Owen Jones

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 the cartoon characterisation of the Megan in the series He 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 Online. Megan Publishing Services However, as his book real estate grew, and it happened very quickly, he decided to use the Megan blog to represent all his books. So, he rebranded it Megan Publishing Services. Websites and blogs appertaining to specific series are now not being renewed when they expire. The rebranding of the blog / website has not seemed to matter. Well, to no-one except Facebook, which has labelled Megan The Misconception dot com as a spammer. It's unfathomable! In fact, people seem to have taken the site and the series to their hearts, even though we have rebranded The Megan Series as The Psychic Megan Series. We did this because it is more evocative of what the theme of the series really is. Megan is, after all, a psychic teen. In 2020, he handed this blog over to me so that he could concentrate on writing. Search Terms for MPS Another interesting fact is that the three most popular search terms used to find our blog in order of usage are: 1] megs publishing services 2] meg's publishing services 3] megan publishing services People looking for us used the first search term eight times more than the third one! I am proud of that in a strange sort of way. I find it touching that people think of our blog in those endearing terms and, that the search engines accept the compliment. Amazing, or what? MPS and #MPS When speaking about our blog, most people refer to it as MPS, but I have so far failed to make the search engines associate the acronym with us. A search on MPS comes up with boring ‘Members of Parliament’. Likewise, searching for #MPS on Twitter reveals posts about MP’s. Still, I won’t stop trying to get this blog associated with MPS! Publishing Services I'll take this opportunity to explain briefly what Megan Publishing Services actually does. It has two aspects: 1] Readers: we are showcasing about 800 books on this site. Owen Jones has written fifty-three stories and 125 manuals. All of the stories, and some of the manuals have been translated and / or narrated making up the 800 books mentioned above. For example, the first volume of The Psychic Megan Series now exists in 34 languages. 2] Writers: except for the basic writing skills that one learns at school, Owen Jones learned and taught himself how to write books. How to get them translated, narrated and published, and most importantly, how to get them in front of readers who might want to buy them. He is willing to share that knowledge with other (would-be) authors. He is also offering the said 125 manuals as niche PLR articles for writers to use in their own online publications in several languages. Onwards and Upwards! Megan Publishing Services and everyone who uses it! Chalita

Asian Shorts Audiobook Asian Shorts International by various authors translated and narrated by professionals collated by Owen Jones Asian Shorts International is an anthology of nineteen short stories by nine different authors. Most of them are professional writers but two of them were previously unpublished and one of those went on to write several more books. The writers live all over the world too, in as much as nine people can, but countries include Cambodia, Canada, England, Thailand, USA, Vietnam and Wales. Their names and brief bios can be found under the list of translations below. free audiobook copies can be obtained in most cases, and other languages are being added as they become available. The authors contributing to Asian Shorts International, in no particular order, are: Mike Lord, Owen Jones, Bernard Foong, Gay Ingram, Jennifer J. Chow, S. R. Mallery, Trevor Aindow and David Collier. Please support these authors by checking out and reading their work. English Edition German Edition Portuguese Edition Afrikaans Edition Italian Edition Authors' Bios of Contributors to Asian Shorts International: Mike Lord Sinagiri, by Mike Lord – Rajah Kasyapu & the Frescoes at Singiriya, in Sri Lanka. Smashwords: http://tinyurl.com/mrpafs7 Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/o74846h Owen Jones Owen Jones writes in many genre which you can discover on his here: http://owencerijones.com . His flagship series ‘Behind The Smile ~ The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya’ is here: http://behind-the-smile.org Bernard Foong Bernard Foong (aka Young) is the author of ‘A Harem Boy's Saga; a memoir’ by Young (seven book series): http://aharemboysaga.com/wp/ The first three books in the series – ‘Initiation’, ‘Unbridled’ and ‘Debauchery’ (published by Solstice publishing) are currently available at all Amazon online stores e.g. http://amzn.to/1FMlHVY Gay Ingram Gay Ingram writes historical fiction. Mai Lin: Another New Beginning is her latest release. See all her published books at https://www.amazon.com/author/gayingram . She also contributes a weekly column to http://venturegalleries.com/author/gayingram/ . Jennifer J. Chow Jennifer J. Chow writes Asian-American fiction with a geriatric twist. She is the author of The 228 Legacy, a 2013 Finalist for ’Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year Award. She also writes the Winston Wong cozy mystery series under J.J. Chow. Visit her website for more details:

