Getting Started

I am just getting started with this new blog and so beginning to learn how to set up this template. It is fairly new to me, but it seems straight forward..

Unfortunately, I do not have a lot of time to devote to this task at the moment as I want to publish two books before the end of July, which gives me four days – not long at all.

One will be the final book in the trilogy called ‘Behind The Smile – the Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya’ and the other is ‘Megan’s Thirteenth’ in the Megan Series, so I will be posting more about that later.

Sunday 28th July, Afternoon: I have spent the last hour adding a few plugins to my WP template and activating them. One was Facebook another Tweets old post (not that I have any yet) and another has added links to some of my books.

Back to proofreading Lek3, ‘Maya – Illusion’ – 18,000 words to go 🙂

SUNDAY evening: I have finished rereading ‘Maya – Illusion’ and am ready to publish on CreateSpace and Kindle!

This is always an exciting moment fot me. I love to see the books on line and them become available a few days later 🙂

I published on CreateSpace, but I had already done a lot of preparatory work last week. The cover and the blurb had already been written and the author bio was the same as before.

Then I did the same for Kindle, but Kindle reported errors using basically the same file that I had used for CS!

It seems that the conversion from OpenOffice to Word had created about 30 duplicate words! (Or that OpenOffice had not picked them up, but I doubt that very much!).

I may have to redo the CS edition. In fact, I had better be getting started on that right away, but Kindle is all right!

‘Megan’s Thirteenth’ is now available on Amazon, Lulu and Xinxii. 🙂

Getting Started? Get Help!

If you want help getting started with the publishing or the preparation of your files, please let me know.

Owen

PS: If you want help getting started on bringing your book out into the light, leave a message in a comment box – they are all regulated by me bore publication anyway.

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Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.

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2 Comments

  1. Hi, a nice start. I like the sketches and love the flashing Hello World on the ‘LATEST’line. My only suggestion so far, if you can have that on a different colour to stand out from the surrounding blue it might help.
    I hope this one allows you to add pages as you go along to cover blog hops, hosted blogs, interviews etc.
    Good Luck

  2. Hi David,

    Thanks for your comments 🙂

    I’m glad you pointed out the colour scheme.
    I changed it last night, but I must have forgotten to save it.
    I may find more options as I get into the template.
    This template does as allow me to add pages as you say and to feature some of them, but that is all in the future on the learning curve.

    All the best,
    Owen

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