Audiobooks

Audiobooks

Anything to do with audio books – mine and those of others.

Massage – International Means to Well-Being

Published by Owen on May 24, 2020

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Massage

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 booming massage industry.

As an added bonus, I am granting you permission to use the content on your own website or in your own blogs and newsletter, although it is better if you rewrite them in your own words first.

You may also 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.

The manual is also available in Dutch and Portuguese and other formats, such as Kobo, and on all platforms including Apple’s iTunes.

Amazon ebook     Audible audiobook

 

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Home Movie Theatre Systems

Published by Owen on May 23, 2020

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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 venture out into a new career. The least that it will do is save you hundreds on professional advice.

As an added bonus, I am granting you permission to use the content on your own website or in your own blogs and newsletter, although it is better if you rewrite them in your own words first.

You may also 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 use formats other than these (like Kobo), you will find the books on your main retailer’s site including apple iTunes.

Amazon ebook     Audible audiobook

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Villfarelsen – Misconception

Published by Owen on April 7, 2020

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Villfarelsen: En andlig guide, en spöktiger, och en skrämmande mamma!

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 har latenta övernaturliga krafter och hon är nyfiken på att utveckla dem, men ingen annan som hon känner verkar ha någon aning vad hon pratar om.

Eller gör dom det? Både hennes mormor och hennes mamma gör allt de kan för att stoppa Megan från att ta reda på mer. Historien visar Megans frustration med de levande, så när hjälp kommer från den andra sidan, tar hon emot den med öppna armar och utvecklar långsamt men säkert sina övernaturliga krafter.

Detta är berättelsen om Megans uppvaknande.

“Villfarelsen” handlar om de paranormala krafter som finns inom oss alla, vilket borde göra dem helt normala istället för paranormala, om människor inte var så rädda för det övernaturliga, vilket i sig självt också är helt naturligt.

Det här är en bok för alla som någonsin har funderat över det övernaturliga, paranormala eller metafysiska- Det handlar om den normala andliga utvecklingen som alla högre själar måste gå igenom för att nå sitt ultimata, oundvikliga öde, hur lång tid det än kan ta. Dessa berättelser bygger på faktum på flera sätt än en.

Amazon   Apple   Kobo   audiobook   more coming soon

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Thailand – Free Audiobooks

Published by Owen on October 5, 2019

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Thailand volume 1 - Free Audiobooks

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

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Free Audiobooks!

Published by Owen on July 26, 2019
Free Audiobooks

Free Audiobooks

Free Audiobooks For My Friends!

I am giving away some of my most popular audiobooks completely free of charge, courtesy of Audible, on a first come, first served basis. So, yes! Free audiobooks!

However, all I ask is that you leave a short review in the language of the book when you’ve finished it. You can place it preferably on Audible or Amazon, but otherwise on iTunes or GooglePlay.

Languages currently available are: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.

** TIP: If you are learning one of these languages, you will probably find it useful to listen to a book in that language and even compare it to the version in your own language.

I hope you enjoy them in whichever way you can.

If in the UK, please select a UK code and go to:

http://audible.co.uk/acx-promo

If you are anywhere else, please select a US code and go to:

https://audible.com/acx-promo

and then enter the free code for the book you would like to listen to. If it has already gone, please try another. Please note, the books for the UK market are marked with ‘UK’, but that is NOT part of the code, so please don’t enter it into the box.

By the way, these are not abridged versions or pirated copies, they are as sold on Amazon, Audible and iTunes for up to $30 each.

