expression. “I mean it, you never saw him, ’cause if you did, you might require a memory sweep, got it?”
“Never saw who?” Never saw him. As if Eli could ever erase the memory of those luminous blue-eyes.
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How is it I’ve managed to overlook this motherlode of hunky space guys with guns? SG-Universe – my kind of show.
From Mars, With Love follows the adventures of Eli and his pal Rilke, two down-and-out scavengers from earth as they’re abducted by slavers, arrested by space marines, and dumped on an unwelcoming outpost on Mars. Eli’s troubles are only beginning when he finds out the ring his mother gave him contains the life force of a powerful but dormant alien and the mysterious man he has a huge crush on happens to be an alien artifact smuggler. Eli’s just trying to make it on Mars, but can he survive the dangerous political intrigue swirling around him? This erotic space opera is a work-in-progress. Stay tuned to this blog for ongoing excerpts and updates.
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this sounds like an interesting story!
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I knew it! This guy is definitely some kind of secret-agent type. Unfortunately, that means Eli might have trouble tracking him down.
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I LOVE it! and of course Eli isn’t really going to forget this fascinating person LOL. Excellent excerpt.
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Eli never forgets or forgives. I love this story, Alexis
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I LOVE the character you’ve created in the man in black. I want more of him:D
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He’ll never forget, even if he has to publicly pretend otherwise!
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Mildly interested and almost smiling; he’s a demonstrative man in black, isn’t he? 😉 That last line–nice.
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Ooh, I like the way this snippet ends.
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Ooh, I like where this is going. Nice work!
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Ooh, sultry and sassy and frightening all at once. Excellent snippet! 🙂
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