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Megan Publishing Services Podcast
by Owen Jones
This programme contains podcasts of articles my websites Megan Publishing Services, and The Amiable Dragon… mostly written by me, Owen Jones a professional author.
Episodes
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How to Spot an ACX Bot
An ACX Bot?Photo by Alex Knight on Pexels.com Silly, slightly off-topic answers are a strong hint that you are writing to an ACX bot! In case you haven't read the previous article on my recent experience with ACX, I'll give you a brief resume before talking about how to spot an ACX bot. ACX…
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My Problems with ACX
My Problems with ACX When the bottom drops out of your business... I have been with ACX, the arm of Amazon that publishes audiobooks for Audible to sell, for about eight years. However, I have been active for only since 2018, about four years at the time of writing. During that time, I created…
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Book Translations
Book translations Spreading the word... I have spent most of this month doing what I should have been doing last year - adding references to book translations to my website. I have admitted my error in not looking after this blog before, so I won't go into it again now. However, translators have...
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My New Book Covers
My New Book Covers Showing off your books... I feel that I have already written too much of late about my new book covers, but it is a very important strategy in my plans for the future I have quite a few books, but most of them were written years ago and the covers are stale. So, they need...
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Book Cover Obsession
Book Cover Obsession A dog with a bone... I'm sorry if I'm boring you, my regular readers, but I currently have a Book Cover Obsession. As you probably know, I wasn't like this even a couple of months ago, but that is a sign of how rapidly these things can get a hold of you. Or, me at any rate.…
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Book Cover Sense
How is your book cover judgement? I have always thought that my book cover sense was pretty good. Why would I think that? Well, I have been reading all sorts of books for all sorts of reasons for about sixty-five years, and I have published more than eight hundred books over the last twelve…
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Blog Stats
Blog stats The ins and outs... My blog stats for last month were quite unusual, but then so, perhaps, was my own personal activity on it I will explain. For the first time ever, that is in more than twenty years, my blog received more visitors from the UK than from the USA! For the first three...
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Foreign Translations on MPS
Photo by Tirachard Kumtanom on Pexels.com What we mean by that. I have noticed recently that this blog, Megan Publishing Services (MPS) is beginning to receive lots of visits from people searching for foreign translations. So, I would like to clarify what kind of foreign translations they an…
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Megan Publishing Services
Megan Publishing Services - MPS - Logo A piece of history... My (step) father, Owen Jones, created this blog, Megan Publishing Services, in 2013. It was shortly after he had written the first couple of volumes of The Megan Series, and it was meant as a vehicle for that series alone. The logo is…
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Foreign Translations: Czech, Slovak, Chinese…
Owen Jones A truly polyglot website! The strength of this blog, Megan Publishing Services, is the number of foreign translations of my books on it. At least, that’s one of the ways that I see it. I have written fifty-odd novels and about a hundred and twenty-five other books, and people I have...
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Google Adsense
Google Adsense The free money machine! When I started thinking of applying for Google AdSense, this blog was receiving 10,000 unique visitors per month, who visited 30,000 times and read 250,000 pages. Google AdSense's online earnings calculator suggested that those statistics should earn me…
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Spontaneous Parties
Just one over the eight... Spontaneous Parties There is election fever in the air in our village, which often results in more than the usual amount of exuberance, drinking and spontaneous parties. I’m not sure what the election is for, and none of my falang friends is aware of any forthcoming...
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High Blood Pressure
The silent killer... High Blood Pressure My GP diagnosed me with high blood pressure, which is technically known as hypertension, and more sinisterly nicknamed ‘The Silent Killer’, twenty-seven years ago when I was forty. My doctor discovered it during a routine check up, which I often used to...
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My Village Pub Crawl
A man on a mission... A man on a mission... We refer to it as my village pub crawl because, about once a week, while trying to boost the number of steps I take in a seven-day period, I also stop in some of the shops along the way for a bottle of cold beer Chang. I say shops on purpose, because...
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Travel PLR Ebook
Being savvy about bought writing... Holidays on Pexels.com First of all, I think that we had better agree on our terminology using the phrase 'travel plr ebook' as an example. PLR stands for 'private label rights', which I have always found confusing, but it is definitely not the same PLR as the...
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Heinz 57 Baby
A long-gone concept… Heinz 57 Baby My brother, Roddy, was a Heinz 57 Baby. Do you have any idea what that means? Searching the Internet will not help you, and Google's results will be particularly disheartening. Google is not a real searcher of Truth any longer, it is a provider of shopping...