New codes added 8/27/20

In English:

4DUXP5HAGNLZ9 (Daddy’s Hobby: Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya (Volume 1)) UK

A2ARZECA6QYDC (Daddy’s Hobby: Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya (Volume 1)) US

DQ74NSHX93A8L (Tiger Lily of Bangkok) UK

JJS7NL3JYLMLH (Tiger Lily of Bangkok) US

94LC73JBTL4DA (The Disallowed) UK

7HQXSALFNHU8S (The Disallowed) US

5YCLF4DKRHX8M (The Ghouls of Calle Goya) UK

H3XEJDUH73TSP (The Ghouls of Calle Goya) US

4Q5FF8TPHUZKL (The Misconception) UK

C2FAU3A9KSMKR (The Misconception) US

8TRCFGP732RGP (Authorship) UK

873K6PEMNWD4K (Authorship) US

66BWQPN76DG6Y (A Night in Annwn) UK

2KAR6CX5HLNKT (A Night in Annwn) US

278HMSLG88W5P (The Alien House) UK

2HWD2QD8SWQ9T (The Alien House) US

2Z3AMH36QS8UA (Andropov’s Cuckoo) UK

LSY2XMGLG8WPL (Andropov’s Cuckoo) US

5K3WPCSXSPD9W (Fate Twister) UK

7CNL5EAF3QF5N (Fate Twister) US

69QLBRNP8PL3H (Daisy’s Chain) UK

4EWG7SML2KSE4 (Daisy’s Chain) US

3H4FYR9KGUACH (Asian Shorts) UK

2P56EHJRJALL5 (Asian Shorts) US

2PZAXJHZXEHA2 (How to Give Your Dog a Real Dog’s Life) UK

3R7MZ8E93YTZC (How to Give Your Dog a Real Dog’s Life) US

5KE45GJZPJH3G (The Eternal Plan – Revealed) UK

6K6C9LWLCLXG3 (The Eternal Plan – Revealed) US

22RBW7DTC9SMK (Marketing for Small Businesses in 52 Parts) UK

2S87FPHDT6D6B (Marketing for Small Businesses in 52 Parts) US

In French:

25BAS7HGPHL3T (Tigresse Lily de Bangkok) UK

DMMFKCPCDAXYU (Tigresse Lily de Bangkok)

98XQ5Z37SRCG2 (Tigresse Lily de Bangkok)

In German:

5C589TPQ224E4 (Tiger Lily von Bangkok) UK

7NYY42WAXWM7M (Tiger Lily von Bangkok)

324RK6T42JLWC (Asiatische Kurzgeschichten) UK

2UEXXPTH93N78 (Asiatische Kurzgeschichten)

8EB93PH7HUEGC (Die Falsche Auffassung) UK

85ES227WUCK9H  (Die Falsche Auffassung)

2G54BEE6EMFLA (Wie man seinem Hund ein echtes Hundeleben ermöglicht) UK

69HC8SGG35LUY (Wie man seinem Hund ein echtes Hundeleben ermöglicht)

In Italian:

2PN8W44UYB3PL (L’Equivoco) UK

6QWRWW4LCHM7Z (L’Equivoco)

45SDCF5SR2K2K (L’Equivoco)

In Portuguese:

2PXY85423KRJN Os Inadmissíveis – A Cómica História de Uma Família de Vampiros Contemporânea UK

9SX88B7Z3UQ35 Os Inadmissíveis – A Cómica História de Uma Família de Vampiros Contemporânea

2E7ATGTTNPX72 A Casa Alienígena: (Uma História de Amor, Esperança e Intervenção Alienígena) UK

5STXJZ9X2SZ45 A Casa Alienígena: (Uma História de Amor, Esperança e Intervenção Alienígena)

5STXJZ9X2SZ45 A Casa Alienígena: (Uma História de Amor, Esperança e Intervenção Alienígena)

2K8FZA9P9EHY3 Uma Noite em Annwn (A história da EQM do velho Willy Jones) UK

8K5XFD4RDU2DT Uma Noite em Annwn (A história da EQM do velho Willy Jones)

38NZEUTN4HE6S Uma Noite em Annwn (A história da EQM do velho Willy Jones)

6E5DQDP4HF4W4 (O Plano Eterno – Revelado) UK

8K48Z2XFRMCPU (O Plano Eterno – Revelado)

7PUPTULMGDHPX (O Plano Eterno – Revelado)

86US2RNRYYU3K (Uma Falsa Ideia) UK

7G5LFS7DNXBFM (Uma Falsa Ideia)

778T9NYS2KWMB (Uma Falsa Ideia)

In Spanish:

