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Books by Owen Jones – Writer

Published by Owen Jones on 16 March 2023 Respond

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Books by Owen Jones
Books by Owen Jones

Books by Owen Jones

Over the years, some of the books by Owen Jones have acquired nicknames or short names. As the author of these books, I find it rather nice. I think that people give nicknames to people that (they think) they know, so it’s readers have accepted my books. Here are some of the titles and their nicknames published by Megan Publishing Services.

BEHIND THE SMILE – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya.

Readers commonly refer to each book in the epic Behind The Smile seven-part series as Behind The Smile 1, 2, 3 or 4 et cetera. They also refer to it as: the Smile Series, Daddy’s Hobby (after the first volume), and the Pattaya bar girl too.

THE PSYCHIC MEGAN SERIES – A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger, and One Scary Mother.

This cheerful, folkloric series is often thought of as books for children. This is not quite true. The stories are for anyone whose interests include Spiritualism, Life After Death, and psychic matters. Readers frequently refer to it as the Megan Series, or the Psychic Series.

THE GHOULS OF CALLE GOYA.

Readers often call this book imaginative and refer to it simply as Calle Goya. The story takes place in Norway, the UK and Spain. BTW, ‘calle’ is Spanish for ‘street’. Goya is the famous Spanish painter. There are countless streets that bear his name in the world.

TIGER LILY OF BANGKOK.

The sequel is Tiger Lily of Bangkok in London. Both have been called mysterious and compelling. They tell the story of an abused child eight years after the event. The aftershock of child abuse, if you like. They are called Tiger Lily, and Tiger Lily London

DAISY’S CHAIN.

This evocative thriller tells the story of Daisy, a poor little rich girl living in Marbella, Spain with her family. In trying to prove her worth to her ex-London gangster father, she causes havoc and mayhem. However, people call it Daisy Chain books, even though there is only one of them.

DEAD CENTRE – NOT ALL SUICIDE BOMBERS ARE RELIGIOUS!

This compelling series of thrillers tells the story of The Dead Centre Agency, which gives the series it’s nickname. The Dead Centre Agency is run by three ex-SAS Special Forces operatives and is as secretive as The Regiment that they once belonged to.

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English Books Translated into Russian

Published by Chalita Majang on 11 March 2023 Respond

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English Books Translated into Russian

Owen Jones – Welsh Author

As the webmaster of the Megan Publishing Services blog, I have noticed a recent up-swing in interest for English Books Translated into Russian on our blog. This makes sense because we have a collection of six English books translated into Russian for sale at the moment.

Books Translated into Russian

Owen Jones’ books have always been popular. That’s why people have translated them into forty languages. However, this sudden surge in interest is different. The interest in Owen Jones ‘ English books translated into Russian Is being driven by young Russian-speaking women between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four years of age. As a Thai woman, who also falls into that age group, I welcome you to our blog with all my heart.

If you are one of our new readers, I would love to hear from you 🙂

English Books Translated into Russian

We currently have six English books translated into Russian, but since the author studied Russian in his youth, he has a special interest in having all fifty of his novels translated into Russian. A Russian translator is working on a seventh novel on as I write. Anyway, I will give you a brief summary of the six novels we have, and encourage you to follow the link below to read more on the page of translations in Russian.

The Disallowed – «Запрещенные»

An old Thai goatherd finds that he is feeling very weak, so he goes to the local shaman. She tells him that he has no blood, and so begins the humorous story of the founding of the first Vampire Republic. It’s a kind of funny vampire story.

The Psychic Megan Series – «Сериал про экстрасенса Меган»

This series is about the psychic development of a young teenage girl with the name of Megan. She has psychic powers, but doesn’t know how to use them. Megan is encouraged and instructed by her Spirit Guide, Wacinhinsha, and a huge ghost Siberian Tiger called Grrr. Her parents, on the other hand, are of no use in this matter at all.

Behind The Smile – «Что скрывает улыбка?»

This is the story of Lek, a bar Girl in Pattaya. She has had to work in a bar called Daddy’s Hobby, in the sex tourism industry for ten years to pay off family debts, but now she is free. She is in turmoil. Can she ever fit back into normal society again? How will her conservative fellow villagers treat her knowing what she has been and done? Not only that, but could she ever live with those narrow-minded people again?

Andropov’s Cuckoo – «Андропова Кукушка»

Natasha, a naïve, young, patriotic, avid socialist, hatches a plan to help her country, and the working-class of the world. Her mother, a high Party official, passes the idea up the hierarchy until Yuri Andropov himself hears of it. The Politburo sanctions the ruse. However, Natasha, falls in love for the very first time, and everything starts to go horribly wrong for her.