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Pattaya Beach Road
The most famous Thai beach road... A book featuring Pattaya Beach Road Pattaya Beach Road is by far the most famous Thai beach road and is the busiest road in the city of Pattaya as far as tourists, pedestrians and vehicles are concerned. It is also the most scenic because Pattaya Beach Road runs...
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Republishing Books
Being honest with yourself about your own books… Republishing Books Being honest with yourself about your own books… Today, some friends suggested that I should consider republishing books from my flagship series Behind The Smile. However, I find it almost impossible to contemplate. That is a…
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The Book Cover
Judging a book by its cover... Judging a book by its cover... People say that one should never judge a book by its cover, but it is widely acknowledged that having a great book cover is the best way of selling books. It seems that people do not pay any heed the ancient advice. To be fair to…
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Making a Living From Books
When the property is there, but it's value is not being realised… Making a living from selling books I know an author... yes, all right, my father, Owen Jones, who has 800 publications registered in his name on Amazon and they are all original books penned by him. However, he is not making a…
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Selling Books
Don’t judge a book by its cover... Selling books People say that one should never judge a book by its cover, how many times have you been given that advice? However, it is widely acknowledged that having a great book cover is the best way of selling books. It seems that people do not heed the...
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3D Book Covers
Sales magnets... 3D book cover card My recent foray into creating 3D book covers has been an outstanding success, so this is just a quick update, and a pat on my back :-) My colleague and father, Owen Jones, has been so astounded by his new artwork that he has said, to quote: " I have admitted...
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Mushrooms in Thailand
Ex-pat Slang... Mushrooms in Thailand If you know any ex-pats who live in Thailand, you might sometimes hear them referring to themselves strangely as 'mushrooms'. It means that they feel that they are being 'kept in the dark'... not told what is going on on a daily basis. You see, very few…
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Building an Author Platform
The Author's Ultimate Tool Building an Author Platform Until about New Year 2020, I took care of my author platform assiduously. Decisions were always made with reference to it, and I pampered it with fresh content every single day. I had all the social media sites too, but my pride and joy was…
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Village Food
Healthy Thai food There's more iron in the food than the spoon!! Despite what you may have read elsewhere on this site about Thai meals being targeted to a person's health, some people do not have anyone to cook for them or the family cook was not taught the craft in detail. It is easy to...
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Modern Digital Designs
Or how to keep up with the Joneses! Modern Digital Design for The Megan Series My Dad, Owen Jones, is a writer, as regular readers of my blog will already know, and has been a author of books for ten years on February 21st 2022. I was a teenager then, but I remember the excitement of the occasion...
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My Koi Carp
Still willing to learn... Our Koi Carp Pond Yesterday was a busy day in the scheme of the the way my retired life has panned out. Although I am still an active author, I don't get to write much, and the the tasks that I have to perform to maintain my existence in Thailand are even fewer. I'll...
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Side-effects of COVID 19
Every Cloud has a silver lining... There have been several medical side-effects of COVID 19 noted, but I want to talk about social side-effects. There is no social security in Thailand, so basically, if you don't work and your family or friends don't help you, you only have three options: to...
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Our Garden Fish Pond
A source of relaxation, tranquillity and delight! Our Garden Fish Pond I am hoping that our new garden fish pond will be an area of cool relaxation, tranquillity and delight for us, which will be great for writing. I could do with that as I have not written much over the last few years due a lack...
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My Covid-19 Vaccination Experience In Thailand
Mass protection from Covid-19 My Covid-19 Vaccination Experience People who live in Thailand may chuckle at my COVID-19 vaccination experience in Thailand, whereas those who don't may smirk. Believe me when i say that the first reaction is the one that I wish to elicit, because I am very…
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Losing Weight Quickly
The easiest way possible! Losing Weight Quickly Many people day-dream about losing weight quickly. I have been part of that hapless crowd. When I first moved to Thailand, seventeen years ago, I weighed a hefty 110 kilos.After six months of good living and my girlfriend's excellent cooking, i...
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My Visa Application 2022
My Visa Application 2022 The Annual Misery Nobody likes to have to renew their visa, even if it does have to be done only once a year. As regular readers will already know, we recently spent four years in Europe, and during that time the Immigration Police opened a new office in Uttaradit, which…
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Covid 19 – Unforeseen Consequences
Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining! Bangkok Red Light District Covid 19 has been with us for more than two years now, and I have not heard any predictions over that period that have come true. It was a new phenomenon for most of us, and for all of us when it is seen as a global plague, so there is...
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Thai Fruit Curry
Do not try this at home! Fruit Curry I want to tell you an amusing story that my stepfather told me the other day. He can tell it in his own words. Over to you, Dad. Thanks, Chalita. I started to eat curry when I moved to Portsmouth as a student in the Seventies. In those days, nearly all 'curry...