2DQ7K4N57ZESJ (Cadena de Daisy) UK

9S863CDBA7PSH (Cadena de Daisy)

AHQ4AC9HJ7N9S (Una noche en Annwn) UK

A3JM8QGT54KLS (Una noche en Annwn)

F3C4KA2HT86MZ (El malentendido) UK

9AJ5GXMG8X5WN (El malentendido)

5ME5UKFYCW27C (Cambiar el Destino) UK

42GNF3GL48PM3 (Cambiar el Destino)

2ETKKGPCE8D2X (Autoria) UK

4LSFXZSW879A5 (Autoria)

3BQ2H27BNRAM2 (Cómo Dar a tu Perro una Verdadera Vida de Perros) UK

94S39CYGGXBUH (Cómo Dar a tu Perro una Verdadera Vida de Perros)

In Swedish:

4S6CJEHAFUUFB Villfarelsen UK

2ZU87Y5EPQ3Z9 Villfarelsen

All the best,

Owen Jones

Visit my bookshop here:

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All the best,

Owen

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The Megan Series Audiobooks

Published by Owen on May 2, 2019
The Megan Series

The Megan Series

The Megan Series Audiobooks

“The Misconception” is the first story in the Megan Series Audiobooks of twenty-three novelettes about the spiritual development of Megan, a young girl. In the first story, she is twelve years of age. She has latent, supernatural powers and is curious about how to use them, but no-one that she knows seems to have any idea what she is talking about.

She tries asking her mother and even asks friends at school, but she gets no help. However, it is unclear whether her mother has had previous experience with the paranormal, although we do see early on in the first novelette that Megan’s maternal grandmother was against the paranormal too.

Her grandmother and her mother do everything they possibly can to prevent Megan from finding out any more. The first volume shows Megan’s frustration with the living, so when help comes from Beyond, she grasps it with both hands and slowly develops her supernatural powers.

The Megan Series Audiobooks is about Megan’s psychic Awakening.

‘The Misconception’ is about the paranormal powers which lie in all of us, which would make them not so much paranormal as quite normal, if people were not so frightened of the supernatural, which is quite natural too.

In the following books, and they are being released at the rate of one a month, we see Megan’s behaviour under different circumstances. We also meet the people, and animals, who interact with her. The main characters are: Megan’s mother, Suzanne; Megan’s father, Robert; her spiritual guide, Wacinhinsha, her maternal grandfather, Gramps and her familiar, a huge Siberian tiger called Grrr.

Wacinhinsha is a senior Spiritual Guide who has come to help Megan because she had no-one else, and was actually being punished for her curiosity into the paranormal and supernatural. He is a native American, what most people outside the USA would call a Red Indian of the Sioux tribe.

Wacinhinsha has a deep knowledge of spiritual life and is willing to help Megan with anything that she wants to know, which no-one else she knows is seems able to do.

Her grandfather, Gramps, has been dead for about thirteen years, but he is still very much a novice. He wants to help Megan and tries to get involved but his inexperience trips him up sometimes. Despite that, Megan is close to her Gramps as she has known him as a ‘ghost’ since she was a baby

Grrr is a tiger that died a long time ago. She cannot speak any language but tiger, of course, and humans do not understand much tiger – Megan is no exception. However, Megan and Grrr tend to understand each other a little more than anyone with a close pet does, although Grrr is not a pet by any stretch of the imagination.

The Megan Series Audiobooks

These books are for everyone who has ever wondered about the supernatural, paranormal or metaphysical – it is about the normal, spiritual development that all higher life forms have to go through in order to reach their ultimate, unavoidable destiny, however long that may take. These stories are based on fact in more ways than one.

Reviews are available on the website you will reach by following the link below. Please leave your own short review too.

