Lek – The Beginning – Review
The Beginning Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya (volume 7) by Owen Jones Review by Barry Boy The Beginning is volume seven in the much-liked series Behind The Smile – The Story of…
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Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!
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Discover thrilling tales from Thailand to Wales – 60 novels by Owen Jones!
Category My Books
‘My Books’ is a tag used on our blog Megan Publishing Services https://meganpublishingservices.com to identify posts relating to the books of Welsh writer Owen Jones
Pirated eBooks – Writers
Pirated eBooks – Writers There seems to be two schools of though amongst writers concerning pirated ebooks: those who think it’s a good thing or irrelevant and those who would have pirates walk the plank. I am in the latter…
Google Bias and Blacklisting
Google Bias and Blacklisting If you are still not convinced that there is such a thing as Google Bias and Blacklisting, there is a simple test that you can try. In May 2016, I wrote an article for my blog called…
Tiger Lily Audiobook
Tiger Lily Audiobook The Tiger Lily Audiobook, or the audiobook of Tiger Lily of Bangkok to be more precise, one of my novels, has been in the pipeline to be be published on Audible, Amazon and iTunes for weeks, but…
Non-English Books
Non-English Books For My Blog I run this blog as an author who writes and sells books, but I have never written or tried to sell any non-English books. How would I go about it? Not the writing, I have…
Piracy and Google
Piracy and Google If you make anything that becomes successful, you can expect it to be copied sooner or later. In the case of physical goods, it can take a while to set up the plant and machinery to produce…
Price-Matching of My Books
Price-Matching of My Books I have decided to reduce the prices, in most cases, of my books on the Internet. However, price-matching of my books, all fifty of them across all the outlets where they are sold would take quite…
Help Publish My Latest Novel
Help Publish My Latest Novel, please. If it gets enough votes, Amazon will publish it with all the trimmings, which would make a big difference
Calle Goya (First Chapter)
Read the first chapter of my novel The Ghouls of Calle Goya, and then deciide tto vote for it, please. Thanks in advance, Owen
Writers’ Readers
Who are Writers’ Readers? We take a look at this question in this piece that was written for a writer's fanbase
Our New Insiders’ Newsletter
I have started an Insiders' Newsletter :-) I thought there were people, friends, family, and readers of my books, who wanted to know more
Conventions
Conventions Sometimes, it seems that our lives are full of conventions. There are all sorts of them: social conventions; Star Trek Conventions; Conventions of Witches (and even witches’ conventions, I dare say); Writers’ Conventions; and writing conventions, which is what…
All Pre-war Writers Were Toffs
Every writer knows how difficult it is to get into the groove after a hard day, which is one of the reasons why all pre-war writers were toffs. For centuries... because they were the only ones who could read and write and had the time to do it.
Mysticism in Fiction
Mysticism in Fiction Mysticism in fiction is in the same boat as Sci-Fi, in that, if it is to be any good, it either has to have been experienced or researched by the writer. Unfortunately, there are too many authors…
Fact Versus Fiction Snobbery
Fact Versus Fiction Snobbery This is a corollary to, or even an explanation of, my last post. Throughout my education, I was used to being in the top three of the class, and very often I was the best. So,…
Factual Versus Fictional Writing
Factual Versus Fictional Writing I have been thinking about the differences, the pro’s and con’s of factual versus fictional writing all day, after someone told me that they struggle to read works of fiction, because their reading time is so…
2016 Book Sales
2016 – Book Sales Well, Happy 2016, I really do hope that you are well and also that you are doing better than I am so far this year. I realise that we are only three days into 2016, but…
Wasted Time
Wasted Time I have had a rough couple of days, which have resulted in a lot of wasted time unfortunately. It all began yesterday morning. I have a three-year-old Asus, but the only good thing I can say about it…