This section covers posts that in general do not fit into other sections easily. They will mostly be made by admin on whatever I am adding at that moment, which is usually something to do with writing, publishing, websites, eating or Thailand, which is where I live :-)
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PLR blog content is useful for reasons that will suit many people including discerning authors. This may seem strange since you would expect them to write their own material. The fact is that they do, but a great deal of work goes into writing a good article or post, and sometimes even authors just don’t have the time to produce writing of high quality. This is where good PLR blog content can be useful. A good PLR author will have done the necessary research for the piece.
Find a reputable PLR provider
There are reputable companies out there offering PLR articles. However, most of the firms you will find are just reselling other people’s work that has been spun and respun so many times that it doesn’t make sense any longer. Yet others are selling plagiarized content. If you find one that offers high-quality PLR content, then you should make a note of it.
Choose a PLR topic or keyword phrase
Once you have chosen a topic or keyword phrase to help you find the article you need, you need to decide what kind of article you want. Do you want an ezine article, how-to article, social media post, blog content, or something else?
Find PLR blog content based on that topic
There are several ways to find content. One option is to search The Internet. Another option is to use a paid service. Obviously, one method is cheaper and the other more time-consuming.
Add images, videos, links, etc.
Once you have found an article that you think would work well for your business, you need to ‘make it your own ‘. You can do this by adjusting the style of the piece to match your own. You can also add some additional elements to make it more appealing to your readers. This includes adding images, videos, links to other articles, and even testimonials.
Publish your PLR content!
Once you have produced a good article from your PLR blog content, you should publish it as soon as possible. It will help you build authority and credibility with readers and the search engines. Repeating this process regularly will help you build up your own collection of high-quality PLR blog content.
Megan’s Market, sometimes referred to as Megan’s Marketplace, is a part of the literary blog Megan Publishing Services, the main interest of which is books. Many, if not most of its visitors are readers and writers. However, even readers and writers need and want other things to get by in life.
Megan’s Market.
The site admin currently only sells books written by the Welsh writer Owen Jones, but we intend to sell other items as well. Items such as pens, diaries, bookmarks, reading lights, tablets etc.
However, if you want to take advantage of our tardiness and sell these items before us, please do so
The system is completely automated. You can set up your account, enter your items for sale along with photo, description and price and post it. Any applicable fees can be paid at the same time.
We will be offering discounts and free ads from time to time, so either sign up to our free newsletter or come back often.
Promotion.
Promotion of your items on Megan’s Market is simple. We post all new posts automatically to our membership, which stands at 103,000 at the time of writing. Megan Publishing Services also receives about 3,000 pageviews per day. Furthermore, all merchants will receive the URL of their product’s webpage, and, there are social media buttons on every page too.
Self-promotion is a doddle in Megan’s Market! Not only that, but admin actively promotes the site every day with Search Engine Optimisation and the writing of fresh content in the form of relevant article at least five times a week.
What type of things can I sell?
That is pretty much up to the vendor. As I have said, this is a literary blog, but even readers and writers need shoes, want pretty things and take holidays. So we are leaving the doors open, at least for the time being.
Finally, if you want something special like site-wide banner advertising, then that is possible too. So are long-term advertising contracts and guest articles.
Just drop me an email to Megan’s Market and tell me what you have in mind.
You’ve probably heard about writing PLR articles before, but do you know what a PLR article really is? In this article, we’ll explain everything you need to know how to create and use hem. What is PLR (Private Label Rights)? It’s when an author sells his/her content for someone else to use his own name. This allows the writer to earn money for writing, and the user of the article to obtain content quickly without doing much work.
What is a PLR Article?
A private label rights article is a type of content that was not written by the person claiming to be its author. These articles are usually sold as a package deal where the buyer gets access to the original content plus additional bonus material. This bonus material could be extra content.
Why Do People Buy Them?
There are several reasons why people buy PLR articles. One reason is because they’re looking for new ways to promote their business. Another reason is because they want to build an email list. Yet another reason is because they want more exposure for themselves or an event.
How Can I Create My Own PLR Article?
If you want to write your own PLR articles, there’s no one right way to go about doing so. However, there are some things you should keep in mind when writing your own PLR articles. If you are writing speculatively, you will probably want to stick to common issues. However, if you have a niche area of expertise then you may want to stick to that. Many writers of PLR are hired to write an article on a specific topic, which could mean the author doing a lot of research.
How Much Should I Charge For A PLR Article?
There are two main ways to make money with PLR articles. One is by selling them as is (i.e., not edited for a very specific purpose), and the other is by editing them to suit a particular niche or slant. The first method is cheaper for the author, since it takes less time. you’ll need to immerse yourself in your niche, and then you will find out what the average price of articles in your niche is.
As a guideline, I would say that non everyone can write persuasively, and not everyone is capable of targeted research. Therefore, you should be looking for at least minimum wage plus. Plus what? 25%? 50%? 100%? Only you can work that out, sorry.
Where Can I Find PLR Articles?
If you’re looking for free PLR articles, there are plenty of places online where you can find them, although you will find most of them quite useless. However, if you want to use a fresh, meaningful PLR article, then, you’ll have to pay for it.
We have ebooks of 12-18 targeted, niche PLR articles on 125 niche subjects, just look in title bar above.
You can now read foreign translations of novels by the Welsh writer Owen Jones in thirty-seven languages. Full details are on this blog
There are now several companies offering to facilitate the creation of foreign translations. This could be paper documents, website even novels. In fact, it has never been easier easier to read novels by authors from different countries and cultures. For example, the Welsh writer Owen Jones has books in thirty-seven languages. So, it is easy to imagine that most people in the world have access this Welsh writer’s work.
The Foreign Translations of Books by Owen Jones.
Owen Jones has been the main instigator of the translation of his books, because he is a self-published, or indie-published author. This obviously means that he has no agent or traditional publishing house to organise this sort of work for him.
“It takes a lot of time to find apposite narrators and translators”, he say, “and then to work with them suggesting translations and explaining difficult sentences. Naturally, that detracts from the time spent writing. It is the balance that each indie-author has to work out for him- or herself. The choice is between more books, or a wider readership? It’s a toss-up. However, it was an easy decision for me because I have always travelled, and speak seven or eight languages. I wanted my International friends to be able to read my books, if they want to…” he adds with a smile.
Which books by Owen Jones have been translated.
Owen Jones published his first novel Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya, in 2012. It was an immediate hit with the visitors to, and expats in Pattaya, Thailand. It is 112,000 words long, which has an effect on the willingness of translators’ to take it on. Jones works with narrator and translator colleagues who will accept a share of the sales revenues as payment. It is known as royalty share. Typically, the author receives 15-30% of the revenue, and the translator 60-70% with the intermediary taking 10%. It means that colleagues are less likely to take a risk on a large book, in case they have chosen unwisely.
Who translated the books?
