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Tiger Lily Of Bangkok - Prowling Avenger!

Tiger Lily of Bangkok - Prowling Avenger is a deadly assassin who hunts the streets looking for victims. She is looking for revenge on paedophiles!

Lily's Childhood.

Lily was a happy little girl, who grew up with her loving Thai parents. They owned a small village shop near the Mekong River and were of Chinese extraction. Both parents worked hard in the shop, but her mother also grew fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers in their garden both to eat and to sell. He favourite flower was the Tiger Lily, which her parents and grandparents had used as medicine. However, only an expert could use it as such, because it was one one the most deadly plants in south-east Asia, despite being one of the most beautiful.

The thought tickled Lily's mother, and Lily too, when she was told the story. She already had known that she had been named after it. This idyllic childhood lasted until she was eleven, when a family friend, who helped out in the shop occasionally, and whom she called 'uncle', started to take an unhealthy interest in her.

Revenge.

After more than a year of tricking her into massage his penis 'because it hurt', and unwanted groping and fondling, Lily was at the end of her tether. She had long wanted to tell her mother, and had even tried half-hearted a few times, but she could not bring herself to talk about the child abuse. It was too painful... too embarrassing. She also feared that her mother would not believe her and the consequent loss of face.

One day in the school playground, she saw a huddle of boys laughing strangely in a tight group. She struggled to get a look, and saw a boy holding a smartphone showing pornography. When the boy spotted her pretty Elfin face, he asked, "Would you like to do that, Lily?" The woman in the fil was performing fellatio, and Lily ran away as the boys laughed. It had never crossed her mind that her uncle had boasted to anyone, but maybe he had, she thought. She thought she would die of shame

As it happened, her secret had not got out, but it didn't seem like that to Lily.

The next time that her uncle came for a massage, Lily surprised him by taking it in her mouth. He groaned with pleasure, and then in agony as she bit it off. She never saw him again. The police exiled him from the province and sold his property as compensation for Lily.

Tiger Lily of Bangkok.

Lily had to put up with the shame and embarrassment of the whole village knowing what had happened for another six or seven years, before she was able to use the compensation money to escape to Bangkok to fulfil her dream of becoming a paediatrician - a doctor for children.

However, costs were more than she could ever have predicted from the only environment that she had known, her village. She needed help, and sought it from wealthy boyfriends. Gradually, she discovered that some of them liked her especially because she was petite. She was five feet tall, weighed less than ninety pounds, but was all in proportion, and had the most beautiful pixie face.

As it dawned on her that these men could be like her old 'uncle', she began to despise them. Something began to twist in Lily's brain. She started having nightmares, and plotting revenge.

Tiger Lily of Bangkok was being born.

Tiger Lily of Bangkok - Prowling Avenger.

Lily began to play on her youthful aspect, inviting men to like her because she appeared young, but sexually active. She learned advanced make-up skills and bought young styles of clothing. She could look any age from about thirteen to twenty-...

Behind The Smile: Daddy's Hobby by Owen Jones

Daddy's Hobby by Owen Jones is the first novel from this Welsh writer. It explores why so many girls work in Pattaya and how they fare. It is his best-selling book.

Daddy's Hobby by Owen Jones is an insightful look at why tens of thousands of young women choose to enter the Pattaya sex tourism industry, and how many of them get on. They and other attractions bring more than a million tourists to Pattaya every year. Most of them are men with money looking for a good time.

Daddy's Hobby by Owen Jones – Origins.

In the mid-to late Seventies, Owen Jones was working in the south Netherland’s city of s’Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) in Noord Brabant. One day, a popular new bar opened up at the bottom of the street he lived in. It was a ‘Relax Bar’, a concept he didn't understand, but he liked the sound of the music. One afternoon, he ventured inside. The bar was practically empty despite the fact that the landlord was very friendly and played lots of Heavy Metal, which was very popular at the time.

After a while he noticed a few scantily-clad young ladies looking at him from the darker recesses at the back of the room. When he went to the toilet, he was left in no doubt what a relax bar was. The owner/barman, whose name was Rick, I think, played the Meatloaf album ‘Like A Bat Out of Hell’ from cover to cover three or four times a day and sold marijuana, which had been decriminalised. This record more than any other brought the ‘house dancing girls’ out onto the floor.

The bar was called ‘Daddy’s Hobby’. I liked everything about it including the name, which I thought was very clever. Within a month or two, it was the busiest bar in the city. However, sadly, within a year, Rick had been murdered and his bar burned down. We all thought that it had to do with drugs.

Daddy's Hobby by Owen Jones – Development.

