SWAMP – Forum

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SWAMP on Facebook

SWAMP on Facebook: This is the SWAMP where artists of all persuasions and their aficionados can hang out, chat and promote their work and favourite stuff.

Set and Forget Promo Package

Set and Forget Promo Package: The Set and Forget Powerful Promo Package This is a powerful advertising package for those writers and other artists who don’t have the time to do the basic promotional work themselves. It can also be seen as a solid foundation of advertising upon which you can build as and when you have the time. An …

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Twitter Plans

Twitter Plans: Everyone would agree that Twitter is the best of the social media for selling goods such as books. If you want to harness the power of Tweets, let's get together

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Advertising: Megan Publishing Services is a new company, but its founder, Owen Jones, has written and self-published more than 110 books in the last two-three years

Exploring Fuengirola

Exploring Fuengirola: Exploring Fuengirola We haven’t been out for a few days, so I suggested that we spend a couple of hours exploring Fuengirola, or more precisely, the neighbourhood, in which we live. There is absolutely nothing we can do to help advance our case with immigration, so my wife agreed. It was only a few hundred …

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Our Spanish National Insurance Numbers

Our Spanish National Insurance Numbers: Our Spanish National Insurance Numbers I have known for nine weeks that we would need Spanish National Insurance numbers if we are to stay here legally, and we did go to see a solicitor for help within a few days of landing, but, as with most things official except fines, it takes time. I should …

Teething Troubles

Teething Troubles: Teething Troubles We have been in Spain a fortnight now and things are going well, if a little too slowly to completely alleviate our anxieties over Neem’s visa. However, we are experiencing a few teething troubles. I think that we have found out that our immediate goals need to be to get NIE (an ID …

Schengen Visa III

Schengen Visa III: Schengen Visa III They had said that the call to collect her passport would come ‘today or tomorrow’, but it didn’t and that has left my wife assuming the worst and being a pain in the neck, especially to me. Every time I open my mouth, I get my head bitter off, so I have …

Fiction Feature and Interview: Daddy’s Hobby: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya by Owen Jones @lekwilliams @owen_author

Fiction Feature and Interview: Daddy’s Hobby: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya by Owen Jones @lekwilliams @owen_author

Schengen Visa II

Schengen Visa II: Schengen Visa II We had to repeat our journey to the Spanish Embassy: five hundred metres on a motorcycle taxi, which took us to the end of our lane, across the busy dual carriageway and down the busy pavement to the taxi rank, where we took a taxi five kilometres or so to the Underground …

Behind The Smile – Give-Away

Behind The Smile – Give-Away: Behind The Smile : Daddy’s Hobby  Give-Away Runs until August 14th, 2016 I am giving away five copies of this very popular novel in this free, easy-to-enter competition. Come back every day to increase your chances of winning. The novel and indeed the series follows the life of Lek, a simple country girl from northern …

Modern Indie Books

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Afterword to Andropov’s Cuckoo

Afterword to Andropov’s Cuckoo: AFTERWORD I, the author of Andropov’s Cuckoo,, was studying Russian in Leningrad in 1973, when I met an Asian lady and her friends. Her name was Youriko and we became instant friends exactly as I describe it in the book. Everything in the chapters concerning that year in Leningrad is true: the Bibles, the letter …

Disappointment 19-7-2016

Disappointment 19-7-2016: Disappointment 19-7-2016 Today my wife and I suffered the biggest disappointment for years. I was supposed to be going to the police today to obtain my residence permit, which would make it infinitely easier for my wife to remain here with me, which is obviously quite natural. However, my appointment was cancelled because my paperwork …

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Andropov’s Cuckoo Review

Andropov’s Cuckoo Review: Andropov’s Cuckoo Review 5.0 out of 5 stars A peek behind the curtain By Enrico Grafitti on July 17, 2016 Format: Kindle Edition Once in a while the heavy curtain covering the real world of spies and intelligence agencies is lifted and we get a glimpse of the motivations and crudeness that compels people to …

A Great Day

A Great Day: A Great Day We have had a few good days since we have been in Fuengirola, and by that I mean that we have felt that we have made some progress towards our goals. Moving into our apartment was a great day and that was only a week ago. Since then, we have spent most …

Our New Insiders’ Newsletter

Our New Insiders’ Newsletter: Our New Insiders’ Newsletter I decided to launch a new newsletter because I felt that it would be a repository of answers to questions about writing, publishing and my own books that repeatedly crop up and I decided to call it an Insiders’ Newsletter, because that is what I intend it to be. I ran …

Business Cards

Business Cards: I need a new supply of business cards, so I went back to Vistaprint, a company I have used for at least ten years and maybe twice as long, I don’t remember, but I also don’t remember ever using anyone else. Anyway, the last ten years, I have been living in Thailand and so have …

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Andropov's Cuckoo - a New Spy-Thriller

Our New Apartment

Our New Apartment: Our New Apartment Our new apartment in the centre of Fuengirola is very nice, or rather it suits us as it is fully equipped, clean and central. That doesn’t mean that we haven’t had problems though. For example, the language on the cooker, fridge and freezer is in Spanish, which neither of us speaks. However, …

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Starting Again

Starting Again: This is the second time in twelve years that I have gone to a foreign country to start again. On the last occasion it was Thailand, now it is Spain. In Thailand, my future wife was a rock when it came to sorting out the details of life and especially settling in. Starting …

Spain, Fuengirola, starting again, Jomarijo, coast 2 coast, friends