The native-speaker narrators and translators of each language in the agency carry out the work on the books. Then the author and the collaborator work together to preserve as much of the meaning of the original text as possible.
Where can I find out more about these books in non-English languages?
If you would like to learn more about these books in other languages, you can start on this blog, Megan Publishing Services. The title bar (at the top of the blog page) contains many links to the various books, foreign translations and in English… even non-English audiobooks!
Are the foreign translations more expensive?
No, at least not necessarily. The author and the agency then choose a single, global price, which means that a book could cost, say $4.99 (+ taxes) in every country. However, $4.99 could be cheap in, say, Norway, but expensive in Somalia. So, it can work out more expensive, but then the people who want to read literature in foreign translations tend to have better jobs, so maybe that isn’t that important.
What is Dead Centre? Most people will think of it as ‘the bull’s eye’ or centre of a target, or a shot that hits it. However, in the context of his book, the Welsh writer Owen Jones uses the term in three ways:
as in bull’s eye above
to refer to the point where a killing took place, or the location of maximum fatalities
to refer to The Dead Centre Agency, which is a secret organisation that is responsible for the wave of extreme terrorism that’s sweeping the world. In different contexts, the term has been used in reference to terrorist attacks since at least the 1980s.
What is Dead Centre? Did it really exist?
The Dead Centre Agency, as used by Jones, is fictional, as far as he knows. In acts of terrorism, especially in the past, terrorists would attack targets such as shopping malls, train stations, and airports. These were places where large numbers of people gathered, making them easy targets. However, the author envisioned a scenario where terrorism could be a business opportunity.
He foresaw an organisation that found willing volunteer suicide bombers in order to carry out terrorist attacks on areas with little or no security. The client would choose the target, and The Dead Centre Agency would do the rest. Even to the point of paying the bomber’s or participant’s family his fee after the conclusion of the attack.
Could such an organisation really exist?
They say that the FBI has identified a terrorist group called “Dead Centre”. Apparently, it was formed in 2009 and its members are believed to be responsible for several recent terror attacks. The group’s name comes from the fact that it uses tactics similar to those used by the IRA during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. However, the author is not aware that that that group operated to order as Jones writes in his work of fiction.
Surely crime on this scale could not happen in real life?
This type of terrorism is very different from other forms of terrorism because it does not involve any kind of political agenda. Instead, it involves random acts of violence carried out by individuals who are paid to commit suicide… and they do it because they have a terminal illness.. Furthermore, these people do not represent any particular religion or ideology, so they are very difficult to trace.
Although it is a form of terrorism, killing innocent people is not the objective. The client sets the purpose of the attack, and it is usually financial gain or revenge.
Did the owners of The Dead Centre Agency have a guilty conscience?
There was no evidence that the owners of The Dead Centre Agency had any sort of guilty conscience. In fact, they were quite proud of what they were doing to help the terminally ill provide for their families. They believed that they were doing something good for society.
Is there a sequel to Dead Centre?
At least seven police forces around the world and the SAS sought the leaders of the agency high and low. However, in Dead Centre 2, they are located by MI6, and offered a very special mission by an extremely important client.
“I can say no more”, said the Welsh writer with a smile.
What is the likelihood that such an organisation could really be out there?
If you are looking for books translated into Russian, you’ve come to the right place! We have a number of acclaimed novels by Owen Jones available. These books were first written in English, but were selected and translated into Russian by professional Russian translators. They are from various genres as the Welsh author does not have a favourite, although many of the novels reflect his Welsh background and belief in a life after death, in which the living and ‘the dead’ can communicate. His books are usually set in either his native Wales, his beloved Spain, or the country where he now lives, Thailand.
This is the list of books translated into Russian available as I am writing this blog post.
Books by Welsh Writer Owen Jones translated into Russian
Behind The Smile – «Что скрывает улыбка»
Behind The Smile is a series of seven novels on the life of Lek, a bar girl in Pattaya. This fictional biography isset in Pattaya, Thailand, which is probably Asia’s hottest holiday destination. It is world-famous for its nightlife and bar girls. Jones has had a twenty-year association with the city, and knows it very well. The girls in a bar that he came to know very well asked him to write their story. In fact, it is based on the stories that the girls of this bar told him. Daddy’s Hobby, the first novel in the series, was his first book, and remains his best-seller. A high percentage of the British and American male visitors to Pattaya will have read, or at least heard of, this series.
Behind The Smile is available in nine languages. Dasha Elsova translated the Russian edition.
The Ghouls of Calle Goya – Упыри c улицы Гойя
The Ghouls of Calle Goya is a fantasy horror thriller that is based on a true story that befell the author and his wife while living in Fuengirola, Spain. Locations for the story are in Norway, Britain, Spain and Thailand, and it tells the story of how a newly-wed couple fall foul of an international secret society while on their honeymoon in Fuengirola. As in most of Jones’ realistic novels, the street names and places actually exist.
The Ghouls of Calle Goya is available in eleven languages. Nattyasam translated the Russian edition.
Fate Twister – Судьбоносец
Fate Twister is a fantasy coming-of-age story, and tells the story of the early life of Wayne Gamm, who was born into a family of witches in the mountains of north Wales near Dolgellau. That is, most people would call it a fantasy or a supernatural fantasy, but Jones believes that everything that he writes about in this novel are possible, and in fact, are reality for millions of people around the world today.
“The word ‘witch’ still carries the mostly pejorative meaning that was attached to it by the Catholic church in the Middle Ages. Witch Hunts, torture and murder were the results. Furthermore, Hollywood perpetuates an absurd image of witches and warlocks”, he says. “My mother was a self-proclaimed White Witch, and my father said that her mother was an old witch too!” he says only half jokingly. “My parents did not bring my brothers and me up to think that this was at all unusual”.
Fate Twister reflects those opinions, as do several of Jones’ other novels.
Fate Twister is available in five languages. Natalija Cvetkova translated the Russian edition.
The Psychic Megan Series – Экстрасенс Меган Сериал
The Psychic Megan Series is a series of twenty-four novelettes in English. However, only a few of them have been translated into Russian. It tells the story of a young, psychic teenager called Megan, and takes place in a fictional town called Feyton, which closely resembles the author’s home town, Barry, in South Wales. It too belongs to the class of paranormal fantasy fiction. However, it is based on the lives of Jones and his mother rolled into one character – Megan.
In the first volume, The Misconception, Megan’s mother has locked her in the coal cellar for saying that she can see auras around people. Her mother will not tolerate such talk, because she fears the paranormal, and may even be psychic herself. This did actually happen to Jones’ mother. Other aspects of the story actually happened to Jones himself, but he has rolled them all into the life of the central character, Megan.
The Psychic Megan Series is available in thirty-seven languages. Oksana Rindina translated the Russian edition of The Misconception.