Uma Noite em Annwn A história da EQM do velho Willy Jones Annwn é a antiga palavra galesa para o Céu e, como Valhalla, era subterrânea. por Owen Jones traduzido por Nelson Leonel De Benedetti O romance conta a história de Willy, um velho pastor montanhês de Gales, que se deixou levar pela morte de sua amada esposa. Um dia, enquanto caminhava com sua velha cachorra, ela morre, e Willy cai de um ataque cardíaco induzido por dor, embora tenha desistido da vontade de viver muito antes. No entanto, ele acorda no hospital e tenta entender sua experiência. Dentro de pouco tempo, ele percebe que sua jovem enfermeira é sua falecida esposa, Sarah, e começa a perceber que está morto. Isso não o abala; na verdade, ele está muito feliz. Ele passa "dias" com Sarah em Annwn, durante o qual ela o mostra e explica como as coisas funcionam "no céu". Ele fica surpreso com tudo o que vê e ouve, até que de repente é chamado ao seu corpo sem aviso prévio. Seu corpo também esteve no hospital, mas no mundo físico, e ele acorda de uma experiência de quase morte (EQM). Então ele começa a começar a ver sua esposa novamente, e suas lembranças de estar em Annwn por vários dias retornam. Sua vida é transformada, e ele tem uma vontade renovada de viver, trabalhando com sua esposa do Outro Lado para o benefício dos menos afortunados ao seu redor, até que um dia, seu verdadeiro fim vem também, e ele está com sua esposa novamente permanentemente. https://smarturl.it/Annwn1-port-bounty?IQid=spreaker

Thailand volume 1 - Free Audiobooks Thailand - Free Audiobooks written by Owen Jones Narrated by Sangita Chauhan Published by Megan Publishing Services at Amazon, Audible and iTunes Copyright Owen Jones 2019 © Thailand (volume 1) is a professionally produced and narrated audiobook on various aspects of Thailand and life in Thailand as experienced by the author of this blog, Owen Jones during the twelve years he spent in his wife's remote village in northern Thailand. It is organised into 15 chapters of about 500-600 words each, but will be followed by other volumes soon. However, this audiobook is not only meant as an introduction to Thailand for a visitor, but the purchaser may also use the content in his or her own audio blog or publication at no extra charge. The only restriction is that you may not sell the whole book as is without my written permission. You may split the book up and resell the articles. In fact, the only right that you do not have is to resell or give away the book as it was delivered to you. If you have any feedback, please leave it with the company you bought this book from or post it below. *** Breaking News!: Audible says: If you are prepared to leave a (short) review, here are some free copies of this audiobook :-) *** If you have a UK account at Audible, please copy one of the next six codes and click the link below them: Codes for UK Accounts 398XWZDXE2WD6 3B7G2H3CRDRML 4ENP67XR96U8G 4UU33QW4KQ3H6 5ZJ4WKNBRMFU9 6TRRCSKJG3Z7Y audible.co.uk/acx-promo Codes for non-UK Accounts 2D98ASXM9HMEE 2WXYXK2YJJLH9 389R6YM8YRSG6 3DBPYAS3RXPYG 67KB9USPCEKQ3 8QJC4Y3YAR5C3 audible.com/acx-promo To see them online, or if the codes have all been used, please go to: Apple Amazon Audible