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Thai Food in Our House
What most European cooks have forgotten... Thai Food in Our House My Thai wife will not eat my food every time that I cook because it is cooked according to whimsy. In other words, I cook what I fancy without regards to my body’s needs whereas she does the cooking in our house according to needs…
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Facebook Idiocy
How not to make friends or influence them! I opened a Facebook account shortly after it launched, and after a couple of name changes, I settled for OwenJonesWriter. Pretty succinct, but it described me and my activities very well. I had various spurts of activity, and inactivity, on my Facebook...
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The Icons
Part of My First Educational Trip to the USSR Part of my Honours Degree course of Russian Language and Soviet History at Portsmouth University (it was a polytechnic then) was two summers studying in the USSR. The first was in Leningrad in 1974. In those days, foreigners stuck out like sore thumbs...
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Horizons
How far do you need to be able to see live your life, or even do your job, well? Distant Horizons Today was a big... an important day for me. Today, I left our village for the first time in nine weeks. You are probably assuming that the reason is Covid or even a disability, but that is not the...
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Indie Book Sales 2021
My Survey of Indie Authors I have done a small poll about book sales in 2021 around my author friends, and I would like to share the results with you. Not all of the authors surveyed had books in all of the categories below, and I am not taking genres into account. Still, I think that the results...
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Dere V14 Air Notebook – Review Update
This article is my own personal experience with the Dere V14 Air Notebook, which I bought a little while ago. I will not be going into all the specifications of this device, because you can find this information on the manufacturer's website. I will say that it comes with Windows 10 Pro and the...
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Virtual Assistants
Photo by Polina Zimmerman from Pexels I want to share a story about virtual assistants with you. It is a true and very sad story concerning a friend of mine that happened yesterday. He is a writer, a successful writer, I would say, since he earns enough to support himself and his family, although...
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My Dream Last Night
There were people lining a sort of a street about twenty persons deep, and I was one of them.The atmosphere was fantastic - a bit like London's Notting Hill or New Orleans' Mardi Grascarnivals. The stage was the gap - the roadway, if you like - between the crowds that faced one another.Performers...
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Villfarelsen – Misconception
Villfarelsen Villfarelsen En andlig guide, en spöktiger, och en skrämmande mamma! av Owen Jones Översatt av Charlotta Zaar Böll Berättat av Ida Berglöw Kenneway "Villfarelsen" är den första delen i en serie av tjugotre noveller om den andliga utvecklingen hos en ung flicka som heter Megan. Hon…
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Our New Blog Theme
We decided to buy a new blog theme. The previous one was seven years old and the designers had stopped keeping it up to date several years ago. Therefore, as WordPress developed, certain key features had ceased to work. The result was that it was becoming tedious to update. I, and my colleagues…
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Herbal Skin Care
Herbal Skin Care Herbal Skin Care The topic of skin care is not one of only recent times. Indeed, people have been worrying about it since ancient times, when natural, herbal products were presumably the only means of taking care of the skin. However, skin care has been transformed in a big way....
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The Rôle of PLR in Internet Marketing
Internet Marketing The Rôle of PLR in Internet Marketing The Internet has been around for more than twenty-five years now, but there are still a lot of novice or would-be sales people who don't realise that Internet marketing is basically the same as any other type of marketing, except that you...
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Massage – International Means to Well-Being
Massage Massage by Owen Jones narrated by Jordan Moore The information in this ebook on various aspects of massage techniques, styles and related subjects is organised into 15 chapters of about 500-600 words each. I hope that it will interest those who enjoy a massage or would like to enter the...
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Home Movie Theatre Systems
Home Movie Theatre Systems Home Movie Theatre Systems by Owen Jones narrated by Dena Darvish Derakhshan The information in this audio book on home movie systems and related subjects is organised into 17 sections. It will help you set up a home movie theatre system, and it may even help you…
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The Ghouls of Calle Goya – International
The Ghouls of Calle Goya in Swedish The Ghouls of Calle Goya When malice results from good intentions! by Owen Jones When Frank, a staid, middle-aged, confirmed bachelor takes his new, diplomat Thai bride to a friend’s apartment on the Costa del Sol for their dream honeymoon, they are in Nirvana…...
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Lock-Down Experiences
Lock-down Lock-Down Experiences Three things happened to me in the last 24 hours, which I don't think have anything to do with lock-down or cabin fever, because I don't think I suffer from those conditions. I have always spent a lot of time on my own - since leaving home at eighteen anyway. 1) I...
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