The Disallowed – Запрещенные
The Disallowed is a fantasy comedy. It takes place whole in the mountains of northern Thailand near Chiang Rai. This story is Jones’ only attempt at comedy so far, although he himself describes it as merely humorous. It tells the story of a goatherd farmer by the name of Heng Lee and his family and starts one day when Heng is feeling weak. He decides to visit the village Shaman, who is also his ancient aunty Da. Her diagnosis of Heng’s problem, and the resulting cure, affect the Lee family and indeed, the whole village for ever!
The Disallowed is available in twenty-four languages. Hebs Orest translated the Russian edition.
Tiger Lily of Bangkok – Тигровая Лилия из Бангкока
Tiger Lily of Bangkok is the name of the series and the first volume in it. It falls into the genre of Revenge Fiction. Lily was born into a Chinese-Thai family in a village in Isaan on a bank of the Mekong River. She was a happy child, living in a happy family, in a hard-working but happy village. Her idyllic life continued until an ‘uncle’ – a friend of the family – started abusing her when she was eleven years old. Lily became morose, introverted and quiet, but no-one seemed to notice. If her parents had known, they did nothing about it, so Lily found her own way out of her awful predicament. However, while her action freed her from her abuser, it made the villagers fear her, so her isolation continued.
She longed to get away from the village that she had once loved so much. She even wanted to get away from her parents, who had not helped her when she had needed them the most. Her opportunity came when they accepted her onto a medical course at a university in Bangkok. However, damage had already been done to Lily. She brooded, got angry and wanted revenge… revenge on paedophiles, and Tiger Lily of Bangkok – The Avenger came into existence!
Tiger Lily of Bangkok is available in twelve languages. Natalija Cvetkova translated the Russian edition.
The number of books translated into Russian on this blog continues to grow steadily, so please come back to check often. If you are curious about our books translated into Russian, please visit this page on our blog:
The most prolific Welsh writer you’ve never heard of!
Welsh novelist, Owen Jones, was born in Barry, South Wales in 1954. He wrote over 175 books, many of which were set in his native country. His works include the series: The Psychic Megan Series, Behind The Smile, Tiger Lily of Bangkok, Annwn-Heaven, and Dead Centre.
Who is this Welsh Novelist with 1,000 Books?
Jones attended infant, junior, and comprehensive schools in his home town. Then he left for Portsmouth, where he studied Russian Language and Soviet History. It was the sixth language that he learned to fluency before he was twenty-four. After Portsmouth, he moved to The Netherlands for nine years and learned Dutch. In 2004, he moved to Thailand, and started writing his first book, which he published in 2012. It was Daddy’s Hobby the first book in the series Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya. The second volume, An Exciting Future arrived in the same year. That’s 225,000 words worth!
Where did he come from?
Jones’ parents were avid readers and Spiritualists. He read many of the hundreds of books in the house, and loved writing essays and stories at school. He always received good marks for his literary efforts. However, he gave up English Language as soon as possible in favour of foreign languages. When he did start writing seriously, he was in his fifties, and had to teach himself how to write grammatically, and publish his books.
When did he start writing?
Our Welsh novelist started writing in school, and never really stopped. In school and university, he wrote essays, stories and a dissertation. However, after full-time education, he worked as a translator abroad, and wrote many letters home and to friends. There was no Internet or email then!
What were his influences?
His father was a Spiritualist healer, and so was his maternal grandmother, who actually founded a Spiritualist Church in his town. In fact, it is still going today. Jones has always taken Spiritualism very seriously. He calls it a Western form of Buddhism, and tries to live his life according to its beliefs. This is reflected in most of the stories he writes, but not all. The Psychic Megan Series partially reflects his mother’s life story, but it incorporates Spiritualism in the main too. The Annwn – Heaven Series is similar in that it is concerned with Spiritualist/Buddhist beliefs.
What’s this Welsh writer’s best work?
As with all writers, you pays your money and takes your choice with this Welsh novelist. There are 175 books to choose from, and they have been translated and narrated to make 1,000 books! Owen Jones himself is non-committal. “I forget about some of the stories’ details sometimes, but when I am working with a translator or narrator, I fall in love with the book all over again!”
Pattaya Beach Road: photo by Fernanda Araujo on Pexels.com
Pattaya’s Most Famous Street?
Pattaya Beach Road is one of the most famous streets in Thailand. It is located on the eastern side of Pattaya Bay and The Gulf of Thailand.
Pattaya Beach Road
ป้ายบนพัทยาคมวินสตีเฟนต์ (Pattaya Beach Road in Thai) is a street in Pattaya, Chonburi Province, Thailand. The street runs along the shoreline of Pattaya Bay. It is famous for its many bars, restaurants, nightclubs, and hotels. In fact, the road has been dubbed “Pattaya’s most famous street” since it was built in the 1970s. However, Walking Street might fairly lay claim to that title too. In recent years, the area has become more popular with tourists than locals. Many people visit the area because of its golden sand and peaceful sea views, although also for its nightlife, shopping, and entertainment options.
However, some residents complain about noise pollution, litter, and crime.
Pattaya’s Strip
The road has many nicknames, depending on where the visitor has come from. It has been known as “Pattaya’s Main Street” since it was first built. It is also called “First Road”, “The Strip”, “The Avenue”, and “The Boulevard”. Nevertheless, most people refer to it as “Pattaya Beach Road” or simply “Beach Road”. The road runs along the beach front for about 3.5 km from near The Dolphin Roundabout in the north to Walking Street in the south. This is the place where tourists come to enjoy the nightlife and shopping. There are plenty of bars, restaurants, clubs, and shops along the road. This is the area to investigate if you are looking for a hotel near a beach in Pattaya.
Why Is This Street So Popular?
Many people visit Pattaya because of its beautiful beaches. However, there are also other reasons why Beach Road is so popular. One reason is that it has a lot of entertainment options. While the area is ‘perfectly’ safe during daylight hours, the actual beach, and even the beach-side pavement is a no-go area at night. It has a reputation for male prostitution after dark and many men have experienced problems there.
Behind The Smile on Pattaya Beach Road
Behind The Smile volume 1
The Welsh author Owen Jones has written a very popular seven-part series called ‘Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya’, which features a bar just off Pattaya Beach Road and the girls who work in it. Many visitors praise the story for being true to life, and several Pattaya bar girls have thanked the author for portraying them honestly.
Click the link below to find out more about the series.
Welsh author, Owen Jones, was born in Barry, Wales in August 1954 to an industrious, working-class family. He had four brother, three of which remain alive on Earth. To distinguish him from other Welsh authors with the same name alive or deceased, his middle name is Ceri (Keri).
Early Life of Owen Jones.
Welsh author Owen Jones went to Colcot Primary School, High Street Junior School, and then Barry Comprehensive School. He joined ‘The Comp’ in 1965, the first year it was open. His year’s school intake would later be referred to as ‘First Year Comp’. He was chosen to sit for the Oxford entry examination in 1971. However, he passed it over because his girlfriend was going to Portsmouth Polytechnic. He also studied there – Russian Language and Soviet Studies – and his replacement for the exam went to Oxford.
