Owen Jones - Author

11/07/2024

See you tonight folks 😀

19/06/2024

A date for your diaries - you are of course all invited, as well as any buddies who may like to come along as a well.

Please join me for a fun celebration and, of course, book launch

15/06/2024

Just now I received the first draft of my book - formatted for printing - it's all becoming a bit real as the days tick on by to the launch date!

13/06/2024

Thursday July 11th - Hold the date - Book Launch Event - more details to follow

11/06/2024

Coming soon .....

24/01/2024

Working title in place now.

23/01/2024

First read-through edit in progress - many passages hitting the bin!

19/01/2024

I've got pretty much all the 60,000 words written down for my second book. Now it's just a matter of putting them all in the right order!

Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash

01/01/2024

It’s about 9am on Monday, January 1st, 2024. The outside world is all but silent. It’s pretty quiet in here too. The younger generation are all asleep.

Which got me thinking.

So many people go out to celebrate and bring in the New Year, overindulging after a week of overindulgence. Chances these are the same people who have made resolutions to "be a better person" in some way in 2024. Is there any other type of resolution?

And yet they wake on the very first day of the year feeling a very much worse person.

I know I used to, and in the end it was a day in the middle of September that changed my life.

Don’t wait until next New Year, having already made a mess of your resolution this time round, to change you life for the better.

Chances are, the day will choose you. Keep an eye out for it!

To find out how you can make it out of the darkness of alcohol abuse, check out “Losing my Addiction” available from Amazon by clicking the link below

In a world where taking drugs is seen as a greater evil, it seems strange that alcohol is so readily accepted. This is a book that will take you on a journey of acceptance that lasted far too long before it was rejected. Near death experiences on trunk roads don't stop this committed alcoholic fr...

29/12/2023

Whilst writing about Day Four I can't help thinking the view in my office is a little less than what I looked out on a month ago...

28/12/2023

Currently writing my second book - along the lines of "How a 57-year-old Dad, ex-smoker, ex-drinker, decides to and then runs a nutty Ultra Marathon through Nepal - and why you can do it too!"

I'm having fun with it so far

30/01/2023

Just purchased losingmyaddiction.co.uk and will be building a new site over the coming weeks.