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David J. Salisbury

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in Albany, NY, The United States

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Stephen King, George Orwell, Alexandre Dumas, Fyodor Dostoevsky

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David J. Salisbury enjoyed reading from a young age. He always enjoyed writing and even took a creative writing class in high school, where his writing days ended as far as he knew. He went to a two-year college in upstate New York on a general engineering curriculum designed as a steppingstone into a four-year school but changed curriculums after spending a year working with engineers.
In his twenties and thirties, he wrote a series of extremely short stories in his spare time, with his brother as the only intended reader. Both David and his brother enjoyed the stories, but somewhere along the way, they were all lost.
At 42 years old, David started writing another short story, again, only intended for his brother to read. That first page ...more

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	Origin & Earth (The Orris Project Book 1) 4.31 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Renegades (The Orris Project, #2) 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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A New Year - New Books

I have a pretty good record of finishing books and a really terrible record of getting them published when I say I will. I published in '21, '22 and '23 and not again since. That said, I have two complete novels to publish in '26 and my goal this year is to also publish a third, which I am about halfway done writing now.

The Katya Disaster - Is the third installment of my series The Orris Project, Read more of this blog post »

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