iTunes - Apple Stocks Novels of Owen Jones iTunes - Apple Stocks Novels of Owen Jones There is good news for avid readers of Welsh writer from Barry, Owen Jones, that are also audiobook fans who prefer to use the ubiquitous service of Apple's iTunes! iTunes - Apple - now stocks not only the ebook novels of Owen Jones, but also the audiobook versions, AND, they are all on one page, which makes it easier to identify series and stand-alones. Owen Jones now has more than three hundred ebooks on iTunes, a hundred and fifty of which are in languages other than English, and about seventy of them have been narrated by professionals to create audiobooks of excellent quality. ACX - an arm of Amazon and Audible - has overseen production and Quality Control throughout, so you know that you are getting a great product. Many Locations Owen Jones writes in the general genre of Fiction>Psychological, often including references from Spiritualism, Buddhism, or even just 'traditional religions' - references such as intuition, dreams, Auras, Astral Travelling and the like. His books are also set in many locations, including Wales, naturally, Thailand, various countries in Europe, Russia and the USA. One series, Dead Centre visits seven countries in just one of the two volumes! When asked about the new collection of his audiobooks on Apple iTunes, Owen said: "I am very proud to have my audiobooks for sale on such a prestigious platform as Apple's iTunes. So many hundreds of millions of people around the world use an iPhone, iPad or Mac several times a day, and now they all have direct access to my audiobooks as well as my ebooks. I don't have one myself, but I checked some trivia just for my own information, and I was surprised to see that Apple uses 131 different URL's to allow direct access to its products. That probably means 131 different countries! Not bad for a local Barry boy, eh?" You can find Owen Jones' audiobooks by following this link: Audiobooks by Owen Jones on iTunes

Behind The Smile Daddy's Hobby Volume 1 of Behind The Smile by Owen Jones Narrated by Hem Cleveland Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the northern rice belt of Thailand. Typically that would be: work in the fields for a few years; have a few babies; give them to mum to take care of and back to work until her kids had their own children and she could stop working to take care of them. One day a catastrophe occurred out of the blue – her father died young and with huge debts that the family knew nothing about. Lek was twenty and she was the only one who could prevent foreclosure. However, the only way she knew was to go to work in her cousin’s bar in Pattaya. She went as a waitress-cum-cashier to Pattaya, but when she realised that she was pregnant by her worthless, estranged husband, things had to change. She had the baby, gave it to her mother to look after and went back to work. However, now she needed real money to provide a better life for her child and to make up for spending its whole youth 500 miles away. She drifted into the tourist sex industry. The book relates some of her ‘adventures’, her dreams and nightmares and her ‘modus operandi’. It tries to show, from Lek’s point of view, what it really is like to be a Pattaya Thai bar girl – the hopes and frustrations, the hopes and the let-downs, the hopes and the lies and deceit that are part of her every day life. One day she meets a man she likes and he likes her too. Nothing new there, it had happened hundreds of times, but she feels that it is different. They have a wonderful four weeks together and then he goes home – as they all had, leaving more promises and more hopes. This one returns, but real life with a real boyfriend is not as easy as she had dreamed it would be. They go through good and bad times, but will they stay together and for how long? After all she has been through, will she be able to be a regular girlfriend or even a wife again? Will she ever really be able to trust a man enough again either? Or would she be better off giving up her dreams and carrying on working in the bar? Lek begins to find out that getting what you wish for is not always as good as you thought it would be. 'Behind The Smile' refers to the fact that Thailand is known the world over as 'The Land of Smiles'. Free audiobook link: http://smarturl.it/BTS1-bountyIQid-MPS https://soundcloud.com/owen-jones-author/behind-the-smile-volume-1-daddys-hobby-by-owen-jones-narrated-by-hem-cleveland Free audiobook link: http://smarturl.it/BTS1-bountyIQid-MPS

