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.
Website Upgrades I started the link upgrades I have been talking about for the last few days, as regular readers will know, but after doing ten more last night, I began to think about the bigger problem of whether my sites with their nice new, all-dancing links will ever be seen. After all, Google has …
Love is All When I arrived at my local watering hole today, I was thinking of ‘Love is All’ as a title for my book, and the owner and her 70-odd year-old mother were sitting where I usually sit. It is a biggish table and will easily seat eight friends, six people who don’t know …
First Edition of Asian Shorts I am inordinately proud to announce that the first edition of ‘Asian Shorts’ will be available as from tomorrow, June 18th – Yay! On the negative side first, it is only 74.4% (see update below) of the length that I wanted it to be, but perhaps I was over-ambitious in …
I Couldn’t Help Myself There it is, I just couldn’t help myself! A very good friend of mine tried to slow down on his blogging earlier this month, and failed, and I said that I would take this month off from writing books, and I have failed too. You see, I published a novel in …
Writing for Pleasure and Profit If I don’t mention the temperature for a while, it’s because it is still in the forty-five to forty-seven range. I have slept nearly all day today because of it, and people assure me that I am not the only one the weather is affecting like that. Writing has become …
Just Another Manic Monday Weeks ago, a lot nearer New Year, Amazon’s two sprog firms, Kindle and CreateSpace wrote to me, by email, of course, that it was the time of the year that I had to renew my vows to the United States IRS. I have had an E.I.N, an Employer’s Identification Number, for …
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…’ manuals plus a book of my father’s automatic writings. However, I did feel that publishing …
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. I have put all ten of my books online in Megan’s Bookshop, but I have …
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 in the form of self-publishing on his own daunting and confusing. It seemed so straight-forward …
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 like celebrating my own. This has something to do with with not like being the …
How I Got Into Publishing Twelve years ago, I was the office manager of our family construction firm in South Wales. One day, my father came in, handed me a bag of papers, notebooks and drawings and said: ‘See what you can do with this lot.’ They were the automatic writings that had been …
I have finished the basic layout of the blog and worked out what I want it to contain in my head, now I ‘only’ have to make that a reality. Now I wanted some contextual advertising. Yesterday I made a big mistake trying to get ahead of myself. I created a dozen or so pages …
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 …