Tiger Lily of Bangkok- «Тигровая Лилия из Бангкока»

Lily is abused as a child, but seems to be able to handle it. However, things change when she moves to Bangkok to study, and eventually Lily The Avenger emerges. Bangkok is frightened, The Avenger is debated in Parliament and on TV, but only men are being killed.

The hunt is on.

Dead Centre – «Мёртвый центр»

A gang of renegade ex-SAS Special Forces sets up a business to help their less well-off colleagues. However, it fall foul of the law. They find themselves hunted by the police forces of seven countries, a group of Chinese government computer experts, and even their old colleagues in the SAS. Time is running out for them to get to safety, but who would have them?

Contact me

Well, that’s it for now. If there is anything that I or Owen Jones can do, please, contact us using the box below.

Best wishes,

Chalita.

Webmaster: Megan Publishing Services.

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The Psychic Megan Series by Owen Jones

Published by Chalita Majang on 5 March 2023 Respond

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The Psychic Megan Series by
Owen Jones Author

The 24-part Megan Series was renamed the ‘Psychic Megan Series’ in 2022.

Owen Jones Author

Owen Jones, a Welsh author from Barry, South Wales, is best known for his books set in Wales, Spain and Thailand. Furthermore, many of Owen Jones’ books contain a paranormal, or supernatural element. Initially, the title of his first psychic series was The Megan Series. However, he added the word ‘Psychic’ for clarity in 2022. ‘The psychic series’, as many people call it, consists of twenty-three short books, or novelettes, which follow the life of Megan, a Welsh girl with psychic powers.

The Misconception

The Misconception is the first book in the series. It has the subtitle ‘A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger, and One Scary Mother!’. Right from the start, Jones introduces us to all three characters in this first book. The underlying theme of the series is that Megan has psychic abilities and wats to explore and develop them.

She has tried to discuss the matter with her Catholic mother, but she gets no help whatsoever. She even gets the impression that her mother fears the very subject. In fact, often Megan brings the subject up, her mother, Suzane, locks in the coalhole. Suzanne is the scary mother in the subtitle of this psychic series.

The Spirit Guide

Megan’s Spirit Guide, a Sioux named Wacinhinsha, is always on hand to answer any questions that she has. Megan can see and talk with Wacinhinsha just like she can with anyone else on the planet, which this gives her great comfort. Indeed, Wacinhinsha is the only person she has found in her thirteen years, who is willing to discuss, and knowledgeable about, life after death, ghosts, and the Afterlife with her.

The Ghost Tiger

The name of the huge Siberian ghost tiger is Grrr. You might think of her like a familiar, or pet from Beyond, but Megan doesn’t see her like that. To Megan, Grrr is a companion, a confidante, and a protector, and Grrr seems to agree, adopting the rôle gracefully. If Grrr is not present when Megan needs her, she only has to think of her and Grrr comes running. The same is goes for Wacinhinsha too.

The Psychic Megan Series

If you look in the title bar of this blog, you will discover many references and links to further details on Welsh author Owen Jones and his books. The section called First Chapters contains links to the first chapters of many of his books including The Psychic Megan Series. Furthermore, most of Owen Jones’ books have been translated and narrated in those languages as well as in English. So, all the links you need are on this blog page.

The Psychic Megan Series

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The Megan Series Audiobooks

Published by Owen Jones on 2 May 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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Dead Centre II is Finished

Published by Owen Jones on 1 March 2015 10

Dead Centre II is finished!

Me finishing Dead Centre II, my latest novel. Photo by David Taylor

 

 Dead Centre II is Finished

I have always thought that photos like this were posed, but this one honestly wasn’t. I was on the point of finishing, Dead Centre II, my latest novel at my usual watering hole, when my friend David Taylor came to visit.

“Don’t say a word,” I whispered only one sentence to go and I’ve finished my latest novel.” Anyway, he sat down, kept stumm, and took this just as I was finishing. It was great timing If he had gone in to order a beer before coming over, he would have missed it. A second after this photo was taken, I looked up and said “Dead Centre II’ is finished!”

Happy Saint David’s Day to all you who are reading this on the day it was written or any number of years to the day later . March 1st is the Patron Saint of Wales’ Day, for all those of you who don’t know – the majority, I suspect.

I’m glad it’s St. David’s Day, it gives me something else to celebrate – yesterday’s excuse was finishing my book – because, finishing a book like that leaves an empty feeling behind with me. I imagine it’s like any big project, it consumes most of your thought for the duration and when it’s finished… then what?

As an indie author, the answer is simple, read it and edit it, then reread and re-edit it, then put it up for sale and market it. However, that is not as satisfying as writing the thing. Like riding a horse is more exciting than polishing the tack. I want to get on with the next one, but that would be stupid at this moment in time. First the editing and marketing of this one has to be done – if you can say that you are ever done with marketing. That’s an on-going, permanent feature of my life from now on.

