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SocialJukebox - The Professional Tweet Rotator

SocialJukebox - The Professional Tweet Rotator

SpcialJukebox was recommended to me by a good friend, who is in the same profession as I am. We are both prolific writers, with other business interests, who have a lot of people we want to keep in touch with and a lot of niches that must be kept separate and distinct.

For example, I have readers, with whom I like to keep in touch; likewise with fellow writers. Then there are beginner-authors, whom I help, and authors whose books I promote, etc, etc.

SocialJukebox allows me to separate all these niches out and also allows me to use up to three Twitter accounts. Having several Twitter accounts is a definite advantage, but that is outside the scope of this article.

Basically, there are two types of SocialJukebox: the free, or trial account and the paid-for or professional) one. The free account is actually permanently free, but it is severely hamstrung, whereas there are three levels of pro account.

I use the cheapest of those and pay annually, which saves me a certain percentage of the monthly fee. It stores up to 5,000 Tweets and allows their usage over three Twitter accounts.

I found SocialJukebox very easy to set up and maintain, although Twitter has been gradually interfering more and more, imposing more and more rules on companies that provide automated Twitter services.

However, that is also comforting, in a way, because it means you know that you are not jeopardising your Twitter accounts, because ScialJukebox is operating with their consent and within their rules.

In my regimen, I send out personal and promotional Tweets every day, but, as you know, sometimes things crop up unexpectedly and I cannot spend much time at my desk. In these circumstances, SocialJukebox continues to post my routine Tweets plus any that I have pre-programmed to go out on a certain day.

I find that SocialJukebox saves me time and ensures that essential, routine tasks are performed even when I don't have time to do it myself. Not only that, but SocialJukebox is never down - it is working every minute of every day.

It seems like the CEO of SocialJukebox is too, because Tim is always there to answer questions be they complicated or simple. Not only that, but he is full of advice on how to use Twitter and SocialJukebox to their fullest potential. He also provides personal heads-up when Twitter changes its rules to help you avoid losing your account.

Try it using the link below, you won't regret it, I guarantee you:

 

SocialJukebox - free trial

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Brexit and Politicians

Brexit and Politicians

I am a Remainer. My main reason for not wanting Brexit is that I don't trust our politicians. I don't trust any politicians, not only British ones, but it seems to me that we have more chance of justice, if we have a couple of layers of them. Yes, that is more expensive, but at least we ordinary folk might get a fairer crack of the whip.

Just look at the things our British politicians have been caught doing over the last decade, and they have been getting away with it forever! I should imagine that the continental politicians are corrupt too - I can't see why they shouldn't be, but then the whole shebang should be reformed. Calling Brexit and retreating into our caves won't help.

Anyway, another reason for being anti-Brexit crossed my mind the other day. I have always popped over to the Continent for a few days on the spur of the moment every now and then, time and money permitting. This will no longer be possible, will it, if we will require visas to go over there?

I used to fly to Cork - thirty minutes away, but that might not be possible either, because they will be EU and we will be... what? British? Just British... stuck on our own little island with almost all our boats and bridges burned, unless we plan our once-a-year fortnight's holiday abroad.

How pathetic, how limiting, is that? Everyone else in Europe can just get on a plane or a ferry, and Brits have to queue for a visa!

No wonder rich people are buying EU citizenship in Malta so they don't get left behind the rest of the world like we will be!

Brexit is a step back into the Dark Ages... voted for in haste and fuelled by liars who only want more power as British politicians - but you can bet your life that they will still have the right to spur-of-the-moment travel - it's always the bloody same:

One rule for them and another for the rest of us!

Vote for a second referendum! How can it be undemocratic to ask a more informed people what they want? It is the only way that we will move forward.

Use #FBPE (Follow Back, Pro EU) in your social media messages to show you support remain or a second referendum!

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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.

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Are Indie Authors Their Own Worst Enemies?

Are Indie Authors Their Own Worst Enemies?

Are Indie Authors Their Own Worst Enemies? It is quite possible! Years ago, only five or six, many indie authors were doing 'fairly well' and were confident about their future - that their sales would continue to rise and that they would continue to write enthusiastically.

I started writing and self-publishing in 2012 and was selling ninety books a month by the end of the following year, and I was flying by the seat of my pants - I was learning how to market and distribute my three books as I went along, but was earning enough to live in Thailand, which admittedly was a cheap country to stay in those days.

There probably weren't as many would-be writers back then either and there certainly weren't as many books on the virtual shelves in online bookshops, but I think that there may be another factor at play for why Indie Authors might be Their Own Worst Enemies.

We all know that businesses exist to make money, and none are more brutal than the American Internet giants, and most of them make their money as a percentage of what they sell.

And this is my point.

In their struggle to become rich or and famous, too many novice writers pitch their books at 99c or even less. I regularly see "twenty ebooks for 99c".

Now, I can understand why a misguided author may try to get his or her foot in the door using this tactic, but what about the Big Boys like Amazon? Are they going to be happy storing, serving and even promoting a 99c book or box-set for a 30% cut of 99c?

I wouldn't be! Not when I can promote traditional publishers selling ebooks for $9.99 and paperbacks for $15.99 (or more)!

