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An Otherworldly Journey

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An Otherworldly Journey into Annwn — *An Otherworldly Journey*

The Strange Story of Old Willy Jones’ Near-death Experience

If you are looking for a book that takes you on an otherworldly journey, then A Night in Annwn by Welsh author Owen Jones might just be what you need. This modern fairy tale is part of the Annwn- Heaven series. It tells the story of the Jones family in Brecon. The mother of the family, Sarah, has already travelled to the Welsh Otherworld of Annwn. In other words, she has passed away.

Annwn-Heaven

Annwn is often associated with Heaven in Welsh mythology, and so it is in this book. Jones has created a mystical and enchanting world that is both imaginative and spellbinding. The story begins in earnest when William, Sarah’s husband suffers a Near-death Experience, and thinks that his nurse looks a lot like his dearly departed wife.

As William realises that he is in Annwn, he begins to encounter a host of otherworldly experiences and landscapes. These are sure to capture the reader’s imagination. From variable scenery to fantastical methods of transport, William’s journey is both wonderous and awesome.

Otherworldly Journey

However, things are not always as they seem in Annwn. William soon discovers that he should take nothing at face value, although Sarah assures him that nothing can harm him in Annwn. Along the way, he faces many challenges and strange experiences. Ultimately, it is his bravery and trust in his wife that save the day.

What makes A Night in Annwn so captivating is Jones’ skill in creating a world that feels both familiar and otherworldly at the same time. The book overflows with vivid descriptions of Annwn and its inhabitants. These make it easy for the reader to imagine themselves in William’s shoes.

At its heart, A Night in Annwn is a tale of courage and self-discovery. William’s otherworldly journey to Annwn forces him to confront his deepest fears and desires. Nevertheless, it is through this journey that he comes to understand his own true self and power.

Mystical and Enchanting

Overall, A Night in Annwn is a book that will appeal to anyone who loves mystical and enchanting stories. Jones’ writing is engaging and immersive, and the book is sure to leave readers feeling spellbound. Whether you are a fan of the paranormal or simply looking for a captivating read, A Night in Annwn is a book that is not to be missed.

The same is equally true of the dreamlike sequel Life in Annwn. In it, William finally takes the same otherworldly journey again to join Sarah full-time.

A Night in Annwn – International

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A Night in Annwn

and its sequels

Life in Annwn and Leaving Annwn

Owen Jones

translated by professionals

In short, A Night in Annwn – International is about the Annwn Series, which relates the story of Welsh sheep farmer Willy Jones’ last few weeks on Earth, or on The Surface as he later comes to call it; his subsequent life in Annwn, which is ancient Welsh for Heaven, but it was underground; and his decision to be reborn in order to help mankind.

In A Night in Annwn, Willy Jones is missing his deceased wife and has let himself go, much to the dismay of his daughter. One day, he undergoes a Near-Death Experience (NDE) and wakes up in what he assumes is hospital, except that his nurse seems incredibly familiar. After a time in Heaven, which he is told is known by its ancient Celtic name of Annwn and is underground, he wakes up in a hospital in Cardiff on The Surface. The experience changes his life, but he does eventually die and goes on to live his Life in Annwn.

Willy pairs up with his wife again, and goes about re-leaning life in Annwn, until one day, he, his wife and daughter decide to be reborn as Bodhisattvas to help mankind, This is the theme of the third book in the series Leaving Annwn.

A Night in Annwn has been translated by professional translators into the following languages so far. Life in Annwn has been translated into some of them, and some have even been narrated by professional voice-artists, however the translations and narrations are on-going processes, so you may need to check back to see if your language has been covered yet. If you click on the book covers below, you will be presented with a sample of the text in that language courtesy of Amazon, although the books are also available on iTunes, Barnes and Noble, Kobo, Scribd, Tolino and Audible in other formats.

English

Spanish

Portuguese

French

Dutch

Swedish

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A Night In Annwn – Audiobook

Published by Owen Jones on 1 February 2019 Permalink

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A Night In Annwn – free audiobook

A Night In Annwn – Audiobook

A Night In Annwn

The Story of Willy Jones’ NDE

Owen Jones

Narrated by

Andrew McGuirk

William Jones, a sheep farmer from the Brecon Beacons, had led a happy life, until his wife, Sarah, died young. It left him devastated and seemingly bent on self-destruction. His daughter, Becky tried to help, but even she was losing patience with her father.

One evening, he is certain that he has died and been put out of his misery, but it was not to be. He recovered. However his life was never to be the same again.

He had discovered Annwn where his wife lived, and his newly found vitality changed his life and that of all those with whom he came into contact.

A Night in Annwn is a love story that spans the greatest divide – that between life and death; a look at a near-death experience and a new take on the mythological Welsh Heaven, which is Annwn.
Be prepared to see another side of Welsh Celtic mythology, but you will never think of death in the same way again.

