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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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”.
