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Welsh Author – Owen Jones

Published by Chalita Majang on 18 October 2022

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Welsh Author
Owen Jones

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!

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Welsh Writer’s Top 5 Tips

Published by Owen Jones on 7 October 2022

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Welsh Writer Gives Top 5 Tips for Aspiring Writers
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.

Websites

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.

I am a Welsh writer.

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How To Write Your First Book As An Indie Author

Published by Chalita Majang on 6 September 2022

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My first book as an indie author

In this article, we’ll show you how to write your first book as an indie author based on the first-hand knowledge of Owen Jones, the indie author of 50+ novels and 125 manuals in English over the last twelve years.

Writing your first book as an indie author is a great way to share your knowledge and experience with others. It’s also a good way to earn some money. Whether you earn more if you’re self-published or not is difficult to say. However, this guide will teach you how to start writing your first book today.

Fiction or Non-fiction.

The first consideration is whether it is your intention is to write fiction of non-fiction. Perhaps you already have an idea for a gripping novel, or a non-fiction topic that fascinates you. If you don’t already have an idea for a novel, which can also be non-fiction of course, it is difficult to just invent one on the spot. Unless, perhaps you go for the life and times of a local celebrity past or present.

Choose Your First Book as an Indie Author

However, if you love what you do, then you might enjoy writing about it. Furthermore, if you enjoy writing about something, the chances are that you’ll be happy about researching and learning more about it every day. So, choose a topic that interests you, and you’ll find yourself naturally gravitating toward it. Like ‘Making Wine from the Grapes In the Garden’.

To Plan Or Not To Plan?

Or in writers’ technical terms, are you a planner or a pantser? As in ‘flying by the seat of…’ I personally do a bit of both, however, I plan less in a novel that I do for a manual. After all, a manual is factual, so in our example, if you forget to talk about feeding your grapes it’s a pretty serious omission, but if I forget to tell you something about a character in a novel, the chances are that you’ll never know about it.
Still, before I start to write a book, I think about it for a few days and write down all relevant thoughts. With my novels, I usually know where I want to start and where I want to finish, but I’m not sure how to get there. It’s a lot like being in Cardiff and wanting to drive to Portsmouth with time being unimportant. You put those two points into a route planner and you get various routes. The way points are your initial chapter headings.

Start Writing!

So, I now have my starting point, a few cities along the way and my destination, but that doesn’t mean that I have to go that way when I get into my car. I may have to divert because of roadworks, or I may fancy stopping off of in a pretty little village for lunch. It is the same with a work of fiction for me. Sometimes, the final destination changes too! And titles change all the time, especially if your characters talk to you as mine do.

How Long Is The Journey?

A popular saying amongst writers is that the book is finished when the story is over, but it’s not always as simple as that. In Daddy’s Hobby (above), the protagonist, Lek, would not stop talking to me…telling me what to write and how to say it. It was my first novel, but I had done some research and it told me that a first novel should not be much more than 100,000 words. I tried to stop several ties, but Lek would not keep quiet. When I got to 112,000 I just went on strike. However, she still kept talking to me, so I started a sequel. By the way, that series ran to over 800,000 words in seven volumes!
It is easier with non-fiction. When you have told the person’s factual story, or you have explained how to grow grapes and turn them into wine, the book is over.

Editing, Proofreading, Formatting and the Cover.

Now, you have a different set of decisions to make. Do you edit, proofread, format and publish the book yourself or farm it out? A lot of indie authors find this the boring bit, although there is worse to come, more on which later. I do it all myself, but it is not so easy. The way I look at it though is that it is better to discover your weaknesses and learn from your mistakes. I have learned that if I read through it immediately, I will miss most of my typos. It is a common phenomenon. Your brain remembers what it wanted to write, and that is what you see – even in a 100k-word novel! It is quite amazing
So, I wait a fortnight, but during that time, I design the book cover in my head, and write a title, subtitle, and description (blurb) for the book. Give your thoughts on the cover to a professional cover designer and let them get on with that, while you write, rewrite and perfect the blurb. If you have any of the fortnight left, create an author’s blog, and write as many different draft Tweets as you can.

Marketing Your First Book as an Indie Author

There are many, many opinions on this topic. Some say to start marketing as soon as you start writing, if not before! So, their theory is that you explain the journey, a sort of running commentary, as your book progresses. Some actually tell the (bones of) the story too. Others just talk about the nuts and bolts of writing or / and the emotions that it generates. I usually start my promo in the two weeks before editing starts. 

TIP: as I write, I might mention something I am not sure about, say the date of a famous battle. I mark these uncertainties with ***, so I know to check them on the edit.

My routine is to start sending out Tweets and other promo material to social media now. I combine the editing and formatting and read through my book twice, which often takes a week. Then, I correct every mistake that I see as soon  as I see it, and I eliminate the ***’s. Then, I scan the book fairly quickly to see if the formatting is regular. I find that this is more important than getting it ‘right’.

