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 contains useful information on publishing, or self-publishing or indie-publishing. If the task is too daunting for you or you just want to hand it over to someone else to do for you, then I’m your man. I have published 300 books so far in 18 months.
Conventions Sometimes, it seems that our lives are full of conventions. There are all sorts of them: social conventions; Star Trek Conventions; Conventions of Witches (and even witches’ conventions, I dare say); Writers’ Conventions; and writing conventions, which is what…
Every writer knows how difficult it is to get into the groove after a hard day, which is one of the reasons why all pre-war writers were toffs. For centuries... because they were the only ones who could read and write and had the time to do it.
Website Hosting 5 If you want to find the previous articles on website hosting, you need to look back from here to about October 2015, but they will not be numbered. This is the dismal story of a search for…
Free Wi-Fi Internet Access I live in Northern Thailand; many of you know that already and I would like to tell you something about it, and hopefully shame my own country, if not yours. When you hear the word ‘Thailand’,…
Website Host – Update A few months ago, I wrote a post here about choosing one’s website host with care, because it’s like a bank. The longer you have been there, the more accounts, direct debits, standing orders etc you…
2016 – Book Sales Well, Happy 2016, I really do hope that you are well and also that you are doing better than I am so far this year. I realise that we are only three days into 2016, but…
How Many People Profit From A Book? I was thinking about how many people profit from a book yesterday and it was quite a revelation, and I am not even sure that I came up with the full list, so…
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…
Publishing I am having quite a time of publishing at the moment. Yesterday, I published the 112,000-word fifth sequel to Behind The Smile, called The Dream and today I published the second in the Megan Compilation Series of five 11,000-word…
Village Life This is becoming monotonous, sorry. It’s been a week now… up and down more often than knickers in a city’s public toilets. I’m sick to death of the crappy Internet ‘Service’ in this village. I don’t want to…
No Internet Connection I really want to apologise to all the people I work with on the Internet for letting them down so often this week, but my Internet connection has been shockingly bad. One bad day is unusual, but…
NaNoWriMo 2015 Are you aware of NaNoWriMo 2015? I imagine that if you are not a writer then you are probably not. However, NaNoWriMo 2015 is very important to the world at large and to many, about twenty-five thousand people…
Choose Your Web Site Host Carefully I have had many hosts for my web sites since the first one I made for our old construction firm in 1995, which I hosted on the now long-defunct Geocities, because it had an…
Writing My Books Regular readers will know what I’m like by now – if I’m not writing my books or talking to you like this, I’m reorganizing my files or trying to improve them, but writing my books has to…
New Books I’m going to blow my own trumpet in this blog post (for a change) and tell you about the twenty-two new books I have spent the last two days uploading to Lulu and Kobo. I have had pretty…
Virtual Assistants I’m not really sure why they are called virtual assistants or VA’s because there is nothing virtual about them. They are real people who provide a really helpful service, although often from a great distance. If you have…
Amazon Prime I am going to do something I’ve never done before: recommend a product. You’ve all heard of Amazon, I mean, who hasn’t, but they have a newish experience called Amazon Prime, which I have the logo of before,…
Pitching A Book I’ve just been pitching my book to a literary agent, like I’ve been talking about for a while, so I’m full of hope that this will be a big turning point in my career as a writer.…