In the early 2,000’s Owen Jones moved to Pattaya, and started going out with the cashier of the first bar he had a drink in. It put him in a ‘trusted position’ with 'the girls'. Soon most of the thirty-odd girls who worked there were seeking his advice. Their favourite topic was how best to write saucy texts and emails to their ‘boyfriends’. Most of these had already returned home to their wives or girlfriends in Europe and elsewhere, but mostly the UK. That bar was a more flagrant example of Rick’s Daddy’s Hobby, but without the drugs.

After a few weeks, he had inadvertently collected many scraps of paper with translated messages on them. So, he sought the girls’ permission to write them into a book. No-one disapproved when he promised to use false names. It was funny, he said, because all the girls and most of the clients were already doing that anyway. Everybody was lying, especially the men. He recalls that he had never met so many navy SEALS, SAS, commandos, MI5 and CIA operatives in his life before. Not a one of them was a carpenter or civil servant, and they were all single, looking for a wife!!

There was no other name for the book than Daddy’s Hobby, subtitled Behind The Smile but for various reasons, it took him eight years to self-publish it.

Daddy's Hobby by Owen Jones – Sequels.

Owen Jones used the name of Lek for his lead female character. She was also the life and soul of the bar, and didn’t mind the author using her real name. She too is sadly long dead. He used the Welsh name Craig for the main male, although there are many other dramatis personae in the novel. When he was writing the book, it was the Lek character that dictated to him in his head what he must write. He had already determined that the book should be 100,000 words long,

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.

Barry Wales Dock Office by Tony Hodge is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0

Barry Wales – United Kingdom

Located in South Wales, Barry lies roughly south-west of the centre of the UK, in The Vale of Glamorgan about ten miles west of the capital of Wales, Cardiff. In ancient times, Barry Island was famous because St. Baruc lived on it. In olden days, it became infamous for pirates and wreckers. Barry Island ceased to be an island in the late Victorian era, when they dug out the docks, and used the spoil to make a land bridge to the mainland.

Barry Wales Heritage

When my grandparents were youngsters, Barry was the exporter of the most coal in the world. I believe that it still holds the world record of a million tons in one year. However, that was more than a hundred years ago. My parents told me stories of being able to walk across Barry Docks by hopping from ship to ship. They were so tightly packed in when they were teenagers. They also told me that Barry had the greatest difference between high and low tide of anywhere in the world. About 44 feet, I think.

Owen Jones - Welsh Writer

My name is Owen Jones, and I am a novelist from Barry Wales. The Colcot, to be specific, which is north-east of the town centre, on the way to Cardiff.

I grew up in Barry-Wales in the Fifties and Sixties, so just after the Second World War. Barry escaped relatively unscathed from the bombing, or so I gather, because nearby Cardiff was deemed a more important target. I enjoyed my youth there. It was busy and there was plenty to do. There seemed to be lots of work too, and there were leisure facilities galore. My particular favourites were Saturday Morning Cinema Club, and the outdoor public swimming baths, although various types of beach with clean water practically surround Barry. The rip tides were dangerous though, so I preferred the pool.

Then I left Barry-Wales for university in Portsmouth for five years, and almost ten years abroad in The Netherlands. Eventually, I returned 'for good' in my early thirties. I remember feeling that I had to be shoehorned back into Barry after the freedom of living in continental Europe. I don’t mean political freedom of course, but the English Channel is quite a mental barrier. For example, if I became bored in The Netherlands, I could hitch-hike to the South of France in a day or so. From Barry, I would have to get to the channel (175 miles), cross that (about eight hours) and then start travelling again. It takes the edge off it.

Yes, flights were an option back then. However, they were not the mode of transport that sprang first to my mind, as they would nowadays. Doesn't anyone hitch-hike any more? It's probably deemed unsafe :-(

Life in Barry Wales

I worked very happily with my brothers in my father’s local construction firm for about fifteen years until he died, work dried up, and we all went our separate ways. That was when Barry-Wales started to go down hill too. Perhaps, I’m exaggerating because my father died and our firm went bust, but I think that it is more than that. There were two big, Edwardian (or Georgian) pubs in the town centre – The Vic(toria Arms?) and the Windsor Hotel. In fact, both were built as hotels but never used as such. One day, the Vic closed down! It was such a shock.

Within a few years, they had knocked it down and replaced it with a Tesco’s....

Owen Jones

A Brief History of the Author

Owen Jones, from South Wales, came to writing novels late in life, but has been writing since 2004. He published his first book, Daddy’s Hobby from the series Behind The Smile: The Story of Lek, A Bar Girl in Pattaya in 2012 Many of the novels he has written have an element of the supernatural and paranormal about them, although his first did not. Owen Jones grew up in a family of Spiritualists, where the subjects of reincarnation, ghosts and the Afterlife were normal topics of daily conversation.

Bibliography

Owen Jones has written more than fifty books of fiction on subjects ranging from ghosts, Alien Intervention, and UFO’s to witchcraft, the occult and Life after Death. He also writes for websites and blogs, and his books have been translated into many languages – about thirty-six, so far.