After finishing his degree, he moved to s’Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) in The Netherlands for nine years. Then he worked for his father with his brothers for thirteen years. In 2004, he moved to Thailand with his Thai wife. He is still there now, living in her remote rice-farming village in the north.
The Welsh Author Emerges.
Owen began creating websites to pay the bills at first. However, they needed a lot of fresh content to keep them high in the search engine rankings. In 2011, he realised that he had 145 websites and had written 1,200,000 words that year to support them. After a few beers one night, it dawned on him that he was writing the equivalent of ten largish novels a year to support websites that would crumble after his death. He had always enjoyed writing, and had started a book in 2004, when he first arrived in Thailand. He resolved to finish the novel.
Owen Jones’ Books.
He published Daddy’s Hobby, the first volume in the series Behind The Smile: The Story Of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya in April 2012 – eight years after he had started it. However, volume two, An Exciting Future, appeared six months later, and Maya – Illusion, volume three, three months after that.
Within seven years, he had written fifty-two novels. These included twenty-three novelettes called The Psychic Megan Series, which is based on ideas that he had learned from his Spiritualist family, and set in Barry. Meanwhile, Behind The Smile has grown to seven volumes comprising 720,000 words. He finds it difficult to stick to one genre, he says. Although most of his books involve some supernatural or paranormal content.
However, even that is not the full story. He has written a military drama mini-series called Dead Centre, which is about a new form of terrorism barely contemplated because it is so awful.
Prolific Welsh Author’s Future.
I asked him why he has not sought representation in the traditional publishing industry. He replies that he had made several half-hearted attempts to attract interest from literary agents five or six years ago, but he gave up, because so few of them replied. I also asked whether he might try to become a traditionally-published Welsh author again. He replied “Maybe”, but didn’t look at all enthusiastic. “I think that The Psychic Megan Series might be ‘quite easy’ to sell. However, writing to these people and waiting months for a reply is such a mind-numbingly boring slog!”
In my opinion, the 68 years old Welsh author from Barry, Owen Jones, has never really cared whether he goes down the traditional route of well-known authors or not. He is quite happy sitting in his quiet, remote Thai village organising the translation and narration of his existing books, and writing the occasional new one.
Owen Jones , the extremely prolific Welsh author, now has more than a thousand books with his name on registered at the British Library, so he must be doing something right!
Is there an Alien House near you? How could you find out whether you have extraterrestrial spacemen for neighbours? People tend to fall into two camps. Some are quite worried about having visitors from Outer Space, and others relish the idea of meeting extraterrestrials. It is presumed that, if there are extraterrestrial spacemen (and spacewomen) living here on Earth, then they must be living in an off-worlder abode… hidden in full view.
Sightings of Alien Neighbours.
People report having seen visitors from Outer Space in hundreds of places around the world. Many of these are genuine reports from people who are convinced that they have experienced real extraterrestrial contact. However, there are many reported sightings that are obviously just hoaxes too. Still, people have reported seeing strange lights in the sky, and even hearing sounds that they believe could only have come from ET ‘s or their UFO’s.
Check with local law enforcement agencies.
This might sound daft, but if you think you might have seen aliens or something unusual, contact your local police station. They will, or might (depending on your luck), investigate the situation and get back to you. However, if you feel that you have discovered ET neighbours, then you might be better off contacting the government, or plain-clothes police officers.
It is unlikely that you have discovered an off-worlders’ dwelling just because it looks dilapidated, old, abandoned or unused. Equally, I doubt that aliens would want to draw attention to themselves. For example, by employing overly futuristic designs built into the architecture of their homes. I’m sure that if ET’s are living on Earth in an extraterrestrial abode, then it will appear quite normal. On the other hand, it may be large enough to have substantial grounds for landing their craft in. An old mansion or colonial house in the country, for example. Somewhere off the beaten track, perhaps shielded from casual view by natural woods or hills.
Call your local news station.
If you fancy becoming a local celebrity (or thought of as a nutter), you could report that you think you saw something strange in your neighbourhood to your local radio station. They might investigate and report back to you. You could also try to corroborate your suspicions online or by talking to local residents.
Alien House – a fantasy novel.
Welsh writer, Owen Jones, has written a fantasy novel about just such a dwelling. He has sited it not far outside his home town of Barry, South Wales. In the story, Michael, the central character, believes that he might be going mad, when his Alter Ego, Ralph, tries to persuade him that his new-found friends are spacemen and spacewomen, who live only a few miles away in an alien house. Eventually, his innermost thoughts worry him so much that he asks them outright.
If you want to find out what happens next in this fantasy novel by Owen Jones, please click this link:
Behind The Smile – but what else could be lingering there? A genuine smile is often contagious… it makes people feel good about themselves. However, is there something else behind the smile like sadness, deceit, or even danger? Have you ever wondered why someone smiles when they’re happy, but frowns when they’re sad? The answer lies in the coding of our brains, and some people have learned how to use smiling to affect us on this neurological level for their own purposes. Astute people can usually read warning signs, but that doesn’t always work.
Is it really just a smile?
If you’re wondering why some people seem to have an easy time smiling while others struggle with it, here are some things to consider:
1. People who smile often tend to have a positive outlook on life. They see the glass as half full rather than half empty.
2. Smiles are contagious. So when you smile, you’re likely to make other people react in the same way.
3. Smiling releases endorphins into our brains. Endorphins are natural painkillers that help reduce stress and improve mood.
What could be lingering behind the smile?
Smiling is one of the easiest ways to make others feel better about themselves. In fact, research shows that a smile can actually affect the brain’s reward system, making us happier than we would otherwise be. However, not everyone smiles at every appropriate situation. Some people smile in order to hide what they don’t want you to see. Think of the magicians and their distraction techniques, or the shopkeeper with the happy face, or the con-artist trying to sell you a pup.
Are You Smiling Because You’re Happy or Sad?
If you find yourself smiling when you aren’t feeling happy, then you might be suffering from a condition called “smile disorder”. This is a common problem among children and teens, but adults also sometimes develop this condition. Smiling is an automatic response to positive emotions. People who suffer from these disorders often have trouble controlling their facial muscles, so that they appear to be smiling even though they’re not. They may also have difficulty recognizing other people’s smiles because they don’t feel as genuine.
Behind The Smile – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl In Pattaya
The theme of what can be behind a smile is central to Welsh writer Owen Jones’ epic series about a bar girl in Pattaya. Lek had been a happy child and adolescent growing up in a peaceful, not-poor, rice-farming village in northern Thailand. She had expected nothing more out of life than all the other girls born there for generations. That is, to work on the family smallholding, get married have children, work some more and then to retire to look after the grandchildren. So, had it been for hundreds of years.
However, Lek’s father had borrowed money from the bank – a new phenomenon, that he hadn’t completely understood. When he died suddenly from diabetes, the family was told to pay up or get out. It had been a shock, because they hadn’t known about the loan.