Dead Centre - Press Release Dead Centre Not All Suicide Bombers Are Religious! by Owen Jones For immediate release: Author's new book receives a warm literary welcome. Readers' Favorite announces the review of the Fiction - Action book "Dead Centre" by Owen Jones, currently available at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1499121628 . Readers' Favorite is one of the largest book review and award contest sites on the Internet. They have earned the respect of renowned publishers like Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Harper Collins, and have received the "Best Websites for Authors" and "Honoring Excellence" awards from the Association of Independent Authors. They are also fully accredited by the BBB (A+ rating), which is a rarity among Book Review and Book Award Contest companies. "Reviewed By Anne-Marie Reynolds for Readers' Favorite Dead Centre – Not All Suicide Bombers are Religious by Owen Jones is a different take on a hot topic of conversation. Tony, a terrified soul, walks into an upper class department store in Baghdad and just seconds later, he detonates the bomb strapped to his body. The Iraqi government first treat it like any other suicide bomber and the case is passed over to Captain Allawi. Things are not what they seem, though. A young police officer spots something on the store's surveillance video that changes the game plan, taking the investigation off on a tangent. Six more apparent suicide bombs go off, which cannot be explained unless they are treated in the same way as the Baghdad bomb. A new form of terrorism is taking over the world and it could be unstoppable. Possible breakthroughs get them nowhere and it’s all looking hopeless until the Chinese government and the SAS are called in. Dead Centre – Not All Suicide Bombers are Religious by Owen Jones was a great read. A well written thriller that starts off on top gear and stays there all the way through. The scary thing is this sort of event could happen – could be happening now for all we know – and the subject is likely to get one or two backs up. However, subject aside, Mr. Jones has written a superb story, with great characters, that spans 9 different countries and dozens more cities. Excellent book, I will definitely be looking out for more from the same author." You can learn more about Owen Jones and "Dead Centre" at https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/dead -centre where you can read reviews and the author’s biography, as well as connect with the author directly or through their website and social media pages. Stop Press: Now available in Portuguese, and as an audiobook, and coming soon in French, Italian, and Spanish. There is also a sequel: DEAD CENTRE II (also available in Portuguese). Readers' Favorite LLC Media Relations Louisville, KY 40202 800-RF-REVIEW support@readersfavorite.com https://readersfavorite.com

Andropov's Cuckoo Review Andropov's Cuckoo A Story of Love, Intrigue and The KGB by Owen Jones Review by Barry Boy Andropov's Cuckoo is in the genre of Thriller, but straddles the sub-genres of Love (Romance) and Espionage. It is written in the third-person singular and set in the Soviet Union, and several other Eastern and Western countries, in the thirty-odd years after the Second World War. We meet the main character, Natasha, quite late in the novel - the fourth chapter - although we hear of her under another name - Youriko - before that. Natasha was born in Kazakhstan and happened to look Japanese, which is the basis of the plot. However, Natasha was an idealistic, naive young woman who wanted to help Socialism better the condition of the Working Class around the world, and so was vulnerable to abuse by the Soviet hierarchy, which is where Yuri Andropov makes his appearance as the fearsome head of the dreaded KGB. At first, things went well for Operation Youriko, but Natasha gradually lost her enthusiasm and wanted out, which could not go unpunished. Shortly after this point, she meets a British student and falls in love for the first time in her life, and the race is on to get out of the USSR and into the UK. We are told that Andropov's Cuckoo is based on a true story that happened to the author himself, but that cannot be corroborated. The realism and passion in the story suggests that that might be true. I enjoyed Andropov's Cuckoo by Owen Jones and give it full marks. It is thrilling, pacey and realistic. Your heart will go out to Natasha, I promise you. It is a love story on several levels filial love, patriotism, idealism and romance. Andropov's Cuckoo by Owen Jones is available from all major retailers both on and off line, although it is probably quicker to order it from Amazon as a paperback, ebook or (free) audiobook here: Andropov's Cuckoo - all formats