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Megan Publishing Services Podcast

This programme contains podcasts of articles my websites Megan Publishing Services, and The Amiable Dragon… mostly written by me, Owen Jones a professional author.

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3:05

How to Spot an ACX Bot

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/08/03

An ACX Bot?Photo by Alex Knight on Pexels.comSilly, 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 accused me of fraudulent audiobook sales in June last year. They don't discuss it with you, or even give you an opportunity to ask questions, explain, or even apologise. You are guilty and you are scum.End of

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3:06

My Problems with ACX

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/06/27

My Problems with ACXWhen 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 174 audiobooks with about 144 narrators.My average monthly income until August 2020 was about $250. Then, in September of that year, I had a brainwave. I don't mind if you think that it was late coming, but ACX

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2:18

Book Translations

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/06/13

Book translationsSpreading 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 every right to expect an entry on our blog Megan Publishing Services, and that is what I am doing now.Book translationsIt has surprised me how many languages Owen Jones's books have been translated into. The

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2:16

My New Book Covers

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/06/10

My New Book CoversShowing 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 futureI have quite a few books, but most of them were written years ago and the covers are stale. So, they need replacing. There is no argument about that. However, at what pace?Obviously, cost is a constraint. People say that the benefits that the new covers will bring in... increased revenue... will pay for future

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2:18

Book Cover Obsession

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/06/08

Book Cover ObsessionA 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.In my defence, book covers are extremely important to a writer, but I just hadn't realised how much before.My Book CoversAs people, we are admonished not to judge a book by its cover, but the plain fact is that

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1:59

Book Cover Sense

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/06/04

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 years.It amounts to a lot of experience, I think you'll agree.However, book sales have been dropping off this year, and most pro's will advise an author to look to his or her book covers in such a situation, since

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1:56

Blog Stats

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/06/02

Blog statsThe 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 weeks, up to three times more. By the fourth week, that had evened out to about 50k from each country and by the month's end, America was just in front.Years ago, China was always in the top five, but nowadays,

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3:44

Foreign Translations on MPS

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/04/05

Photo by Tirachard Kumtanom on Pexels.comWhat 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 expect to find when they click through to us.Foreign TranslationsThere are three main variations of what I think this phrase can mean. So, let’s take a look at them.Languages Translation ServiceBasically, MPS does

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2:03

Megan Publishing Services

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/04/04

Megan Publishing Services - MPS - LogoA 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 the cartoon characterisation of the Megan in the seriesHe already had websites for his other books such as Behind The Smile and The Eternal Plan - Revealed and a personal catch- all called Welsh Products

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2:22

Foreign Translations: Czech, Slovak, Chinese…

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/03/26

Owen JonesA 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 never met from lands far and wide have wanted to translate them. This represents a colossal amount of work, effort and collaboration from people right around the globe. I live in Thailand, but I have worked with

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2:10

Google Adsense

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/03/17

Google AdsenseThe 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 about $1,000 a month.That is not to be sniffed at, so I applied, and was granted a license to show Google Ads for AdSense.However, it was a steep learning curve for me, and there was Covid, and I was getting into

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1:58

Spontaneous Parties

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/03/16

Just one over the eight...Spontaneous PartiesThere 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 election. However, my wife and her close friends are all interested in local politics. So if they are talking about an election, then something is going on, even if it is some way off. They are keeping me in the

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2:49

High Blood Pressure

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/03/02

The silent killer...High Blood PressureMy 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 miss. (Therefore, I recommend that you make a point of checking your blood pressure regularly). I was prescribed Atenolol 50 and told to take one a day. My blood pressure dropped to 140/80 and stabilised. My

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2:05

My Village Pub Crawl

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/03/01

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 there are no pubs or hotels in our village.In earlier times, I used to enjoy my stroll around the village once a week, normally on a Saturday, but what with Covid and an increased workload, that has reduced

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2:43

Travel PLR Ebook

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/02/27

Being savvy about bought writing...Holidays on Pexels.comFirst 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 British Library uses, which has to do with 'public lending rights'. Our term means that someone has written an article and is giving or selling you the right to use it. This right may be completely free of

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1:48

Heinz 57 Baby

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/02/26

A long-gone concept…Heinz 57 BabyMy 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 opportunities.It is very sad.So, getting back to my brother. He was born two and a half years after me in February 1957, and according to my Mother, who has long since passed away, there was a Heinz 57 competition,

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2:10

Pattaya Beach Road

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/02/26

The most famous Thai beach road...A book featuring Pattaya Beach RoadPattaya 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 literally the width of the pavement from the golden sand of the clean beach and only metres from the sparkling blue sea. This is the largest of the beaches in Pattaya.Pattaya Beach Road begins at the entrance

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2:26

Republishing Books

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/02/25

Being honest with yourself about your own books…Republishing BooksBeing 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 huge concept to get my head around.It has produced most of my sales for the last decade!Their suggestion was made because we were talking about my book sales, which have been slowing down for about a year. So, they

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0:31

The Book Cover

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/02/23

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 readers though, there isn’t a lot more to go on when one is standing in a bookshop with a choice of two novels in one’s hands. Otherwise, there is the title (and subtitle), the author’s name, but it could be an

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1:59

Making a Living From Books

Megan Publishing Services Podcast ·

2022/02/21

When the property is there, but it's value is not being realised…Making a living from selling booksI 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 living from books that he has created.Many of his original works in English have been translated, and all those books in English and other languages have been turned into ebooks, paperbacks, audiobooks and even

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