H1 for the title; H2 for chapter titles; all chapters start on a new right-hand page, etc, etc.
Then, I do a search the text for *** and eliminate any that remain.

Finally, I read through it again slowly for the last time. Everything has to be perfect in my eyes now, because that is it. Many authors will then send the completed product to beta readers, friends and family, who will point out even more errors. This can be embarrassing, but not as much as if you publish with them in the book.

Publishing Your First Book as an Indie Author

You don’t have a lot of options as an indie writer. You will become an indie publisher to, and the best way to start is at Amazon KDP. It’s pretty straight-forward to complete an ebook, paperback and hardback within a couple of hours. When you are done, your book will be published within 72 hours. Then real work of selling your first book as an indie author begins.

However, that is a whole other story – a sequel perhaps 🙂

Tiger Lily of Bangkok Series – When The Seeds of Wrath Blossom!

Daddy’s Hobby – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl

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To People Who Want To Sell Books

Published by Chalita Majang on 3 September 2022

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Sell Books As An Author

Learning how to sell books as an author is one of the most difficult things you’ll ever do. It is far more difficult that actually writing a book. However, if you follow these tips, you’ll be on your way to success!

Authoring a book is a great way to share your knowledge and experience with others. It’s also a good way to earn extra money while doing something you love, but actually selling a self-published book can be frustrating and disappointing. Selling books is not like selling other items like, say, coffee pots. Books are cheap items, often costing less than a cup of coffee, although it takes fifteen to twenty minutes to drink a coffee, yet about a week to read a book! Nevertheless, readers demand excellence, and satisfaction on a higher level than they do from the coffee vendor!

Not only that, but readers think that they are taking a big risk with their $5 if they spend it on an unknown writer, so this is where you as an unknown indie-author have to come from.

Create A Good Cover Page.

You need to make sure that your cover page has a professional appearance. This means that the font should be large enough so that people can read it easily. Also, the background colour should match the theme of your book. If you’re writing a children’s book, then use bright colours. If you’re writing about politics, then choose a dark background. So, perhaps, if you are new to this, you could employ a skilled agency. The one that produced the cover above charged $38 for the design in four formats, which is a fantastic deal. (See below).

Write A Great Title.

Make sure that your title is catchy and interesting. It should also be short and concise for a novel, longer perhaps for non-fiction. Don’t write something like “How to sell books as an author.” Instead, try something like “The Ultimate Guide to Selling Your Book as an Author” or “Selling Your Book as an Author – Step by Step”. Novels will require a similar, but slightly different, approach. Look at other titles in your genre on a best selling list.

Find The Right Platform To Sell Books As An Author.

There are so many different platforms out there that it’s hard to choose just one. If you’re looking to make money online, Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) might be right for you. KDP allows authors to upload ebooks directly to Amazon’s website. Once uploaded, readers can purchase books through Amazon’s site. Some authors prefer to go for the scattergun approach and publish on all platforms. There is at least one publisher that will spread your book around all the famous companies and hundreds of unknown ones. (See below).

Build Relationships With Other Authors.

You should also consider building relationships with other authors who write similar books. This will help you find common ground and build trust between you and your potential customers. It’s also a good idea to join groups where people share ideas and experiences related to writing and publishing. Such groups are available on private websites, writers’ organisations, writers’ influence groups, and The British Library etc. Facebook, Reddit and Tik-Tok also host authors’ discussion pages.

Promote Yourself And Your Work.

If you’re looking to sell books as an author, you need to promote yourself and your work. Start by creating an author website that includes a biography, links to your books, your social media accounts, and contact information. Then, start sharing your story online through not only traditional social media like blogs, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Pinterest, but also Tik-Tok, Inkitt and Wattpad.

Marketing Books

You will need to know something about marketing, promoting or advertising. It’s all the same really. If that is an alien concept to you, then you will need to realise soon that that is part and parcel of being an indie-writer. No-one is going to sell your books for you. Publishers and aggregators will put them on their virtual bookshelves, but no-one will know that they are there unless you – yes, you! – tell them. You can employ people to help you, but it is hard to know who is a honest and who is not; who knows the job, and who doesn’t.

I think that the correct ratio of writing to promoting is 3:4, but I have a lot of books to promote and have been doing it for more than a decade. If you have only one, or two books, perhaps you will get away with 2:5. Although, that depends on how much you know about marketing. Perhaps, 3:4 is still right, until you you know more about how to sell your book(s).

Sell Books as an Author!

Learning how to sell books as an author is a very difficult journey. It can seem soul-destroying, but you have to take comfort from every little success. If you are lucky, you will meet some fantastically interesting people, and you will receive the snippets of praise from readers that keep an author going.

Good luck!

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Google Adsense

Published by Chalita Majang on 17 March 2022

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Google Adsense
Google Adsense

The free money machine!

When I started thinking of applying for Google AdSense, this blog was receiving 10,000 unique visitors per month, who visited 30,000 times and read 250,000 pages. Google AdSense’s online earnings calculator suggested that those statistics should earn me about $1,000 a month.

