Book Reviews
Book Reviews I write books and buy books and, needless to say, I read books too. However, at the age of 60 , I can honestly say that I have never read a review that had influenced my decision whether…
Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!
Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!
Book Reviews I write books and buy books and, needless to say, I read books too. However, at the age of 60 , I can honestly say that I have never read a review that had influenced my decision whether…
Tiger Lily of Bangkok ‘Tiger Lily of Bangkok’ is my entry into the NaNoWriMo 2013 challenge. The challenge is to write a book of 50,000 words during the month of November. This is the diary of my MaNoWriMo 2013 experience.…
NaNoWriMo Challenge 2013 Hi, I have entered into the NaNoWriMo 2013 challenge. This is my first time. For those of you who don’t know what NaNoWriMo stands for, it is National Novel Writing Month. It has been going for about twelve…
Differences in Interracial Customs This article highlights how cultural differences can easily cause difficult problems between people from two different countries that have different customs. Such small differences in two races’ different cultures can betray important differences in background that can…
Geo-Targetting It seems that everything on the Internet is geo-targetted these days. Just in case you are not sure what I am talking about, I mean that advertisers (and others) first check where your Internet Service Provider (ISP) is located…
So You Want To Access My Email Inbox? You see people on line, guru types, giving advice on how to get into surfers’ email inboxes all the time, so first we’ll just be certain what they are talking about or…
Standing Out From The Crowd For centuries, it did not require much more education than ‘average’ to stand out head and shoulders above the ‘average guy’, because the ‘average guy’ had no education at all. Standing out from the crowd…
Happy Days! Hi, Happy days are here again… Two good things happened to me yesterday, as opposed to the shed-load of bad things that I am getting used to these days. No 1: I had a lovely email from a…
My Experience As A Writer My first novel as a ‘real writer’ was called ‘Behind The Smile’, but it was not my first experience in self-publishing, since I had already created over 150 web sites and a hundred-odd ‘How To…’…
Megan’s Bookshop Hi, Owen Jones here, I hope that you are well. I have started a bookshop, called Megan’s Bookshop, selling my own books. The books will be downloaded directly from me and payment will be guaranteed save through PayPal.…
Authorship and Self-Publishing I have written and self-published more than a hundred books, so it came as quite a surprise to me the other day when a good friend and author of four excellent books told me that he found authorship…
Behind The Smile: Daddy’s Hobby Half-Price Owen here, I hope that you are doing well. I have great news for you – Daddy’s Hobby Half-Price ! I have lowered the price of ‘Daddy’s Hobby’, the first in the series of…
Laos for a Thai Visa On Wednesday this week, my wife and I had to make our quarterly journey to Laos for a Thai visa. We both hope that it will be our last, because, well, we’ve made the trip…
Laos Again for a New Thai Visa The people buying my house back home have let me down more times and in more ways than they realise in the five months since they promised to buy it. This will be…
My Birthday – August 14th It was my birthday yesterday on August the 14th. I am a birthday person in that I love to celebrate other people’s birthdays more than Cristmas and certainly more than new year, but I don’t…
Megan3 – The School Trip August 11th Today I started writing up the novella in the Megan Series for this month, August 2013. It’s working title is Megan3, but I already have the basis for the real title, something along…
Falang Where I Live in Thailand There are two things that I will need to explain about that title to most people reading this article. First is that ‘falang’ means Caucasian in Thai and second is that I live…
Controlling The Price of Your Books So, you have written your ebook and done some research into pricing and you have determined what you want to sell your book for, let’s say that that is $4.99 Then you publish it…