Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!
Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!
This section covers posts that in general do not fit into other sections easily. They will mostly be made by admin on whatever I am adding at that moment, which is usually something to do with writing, publishing, websites, eating or Thailand, which is where I live :-)
Massage North-Thailand Style I treated myself to a massage today. The woman who does it teaches massage at Sukhothai University and is not your average twenty-five-year-old masseuse. She is twice that age, and practices massage north-Thailand style. For those of…
Book Give-Aways I have always been suspicious that book give-aways are counter-productive, but I am open to learning that I am wrong, so I have decided to conduct an experiment. To that end, I have added a page to this,…
Google Accounts I don’t know whether you think Google is great or garbage, but I tend towards the latter for several reasons. The first was when they called me a liar four years ago and closed my Adsense account costing…
Wat Party Last night, we went to a party at the village Buddhist Temple, which is called a Wat in Thai. My wife and many others had been helping the holder of the party prepare for it for three days.…
The Holiday Season I am not talking about what some people in America and Britain erroneously call the holiday season, because that is Christmas and New Year, and I am sure that no-one who in not a Christian minds us…
Pyramids Around the World I have always been interested in pyramids – ever since I was a boy. The interest has always been there, but often other things have gotten in the way. I’m sure you know what I mean.…
Internet Marketing It has become a maxim in Internet marketing, that in order to promote an item successfully, you have to present your goods to a targeted readership at least seven times. It seems that Interest marketing research has revealed…
Free Books I know that a lot of authors visit this blog, and I know that many of them offer their books free of charge from time to time. Therefore, I am going to set up a page where authors…
Internet Access I don’t know what Internet access is like where you live, or even where you live, but I come from the UK and live in northern Thailand. Internet access has come on in leaps and bounds since I…
Advertising on Megan I have been receiving an increasing number of requests from visitors to my blog about advertising opportunities. At first, I thought it odd because there are pages on there about advertising on Megan. So, I went to…
The Colour of Leaves There are many styles of writing and just as many types of readers who have stylistic preferences. I can be argued that the most successful writers match the most common preferences and one of these I…
Openness I don’t know what you think about being open to others, and here I mean strangers as well, but openness of this kind is my natural reaction, much to the distress of my wife, who is Thai. Thais belong…
Twitter Feeds I have three Twitter feeds ranking in age as @owen-author, @lekwilliams and @Megan_and_Grrr. They were always meant to be kept separate. One was for me, one for Lek from the Behind The Smile series, and one for Megan…
South Africa Killings As I was looking through my Facebook timeline yesterday, just before the Internet failed me for the umpteenth time since Friday. I noticed a post from a friend of mine, and it had been very well received,…
Near-Death Experiences Near-death experiences, or NDE’s, are phenomena that are recognized by science and religion alike and can be viewed from three standpoints: psychological, physiological and transcendental according to the entry on Wikipedia. The article also goes on to mention…
Near-Death Experience What happened last night was almost like deja-vu. I’ll tell you why, but first I want to remind you computer buffs of the ‘Blue Screen of Death’. Do you remember those? I have had a few over the…
Cock Fighting Yesterday evening, while I was enjoying my usual pint in the corner shop that I euphemistically call ‘The Pub’ and which readers of Behind The Smile will know as Nong’s, a youth carried two chickens onto the plot…
Validation of Files If ‘publishing’ was my word of the day yesterday, today’s is ‘validation’. As you might remember from my post yesterday, I was publishing my websites on a new host. Well, to be absolutely truthful, the host was…