Newsletter: Blog Tour Announcement

In which Karl both stands and tours

Lost Solace Blog Tour

I haven’t taken part in a blog tour for years, but that is about to change! On 29th March, Lost Solace will be touring at the sites in the image above. Each day the host will release new reviews or articles about my book. You can visit each site or their social media accounts to see what they say; to comment, share, interact, add your opinion, and take part as much as you like. For my part, I hope it will inspire people to try the book, and then hopefully enjoy the full series! The bloggers are under no obligation to like any of the books on a tour, so it will be interesting to see what they think of my work!

Here are clickable links to each stop, so you can follow along each day:

Fri 29th March

• ramblingmads.com

• eBook Addicts

• Westveil Publishing

Sat 30th March

• Sharon Beyond The Books

• Lecari's Livejournal v2.0

• Teatime and Books

Sun 31st March

• So Many Books, So Little Time

• My Reading Getaway

• b for bookreview

Mon 1st April

• Splashes Into Books

• Bound4Escape

• Bookshortie

Tue 2nd April

• Reviewsfeed

• Becca’s Book Reviews

• Romance that's 'Out of This world'

Wed 3rd April

• Scintilla

• What Rebecca's Read

• @_lozzieloves

Thu 4th April

• Bookworm86

• Colin Garrow

• mjporterauthor.blog

I hope you will join me!

To stay in the sci-fi mood, here is a video of me in the Lost Solace universe wearing my upgraded Author Armour:

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Personal News

In brief!

• Dolly is doing quite well at the moment. Her blood sugar levels seem to have gone down slightly and she has put on a bit of weight for the first time in months (now 2.8kg; her normal weight would have been 3.8kg). She is enjoying a few things in life at the moment, particularly: being brushed (she lies on her side when she wants “grooming time”!); her breakfast; and going to bed early.

  

• Last Saturday I ran a workshop: “Publishing: A Super-brief Introduction.” It was good fun and the feedback from attendees made me glow. This was the session blurb: “Overwhelmed by the daunting publishing process? Join author Karl Drinkwater as he leads an engaging introduction to different publishing options, encouraging you to think about how you would get a manuscript published.” My next book will be all about this!

  

• It has been confirmed that I will be standing as a Green Party MP candidate in the next general election. You can find out more here. I increasingly feel that voting red or blue in the UK (or even US) is increasingly the same thing, and our only hope of positive change is to vote for other options, particularly those that won’t support genocide or persecute journalists.

Thanks for reading,

Karl