He also writes fiction without the supernatural element, such as the two biographical series Behind The Smile, and Tiger Lily of Bangkok, the spy-thriller Andropov’s Cuckoo, and the police/military drama Dead Centre.

His first book was published in 2012, and he went on to write more than fifty-odd others in following ten years, the number of which has been multiplied many times over in narration and translation. In fact, he now has more than 1,000 books bearing his name registered in the British Library. In addition to writing books, he also produces podcasts.

Who Is Owen Jones?

He was born in 1954 and grew up in Barry, just outside Wales’ capital city, Cardiff. He attended the Colcot Primary School, High Street Junior School and Barry Comprehensive, until leaving Barry for university in Portsmouth, where he studied Russian. It was his sixth language after English, Welsh, French , German and Latin. He studied in Leningrad and Kalinin (Moscow) while at university, and later taught himself Dutch while living there. Owen has travelled extensively, living, working and studying in several countries. He describes himself as a linguist and writer.

What Does His Work Involve?

His work involves writing short stories, novels, and non-fiction books. Besides the novels, he has written a series of How to... manuals. The latest, How to Take Care of a Pet Rabbit, was published in late 2022. It is the 126th in the series. These days, he is still writing novels, but a lot of his time is taken up with the creation and organisation of the translation and narration of his existing work.

Why Should I Read Owen Jones Books?

If you enjoy reading about the ‘occult’ - especially the ‘white’ side of it, then you will love Owen Jones’ books. They contain elements of the supernatural and paranormal, and he often uses real life events to illustrate his points. His background in Spiritualism, with a father who was a Healer and clairvoyant, and a mother who admitted to being a White Witch, ensures that his approach to these subjects is not ‘just made up’. Whatever your beliefs, Owen Jones’ stories do accurately reflect the credo of his family and most of their friends in (South) Wales, which has long had the reputation for being home to Druids, witches and wizards.

The Latest on Owen Jones

These days Owen Jones lives with his wife in her remote farming village in northern Thailand, where he is learning Thai, since no-one else there speaks English except his wife. However, we suspect that he would have started learning it anyway. It’s just in his nature. Here are a few quotes that you might like:

‘Born in The Land of Song,

Living in The Land of Smiles’.

PLR ebooks

Promotion will go into hyperdrive!

If you use our fresh, niche PLR ebooks for authors, writers and bloggers, you'll be able to promote your business on steroids, or be able to rapidly create a new one! This is a great way to earn extra money while you're at home. All you need is a computer and Internet access. You can be use them to create extra cash in the short-term while you build up your portfolio of books and articles.

PLR Ebooks.

PLR stands for Private Label Rights. These PLR ebooks have been written by someone else, but you can use them under your own brand name to promote your own business interests. They're perfect for creating your own product line, building a passive income stream or promoting your own books, novels or business. No matter what that business is – writing, accountancy, corner shop, affiliateships, flower arranging, dog-walking – anything! You only need to pick the PLR ebook that is relevant to your business and use the articles it contains to promote your own business on and off-line. Do you need articles in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese…Russian? No problem, they are available too!

There's no shortage of PLR ebooks on this site, and they are all fresh, original, and available in languages other than English too. In fact, there are 126 different titles available in English alone, plus about 500 in other languages. If you're looking for something new, check out our lists, because they are growing every week.

PLR Ebooks for Business.

You don't need any special skills to use them. All the heavy lifting - the research and writing - has already been done. You only need a computer and Internet access. These books are perfect for authors, bloggers, and other writers who want to make money online. They're also great for people who want to start their own businesses.

Here's how it works...

All you need to do is choose a PLR ebook that has articles relevant to your (intended) business or product, and use them to create a blog or website, or add them to your existing online publication. It is always best to tweak them a little to be arrow-targeted to your own business. However it's as easy as that. For example, you would probably want to add a line mentioning your name, your company name, the product and your address. If the article says 'black leather chair', you might want to change that to 'black, white or brown leather chair'. Simple alterations like that.

You just find a great topic (or topics) that you think will make money. Then you buy the rights to publish the ebook of articles as your own. Then, you get to keep 100% of the profits from every sale made from your promo.

Extra Income.

If you're looking for a new source of income, we've got some great ideas for you. Whether you're looking for something to help you earn extra cash while you sleep, or you just want to build a passive income stream, there's no shortage of ways to make money online.

The best part is that you can start making sales right away. There's no waiting around for a writer to  produce a book for you, and you don't have to write your own!

PLR Ebooks for Authors, Writers, and Bloggers.

We have already compiled a list of our favourite PLR ebooks for authors, writers, and bloggers. These books are ready to go to work for you as soon as you publish them. They're written by a professional author who understands how to research a topic, and write quality content that will attract readers.

