Bookish News
My Kickstarter is now funded! Many thanks to those who have supported or shared it. The funds will allow me to create hardbacks of all five Lost Solace novels. If you haven’t had a look at the things on offer, please check it out and share it if you know anyone who uses Kickstarter, or likes good books. Ten days still to go, so plenty of opportunity to join in.
Review Revival
This time, a review of the Lost Solace books. This was sent to my personal email by “Dx”. :-)
“I couldn’t help binge-reading the Lost Solace novels and all the associated Lost Tales. Together they create a huge, intricate and involving universe. Like a massive oil-painting by a master, it’s the humanity of the engaging central characters that first draws you in and keeps you coming back for more. Then on closer inspection you see how much care and attention has also gone into every detail of the background. And there’s an emotional roller-coaster of a story-line too! I’m already looking forward to the next in the series.”
You can buy the ebooks from me, any online store, or even my Kickstarter. Paperbacks should be available to order in any bookshop, or direct.
As an aside, if you like the idea of leaving reviews, there are specific book review sites like Goodreads where you can rate or review, mark books as read, and (what I do a lot!) add books to your wishlist. So if I do a second-hand book order online I always go through my Goodreads wishlist to remind myself of what other books I wanted. Even better, you don’t have to use your real name for an account. It can be letters, a nickname, fake name, a blog name, whatever, so it lets reviewers be anonymous if they want.
Personal News From The Realm Of Drinky
Backups are important. I back up my PC regularly, onto 2TB backup drives. I keep one off-site (so even with a house fire, my most recent backup would be safe) and the older one in the house, ready for my next regular backup. After doing one, I swap the drives over.
Yesterday I realised I now back up so much data that it doesn’t all fit onto a single backup drive any more! I can’t afford larger capacity ones at present so will switch to putting half the data on each drive, and keeping them both off-site between backups. It’s a bit clunkier, but storage isn’t cheap, especially when you get to the large capacities. I raise this to ask you the important question: have you got a system in place in case your computer grinds to a silicon death? I hope the answer is yes …
I’m teaching creative writing classes tonight and tomorrow. I have decided on a theme, which will involve looking at faces and describing the expression, and what is going on inside the character’s head.
As ever, you can find my more political and philosophical musings on my other newsletter.
I hope June brings you gentle sunshine,
Karl