The Megan Series audiobooks, ebooks and paperbacks are on Amazon and also available in many other languages (see Foreign Translations above)!

or get a free copy here: Megan The Misconception – 100% free!

or get regular free audiobooks by joining our Megan’s Free Audiobook Club

M1: The Misconception: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M2: Megan’s Thirteenth: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M3: Megan’s School Trip: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M4: Megan’s School Exams: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M5: Megan’s Followers: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M6: Megan and the Lost Cat: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M7: Megan and the Mayoress: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M8: Megan Faces Derision: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M9: Megan’s Grandparents Visit: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M10: Megan’s Father Falls ill: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M11: Megan goes on Holiday: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M12: Megan and the Burglar: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M13: Megan and the Cyclist: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M14: Megan and the Old Lady: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M15: Megan’s Garden: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M16: Megan Goes to the Zoo: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

M17: Megan Goes Hiking: Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

You can find a great article, fantastic review and top resource on Audible and audiobooks here:

https://www.carefulcents.com/audible-review/

 

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The Eternal Plan – Revealed Audiobook

Published by Owen on May 1, 2019

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The Eternal Plan Audiobook

The Eternal Plan Audiobook

The Eternal Plan – Revealed Audiobook

The man, the entity, as I have learned to describe him, whom I have known as my father for all of my life, is Colin Jones. He gave me a few carrier bags in 1999 and asked me to read the contents and to write a book on it, if I could. Well, this is it: The Eternal Plan – Revealed.

At that time, I could not and time did not seem pressing so I put the bags in my safe at home. He passed away a few years later on his 72 birthday, the 21st February.

I, and all of our family were devastated, but I did nothing about ‘his papers’. I had no idea what to do.

A few years later, I moved abroad and wrote a novel. That took five years, although it is still unpublished. In 2011, I started a new venture publishing ebooks that I had written myself.

The courage to write these ebooks had come from writing the first book. I looked for ways to circumvent traditional publishing and came across Amazon’s Kindle.

I learned how to publish my ebooks through them and realised how to publish Dad’s book.

It took me a long time, but I think that I was guided by Spirit. I was a slow learner.

My Dad, Colin Jones, would never have said that these writings are his own. Rather he would say that he was inspired, in the true sense of the word. People told him what to write.

All of our family witnessed this over five or six decades. Sometimes, Dad would be sitting with us watching TV, but Dad’s eyes would be shut and he would be writing the pieces that you see in this ebook. He did automatic drawings too.

My brothers and I are very privileged to have been born with such a person, but as with most instances with parents, we realised it too late.

I hope that you enjoy the tranquil, yet so powerful words and ideas rxpressed in the The Eternal Plan – Revealed. I will expand it in later editions and eventually compile a sequel.

One last point, my father’s mother, Lavinia Jones, founded a spiritualist church in Barry, South Wales, where we lived and that church on Butrill’s Road is still running to this day.

Links to the Various The Eternal Plan – Revealed Websites

The audiobook is narrated by Steve Olsen, whose melodic, soft American accent expresses both the tranquility and the power of the words. Listen to the sample below or follow the link to the free audiobook.

The Eternal Plan – Revealed is in audiobook, ebook and paperback formats on Amazon and also available in other languages! See Foreign Translations above.

Get a free copy here: The Eternal Plan – Revealed Audiobook – 100% free!

Available on Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

or get regular free audiobooks by joining our Megan’s Audiobook Club

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Tiger Lily of Bangkok

Published by Owen on April 26, 2019

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Tiger Lily Audiobook

Tiger Lily Audiobook

Tiger Lily of Bangkok

Tiger Lily of Bangkok – When the Seeds of Revenge Blossom opens when Lily was a happy little girl, which lasted until an ‘uncle’ started to abuse her from the age of eleven. She became shy and introverted, leading a lonely life until she moved to Bangkok to study at university.

However, her thoughts and her past would not leave her alone, so, after classes, she began to seek out men she suspected of paedophilia and exact her own peculiar type of revenge on them.

She became the vengeful Tiger Lily of Bangkok and terrified society, but how long could she keep evading the police, and did she secretly want to get caught anyway so she could make her story public?

You will wonder whether you want her get caught for her crimes, and that will make you question your morality.

Tiger Lily of Bangkok will make you question your values!

Reviews are available on the website you will reach by following the links below. Please leave your own short review too.

Links to the Various Tiger Lily of Bangkok Websites

The audiobook is narrated by Annya Strydom, who uses a wonderful, slightly spooky voice, which for me is reminiscent of Lily’s broken mother. Listen to the sample at the top of this post or follow the link to the free audiobook.