There had been only one solution. Lek, as the eldest child of four, had had to go to Pattaya to work in a bar. She missed her family tremendously, but worked in the bar smiling at the punters. However, she was there for ten long years, and all that time, there was something else going on behind the smile.
You can read Owen Jones’ fascinatingly poignant series here:
Tiger Lily of Bangkok – Prowling Avenger is a deadly assassin who hunts the streets looking for victims. She is looking for revenge on paedophiles!
Lily’s Childhood.
Lily was a happy little girl, who grew up with her loving Thai parents. They owned a small village shop near the Mekong River and were of Chinese extraction. Both parents worked hard in the shop, but her mother also grew fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers in their garden both to eat and to sell. He favourite flower was the Tiger Lily, which her parents and grandparents had used as medicine. However, only an expert could use it as such, because it was one one the most deadly plants in south-east Asia, despite being one of the most beautiful.
The thought tickled Lily’s mother, and Lily too, when she was told the story. She already had known that she had been named after it. This idyllic childhood lasted until she was eleven, when a family friend, who helped out in the shop occasionally, and whom she called ‘uncle’, started to take an unhealthy interest in her.
Revenge.
After more than a year of tricking her into massage his penis ‘because it hurt’, and unwanted groping and fondling, Lily was at the end of her tether. She had long wanted to tell her mother, and had even tried half-hearted a few times, but she could not bring herself to talk about the child abuse. It was too painful… too embarrassing. She also feared that her mother would not believe her and the consequent loss of face.
One day in the school playground, she saw a huddle of boys laughing strangely in a tight group. She struggled to get a look, and saw a boy holding a smartphone showing pornography. When the boy spotted her pretty Elfin face, he asked, “Would you like to do that, Lily?” The woman in the fil was performing fellatio, and Lily ran away as the boys laughed. It had never crossed her mind that her uncle had boasted to anyone, but maybe he had, she thought. She thought she would die of shame
As it happened, her secret had not got out, but it didn’t seem like that to Lily.
The next time that her uncle came for a massage, Lily surprised him by taking it in her mouth. He groaned with pleasure, and then in agony as she bit it off. She never saw him again. The police exiled him from the province and sold his property as compensation for Lily.
Tiger Lily of Bangkok.
Lily had to put up with the shame and embarrassment of the whole village knowing what had happened for another six or seven years, before she was able to use the compensation money to escape to Bangkok to fulfil her dream of becoming a paediatrician – a doctor for children.
However, costs were more than she could ever have predicted from the only environment that she had known, her village. She needed help, and sought it from wealthy boyfriends. Gradually, she discovered that some of them liked her especially because she was petite. She was five feet tall, weighed less than ninety pounds, but was all in proportion, and had the most beautiful pixie face.
As it dawned on her that these men could be like her old ‘uncle’, she began to despise them. Something began to twist in Lily’s brain. She started having nightmares, and plotting revenge.
Tiger Lily of Bangkok was being born.
Tiger Lily of Bangkok – Prowling Avenger.
Lily began to play on her youthful aspect, inviting men to like her because she appeared young, but sexually active. She learned advanced make-up skills and bought young styles of clothing. She could look any age from about thirteen to twenty-eight, and she began prowling the streets to test her disguises. By day, she was sweet, but rather distant, beautiful diligent, hard-working, medical student Lily, but by night she was Tiger Lily of Bangkok – Prowling Avenger!
She killed with meat-skewers, and her calling card was a Tiger Lily.
Tiger Lily became famous throughout Thailand, but feared by all men in Bangkok!
Lily killed about a dozen men that she had found guilty of paedophilia, and feared capture several times but was never caught. Eventually, the need for revenge dissipated and she left the Prowling Avenger to sleep in perpetuity, or at least until someone woke her up again…
Sidebar: The book of this story – Tiger Lily of Bangkok – and its sequel, are available in a dozen languages. There are more details on this blog.
Daddy’s Hobby by Owen Jones is the first novel from this Welsh writer. It explores why so many girls work in Pattaya and how they fare. It is his best-selling book.
Daddy’s Hobby by Owen Jones is an insightful look at why tens of thousands of young women choose to enter the Pattaya sex tourism industry, and how many of them get on. They and other attractions bring more than a million tourists to Pattaya every year. Most of them are men with money looking for a good time.
Daddy’s Hobby by Owen Jones – Origins.
In the mid-to late Seventies, Owen Jones was working in the south Netherland’s city of s’Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) in Noord Brabant. One day, a popular new bar opened up at the bottom of the street he lived in. It was a ‘Relax Bar’, a concept he didn’t understand, but he liked the sound of the music. One afternoon, he ventured inside. The bar was practically empty despite the fact that the landlord was very friendly and played lots of Heavy Metal, which was very popular at the time.
After a while he noticed a few scantily-clad young ladies looking at him from the darker recesses at the back of the room. When he went to the toilet, he was left in no doubt what a relax bar was. The owner/barman, whose name was Rick, I think, played the Meatloaf album ‘Like A Bat Out of Hell’ from cover to cover three or four times a day and sold marijuana, which had been decriminalised. This record more than any other brought the ‘house dancing girls’ out onto the floor.
The bar was called ‘Daddy’s Hobby’. I liked everything about it including the name, which I thought was very clever. Within a month or two, it was the busiest bar in the city. However, sadly, within a year, Rick had been murdered and his bar burned down. We all thought that it had to do with drugs.
Daddy’s Hobby by Owen Jones – Development.
In the early 2,000’s Owen Jones moved to Pattaya, and started going out with the cashier of the first bar he had a drink in. It put him in a ‘trusted position’ with ‘the girls’. Soon most of the thirty-odd girls who worked there were seeking his advice. Their favourite topic was how best to write saucy texts and emails to their ‘boyfriends’. Most of these had already returned home to their wives or girlfriends in Europe and elsewhere, but mostly the UK. That bar was a more flagrant example of Rick’s Daddy’s Hobby, but without the drugs.
After a few weeks, he had inadvertently collected many scraps of paper with translated messages on them. So, he sought the girls’ permission to write them into a book. No-one disapproved when he promised to use false names. It was funny, he said, because all the girls and most of the clients were already doing that anyway. Everybody was lying, especially the men. He recalls that he had never met so many navy SEALS, SAS, commandos, MI5 and CIA operatives in his life before. Not a one of them was a carpenter or civil servant, and they were all single, looking for a wife!!
There was no other name for the book than Daddy’s Hobby, subtitled Behind The Smile but for various reasons, it took him eight years to self-publish it.
Daddy’s Hobby by Owen Jones – Sequels.