That is not to be sniffed at, so I applied, and was granted a license to show Google Ads for AdSense.

However, it was a steep learning curve for me, and there was Covid, and I was getting into commissioning audiobooks from Dad’s novels. The audiobooks were going really well, and so Google’s AdSense took a back seat, along with the blog in general.

Looking back on it, that was a silly, naive move, since it had taken Dad more than ten years to build up the blog, and I threw away a lot of that effort chasing money.

Anyway, this year I have been concentrating on AdSense, but I have problems. To make Adsense work, you need an active website. The more active the better!

Google Tools

I use Awestats in cPanel for my statistics, as Dad did before for the figures above. It is depressing. I now receive 5,000 uniques (unique visitors), who make 15,000 visits and read 130,000 pages. So, about half of what used to happen.

Right?

Google Adsense

So, why does Google AdSense and Google Analytics report only 300 pageviews a month? Fifty times less?

Last year, the blog earned $2.10 all year. With all my extra work this year, I have earned 30c a month!

How can that be?

If 5,000 visitors are reading 130,000 pages, how can they only be clicking two or three times a month?

I can think of only two possible reasons.

  1. Google AdSense is not being displayed on all the visible pages
  2. Awestats is reporting falsely.

What do you think?

I blame Google AdSense 🙂 (not really).

Update March 2023: A high percentage of the pages on this blog were not being crawled. I think that the reason for this was a blog theme we used to use which would create ‘pages’ out of Twitter posts, categories and tags. It looked great having thousands of pages, but Google was not fooled because many of them had only ten words or less on them. We are now rooting those pages out and deleting them.

A worrying sign today, we had 6% more impressions than 28 days ago, and 7% more clicks, but the pay rate for them was $0.00 That doesn’t look good, does it?

Tiger Lily of Bangkok Series – When The Seeds of Wrath Blossom!

Daddy’s Hobby – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl

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My Writing Experience

Published by Owen Jones on 6 February 2022
My Writing Experience

Dum spiro, spero…

If you follow this blog, you will know that my writing life suffered a tremendous kick in the teeth in mid-2021. If you don’t know, then there is an article on this blog warning about my writing experience with virtual assistants.

Anyway, that aside, since I was ultimately to blame as the team leader who took his eye off the ball, I have really struggled for six months to work out how I can recover from this setback, which has reduced my earnings by 90%

It is is so serious a loss to me, that survival abroad has seemed precarious for six months.

My writing experience

However, I have started to emerge from the tunnel because I think that I have found a way forward.

In 2021, 90% of my income came from audiobooks, and I had about a hundred of them. I have still not got to the bottom of what happened, because Audible will not talk to me. So far, only talking about the English language books, they have de-listed my fifteen most popular audiobooks, but won’t tell me why.

I think that I have found a way out. I am hopeful, but everything is still in trial. If something similar has happened to you, contact me via this website, and I will share my experience with you.

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Our Garden Fish Pond

Published by Owen Jones on 31 January 2022

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Our Garden Fish Pond

A source of relaxation, tranquillity and delight!

I am hoping that our new garden fish pond will be an area of cool relaxation, tranquillity and delight for us, which will be great for writing. I could do with that as I have not written much over the last few years due a lack of stability in my life and a disappointing drop in sales, which could be the result of a culture shift brought on by Covid 19.

There has long been a movement away from reading and towards films or TV. Coincidentally or not, at the same time as the Covid 19 lockdowns, audiobook sales increased massively and from nowhere. For example, I was selling seven or eight audiobooks for each ebook. Ebook sales had fallen off a cliff! Another very unexpected change is that paperback sales have boomed. In fact, in January 2021, for the first time ever, I sold seven times more paperbacks and twelve times more audiobooks than ebooks! Admittedly, I am working off low figures, but it seems to be the trend

Those are statistics that I still find very difficult to believe.

Our Garden Fish Pond

Nevertheless, overall sales are down on previous years, and so writing new material seems next to pointless.

However, I want to keep writing, and so I am hoping that our new garden pond will be, not so much a source of the inspiration, but a quiet place to work that every writer needs. Inspiration can, and does often, come from the oddest chance occurrences… something someone says or does, whether it be live, on the screen of in print, but a writer still needs quiet moments to allow the brain to process those items and somehow come up with a story of sufficient length for the purpose required.

Garden Fish Pond

The picture shows the new garden fish pond that my wife, the builders and I have created. We have stocked it with a few Koi to see how it goes.

PS: We are currently available for international garden fish pond projects.

Availability: the drop of a hat

Vaccination status: double dosed and boosted

Daddy’s Hobby – The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl In Pattaya

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Horizons

Published by Owen Jones on 12 January 2022

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Distant Horizons

How far do you need to be able to see to live your life, or even do your job, well?

