Songkhran: Thailand’s Joyful Water Festival
Songkhran is the Thai New Year, which is is sometimes referred to as the Thai Water Festival. It is much more than that though. Read on…
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Owen Jones October Publication Report
What I have been up to in October Welcome to this October publication report on my writing life! In October, I published 33 e-books, which is more than the average of about 25. They were in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Four of most difficult languages to get translators and
Story List of Owen Jones
This is the complete list of the novels written by author Owen Jones from Barry, South Wales.
Owen Jones Books
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Owen Jones, from South Wales, has been writing books since 2012. Many of Owen Jones books have an element of the supernatural about them.
Book Translations
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Book translations are a big feature of Megan Publishing Services’s blog. It means that people from more countries can read Owen Jones’ books
Reviews of Books on Amazon
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The Reviews of Books on Amazon I have been with Amazon for a relatively very long time – since a few weeks after it started, I think, but I can’t help thinking the the people at the top – the ones running the firm (that might not include Jeff Bezos, the guy who set it up) are
Non-English Books
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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 learned seven languages to a high standard, although I am now rusty. However, I wouldn’t
Piracy and Google
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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 those copies and the contacts to sell them through. However, there is also the theft
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 Christmas Eve, so paperback sales are governed by the postal service. In general, that means
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
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 some time, so I am going to adjust the prices on Smashwords only. This isn’t
Moving On
Moving On The time has come for us to be moving on. As many of you will already know, I have been living in Thailand with my Thai wife, Neem, for twelve years, and so now we would like to have a look elsewhere. However, I want to emphasise that our decision to be moving
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 I hope that they are not an indication of what is to come. One book
Book Give-Aways
Book Give-Aways I have always been suspicious that book give-aways are counter-productive, but I am open to learning that I am wrong, so I have decided to conduct an experiment. To that end, I have added a page to this, my busiest website, for book give-aways, although it will probably become a permanent feature of
Advertising on Megan
Advertising on Megan I have been receiving an increasing number of requests from visitors to my blog about advertising opportunities. At first, I thought it odd because there are pages on there about advertising on Megan. So, I went to have a look at what I ha to offer this morning and was surprised to
How Many People Profit From A Book?
How Many People Profit From A Book? I was thinking about how many people profit from a book yesterday and it was quite a revelation, and I am not even sure that I came up with the full list, so if you want to shed any light on my thoughts, please feel free to use
Validation of Files
Validation of Files 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
Publishing
Publishing I am having quite a time of publishing at the moment. Yesterday, I published the 112,000-word fifth sequel to Behind The Smile, called The Dream and today I published the second in the Megan Compilation Series of five 11,000-word novelettes on the psychic development of Megan, a teenage Celtic psychic. I should be ready