Owen Jones used the name of Lek for his lead female character. She was also the life and soul of the bar, and didn’t mind the author using her real name. She too is sadly long dead. He used the Welsh name Craig for the main male, although there are many other dramatis personae in the novel. When he was writing the book, it was the Lek character that dictated to him in his head what he must write. He had already determined that the book should be 100,000 words long, but when he reached that level, it was clear that Lek hadn’t finished her story. So, Owen closed book one, published it, and started a sequel.
You may be wondering why it took eight years to bring Daddy’s Hobby to market, if it was being dictated.
“Well, when I looked at Craig’s character I could see too much of myself… I just was not prepared to share it at that point”, he says. “I nearly gave up several times, but Lek and I stuck with it and produced a result”.
He did not like the idea of calling the second volume Daddy’s Hobby 2, so he gave it the name of a significant chapter in volume one, An Exciting Future. It now needed a series title to bind them together and that became Behind The Smile. The books are frequently referred to as Behind The Smile.
Lek kept up the pressure for several more years until Behind The Smile consisted of seven volumes, of 720,000 words.
Daddy’s Hobby – the Future.
“Although the Lek in my head was the inspiration of the actual stories, encouragement came from elsewhere. It was also more important”, he says.
“My stepmother hated the book, and two of my three brothers have never mentioned any of my fifty-odd novels. However, one thought it was fantastic though, and asked me to write a sequel. I had also run a competition for a free copy. Coincidentally, the woman who won it was a student journalist, who wrote an encouraging review. I opened the door to Lek again, and started volume two.
“Suddenly, I started to receive encouragement from complete strangers all around the world. Unfortunately, I have still heard nothing from friends and family from my home town. It used to upset me a lot, until I learned that that was quite common in the UK. People seem to resent someone improving themselves”.
He claims to know three readers, who hadn’t read a book since leaving school – one of them being eighty-four! Two others have since written novels, and one has moved to Thailand to see it ‘for himself’! Many readers have sought him out for a drink when they are visiting Thailand, and others went to Spain and Wales to meet him.
Owen says that he hasn’t been back to Pattaya for several years. However, when he was last there tourists and expats knew of his books, and some had read them all. Its particularly affected him when a young Thai woman ran up to him, kissed him on the cheek, and said: “You’re the lovely man who writes nice things about Pattaya bar girls, aren’t you. Thank you very much”.
Every month, he sells several box sets of seven, who can only be going off reviews or recommendation.
Behind The Smile by Owen Jones – Narrations and Translations.
In these days of Covid, it has been difficult to find further inspiration for what he calls the Lek Series. Between 2016 and 2018, he and his Thai wife (that first girl, the cashier, that he met in Pattaya) lived in Andalucía, Spain. From 2018 to 2020, the tried living in Wales. However, Pritti Patel and the Tories made it too difficult for his wife to obtain a residency permit. He says that he will never forgive them for that.
However, while in Spain, Owen started to have his books translated and narrated. Principally in Spanish so that he could sell them to the local Spanish as well as the expats. He soon started to receive offers of collaboration from all over the world in fifteen languages. Since living back in Thailand, and he has been in lockdown in the village because of Covid-related travel restrictions. So, he has been concentrating on these narrations and translations. He now has more than one thousand books in thirty-eight languages registered in his name in the British Library.
“I still would prefer to be writing fresh material though”, he adds with a hint of sadness.
Welsh Writer Gives Top 5 Tips for Aspiring Writers
Keep writing!
Welsh writer, Owen Jones, is from Barry, South Wales. He has loved language and languages all his life. This love manifested itself in learning nine languages and a constant stream of writing. However, for a very long time, he didn’t even consider writing books. They were for reading. He enjoyed writing during his formal education, and after that wrote letters to his friends and family. At twenty-eight years of age, he bought a computer, and began translating professionally. Ten years later, he became an office manager meaning more writing. The proliferation of the Internet was a boon for Owen. He started building websites and creating content for them.
By 2011, he had 145 websites and was writing 1,000,000 words a year as content for them. One day, he decided to write a book instead of all the content, and, so his first novel, Daddy’s Hobby was published in 2012. By 2018, he had written fifty-odd novels of varying length, and 125 manuals. Four years later, he had organised the translation and narration of many of those books, so that in 2022, he had one thousand books registered in his name at the British Library. Here are the top five tips of this prolific Welsh writer.
Tip One:
Keep writing! Even if you only write a few paragraphs a day, keep writing to train your mind to get into the zone! The most useful advice I ever got was from a footnote in a desk diary. It said:
“If you want to be a writer, write for ten minutes every day”
You will probably not see the full sense of this advice unless you really think about it. For example, I cannot write for ten minutes every day. Why? Because when I start writing, hours fly by! I can get into the zone just by picking up a pen, or opening a new document on my computer!
Tip Two:
Don’t worry about grammar or punctuation in your first draft. In fact, I can’t write like this, but I know that it does help many writers. The idea is that worrying about grammar slows the flow of creativity. I, personally, find that there are seconds to minutes when I have to pause to order my thoughts, and during these moments, I correct the typos that my word-processor highlights. I don’t worry about dates and fact though. If I refer to a factual event, I mark it with three question marks. It is easy to search for ??? during editing.
Tip Three:
I found it difficult to commit myself to a point of view at first. I was frightened of opening myself up to ridicule. Make no mistake, when you write, whatever you write, you are telling people something about yourself, even if you don’t want to, or mean to. Your politics, your beliefs, your opinions and your thoughts will become apparent to an astute reader. Often, I am the last to know or see a deeper meaning in my writing. I often learn a lot from an insightful reviewer.
This is scary, or it is to me… less so now that ten years ago, but it is still worrying – a little.
I think that the best way around this is to use social media. Express yourself on Facebook, Twitter or whatever you like, and write articles for your blog (start one). People will criticise you, mock you, question you, and some might even agree with you or even praise you. You will learn to ride with the punches and enjoy the non-criticism.
Tip Four:
You will probably be your own editor, proofreader, researcher publisher and promoter. That’s a lot of hats, but it means that whatever gets to market is your responsibility. It’s all yours… you have no-one to blame. If you spell February throughout your book as ‘Febuary’, someone will pick it up and mock you for the mistake. As common as it is, you are not allowed to make it. I was once asked to proofread a book by an acquaintance. It was humorous and well written, but the basic premise was the Celts versus the English. The problem was that he thought that the Welsh were basically English, not Celtic.
When I enlightened him, he scrapped the book, wasting nine months of work. And why? Because he hadn’t done ten minutes of research.
You will need to get facts right, and spelling and grammar are facts, whether you like it or not. The way to get around this is to read a lot and pay attention to what you read. Become a master craftsperson, don’t settle for remaining an apprentice. After all, books cost roughly the same whether the writer is famous or not, so would you expect a reader to want a well-written, professional-looking book, or your effort that is shot full of holes? Would you employ a carpenter who used second-hand, bent nails and a hammer from The Cheap Shop?
