Megan’s Free Audiobook Club
Megan’s Free Audiobook Club Have you caught the recent bug for audiobooks? Or is it audio books? The trend is so new that the jury is still out on the nomenclature, but I am going to use ‘audiobooks’ until it…
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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 Ramblings
‘Ramblings’ is a category used on our blog Megan Publishing Services https://meganpublishingservices.com to identify posts relating to random thoughts.
‘Ramblings’ is a tag used on our blog Megan Publishing Services https://meganpublishingservices.com to identify posts relating to the ramblings of Welsh writer Owen Jones.
Twitter’s Three-day Rule
Twitter’s Three-day Rule Do you use social media much? Whether you do or don’t, you might still be unaware of Twitter’s three-day rule. Twitter has always professed to be anti-spam, but most users find their idea of security a sick…
Penpals – Do You Remember Them?
Penpals – Do You Remember Them? When I was a boy, and that was quite a while ago, writing letters, telephoning or sending a telegramme were just about the only means of communication over long distances. Middle-class children were encouraged…
A Lonely Night in Fuengirola
A Lonely Night in Fuengirola I wasn’t happy that night – an argument with the wife, or possibly a misunderstanding… she is Thai, I am Welsh and I know for certain that we still don’t fully understand one another, even…
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…
Our Tenth Wedding Anniversary
Our Tenth Wedding Anniversary Yesterday, March 30th. was our tenth wedding anniversary. Well, one of them, anyway, since most foreigners who marry Thais get married twice and not necessarily on the same day. However, despite the two chances, neither of…
Moving To The UK
Moving To The UK I am from Wales, the UK, and my wife is Thai. Those of you who read this blog will already know this, and we have to get back to the UK under European law, before Brexit…
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…
Using Keywords to Attract Interested Visitors
Using Keywords to Attract Interested Visitors As you progress with the establishment of your blog or website, one of the main things that you need to keep an eye on is using keywords to attract interested visitors. This is a…
No Reply
No Reply I suppose the phrase ‘No Reply’ can apply to several situations… phone calls, letters and emails, etc, but I want to talk specifically about email, since it is so easy to reply to… There is no need to…
Returning To Old Haunts
Returning To Old Haunts Returning to old haunts is said to be a guaranteed disappointment, and I am wondering whether that’s true… hoping that it is not. At least, not necessarily so… However, instinct tells me that the saying is…
Alexa Rankings
Alexa Rankings Almost from the day I went online in 1996, or perhaps a few years after that, I discovered Alexa, which was a tool for ranking the popularity of websites. In those days, a high Alexa ranking was de…
Getting Noticed Online
Getting Noticed Online The principle of selling anything on line is basically the same, so since my blog is about books: writing and selling them, I will use books – novels as my example. Having said that the big difference…
Literary Agents Past and Present
Literary Agents Past and Present It was only five years ago that I sought to have my first novel published, but a lot has happened, and charged, since then, making it feel much longer ago. It had taken me five…
December – My Month of Disk Work
December – My Month of Disk Work December is a strange month for selling books, I have always thought. I have tried to rationalise it many times… Many people try to get all their presents ‘out of the way’ before…
Promoting Books and Artwork
Promoting Books and Artwork is a necessary distraction for the artistically inclined. Some love it, but most loathe it. Here is a solution
Mariscal and Abogados
Mariscal and Abogados is a firm of Spanish solicitors that provides lots of useful information on its website and not only in English
Pirated Books – Readers
Pirated Books are not free books! They are stolen goods. Stolen from authors who have put months of work into producing a piece of artwork