This is just a quick note about some things that have been happening recently.
Amazon has introduced a structure called pre-ordering, which is something that traditional publishers have used for a long, long time. The theory is that people who follow an author will buy the book one day, so, allow them to place an order before the publication date and all those orders will be fulfilled on the first day.
This makes it look like a rush to buy to the people who compile bestseller lists, and, believe it or not, (apparent) success breeds success, because stockists, and readers, buy what is popular.
Therefore, rising up a list is of great importance to a writer and Amazon has just introduced pre-ordering.
I want to take advantage of this pre-ordering feature and I hope that you, my loyal readers, will help me.
My research shows that many of my regular readers have read or bought at least two of my books, although they do tend to stick to one or another genre and I, unlike most authors have written in at least five genres.
That aside, I have just, this month, released three new novels.
Megan and the Burglar (Megan12)
Fate Twister, the story of Wayne Gamm: in pre-order at 28% discount until the 7h September
Behind The Smile 4: yes, the long-awaited sequel to the trilogy! Probably to be called ‘The Lady in the Tree’. The cover is wrong, but it will be the same as the others but in royal blue. It is also in pre-order at a big discount.
I hope that you will use the pre-ordering facility and help me promote the books that you like so much, after all, you’re going to buy them anyway, aren’t you?
Please go here to see the books and place your pre-order (in the normal way):
Owen Jones, Amazon Best-Selling Author from Barry, Wales, has lived in several countries and travelled in many more. While studying Russian in the USSR in the '70's, he hobnobbed with spies on a regular basis; in Suriname, he got caught up in the 1982 coup; and while a company director, he joined the crew of four as the galley slave to sail from Barry to Gibraltar a home-made concrete yacht, which was almost rammed by a Russian oil tanker and an American aircraft carrier.
“I am a Celt, and we are romantic”, he said when asked about his writing style, “and I firmly believe in reincarnation, Karma and Fate, so, sayings like 'Do unto another...', and 'What goes round comes around' are central to my life and reflected in my work. I write about what I see, or think I see, or dream... and, in the end it is all the same really”. He speaks seven languages and is learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of fifteen years.
His first novel, Daddy's Hobby is from the seven-part series 'Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya', but his largest collection is 'The Megan Series', twenty-three novelettes on the psychic development of a teenage girl, the subtitle of which, 'A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!' sums them up nicely. He has written fifty novels and novelettes, including: Dead Centre; Andropov's Cuckoo; Fate Twister; The Disallowed (a philosophical comedy); Tiger Lily of Bangkok; and A Night in Annwn (Annwn being the ancient Welsh word for Heaven). Many have been translated into foreign languages and narrated into audio books.
Owen Jones writes stories set in Wales, Spain and Thailand, where he now lives. He is a life-long Spiritualist, and this belief is interwoven, in a very realistic way, into many of his books and storylines. If you like a touch of the 'supernatural', try his books
He sums his life up thus: “Born in the Land of Song, Living in the Land of Smiles”.
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