Tip Five:
Be yourself, I am a Welsh writer, and write about what you are passionate about. Yes, there are authors, mostly historical writers, who will choose someone from history, research that person and then write a biography, but that is what they like doing. However, most novelists write fiction. I do, but there is always some truth in my novels, and I usually wrap in some factual events.
Don’t worry about what other people think. They will either love you or hate you. Either way, they won’t affect your life. So just do what makes you happy, as long as what you write can’t be ridiculed for inaccuracy. I don’t mean political or religious bias, you’re allowed that, but many facts are indisputable, so don’t make mistakes with them.
If you don’t already know what your style, genre or voice are, hopefully, you will discover them. It is quite important. Especially if you want to attract an agent and a publisher. Most writers struggle with this, but reading, writing and ‘publishing’ your work will help you discover them. Reading widely, especially, helps you develop your own style and voice as a writer. You should read fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and plays. You should also read magazines, newspapers, blogs, and websites. This gives you an idea of what other people are doing with language.
Welsh Writer
I write because I love words. I love to follow an idea. They’re my lifeblood. I like to learn, so research is a pleasure for me. I write for myself, and for others. I write to share my thoughts and feelings. I write to entertain, and to educate. I write to inspire, and to motivate. I write to contemplate, and to understand. I write to connect, and to communicate. I write to create, and to discover. I write to live, and to learn. I write to laugh, and to cry. I write, because many people don’t listen.
Located in South Wales, Barry lies roughly south-west of the centre of the UK, in The Vale of Glamorgan about ten miles west of the capital of Wales, Cardiff. In ancient times, Barry Island was famous because St. Baruc lived on it. In olden days, it became infamous for pirates and wreckers. Barry Island ceased to be an island in the late Victorian era, when they dug out the docks, and used the spoil to make a land bridge to the mainland.
Barry Wales Heritage
When my grandparents were youngsters, Barry was the exporter of the most coal in the world. I believe that it still holds the world record of a million tons in one year. However, that was more than a hundred years ago. My parents told me stories of being able to walk across Barry Docks by hopping from ship to ship. They were so tightly packed in when they were teenagers. They also told me that Barry had the greatest difference between high and low tide of anywhere in the world. About 44 feet, I think.
Owen Jones – Welsh Writer
My name is Owen Jones, and I am a novelist from Barry Wales. The Colcot, to be specific, which is north-east of the town centre, on the way to Cardiff.
I grew up in Barry-Wales in the Fifties and Sixties, so just after the Second World War. Barry escaped relatively unscathed from the bombing, or so I gather, because nearby Cardiff was deemed a more important target. I enjoyed my youth there. It was busy and there was plenty to do. There seemed to be lots of work too, and there were leisure facilities galore. My particular favourites were Saturday Morning Cinema Club, and the outdoor public swimming baths, although various types of beach with clean water practically surroundBarry. The rip tides were dangerous though, so I preferred the pool.
Then I left Barry-Wales for university in Portsmouth for five years, and almost ten years abroad in The Netherlands. Eventually, I returned ‘for good’ in my early thirties. I remember feeling that I had to be shoehorned back into Barry after the freedom of living in continental Europe. I don’t mean political freedom of course, but the English Channel is quite a mental barrier. For example, if I became bored in The Netherlands, I could hitch-hike to the South of France in a day or so. From Barry, I would have to get to the channel (175 miles), cross that (about eight hours) and then start travelling again. It takes the edge off it.
Yes, flights were an option back then. However, they were not the mode of transport that sprang first to my mind, as they would nowadays. Doesn’t anyone hitch-hike any more? It’s probably deemed unsafe 🙁
Life in Barry Wales
I worked very happily with my brothers in my father’s local construction firm for about fifteen years until he died, work dried up, and we all went our separate ways. That was when Barry-Wales started to go down hill too. Perhaps, I’m exaggerating because my father died and our firm went bust, but I think that it is more than that. There were two big, Edwardian (or Georgian) pubs in the town centre – The Vic(toria Arms?) and the Windsor Hotel. In fact, both were built as hotels but never used as such. One day, the Vic closed down! It was such a shock.
Within a few years, they had knocked it down and replaced it with a Tesco’s. The huge Royal Hotel in Cadoxton is now a Tesco’s too… and the massive Barry Hotel became a theme ‘disco’ for a while before also closing down. The same fate befell the large Romilly Snooker Hall. The council filled in our swimming pool too and built houses on it. Pubs and clubs, not to mention shops, were closing down at an alarming rate. Even Butlin’s Holiday camp on Barry Island, which had already changed hands several times, was demolished to build houses.
In my youth, it had brought in 3,000 happy, enthusiastic visitors a week in the summer. Those, mostly young, holiday-makers, rarely left the Island and its Pleasure Park and brought in a lot of money. A large proportion of Barry’s youth got their first job in Butlin’s or on the fairground. I did too, ‘on the jets’! Cheap flights to Spain and all-inclusive holidays probably killed that cash cow.
Barry’s Death Rattle
A sure sign that Barry had given up any lingering hopes of becoming a prosperous industrial town ever again was when they filled in Barry docks and built upon it. Tourism finally died too when the once beautiful Barry Island beach lost all its sand, because of dredging near Bristol. How many hundreds of thousands of people used to go to that beach every year? Miners saved up all year round for two weeks’ holiday on Barry Island for decades. The renowned and much-awaited Miners’ Fortnight, when money was no object and people partied for weeks on end. All gone now. It’s not so much that these things have gone, but that there are no modern equivalents!
When they close Cardiff Wales Airport, and the subject is always on the agenda, Barry Wales can just roll over and go to sleep like Rip van Winkel, although it will probably never rise again. The people of Barry have always loved Rhoose Airport, as we still call it.
It is best not to treat the above events as a trustworthy timeline, I don’t remember the exact order, but it isn’t really important, because they happened so quickly – within two decades.
Exile from Barry Wales
At this point, I went to live in Thailand, but still returned every now and again with my Thai wife. We even tried living there between 2018 and 2020, but Priti Patel was too powerful and spitefully made obtaining a residence permit too difficult, so we returned to Thailand just before Covid-19 broke loose. I was more than pleased to get out of Barry, which had become a very sad, pale reflection of what it had been even in my memory, although my wife loved it there. She hadn’t known it before – in its glory days though, and perhaps, nether had I.
We will always return to Barry-Wales, for a holiday, but it is now just a dead, residential suburb of Cardiff, where most of those who have a job go to work, and those with any money go to spend it.
PS: I recently read that Barry wales now has the third largest difference between high and low tide. It’s very sad that it has lost the distinction of first place, but it seems rather apt in a way 🙁
Owen Jones, from South Wales, came to writing novels late in life, but has been writing since 2004. He published his first book, Daddy’s Hobby from the series Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya in 2012 Many of the novels he has written have an element of the supernatural and paranormal about them, although his first did not. Owen Jones grew up in a family of Spiritualists, where the subjects of reincarnation, ghosts and the Afterlife were normal topics of daily conversation.