Tiger Lily of Bangkok is the first in the series of two,

Tiger Lily of Bangkok in London is the second.

Both volumes are available in several other languages, see the section FOREIGN TRANSLATIONS above!

or get a free copy here: Tiger Lily of Bangkok – 100% free!

or get regular free audiobooks by joining our Megan’s Free Audiobook Club

Available on Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.

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Dog’s Life Audiobook

Published by Owen on April 25, 2019

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How to Give Your Dog a Dog's Life Audiobook - Dogs

Dog’s Life Audiobook

How to Give Your Dog a Real Dog’s Life Audiobook

(and make him love you for doing it!)

by

Owen Jones

Narrated by

Justine Ellis

‘How to Give Your Dog a Real Dog’s Life – and make him love you for doing it’ is the complete handbook on choosing, buying, bonding with and looking after a dog, written by a dog-owner who is so passionate about dogs that his wife is sure that he was a dog in his last life!

Owen Jones has shared his life with dogs ever since the first day of his life.

He knows them so well that he’s sure that he can tell them jokes!

This is a must read for all current dog-owners and those who hope to be!

It is an ideal gift for young people who are about to be given a dog. In fact, why not give this book or audiobook to your young friend before they choose their new doggy four-legged friend? It will help them choose the ideal dog for them personally even if it is a mongrel rescue animal.

If this book doesn’t contain the answer to your questions about dogs, email me and I’ll try to help you find the solution myself!

How to Give Your Dog a Real Dog’s Life Audiobook

Reviews are available on the website you will reach by following the links below. Please leave your own short review too.

How to Give Your Dog a Real Dog’s Life audiobooks, ebooks and paperbacks on Amazon available in nine other languages!

or get a free copy here: How to Give Your Dog a Real Dog’s Life – 100% free!

or get regular free audiobooks by joining our Megan’s Free Audiobook Club

Available on Amazon, Audible and Apple’s iTunes.amongst others.

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The Ghouls of Calle Goya – Audiobook

Published by Owen on April 17, 2019

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The Ghouls of Calle Goya

The Ghouls of Calle Goya

The Ghouls of Calle Goya

When Malice Comes from Good Intentions

by

Owen Jones

Narrated by

Elizabeth Bray

Londoner Frank marries Joy, a beautiful young Thai, who works in town. She has always dreamed of going to the Costa del Sol, so they head to an apartment in Fuengirola on Calle Goya loaned by Frank’s boss for their dream honeymoon.

Things start to go wrong when Joy fears that the apartment is haunted. Fear leads to depression and deepens into terror. Frank has no idea what to do, except take her back to her family in Thailand, but that brings its own misfortune.

Life finally looks brighter because of the intervention of a secret Scandinavian society.

This is the story of how Evil can result from good intentions.

Free Audiobook

Free Audiobook

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Andropov’s Cuckoo – Audiobook

Published by Owen on February 1, 2019

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Andropov's Cuckoo

Andropov’s Cuckoo

Andropov’s Cuckoo – Audiobook

Andropov’s Cuckoo

A Tale of Love, Intrigue and the KGB

by

Owen Jones

Narrated by

William James Hill

A dying man recounts the story of the most amazing person he has ever met: a brilliant Soviet linguist, whom he knew as Youriko. It is a tale of love, daring-do, spies, and danger set in Japan, Germany, Turkey, the USA, Canada, and the UK, but mostly in the Soviet Union of the 70s.

Two girls, born thousands of miles apart in Kazakhstan and Japan just after World War II, meet and are like peas in a pod. They also get on like sisters and keep n touch for the rest of their lives.
However, one wants to help her battle-scarred country and the other wants to leave hers for the West. They dream up a daring, dangerous plan to achieve both goals, which Andropov, the chief of the Soviet KGB, is told about. He dubs it “Operation Youriko”, and it is set in motion, but does it have even the remotest chance of success?

Andropov’s Cuckoo is based on a true story related to the author by one of the protagonists.