Today was a big… an important day for me. Today, I left our village for the first time in nine weeks. You are probably assuming that the reason is Covid or even a disability, but that is not the case. The simple fact is that there is no village bus service any more, and my wife no longer feels strong enough to take me and my 120 kilos on the back of her motorcycle. The only other way out is Shank’s Pony, but the nearest town is 13 km away.

Yes, I know… great exercise… until you have to do it yourself.

Horizons

However, the reason that I am bringing this up is not to complain about the lack of a local bus service, my wife’s lack of physical strength, or even my inability to walk 26 kilometres.

I just want to say that, as a writer, it is easier to draw inspiration from a vast array of experience than from a narrow one.

I have written 50-odd novels, mostly in this village, but not inspired by this village. A village is great for writing in, but not for writing about.

I have used instances that I have experienced here in my novels, but nothing that I have undergone here has been enough to write a whole book about. It takes a lot to write 80,000 words on a theme.

What I am saying is that, although one can write a book about one’s internal mechanism or strife, how many sequels can you add to it?

Village Life

A village is small for a writer… or it is for me… or perhaps it’s because, not being Thai, I don’t know everything that’s going on around me.

It is true that village life is a microcosm of that in a city, but people are more constrained by their family in a village than they are outside it. Males and females alike, but especially females.

I know that people will understand what I am talking about, because youths have always flocked to towns and cities from villages for centuries.

It is for the same reason… in order to be able to experience more (OK, and make more money).

I need to get out more in order to write more. I am being stifled here… It is no-one’s fault, but it is a fact.

The farther you can see, the better the chance you have of understanding more… and the more you have to write about.

It is all a question of horizons.

Best wishes,

Owen

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Indie Book Sales 2021

Published by Chalita Majang on 11 January 2022

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Indie Book Sales 2021
My Survey of Indie Authors

I have done a small poll about indie book sales in 2021 around my author friends, and I would like to share the results with you.

Not all of the authors surveyed had books in all of the categories below, and I am not taking genres into account. Still, I think that the results are interesting. Let me know your opinion, please.

eBooks: ebook sales seemed to be at best flat, but several authors reported a definite dip in sales. Some said that this was probably due to the profligacy of ‘lenders’ like Scribt, Overdrive and the dozens of others, including local public libraries. Some reported a drop of as much as 66% on the previous year.

Indie book sales in 2021

Paperbacks: This has been a surprising, but very welcome sector for those who have made the effort to provide paperback copies for their readers. One author reported a 300% increase in paperback sales over 2021, which is quite a leap considering the extra cost. Perhaps, people are coming around to, or just remembering, the fact that paperbacks make better ornaments than ebooks.

Hardbacks: hardbacks are in the same class as paperbacks, but are hideously expensive, and no-one reported a significant swing in that direction.

Audiobooks: the audiobook sector has been the winner of the year by far! Many authors have brushed them aside as a fad, but how wrong they were. At least in as much as sales are still booming.

Never say never, though, eh? Perhaps, they will go the way of ebooks one day, but somehow, I don’t think so.

An audiobook is like listening to a play on the radio, isn’t it? So, you can listen while doing the ironing, driving the car or even falling asleep.

Several authors reported that audiobook ( will we ever call them abooks?) sales outstripped their sales of all other formats combined by ten to one!

Beat that!

Translations: some people are getting into having their books translated, but sales are sluggish. The problem seems to be that foreign translators are not used to having to promote their work. They are used to getting paid for the job and moving on to the next one. However, what would the average writer do with a book in, say, French? Does he/she have any French friends, or even speak French well enough to write promotional material?

Mostly not. Therefore, the translator is vital for successful sales revenue. Few of them seem to grasp this concept though, and seem to be waiting for the end of Covid so that everything can return to normal.

It’s a shame, and a missed opportunity

Having said that, at least one author is seeing a slow but steady gentle rise in foreign sales.

Did Covid increase book sales? I think that most writers would say that it didn’t much. People had a lot more free time, but then the children were home too. Perhaps, the TV and Netflix benefitted the most, although it seems that some people were listening to audiobooks too.

Best wishes,

Chalita.

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Translating Books For A Living

Published by Owen Jones on 13 August 2020
Translating books for a living
Translating books for a living

Translating Books

People come to translating books and documents for many reasons. The owner of the book or document may want to sell it to, or just have it read by, more people, but the reasons why translators do it are even more varied. There are three main groups: 1] a foreign language student may just want more practice in his or her second language; 2] young professionals in translation agencies may want to add the fact that they have translated a foreign book to their curriculum vitae; and 3]  others may be looking to earn some extra money or even their whole livelihood from translation services. This last group may include freelance stay-at-home parents, the disabled, the retired, the long-term sick, avid readers or just anyone with the skill and too much free time on their hands.

Translators

From the professional writer’s perspective, from my perspective to be more accurate, all of these are valid reasons coming into the international market of literary translation. However, while I would accept collaboration from the first two groups, it is the third one that most interests me.

