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 …
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 ‘Behind The Smile’, at Smashwords for a short time, so if you were still unsure …
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 six or eight times now and it has become tiresome. Twelve hours on coaches is …
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 the second time that we have to go to Laos again for a new Thai …
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 …
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 the lines of ‘The School Trip’ or ‘The School Outing’. The cover drawing shown here …
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 in a small village in northern Thailand’s rice belt near Phichai. ‘Falang’ is a much-misunderstood …
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 on Kindle, which sells on Amazon, as a part of that company. All well and …
The Big City Today! I am being taken into the big city today for the first time that I can remember this year! That is not to say that I am senile or that I haven’t been to Phichai this year, it is just that it must be more than six months ago. We …
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 …
Bookshop at Megan Publishing I have just about finished implementing a bookshop on this site, so I hope that you like it, because I can honestly tell you that I found it hard-going! Anyway, it seems to be working now 🙂 Listings in the bookshop are paid-only, but I know what budgets can be …
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 …
The Megan Series The Megan Series was launched in June 2013 with the first novella in the series called ‘The Misconception’. It may seen an unusual title for a book about a young girl, but the name occurred to me when the phrase ‘You are no child of mine’, or something similar was used several …
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 …
