We are six days into NaNoWriMo 2015, and my novel is coming on quite well. I have written about nineteen thousand words in five chapters. However, ‘A Night in Annwn’ far from written. I suppose I am about thirty-five percent through it and looking for more inspiration.
This is the stage in writing a novel that scares me the most. The first third has been written, but at the expense of nearly all the ideas!
So, another wave of inspiration is called for, but will it come? I usually know how I want my stories to finish, but the middle bit, how to get from the opening to the ending is always a worry. It often reminds me of a game of chess. You can learn openings and you can study how to win the end game with a rook, or a knight and a bishop, but the middle game is down to your skill as a player.
On top of that, I need to read at least three chapters of Lek 6 a day in order to meet the deadline imposed by Kindle’s pre-order system and I would like to publish another collection of five of the Megan novelettes as they are doing well on Kindle Unlimited (is it?). That might have to wait though until Lek 6 is out of the way.
I changed the cover of ‘Fate Twister’ yesterday and made two sales within hours. The book has moved slowly in the past, but everyone who reads it praises it (see five-star review on Readers’ Favorites). Let’s hope that the cover change will be just what it needs.
It will work out well if it does, because I want to use the old Fate Twister cover for Annwn. Have any Welsh people here heard of Annwn, and if so in what context?
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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”.