Why? Well, the first two groups tend to feel that they have accomplished their mission when they have finished the job, and I, the author, am then left to promote the book to the public alone. I would much prefer to have my international band of translators as partners, so that we both benefit from each others’ promotional efforts. In fact, the translator invariably receives the lion’s share of the royalties at least for the first few years. For example, at Babelcube this is 50% and at Tektime a whopping 75%!!

Scam Translators

Naturally, the work must be of a high standard and carried out by a human. It is not that I am against translation tools, but something pushed through a machine like Google Translate chunk by chunk will not pass the grade, and will not sell. Readers might buy it, and it will probably fool the author who might not speak foreign languages, but the reader will soon realise that he has been duped and will return the publication for a refund. The result will be that the writer is stuck with a book that won’t sell, and the translator has wasted his or her time completely. It has happened to me at least once, and is particularly annoying because the work is done under a legally binding contract, so the author may not have other translations made in that language.

As I said above, the best collaboration comes from those who want to make money from their work, so, why do so few translated novels sell well? In my experience, this stems from a lack of understanding of, and possibly, experience in, marketing, sales, and even the Internet.

Sales

I am not including myself here, as I have eight years’ experience selling my now four hundred publications, but many authors and translators do not. They seem to think that their masterpieces will sell themselves, but this is simply not true, as 99% of them soon discover. Most writers will keep on writing regardless, but most translators will give up on translating books as a worthless cause.

It doesn’t have to be like that though. Both parties need to realise that writing is not the business they are in, they have become booksellers in a very small niche market of the author’s name and genre. Of course, the writer is stuck with that, but the literary translator can diversify into many authors and genres in order to spread the risk – in the same way that an investor does with stocks and shares. The comparison is an apt one. The author is the CEO of one company – Himself PLC – while the literary translator is a shareholder in many.

Earnings

Let’s say that a dedicated, part-time literary translator can translate one book a month, and earns $5 a month from its sale. After twelve months, that makes $60 p/m per book or $720 p/a for all twelve books. Not a lot to shout about, I know, but after five years, that becomes $3, 600 per annum, which is not a bad holiday every year for the rest of your life in exchange for reading and translating books part-time! With good marketing skills, could you make that $10 per book per month? Or $20? That is up to the publishing partnership. In fact, the literary translator has a very large rôle to play. He or she is actually pivotal to the financial success of the book.

Why? Because the author might have a large following, but it will be in his or her native tongue. For example, I have 100,000+ followers, and 250,000 pages of my blog are read by 30,000 visitors every month, but they are all English-speakers, or 99% of them are. This is not going to help sell, say, a German translation on a foreign market by any significant amount. However, the German translator might only have 5,000 followers, but the vast majority of them will read and write German! With my 1% of 100,000, I might reach a few speakers of German, but the translator can reach thousands upon thousands of them on international markets via a newsletter, a blog or website  and social media!

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Asian Shorts International

Published by Owen Jones on 2 January 2020

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Asian Shorts Audiobook
Asian Shorts Audiobook

Asian Shorts International

by various authors

translated and narrated

by professionals

collated by

Owen Jones

Asian Shorts International is an anthology of nineteen short stories by nine different authors. Most of them are professional writers but two of them were previously unpublished and one of those went on to write several more books.

The writers live all over the world too, in as much as nine people can, but countries include Cambodia, Canada, England, Thailand, USA, Vietnam and Wales. Their names and brief bios can be found under the list of translations below. free audiobook copies can be obtained in most cases, and other languages are being added as they become available.

The authors contributing to Asian Shorts International, in no particular order, are: Mike Lord, Owen Jones, Bernard Foong, Gay Ingram, Jennifer J. Chow, S. R. Mallery, Trevor Aindow and David Collier.

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English Edition

German Edition

Portuguese Edition

Afrikaans Edition

Italian Edition

Authors’ Bios of Contributors to Asian Shorts International:

Mike Lord

Sinagiri, by Mike Lord – Rajah Kasyapu & the Frescoes at Singiriya, in Sri Lanka.

Smashwords: http://tinyurl.com/mrpafs7 Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/o74846h

Owen Jones

Owen Jones writes in many genre which you can discover on his here: http://owencerijones.com . His flagship series ‘Behind The Smile ~ The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya’ is here: http://behind-the-smile.org

Bernard Foong

Bernard Foong (aka Young) is the author of ‘A Harem Boy’s Saga; a memoir’ by Young (seven book series): http://aharemboysaga.com/wp/ The first three books in the series – ‘Initiation’, ‘Unbridled’ and ‘Debauchery’ (published by Solstice publishing) are currently available at all Amazon online stores e.g. http://amzn.to/1FMlHVY

Gay Ingram

Gay Ingram writes historical fiction. Mai Lin: Another New Beginning is her latest release. See all her published books at https://www.amazon.com/author/gayingram. She also contributes a weekly column to http://venturegalleries.com/author/gayingram/.