Think about it.

Amazon would earn 29c for selling an Indie author's box set of three - a month's supply of reading material - as opposed to $3 for one book!

Or, a concrete example: if both parties sell about one package a week, Amazon earns from:

The Cheap Indie Author: 50 x 27c = $13.50

Traditional Publisher: 50 x $3 = $150

It's a no brainer!

The cheapos are paying only 9%!

So, are Indie Authors Their Own Worst Enemies?

Yes, definitely!

They are NOT paying their way, and those who can't see that are ruining it for everyone else.

I am convinced that Amazon has changed its algorithms to disadvantage indie authors because they sell their books too cheaply?

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The Eternal Plan Audiobook

The Eternal Plan - Revealed Audiobook

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Links to the Various The Eternal Plan - Revealed Websites

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

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

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Tiger Lily Audiobook

Tiger Lily of Bangkok

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

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

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

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

Tiger Lily of Bangkok will make you question your values!

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Links to the Various Tiger Lily of Bangkok Websites

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

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

Tiger Lily of Bangkok in London is the second.

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

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Dog's Life Audiobook

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

(and make him love you for doing it!)

by

Owen Jones

Narrated by

Justine Ellis

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Ghouls of Calle Goya

The Ghouls of Calle Goya

When Malice Comes from Good Intentions

by

Owen Jones

Narrated by

Elizabeth Bray

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

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

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

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

Free Audiobook

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Behind The Smile - audiobook

Behind The Smile - Daddy's Hobby

Volume 1 of Behind The Smile

by Owen Jones

Narrated by John Roberts

Lek was born the eldest child of four in a typical rice farming family. She did not expect to do anything any different from the other girls in her class in the northern rice belt of Thailand.

Typically that would be: work in the fields for a few years; have a few babies; give them to mum to take care of and back to work until her kids had their own children and she could stop working to take care of them.

One day a catastrophe occurred out of the blue – her father died young and with huge debts that the family knew nothing about. Lek was twenty and she was the only one who could prevent foreclosure. However, the only way she knew was to go to work in her cousin’s bar in Pattaya.

Daddy's Hobby

She went as a waitress-cum-cashier to Pattaya, but when she realised that she was pregnant by her worthless, estranged husband, things had to change. She had the baby, gave it to her mother to look after and went back to work. However, now she needed real money to provide a better life for her child and to make up for spending its whole youth 500 miles away. She drifted into the tourist sex industry.

The book relates some of her ‘adventures’, her dreams and nightmares and her ‘modus operandi’. It tries to show, from Lek’s point of view, what it really is like to be a Pattaya Thai bar girl – the hopes and frustrations, the hopes and the let-downs, the hopes and the lies and deceit that are part of her every day life.

One day she meets a man she likes and he likes her too. Nothing new there, it had happened hundreds of times, but she feels that it is different. They have a wonderful four weeks together and then he goes home... as they all had, leaving more promises and more hopes.

This one returns. However, real life with a real boyfriend is not as easy as she had dreamed it would be. They go through good and bad times, but will they stay together and for how long?

Behind The Smile

After all she has been through, will she be able to be a regular girlfriend or even a wife again? Will she ever really be able to trust a man enough again either? Or would she be better off giving up her dreams and carrying on working in the bar?

Lek begins to find out that getting what you wish for is not always as good as you thought it would be.

Behind The Smile - Daddy's Hobby: 'Behind The Smile' refers to the fact that Thailand is known the world over as 'The Land of Smiles', and Daddy's Hobby was the bar where Lek worked.

Behind The Smile - Daddy's Hobby audiobook link: Tektime

The UK Post Office

The UK Post Office

When I was young, there was a period of my life when I couldn't wait to open a Post Office Savings Account and also buy Premium Bonds. I can't remember how old one had to be, but let's say fourteen for the savings account and sixteen for the Premium Bonds, the top prize for playing which every month was a million pounds.

At roughly the same time, I started buying coins for my collection from around the country and selling my duplicates too, which usually involved transferring money using Postal Orders. It made me feel independent and that made me feel ever so grown up.

At eighteen years of age, I abandoned the Post Office in favour of the bank, and postal orders for the more convenient cheque.

Well, now, forty-five years later, we seem to have come full-circle, since my bank no longer issues cheques. I had to send £65 to the Home Office last week, and I had to pay the Post Office £8.50 for the expensive privilege!

£8.50 to send £65 within the country!

Daylight Robbery

That is not only 13%, it is daylight robbery and a kick in the teeth to all the people who use this crappy 'service'. They get my money for three or four days, and I give them 13% for the privilege! Is the dreaded and very expensive, Western Union cheaper?

It really wouldn't surprise me.

However, the nightmare doesn't end there. I had to send irreplaceable documents, which the counter staff cheerfully told me are not covered by their normal insurance, and so had to pay £11.50 postage and insurance.

At least this was a reduction. The first time I sent exactly the same package, they charged me £18.50!

You couldn't make it up, could you, but I think the Post Office is... as they go along!

There has to be a better way, and, for me at least, the Post Office will be my last option next time, not the first port of call.

Stuff 'em - they don't care about us!

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