Besides that, I don’t have an idea for a new novel, although I want to write a sequel to ‘Tiger Lily of Bangkok‘ later in the year. This happens from time to time, although I have a simple cure. I have written a series of novellas that I call the ‘Megan Series‘ (see the header of this page for details). Whenever, I get stuck like this, I write one or more of them until a satisfactory idea reveals itself to me. The fact that there are twenty-one novellas in the series so far does not mean that I am often stuck though 🙂

Looking out of the window before me in my office yesterday, I noticed that a root in one of the tree stumps my wife uses for growing orchids in, has transformed itself into the head of a sleek-looking dog’s head and neck. Can you see it as well? It looks as if she has spotted something at two o’ clock

Can you see the dog's head

Dog’s Head in old Stump’s Roots

By the way, that is not an old po in there next to the dog (clue), it is an as-yet-unused flower pot. I will admit, that as I am writing this, I cannot see the head in the photo – it is too small – still perhaps you can, but the flower pot looks more and more like a chamber pot.

It is nearly time for my daily visit to Jem’s shop around the corner – immortalised in my series ‘Behind the Smile‘ as Nong’s, so I’m signing off for today, but taking my brand-, spanking-new manuscript with me to read over my couple of beer Changs (Thailand’s most popular beer) and very nice they are too.

Anyway, I’m happy that Dead Centre II is finished, now I only have to sell a few copies 🙂

All the best,

+Owen

PS: Someone returned a ‘Dead Centre’ to Amazon yesterday – the first one ever. I like to think they bought it, copied it and are now going to pirate it, rather than that they didn’t like it, but that book is rather gory, I have to admit, but then suicide bombing necessarily is.

PPS: the ‘+’ before my name above is pandering to Google’s inefficiencies – they won’t recognise me without it 🙁

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Review of The Megan Series

Published by Owen Jones on 24 July 2014 1

The Misconception of the Megan Series

The Misconception – of the Megan Series

 

The Megan Series

A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger, and One Scary Mother!

by Ceri Carpenter

Review by Owen Jones

I have read all eleven titles in the Megan Series so far, so I will review the series as a whole rather than just each individual book. The series opens with ‘The Misconception’, which may seem like a strange title until you have read it.

‘The Misconception’ actually sets the story for the rest of the series, which should really be read in sequence, but it is not absolutely necessary, although reading this one first is best really.

It opens with Megan, a young girl, locked in the coal hole ‘for being naughty’, although most sane people would not agree with her mother that she was naughty, or that the punishment fitted the crime, if indeed one had been committed.

We learn that this is not the first time she has been locked in that dark, dirty, scary cellar, but some friends come to console her, namely her familiar, a ghost tiger called Grrr and her deceased grandfather.

Despite her mother’s cruelness, Megan feels a special bond wither her, so she doesn’t tell her father what is going on. He suspects nothing.

The last chapter of the book, each book or novella, in fact, has Megan’s Spirit Guide giving her advice on how to become a better, stronger person, with lessons on how to develop her psychic powers, a subject that has interested Megan for years, despite her tender age. It is also the cause of her imprisonment.

In the following novellas, Megan finds herself in all sorts of common, everyday situations, but her take on them is far from average. Each story can be read alone, but the reason why she is like she is comes from ‘The Misconception’ which is why it should be read first.

The other ten novellas include Megan at school, on an outing, on holiday, being bullied, having a birthday, et cetera, et cetera, all charming little stories that can be read on several levels, although sensitive Catholics may not like them much.

Carpenter has promised one new novella every month and I believe that a twelfth is being written now.

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Megan Series – Win ‘The Misconception’

Published by Owen Jones on 10 February 2014 71

The Misconception

The Misconception

The Megan Series

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Win one of ten copies of ‘Megan The Misconception’, the first in the Megan Series of monthly novellas about the psychic development of Megan, a teenage girl!

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Megan is a 13-year-old teenage girl, who realises that she has psychic powers that others do not have. At first, she tried to talk to her mother about them, but with disastrous consequences, so she learned to keep quiet about them.

However, some people do offer to help and an animal showed a special friendship, but they were not ‘alive’ in the normal sense of the word. They had passed on.

Megan has three such friends: Wacinhinsha, her Spirit Guide, who had been Sioux in his last life on Earth; her maternal grandfather, Gramps and a huge Siberian tiger called Grrr.

Wacinhinsha is extremely knowledgeable in all things spiritual, psychic and paranormal; her grandfather is a novice ‘dead person’ and Grrr can only speak Tiger, as one might imagine and most of that, of course is unintelligible to humans.

This book is about Megan’s psychic development which continues in subsequent novellas in ‘The Megan Series’.