Jennifer J. Chow

Jennifer J. Chow writes Asian-American fiction with a geriatric twist. She is the author of The 228 Legacy, a 2013 Finalist for ’Foreword

Reviews’ Book of the Year Award. She also writes the Winston Wong cozy mystery series under J.J. Chow. Visit her website for more details: www.jenniferjchow.com

S. R. Mallery

As a former singer, calligrapher, quilt designer, and ESL teacher, S.R. Mallery has been labeled nothing short of ‘eclectic’, see: http://www.srmallery.com

As a writer, history is her focus and is woven into her stories with a delicate thread. See http://tinyurl.com/srmallery

Trevor Aindow

Trevor Aindow is an accomplished bass guitarist who has played with many bands both at home in the UK and while holidaying abroad in Europe and in Asia. His Facebook page is at: https://www.facebook.com/trevor.aindow or you can contact him on trevoraindow@yahoo.co.uk

David Collier

David Collier is the founder and owner of Pattaya’s most famous bookshop the ‘Canterbury Tales Café’ in Soi Chaiyapoon, where he is often to be found reading and drinking coffee. http://www.canterburytalescafe.com He also runs a very popular Facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/749636571822694/

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Stories Should Have Something To Say

Published by Owen Jones on 2 October 2019

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Stories Should Have Something To Say

Stories Should Have Something To Say

Stories Should Have Something To Say

I don’t know whether you consider that this is controversial or not, but I think that stories should have something to say. Perhaps, I was brought up on fables and parables, but I don’t believe that that could be the reason. It just seems to me that an author is wasting weeks or months of his or her life, if he or she doesn’t really have anything to say.

Don’t get me wrong, I have read a few books and watched dozens of films that had no point – except perhaps ‘entertainment value’ (whatever that is), but they don’t, or never have, held my attention. I am also willing to admit that the ‘point’ of a story is not always immediately obvious. However, that can be, and often is, a good thing.

It’ could be called mystery or suspense.

Not Preaching

No-one wants to pay for a sermon. Or, you know, not a high percentage of us.

It is perhaps one of the skills of a good writer to get his point across without making it blindingly obvious.

I don’t even have to agree with the point being made by the writer, but I do have to be able to ‘get to grips’ with it within the story. It forces me to agree, or not, with the story, and that can affect how I would rate the book.

You may well ask why I have brought this matter up, and I will tell you. Now that I write myself, I often read fellow-writers’ books (we are all unknowns), and all too often, I can’t see the point – first, in their having written it, and second, of my having read it.

After all, both are a commitment of time, of which every individual has a limited amount per lifetime.

I can understand that someone has the urge to write, and it may be almost uncontrollable, and I can also understand that people have the urge to read and lose themselves in another world or environment (hence the success of the media in general), but why commit to a week or more of just words passing before one’s eyes, as in reading a book?

I don’t get it.

Sermons or pointless stories? Definitely not!

Stories with a point? A definite ‘Yes!’

Otherwise, just what is the point?

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NANOWRIMO 2018

Published by Owen Jones on 30 October 2018

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NANOWRIMO 2018

NANOWRIMO 2018

NANOWRIMO 2018

Have you ever wanted to write a book? Many people have… I hear it from someone every week. The main reason they cite for not doing it is that they wouldn’t know where to start. I have written fifty-two novels and a hundred and twenty-five short manuals, but I still remember vividly how scared I was writing the first one. It took me seven years and I kept putting it off, because I had no confidence in it or myself. Now let me introduce you to NANOWRIMO and NANOWRIMO 2018 in particular.

Written correctly, it is NaNoWriMo 2018 and stands for National November Writing Month. The ‘national bit lasted a year, then it went global. I joined NaNoWriMo in 2013 and have participated every year since, so this year will be my sixth.

As it happens, 2018 is the one year when I really don’t have time to get involved, but I feel that it would be such a shame not to join in and I enjoy it a lot anyway.

However, the point of NaNoWriMo is to help beginners to gain the conference to write. So, to me, that especially means their first book, but many people only write one book a year, so NaNo is a big thing to them. And I have written many books, but it still is to me too.

NaNoWriMo offers so much support to writers. It is a fantastic feeling writing in a group. I say ‘a group’, but I have never met any of the people I have written with. We write together connected by Skype. However, the world is divided into sections for the NaNoWriMo 2018 experience, and most cities in the West have NaNo writing groups.

The challenge is to write 50,000 words during the month of November. I know that that might sound daunting, hut it is 1,667 words a day – call it 2,000 if you want a cushion. It doesn’t have to be published or edited in November, only written.

I urge everyone who wants to write a book to get on over to nanowrimo.org and sign up right now. You won’t regret it, I promise you, even if you don’t finish on time this year. You will have started and that is the biggest hurdle. Start now, finish wherever, and then really go for it next year.

I’ll be one of your writing buddies, if you like. Look me up, owenjones, and say ‘Hello’.

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Are You Reading A Book Or Story?