Free Audiobook Link:

http://smarturl.it/Andropov-bounty?IQid=MPS

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Free Audiobook Link:

http://smarturl.it/Andropov-bounty?IQid=MPS

 

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A Night In Annwn – Audiobook

Published by Owen on February 1, 2019

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A Night In Annwn audiobook

A Night In Annwn – free audiobook

A Night In Annwn – Audiobook

A Night In Annwn

The Story of Willy Jones’ NDE

by

Owen Jones

Narrated by

Andrew McGuirk

William Jones, a sheep farmer from the Brecon Beacons, had led a happy life, until his wife, Sarah, died young. It left him devastated and seemingly bent on self-destruction. His daughter, Becky tried to help, but even she was losing patience with her father.

One evening, he is certain that he has died and been put out of his misery, but it was not to be. He recovered. However his life was never to be the same again.

He had discovered Annwn where his wife lived, and his newly found vitality changed his life and that of all those with whom he came into contact.

A Night in Annwn is a love story that spans the greatest divide – that between life and death; a look at a near-death experience and a new take on the mythological Welsh Heaven, which is Annwn.
Be prepared to see another side of Welsh Celtic mythology, but you will never think of death in the same way again.

Listen to a fifteen-minute clip of the Night In Annwn audiobook read by the wonderful narrator Andrew McGuirk (he lends so much pathos to the story) free here:

Free Audiobook Link:

http://smarturl.it/Annen1-bounty

Free Audiobook Link:

http://smarturl.it/Annen1-bounty

 

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Andropov’s Cuckoo – Review

Published by Owen on September 27, 2018

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Andropov's Cuckoo Review

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

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Are You Reading A Book Or Story?

Published by Owen on September 3, 2018

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A Night in Annwn - a book or story?

A Night in Annwn – a book or story?

Are You Reading A Book Or Story?

For the sake of this article, let’s call them ‘books’, and their contents ‘stories’. I say this to silence the pedants from the outset, because there are several other variations and possibilities.

The reason that I started thinking about the subject of a book or story was because the other day, I was talking to someone who said that he was reading my book on his tablet. Being a bit of a pedant myself, I had to stop myself from saying something, not least though because I didn’t want to stem his adoration of my work.

However, what he said did get me thinking. Surely, a book is series of pages – a physical thing… something that you can put on a shelf and something you can leave to someone. In short, it can become an heirloom and even a valuable one – whether that be a monetary one, or a treasured family possession.

That is not true of an ebook though, is it? I mean even the best story in the world will never grow in value or sentiment as an ebook, because it can be copied ad infinitum and distributed freely (in most countries).

So, is it time to stop saying: ‘I’ve read your book’, when you mean ebook? I, at least, from now on, I will ask where they bought the book and whether it was the paperback or hardback.

Or do you think that that it’s nit-picking to talk of a book or story?

As an author, it is fairly valuable information to me, but to a reader, I suppose it seems irrelevant. It might even be embarrassing to reveal, as the ebook is still considered the down-market, even cheap option, although I buy ebooks if I don’t know the author, but want to try him or her out.

So, the easiest way out is to say: ‘I have read your story about…’, or you might just decide not to talk to me (on that subject, or even at all!), but that’s up to you, not me and, to be honest, I don’t care either way. As a linguist and a writer (and a pedant), I think that people should think more about the way they say things, if not about the things that they say.

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Night In Annwn Audiobook

Published by Owen on August 25, 2018

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A Night In Annwn Audiobook

A Night In Annwn Audiobook

A Night In Annwn Audiobook

It has taken me most of this year so far to get my first audiobook – A Night In Annwn – read as an audiobook, but the process is now complete and you can listen to the first fifteen minutes below free of charge.

It does take quite a long time, but this is not really anyone’s fault. Rather it is a completely different process and the author has to learn the new role of Director.

The Director

The Director, not unlike as you see in film credits, is in charge of setting the guidelines and choosing the producer according to criteria that he sets. This mainly has to do with the voice of the producer (narrator) of the audiobook.

When the Director has shortlisted a few voices, then auditions have to be held, and a final producer selected. From then on the Director has to be available to answer any production queries that arise on the fly.

