‘Ramblings’ is a category used on our blog Megan Publishing Services http://meganthemisconception.com to identify posts relating to random thoughts.
‘Ramblings’ is a tag used on our blog Megan Publishing Services http://meganthemisconception.com to identify posts relating to the ramblings of Welsh writer Owen Jones.
Luxury If buying books is a luxury, which it probably is, then the USA is doing far better than the UK, no matter what Cameron says. For the last six months, Americans have been buying more of my books every month and Brits fewer. Now, in June 2015, American sales of my books are at …
Death Isn’t it strange how a lot of old people become sick, sometimes for a long time and then suddenly start to mend quite dramatically, only to die a week or two later? It’s as if all their energy is thrown into that last short period of life on Earth. Perhaps it’s so that they …
Site Upgrades I’m fully aware that this talk about site upgrades and link updates might be really boring to many of you, but the topic is taking up so much of my time these days that I am not getting many other experiences. Imagine having to do this all the time so that the only …
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 …
Link Upgrades I started my link upgrades last night, but I’ll come back to that later. Two other things happened as well: I closed my Aweber account and I got kicked out of a writers’ group. The first is an autoresponder for sending out messages at regular intervals, say to a list of people who …
Mental Cruelty I have turned my attention away from ‘Asian Shorts’ temporarily, because it is ‘out there’ already and my novel isn’t. Not only that but 2,000-odd links on my websites will stop working on July 15th. thanks to Amazon and that would be a catastrophe. I have to start tackling that problem tomorrow. Mental …
Overplaying One’s Hand I love to see an arrogant man or woman overplaying their hand and wondering stunned how it happened that they lost. I watched it unfold today. A contributor to ‘Asian Shorts’ decided he had me over a barrel because he has access to staff at Asia Books. He said he’d try to …
Our Village Yesterday I went on a pub crawl around our village. It is my romanticised way of saying that I walked around the village and had three pints in various shops. That’s all right, it gives me a connection with my past. Anyway, the last but one ‘pub’ (shop), was near the house and …
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 …
My Latest Story I have finished my latest story, except that the ending that worked the best for me was ‘happy but tearful’, let’s put it that way until you’ve read it. Then feel free to send me your opinion and we can discuss it. This, my latest story made me cry anyway, but not …
The Final Chapter I am finally on the final chapter of that book I told you I was starting, which is why I haven’t posted for a long time. The story flowed easily from my subconscious, or wherever, to my finger tips and thence to my hard drive. I had predicted to myself that it …
Storm Not Monsoon Yesterday, late afternoon, black clouds could be seen on the horizon, then a wind appeared from nowhere and suddenly the clouds were overhead emptying their contents all over us. When I say suddenly, I mean, I knew what was going to happen, but I didn’t have time to finish my half a …
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 …
Sad Times Despite all the modern methods of near-instantaneous communication, we only heard today that a good friend of ours died a week ago. So, these are sad times for his wife, family, both European and Thai, and his friends – he was Finnish, married to a woman from our village. In fact, he was …
Being a Foreign Man in Thailand. In general, Thai people are gentle and peaceable, but they do know that they are poor compared to the West and they are very quick to notice if someone is even only apparently putting them down. They do have their pride, after all, and rightly so. Sometimes, a …
Sudden Downfall I had a bad experience last night, I was walking back from the shop (pub) up the lane behind my house as I have done 1,000’s of times in the last 10 yrs, but the street lamp was bust. I was a foot behind the missus as she was talking to me, when …
Aching Joints I don’t know whether I drink too much. Sometimes, I suppose, but I probably drink more than most people and more than doctors would recommend. I usually have about four beers a day in the early evening. Anyway, now that I am older, I have noticed that I get aching joints, if I …
Lickay – Thai Pantomime Lickay tonight, but more about that later. The weather first as according to tradition. Well, it’s so hot today that it is unpleasant to go to the toilet because the water coming out of the bidet is almost boiling! It’s forty-seven outside, but probably more in, if it were not for …