Published by Owen Jones on 3 September 2018

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A Night in Annwn - a book or story?

A Night in Annwn – a book or story?

Are You Reading A Book Or Story?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Linguistic Sloppiness

Published by Owen Jones on 31 July 2018

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Linguistic Sloppiness
Linguistic Sloppiness

Linguistic Sloppiness.

As my regular readers will know, I am in love with  languages, so I have noticed a strange shift in the BBC’s reporting.

When I was a student of the USSR and Russian in the seventies, we talked about THE Ukraine, THE Caucasus et cetera. Now, as a Russian language speaker, I know that Russian does not have articles (a, an the), so when I heard them dropped in reference to the recent troubles there, it was a surprise more than a shock.

Linguistic Sloppiness

However, last night, I heard a UK BBC reporter refer to THE United Kingdom as ‘United Kingdom’.
Is this a new trend or just sloppiness?
To my mind, WE, in English, have articles, if you want to be taken seriously, bloody well use them, plonkers!

** Update: I just heard a reporter referring to ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ not ‘THE Muslim Brotherhood’! Yet he used articles correctly elsewhere in his report. It’s catching on! **

Readership

On a different subject, I want to promote the advertising power of this website. I cannot believe that so few people have picked up on it.

Anyway, 90% of readers are American, that means 70k page views a month. The next best are UK at 17,788 and France at 17,648 per month.

Today, the sixteenth, Google has sniffed around this blog 3,846 times. Furthermore, the average for a human visitor has been 359 secs a visit, which is high. It translates to 22.34 pages a visit.
‘Andsome!

My Daughter

I was just talking to ‘my daughter’. Sorry, but I still don’t know what to call her even after ten years. I’ve heard she calls me ‘Dad’ generally, but Owen to my face. We will iron that one out tomorrow.

Anyway, I told her that her English was worse than it had ever been even after three years in university.

Sadly, she said that the reason was that she was scared of making mistakes. And people laughing at her now that she was older.

This is the root cause of intelligent Thais not getting on – it’s a national tragedy!
They worr that people will laugh at them.

It reveals a high level of national insecurity.

Asian Shorts

‘Asian Shorts’ is now 100% full and I have pencilled in ‘Paranormal Shorts’ for next month. So, if you have a story for it, send it as soon as you like. Or start writing one if you haven’t.

Get a free copy of the Asian Shorts audiobook here: Asian Shorts free audiobook

All the best,

Owen

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Marketing Your Work

Published by Owen Jones on 30 July 2018

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Marketing for Small Businesses in 52 Parts

Marketing for Small Businesses in 52 Parts

Marketing Your Artwork

Marketing, advertising, promoting, publicising… it’s all basically the same thing, ie getting the word out there that you have something fantastic to sell. So, where do you begin?

This may sound odd, but you should begin before you have anything to sell.

Let’s say you’re a writer, like I am. You could set up a website in the name of your book, with an eye to it becoming a series, and talk about books you like; review books and post articles on events going on in the literary world – the Pulitzer Prize, that sort of thing. Then, when your book is ready, you already have an audience to present it to. So, it is never too early to start building what is called your author’s platform.

If you are that kind of person, you could make weekly or even daily posts about the progress of your novel. Some authors like this approach to marketing; others feel that it detracts from the suspense of the launch. I personally would not give away any spoilers, but I would talk about how I feel the writing is going and about cover designs. It’s up to you through, isn’t it?

About six weeks before you’re ready to publish, you could offer your potential readership the chance to pre-order at a discount. The effect of this is that you have six weeks to sell something that isn’t yet sellable (as it is unfinished) and all the pre-orders that you do make will go through on the one day, causing your book to jump in popularity. This is great because many people buy, and many firms recommend books on the strength of where they are in book lists.

However, as an unknown, you will find it very difficult to sell pre-orders.

Once you get to that stage, you could join a few of the online joint promotion schemes which combine the strengths of Twitter and Facebook. Try Bridgette’s T4US on Facebook. She and her group are innovative and hard-working.

Maybe I’ll see you there 🙂

All the best,

Owen

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American versus English

Published by Owen Jones on 30 July 2018

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American Versus English

American versus English

American versus English

I have had a hard week one way and another, but mostly because of the way different people have a different take on things or even life, I suppose. A lot of it has had to do with language, I think, American versus English and perhaps something to do with gender

This last week, I have had ‘difficulties’ with four American women. Basically, they think that I’ve been rude to them, and I think that they have overreacted to me. I can furnish examples.

A woman responded to my appeal for short stories about Asia(ns). She replied that she wasn’t Asian, and I said that that didn’t matter, the condition referred to the story not the writer. She had first said she had a story, but when I replied as above, she wrote, ‘Right, I’m out of the loop then’.

To a Brit, using ‘right’ in this context makes it sound as if there has been an argument and she has left in a huff, yet I cannot see why she would do that. A simple, ‘Thanks for the offer, but I’ve changed my mind’ would have been more British. Did she think I was being rude? I don’t know, but I do know that her reaction seems over the top to me.