Eventually, the chapters are ready to be edited, and the Director comes back to the fore, for each chapter has to be listened to and compared with the original text.

Alterations can still be made at this stage, and a cover has to be made. It is the Director’s responsibility to get all this done to his satisfaction. When the book has been approved, the audio company’s Quality Control takes over. Nevertheless,  the Director may still get the audiobook back for editing.

Quality Control

Once it passes that stage, it goes on to the aggregators ( Amazon, Audible and Apple) to be checked by their Quality Control systems. About a week after that, the audiobook will go live.

A Night In Annwn is one of my favourite books because it is so different, and the wonderful reader, Andrew McGuirk, adds an extra dimension to the words and atmosphere.

AUDIO HERE

A Night In Annwn is available free for some at Amazon, please click the following link:

AMAZON LINK

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When a Book Costs Less Than a Drink…

Published by Owen on August 17, 2018

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When a Book Costs Less Than a Drink

A Night in Annwn – one of the free audiobooks on MPS

When a Book Costs Less Than a Drink…

I will admit it straight from the off! I am a writer with an axe to grind and I cannot understand people who complain that books are too expensive. Most books, in the form of ebooks, cost less than the price of a drink!

My ebooks cost an average of 8p or 10c per 1,600 words, which means that a coffee costing £2.40 is the equivalent of a 48,000-word book! Let’s call it 50,000 words… because many writers use that as the norm these days.

Mine are usually 80,000 to 112,000 words long or about the same as a coffee and a slice of cake!

Now, I’m sure that you don’t need me to tell you that a coffee and cake is normally consumed in twenty to thirty minutes, but most people would spend a week or two reading a book of 90,000 words!

So, where is the expense?

Not only that, but the coffee will soon be forgotten, but a good book could be remembered forever and even change your outlook on life, something that a coffee, no matter how good it is, will ever do.

People just don’t think much any more… their priorities have been skewed the wrong way. It is very sad.

I talk to a lot of people every week about reading and books, and it still saddens me to hear someone announce proudly that they haven’t read a book since leaving school… and I hear that several times a week!

The even more depressing problem with this sad state of affairs is that parents who don’t read much raise children who don’t read either. This has nothing to do with education, or at least, very little. It has to do with parents encouraging their children to fantasise with a good book.

The Baby Boomers are the first generation of working class writers, and their parents were the first generation of working class readers, so that was not all that long ago, but we need to keep the momentum going forward, but I can’t help thinking that we are going backwards.

It is very sad to witness and the remedy costs no more than the price of a coffee… with or without cake.

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Owen

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Megan’s Free Audiobook Club

Published by Owen on April 27, 2018

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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 becomes ridiculous to continue to do so. Enter Megan’s Free Audiobook Club!

Anyway, I didn’t even realise that there was a fad for audiobooks until the beginning of 2018, when an article caught my eye and I followed the thread for an hour or so.

Now, I have four audiobooks of my own work and eleven more in production, and I have established a club where other enthusiasts can meet up. Well, more than that actually as I plan to hand out free copies of my audiobooks to members, and perhaps I will obtain audiobooks from other author friends to give away too.

The group is free to join, is called ‘Megan’s Free Audiobook Club’ and is hosted on Facebook here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/megansfreeaudiobooks/

The details are explained on the group’s page, but basically, I will publish a list of the books I have to hand out with a reference back to a fuller description on this website. Then if you want a copy, just ask for one and you will receive a code to download a free copy.

Audiobooks often cost upwards of $20, so that is a pretty hefty saving. The only thing that I will ask of you in return is a short, honest review and that it be completed within a month.

NB: I am not even asking for a favourable review – just an honest one!

If you have never written a review before, don’t worry about it! I am not expecting a Sunday Times quality 🙂 Just in your own words…

In fact, I will put up a short template that you can follow to write your review to get novices started. Here is the link to that:

http://meganthemisconception.com/writing/how-to-write-a-book-review/

Please pop over to Megan’s Free Audiobook Club now and join up… I would love to meet you.

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