Listen to a fifteen-minute clip of the Night In Annwn audiobook read by the wonderful narrator Andrew McGuirk (he lends so much pathos to the story) free here:

Free Audiobook Link:

http://smarturl.it/Annen1-bounty

Free Audiobook Link:

http://smarturl.it/Annen1-bounty

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Night In Annwn Audiobook

Published by Owen Jones on 25 August 2018 Permalink

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A Night In Annwn Audiobook

It has taken me most of this year so far to get my first audiobook – A Night In Annwn – read as an audiobook, but the process is now complete and you can listen to the first fifteen minutes below free of charge.

It does take quite a long time, but this is not really anyone’s fault. Rather it is a completely different process and the author has to learn the new role of Director.

The Director

The Director, not unlike as you see in film credits, is in charge of setting the guidelines and choosing the producer according to criteria that he sets. This mainly has to do with the voice of the producer (narrator) of the audiobook.

When the Director has shortlisted a few voices, then auditions have to be held, and a final producer selected. From then on the Director has to be available to answer any production queries that arise on the fly.

Eventually, the chapters are ready to be edited, and the Director comes back to the fore, for each chapter has to be listened to and compared with the original text.

Alterations can still be made at this stage, and a cover has to be made. It is the Director’s responsibility to get all this done to his satisfaction. When the book has been approved, the audio company’s Quality Control takes over. Nevertheless, the Director may still get the audiobook back for editing.

Quality Control

Once it passes that stage, it goes on to the aggregators ( Amazon, Audible and Apple) to be checked by their Quality Control systems. About a week after that, the audiobook will go live.

A Night In Annwn is one of my favourite books because it is so different, and the wonderful reader, Andrew McGuirk, adds an extra dimension to the words and atmosphere.

AUDIO HERE

A Night In Annwn is available free for some at Amazon, please click the following link:

AMAZON LINK

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William Jones’ NDE

Published by Owen Jones on 28 November 2015 Permalink

William Jones’ NDE

A Night in Annwn is the story of William Jones’ NDE or Near-Death Experience. William was a sheep farmer in the Brecon Beacons of South Wales, about forty miles north of Cardiff. He led a fairly lonely life tending his flock, as one can imagine, but even more so after his daughter got married and his wife died.

He took to drinking too much, and one day, he had a heart attack. It landed his body in hospital, but his mind in a place they called Annwn, which is the old , mythological Welsh term for Heaven.

Most people will only associate Annwn with the Hounds of Annwn, which the early Christians tried to explain away as the hounds of Hell, because Annwn was believed to be underground.

However, this was a foreign interpretation, not the Celtic belief.

In A Night In Annwn, William is received by his wife after his collapse and introduced to the capital city of Annwn, which bears the same name. She takes him to the bustling market place with its shoppers and stalls, a church, a school and a tavern.

The revelations that she makes to William are challenging and thought-provoking to him, and I am sure that they will be to you as well.

After reading this novel, you might not agree with it, but I know that you will never think of death in precisely the same way again.

Read A Night in Annwn, a night in Heaven, and if you don’t like what I have written, I will be astounded if you agree with it, I will give you your money back!

However, I feel as if I am on safe ground, as there have been no takers yet.

I hope that you will find it thought-provoking and humorous.

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Owen

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Near-Death Experiences

Published by Owen Jones on 27 November 2015 Permalink

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Near-Death Experiences

Near-death experiences, or NDE’s, are phenomena that are recognized by science and religion alike and can be viewed from three standpoints: psychological, physiological and transcendental according to the entry on Wikipedia.

The article also goes on to mention the five stages typical of thousands of near-death experiences, which are: 1) Peace, 2) Body Separation, 3) Entering Darkness, 4) Seeing Light, 5) Entering Light. It states that sixty percent of NDE’s reach stage one, and only ten percent reach stage five.

I find the subject of near-death experiences an interesting one, so if you do as well, I urge you to enter the term into your favourite search engine.

However, if you would like to read my account of William Jones’ NDE, I have called the novel A Night in Annwn – Annwn being the ancient word for Heaven in Welsh. The Welsh believed Annwn to be the Other World, which was located under the mountains usually, but also sometimes on an island. In my story, William, an old shepherd, has his NDE walking home from the pub and is ‘rescued’ by his wife, Sarah, who had passed over five years before.

According to William’s perception of time, he spent only a night in Annwn and had a look around, although he could not remember much when he returned to his body.

We, the readers, however, can follow his often comical exploits and realizations in the capital city of Heaven in Wales, which is Annwn.

I hope that you enjoy my tale, but I am certain that William’s near-death experience will get you thinking about the greatest mystery of all time, which is life after death.