At the time of writing this, there are seven books in the series, and I will start number eight, ‘Megan Faces Derision’ this evening.

Other title are:

‘Megan’s Thirteenth’; ‘Megan’s School Trip’; ‘Megan’s School Exams’; ‘Megan’s Followers’; ‘Megan and the Lost Cat’, and, ‘Megan and the Mayoress’. all of which can be purchased for $2.99 each on Amazon (see the link below)

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The Misconception: The Story of Megan, a Psychic Teenager (The Megan Series)

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The Megan Series

Published by Owen Jones on 1 August 2013 1

The Megan Series

The Megan Series

The Megan Series

The Megan Series was launched in June 2013 with the first novella in the series called ‘The Misconception’.
It may seen an unusual title for a book about a young girl, but the name occurred to me when the phrase ‘You are no child of mine’, or something similar was used several times in the story.

The title actually works quite well on several levels as there are normal misconceptions in the story as well. We will have to wait to see whether Megan uses the words ‘The Misconception’ in reference to herself, but it is early days yet.

Megan has supernatural powers or rather she has psychic powers that are usually dormant in all human beings. Hers have been awakened somehow and she is looking for someone to show her what they are and how she can use them.

Her grandmother did not cotton on when Megan was very young and her mother actually locked her in the coal cellar for persistently asking about or referring to her paranormal gifts. Megan had also asked her school friends, some of whom said they could see auras, but she does not know how much she can believe what they say.

The only comfort she has, she gets from a dead Siberian tiger called Grrr, who is devoted to her, her dead maternal grandfather who also seems to be finding his way around his new abode ‘in Heaven’ and a native American from the Sioux tribe called Wacinhinsha, who has also passed away.

Wacinhinsha said that he is one of her Spirit Guides. The fact that most of her best friends do not have bodies does not bother Megan.

Megan’s Thirteenth

The second novella is called ‘Megan’s Thirteenth’ and is about her birthday party, naturally.

I don’t want to spoil the stories in the Megan Series for you, so it is hard to discuss them any more, but suffice it to say that Megan will go on learning about her unusual abilities little by little throughout the Megan Series, which I expect to be a long one, as stories on this theme have been an idea of mine for some time.

The idea for the stories came from my mother fifty years ago. She had similar experiences to Megan and although she was never locked in the cellar for showing her psychic powers, she was ridiculed and punished by her Catholic mother.

Like Megan, she was certain that her mother was acting completely independently and that her father did not know what his wife was doing to their daughter.

The tiger was my own. I don’t remember it’s name, but I had an imaginary friend tiger for four or five years until I was about six or seven, when I probably thought it best not to talk about it in school. I do not remember that bit, but it reminds me of the sad story of Puff The Magic Dragon.

I do hope that my tiger did not wander off feeling alone and abandoned because of a thoughtless boy who was just being conditioned by society to conform in the way that most of us are.

After Note: The third book in the Megan Series,  ‘The School Outing’, will be available from August 18th, 2013.

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Getting Started

Published by Owen Jones on 27 July 2013 2

I am just getting started with this new blog and so beginning to learn how to set up this template. It is fairly new to me, but it seems straight forward..

Unfortunately, I do not have a lot of time to devote to this task at the moment as I want to publish two books before the end of July, which gives me four days – not long at all.

One will be the final book in the trilogy called ‘Behind The Smile – the Story of Lek, a Bar Girl in Pattaya’ and the other is ‘Megan’s Thirteenth’ in the Megan Series, so I will be posting more about that later.

Sunday 28th July, Afternoon: I have spent the last hour adding a few plugins to my WP template and activating them. One was Facebook another Tweets old post (not that I have any yet) and another has added links to some of my books.

Back to proofreading Lek3, ‘Maya – Illusion’ – 18,000 words to go 🙂

SUNDAY evening: I have finished rereading ‘Maya – Illusion’ and am ready to publish on CreateSpace and Kindle!

This is always an exciting moment fot me. I love to see the books on line and them become available a few days later 🙂

I published on CreateSpace, but I had already done a lot of preparatory work last week. The cover and the blurb had already been written and the author bio was the same as before.

Then I did the same for Kindle, but Kindle reported errors using basically the same file that I had used for CS!

It seems that the conversion from OpenOffice to Word had created about 30 duplicate words! (Or that OpenOffice had not picked them up, but I doubt that very much!).

I may have to redo the CS edition. In fact, I had better be getting started on that right away, but Kindle is all right!

‘Megan’s Thirteenth’ is now available on Amazon, Lulu and Xinxii. 🙂

Getting Started? Get Help!

If you want help getting started with the publishing or the preparation of your files, please let me know.

Owen

PS: If you want help getting started on bringing your book out into the light, leave a message in a comment box – they are all regulated by me bore publication anyway.

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