Another, I accidentally posted on a group page on Facebook. I was told, ‘Refrain from doing that…’. I said it had been a mistake and complained that that she made me sound like a serial offender. She flew off the handle, saying she wasn’t ‘in the mood to deal with me’.

I have no idea where she is coming from.

A feature is that all of these women emphasized how ‘cool’ they were, but that I’d better not rile them. That doesn’t sound very cool to me, it sounds like they’re looking for an excuse to boil over.

British women, American and British men, both sexes of all other nations (bar one person) and most American women I email, I get on well with.

Another example of American versus English, last week, a male American writer friend, told me that his book had been ‘slated’ on a famous website, so I commiserated about trolls. He quickly pointed out that ‘slated’ in the US version of English means lauded. Great! However, the point is that he didn’t jump down my throat like some of his female counterparts. He recognised the American versus English difference, and dealt with it.

An ex US Marine told me yesterday that a section of American female society was making it hard going for men because of their aggression, although he had no idea of my recent experiences.

Coincidence? I don’t believe in them. This is obviously a big problem in the USA, which is being exported via the Internet. These women are not ‘cool’, as they profess to be, they’re as taut as a tow rope on a tailhook!

However, I could live with all that, if they just considered for one moment that the form of English that they speak is not the only one in the world and that comradeship, if not friendship, should be factored in, if they are as cool as they say. I have a sneaky suspicion that these gender warriors have never left their continent and rarely speak to foreigners.

Churchill was right, two nations divided by a common language, but now exacerbated by an unwillingness to listen to what someone is saying instead of how they say it. After all, every good linguist know that you have to translate ideas, not words.

I despair.

Oh, on the American versus English debate, but Australian, I like how the Australian prime minister expressed himself! He told the American actor via the world media that it was time his pooches ‘buggered off back to Los Angeles’.

I like it, I like it, I like it! No pussy-footing about, no PC flim-flam, no ambiguity – just straight-talking. There should be more of it, and he should have fined the bloke $1m and given it to the dog shelters or animal rights organisations.

On a far lighter note, I think I saw one of the rare birds fly out of the nest I mentioned a few days ago. I couldn’t be certain, but I hope it was one of them. Otherwise it must have been a different type of brown bird checking out their abandoned nest. Anyway, I have got my broken camera into a condition that I will take photos next time one of them puts in an appearance.

– Update I just saw one of them again! –

The temperature dropped ten degrees today to thirty-five, let’s see how long it takes for the monsoon to arrive.

All the best,

Owen

PS: If anyone feels upset after reading this piece on American versus English languages, it was not my intention, so read it again.

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Teachers’ Uses for PLR

Published by Owen Jones on 25 May 2018

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Teachers' Uses for PLR

Teachers’ Uses for PLR

Teachers’ Uses for PLR

A couple of years ago, when work was slack and I was looking for ways of making some extra money, I was nearly forced into teaching. Don’t get me wrong, I was only dreading it because teaching would not suit my temperament and I live in rural Thailand.

Living in a farming village as I do means that none of the boys have the slightest interest in learning English, because they will become farmers, and the same is true of about half the girls. It seemed to me that atmosphere would lead to a pretty depressing working environment.

So, I contemplated having small classes of private students, even one-on-one’s. However, having no experience in teaching and with no school system to advise or support me I wondered how I would manage.

Then, I think I came up with a unique approach for teachers. I am well-known locally for my use of the Internet to make money. So, I thought that I would teach English within the framework of building a commercial website, so that at the end of the course, the student would be able to speak English and make money online.

The way I proposed to approach the task was as follows:

1] the teachers take the students to PLR eBooks and allow them to pick one of the ninety-odd PLR packages of fifteen articles for $8 a package. Ideally, each student should have his or her own package, because it will be more interesting to them and they can keep their resulting website. If money is very limited, the class could have one package or one between four.
2] the fifteen, 500-word articles can then be inspected, and a decision made which (five) articles will be used as web pages, and which will be promotional material for those pages (two per page).
3] the fifteen articles should then be carefully rewritten to make them unique – you can make this as easy or difficult as you like. I suggest treating the web pages and the promo material as separate tasks. So, rewrite the web pages, build your site and get it online
4] sit there, admire it, give yourselves a clap on the back and then monetise it with adverts etc.
5] the students rewrite an article and put links to the web site and one page in the bio at the bottom of the article, and post it to half a dozen article directories. You will soon be getting free traffic to your web site.
6] the next four articles should point at the home page and another, but different page, so that visitors are landing deep in your site, not only on the front page.
7] repeat with the remaining five articles.

Teachers can make this project last as long as they want, but the students will be learning modern English in a practical environment and will have a chance to recoup the cost of the course AND make money (in their spare time) for life!

How’s that for cheap, worthwhile, practical course material?
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Regards,

by +Owen Jones

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