Bibliography
Owen Jones has written more than fifty books of fiction on subjects ranging from ghosts, Alien Intervention, and UFO’s to witchcraft, the occult and Life after Death. He also writes for websites and blogs, and his books have been translated into many languages – about thirty-six, so far.
He also writes fiction without the supernatural element, such as the two biographical series Behind The Smile, and Tiger Lily of Bangkok, the spy-thriller Andropov’s Cuckoo, and the police/military drama Dead Centre.
His first book was published in 2012, and he went on to write more than fifty-odd others in following ten years, the number of which has been multiplied many times over in narration and translation. In fact, he now has more than 1,000 books bearing his name registered in the British Library. In addition to writing books, he also produces podcasts.
Who Is Owen Jones?
He was born in 1954 and grew up in Barry, just outside Wales’ capital city, Cardiff. He attended the Colcot Primary School, High Street Junior School and Barry Comprehensive, until leaving Barry for university in Portsmouth, where he studied Russian. It was his sixth language after English, Welsh, French , German and Latin. He studied in Leningrad and Kalinin (Moscow) while at university, and later taught himself Dutch while living there. Owen has travelled extensively, living, working and studying in several countries. He describes himself as a linguist and writer.
What Does His Work Involve?
His work involves writing short stories, novels, and non-fiction books. Besides the novels, he has written a series of How to… manuals. The latest, How to Take Care of a Pet Rabbit, was published in late 2022. It is the 126th in the series. These days, he is still writing novels, but a lot of his time is taken up with the creation and organisation of the translation and narration of his existing work.
Why Should I Read Owen Jones Books?
If you enjoy reading about the ‘occult’ – especially the ‘white’ side of it, then you will love Owen Jones’ books. They contain elements of the supernatural and paranormal, and he often uses real life events to illustrate his points. His background in Spiritualism, with a father who was a Healer and clairvoyant, and a mother who admitted to being a White Witch, ensures that his approach to these subjects is not ‘just made up’. Whatever your beliefs, Owen Jones’ stories do accurately reflect the credo of his family and most of their friends in (South) Wales, which has long had the reputation for being home to Druids, witches and wizards.
The Latest on Owen Jones
These days Owen Jones lives with his wife in her remote farming village in northern Thailand, where he is learning Thai, since no-one else there speaks English except his wife. However, we suspect that he would have started learning it anyway. It’s just in his nature. Here are a few quotes that you might like:
‘Born in The Land of Song,
Living in The Land of Smiles’.
Owen Jones
‘I write about what I see… or think I see… or dream, and, in the end, it’s all the same really’.
Owen Jones
‘I do not seek to walk in the footsteps of the wise people of old.
I seek what they sought’.
Matsuo Basho
Further Reading
If you want to read more before taking the plunge, you are already at the right place (or you need to go to our blog). This blog contains hundreds of links to Owen Jones books in all their translations, narrations and formats.
Our PLR – Private Label Rights eBooks, are a collection of usually 15-16, highly targeted 500-600 word articles on niche subjects. We have approximately 125 of these ebooks, which you can use in your own publication.
All of the articles in our PLR ebooks were written personally by the professional Welsh novelist, Owen Jones. You can judge the quality of his work yourself from the fifty-odd novels that he has available on Amazon.
The Ultimate Guide To PLR Ebooks
In fact, there are hundreds of different PLR ebooks available on our website, because many of them have been translated into other languages. This speaks volumes in itself! Why would intelligent people translate rubbish book? There are currently about 300 translations in about ten languages.
It is important to realise that not all PLR has been created equally. Much of it has been written by people whose first language is not English, and then, when the articles have been oversold, spun and respun (rewritten by a computer) to give them a new lease of life.
Junk PLR
Most of this type of low quality PLR is not worth accepting as a gift. It is just junk! In fact, they are poison chalices, because the search engines will penalise anyone using duplicate or non-sensical content
This makes most of the PLR ebooks on the market not worth buying. You need to make sure that the book has been written by an expert who knows what he/she is doing. You need to be able to trust the writer that he or she has down the necessary research and delivered in an educated fashion.
High Quality PLR Ebooks
I will share some important information with you. Most of the people who buy our PLR ebooks don’t buy them in order to use the articles on their websites. No, they buy them purely for the information that they contain! There is no better proof that the writing and research is of the utmost quality, although you will have to take my word for it, until you try one.
Let’s carry out an experiment. Choose a book from our list that matches your chosen subject, and if you can buy a better one later on, you will get your money back.
The PLR Ebook Listings – PLR stands for Private Label Rights – on our blog were all written by the professional novelist Owen Jones. PLR means that you can sell someone else’s product as if it were yours. In other words, you can create an ebook or course and sell it under your own name.
PLR EBOOKS
Our PLR ebooks contain between eleven and twenty 500-word targetted articles on one particular niche subject. Take a look, there are 126 of them so far on a wide range of topics. Look in the title bar to visit the PLR ebook listings. Many of these 126 ebooks have also been translated (and some narrated). Using these ebooks is a great way to make money online! It will save you scores of hours in research or hundreds of dollars having new articles written from scratch.
Making New Products and Money Online
You can use the niche articles to build your list, promote your business, generate leads or give yourself a holiday from writing content. You could also use them to create a new website or course. If you’re looking for ways to make money online, then you should consider using PLR ebooks. There are plenty of people who would love to use or even buy the products you can make with them! So, why not peruse the PLR ebook listings now, and let them do the heavy lifting for you?
Creating a Blog from PLR Ebooks
These days, creating niche websites or blogs in order to sell products and information is one of the most popular ways of making money online. One of the easiest ways to do this is by choosing your niche, say Skin Care or Remote-Controlled Vehicles, buying an ebook of targeted niche articles and creating your own blog. Then you look for affiliate programmes and integrate the into your blog to make commission on sales. The whole process can be completed in hours! Furthermore, these website or blogs are online publications that you that you have created yourself using PLR and operate under your own name. It’s up to you, they can be on any subject from how-to guides to lists of tips and tricks to physical products like make-up.
Choose a topic that interests you.
If you’re interested in writing about something you love, then you’ll likely enjoy writing about it more than writing about something you hate. You might even find that you learn new things along the way. In fact, I can guarantee it! The material fro the PLR ebook listings will teach you things you didn’t already know, but it will also spur you on to find out more.
Find a good author who has a good track record
This is one of the keys to success. You have to be able to trust the author to have done his or her research thoroughly, and not to have oversold the niche ebook. Owen Jones has written over fifty novels. He enjoys researching and he enjoys writing about topics related to what you want to write about. Part of his research is to seek out popular topics. Not only that though, his philosophy is not to oversell the ebooks. So, just take a look at his work, read some of his stuff, and tell me if I’m wrong.
If you find that he has made a good job of the books in the PLR ebook listings, you should be able to use some of them. That saves you from having to struggle to reinvent the wheel! 🙂