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Validation of Files

Published by Owen Jones on 21 November 2015 Permalink

Validation – A Night in Annwn

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 doing it for me, but it did require a little input from me from time to time. It was all painless though. I went to bed a happy man.

However, I woke up to an empty inbox, the first time for twenty years, so I checked Outlook, and realized that I had forgotten to change some details. It took thirty minutes for validation to propagate and when I left the house 5k of 14.7k had already downloaded.

I am not looking forward to going home to deal with that lot. I will probably delete everything more than a week old, so if you sent me anything back then, please resend it 🙂

Another validation that I had to complete was the proof copy of the paperback of The Dream. That was fine, so is now live, and I created a paperback of Megan The Psychic Teenager vol two, which will probably be ready for me to validate this evening. Amazon is always very quick to compile my books. Perhaps I cause them fewer problems than most, because I have published so many books over the last three years.

And now the favourite validation I have carried out today. I just ran A Night in Annwn through the NaNoWriMo validation service, which went on line today the twentieth, and my novel came out as 50,483 words. I also finished the first pass of editing it today, so I will publish it on Monday, and validate it the next day, which means that paperbacks will be available on the twenty-fourth.

You will form an orderly queue, won’t you?

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PS – Update: Megan The Psychic Teenager vol two was awaiting my validation when I got home (10 hours turnaround), so it is now live too.

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A Milestone

Published by Owen Jones on 16 November 2015 Permalink

A Night in Annwn – A Milestone – Click to order

A Milestone

Today was a pretty good day, a milestone, you could say. I finished my NaNoWriMo 2015 entry, A Night in Annwn, a fortnight ahead of schedule and I finished editing the sixth volume, The Dream, in the Lek series Behind The Smile. I also have a novel of eighty thousand words called Andropov’s Cuckoo which is complete and edited, but as yet unpublished.

Therefore, if I wanted to, and I might, I could publish three novels this evening with a combined count of 240,000 words. That would be a milestone for me for sure.

My problem is that I always find this period after finishing a book depressing. Perhaps I should throw a party. I live in a small rice-growing village in northern Thailand. The ground is very fertile, but it still takes three to four months to grow and harvest a crop of rice. When the farmer has weighed his crop into the co-op, he will invite friends to a small party at his house. Since everyone here is a farmer, they all understand that such a day is a milestone marking the end of a lot of work and a pocket full of money.

However, when I finish a book it means nothing to anyone around here, not even my wife, although she has seen me finish 140 before. She was in my office this morning when I said ‘Finished’. ‘You said last night that you would have difficulties with this one’, she reminded me. ‘Yes, but the answer came to me in my sleep’, I replied. ‘Oh, that’s lucky…’ was all she could manage.

No ‘Well done!’ or ‘Congratulations!’ like the farmers get. Just, ‘Oh, that’s lucky…’

I know the problem, I don’t make a big deal out of finishing a book, my wife and friends assume that it is easy, and so not worthy of praise. However, you writers, and other artists out there, will know what it takes to spend weeks or months on a project, only to have it come abruptly to an end and be wondering what the Hell you’re going to do next.

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Inspiration

Published by Owen Jones on 8 November 2015 Permalink

Inspiration – Fate Twister

Inspiration

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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NaNoWriMo Entry 2015

Published by Owen Jones on 3 November 2015 Permalink

NaNoWriMo Entry 2015 – A Night in Annwn

NaNoWriMo Entry 2015

I think I have my NaNoWriMo Entry for 2015. I don’t mean that I have written it, that would be against the rules, as entrants are not allowed to even begin writing until tomorrow, but I have the title, and that is always the first step for me.

I’m not sure that I should give you the NaNoWriMo Entry title yet, perhaps I should try to eke out the suspense. On the other hand, knowing it is not going to change your life, so I doubt that you find it particularly exciting anyway. I want to call the book ‘One Night in Annwn’, but I am not going to help you anymore for a while. If you don’t know what Annwn is, you will have to look it up yourself. It is on Wikipedia (there you are, a clue and I said I wouldn’t help).

Why don’t you join us in NaNoWriMo? I think that there are usually about twenty-five thousand people taking part scattered all around the world. We normally keep in touch with a local group by Skype (free) messenger service and egg each other on to achieve the minimum average daily word total of 1,666 (50,000/30 days).

That may sound like a lot to a beginner, but it is only five hundred in the morning, another five hundred at lunchtime and seven hundred in the evening (or something like that).

I do not know what the prizes are for achieving that goal this year, but everyone who writes the 50k wins, not only a

NaNoWriMo 2015 Winner’s Badge

few. The best prize for me is the free books: hardback and paperback. However, there are lots of other benefits of a NaNoWriMo Entry too, one of which is the lasting friendships you can make with other members of your group.

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