English PLR Ebooks

What Are PLR Ebooks?

Our PLR - Private Label Rights eBooks, are a collection of usually 15-16, highly targeted 500-600 word articles on niche subjects. We have approximately 125 of these ebooks, which you can use in your own publication.

All of the articles in  our PLR ebooks were written personally by the professional Welsh novelist, Owen Jones. You can judge the quality of his work yourself from the fifty-odd novels that he has available on Amazon.

The Ultimate Guide To PLR Ebooks

In fact, there are hundreds of different PLR ebooks available on our website, because many of them have been translated into other languages. This speaks volumes in itself! Why would intelligent people translate rubbish book? There are currently about 300 translations in about ten languages.

It is important to realise that not all PLR has been created equally. Much of it has been written by people whose first language is not English, and then, when the articles have been oversold, spun and respun (rewritten by a computer) to give them a new lease of life. 

Junk PLR

Most of this type of low quality PLR is not worth accepting as a gift. It is just junk! In fact, they are poison chalices, because the search engines will penalise anyone using duplicate or non-sensical content

This makes most of the PLR ebooks on the market not worth buying. You need to make sure that the book has been written by an expert who knows what he/she is doing. You need to be able to trust the writer that he or she has down the necessary research and delivered in an educated fashion.

High Quality PLR Ebooks

I will share some important information with you. Most of the people who buy our PLR ebooks don't buy them in order to use the articles on their websites. No, they buy them purely for the information that they contain! There is no better proof that the writing and research is of the utmost quality, although you will have to take my word for it, until you try one.

Let's carry out an experiment. Choose a book from our list that matches your chosen subject, and if you can buy a better one later on, you will get your money back. 

Nothing can be fairer than that.

PLR Ebook Listings

Let us take the strain...

The PLR Ebook Listings - PLR stands for Private Label Rights – on our blog were all written by the professional novelist Owen Jones. PLR means that you can sell someone else’s product as if it were yours. In other words, you can create an ebook or course and sell it under your own name.

PLR EBOOKS

Our PLR ebooks contain between eleven and twenty 500-word targetted articles on one particular niche subject. Take a look, there are 126 of them so far on a wide range of topics. Look in the title bar to visit the PLR ebook listings. Many of these 126 ebooks have also been translated (and some narrated). Using these ebooks is a great way to make money online! It will save you scores of hours in research or hundreds of dollars having new articles written from scratch.

Making New Products and Money Online

You can use the niche articles to build your list, promote your business, generate leads or give yourself a holiday from writing content. You could also use them to create a new website or course. If you’re looking for ways to make money online, then you should consider using PLR ebooks. There are plenty of people who would love to use or even buy the products you can make with them! So, why not peruse the PLR ebook listings now, and let them do the heavy lifting for you?

Creating a Blog from PLR Ebooks

These days, creating niche websites or blogs in order to sell products and information is one of the most popular ways of making money online. One of the easiest ways to do this is by choosing your niche, say Skin Care or Remote-Controlled Vehicles, buying an ebook of targeted niche articles and creating your own blog. Then you look for affiliate programmes and integrate the into your blog to make commission on sales. The whole process can be completed in hours! Furthermore, these website or blogs are online publications that you that you have created yourself using PLR and operate under your own name. It's up to you, they can be on any subject from how-to guides to lists of tips and tricks to physical products like make-up.

Choose a topic that interests you.

If you’re interested in writing about something you love, then you’ll likely enjoy writing about it more than writing about something you hate. You might even find that you learn new things along the way. In fact, I can guarantee it! The material fro the PLR ebook listings will teach you things you didn’t already know, but it will also spur you on to find out more.

Find a good author who has a good track record

This is one of the keys to success. You have to be able to trust the author to have done his or her research thoroughly, and not to have oversold the niche ebook. Owen Jones has written over fifty novels. He enjoys researching and he enjoys writing about topics related to what you want to write about. Part of his research is to seek out popular topics. Not only that though, his philosophy is not to oversell the ebooks. So, just take a look at his work, read some of his stuff, and tell me if I’m wrong.

If you find that he has made a good job of the books in the PLR ebook listings, you should be able to use some of them. That saves you from having to struggle to reinvent the wheel! :-)

Useful articles on this blog (see the title bar):

Uses for PLR

PLR Ebooks

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.

Selling self-published books

You've written a great book. Now what? How do you market it so people buy it? In this article, we'll show you how to go about selling self-published books. Book promotion is harder than writing for most indie authors.

Assuming that the book has been edited, the first step in selling self-published books is to check, improve, and rewrite the metadata. This means that the title, the subtitle and the book description must be the very best that you can imagine. It is possible to redo these details later, but it is far better to get them right the first time around.

After all, people do judge a book by its cover and the first words that a potential reader will see of yours are those on the book cover. When you are happy with the metadata, get a cover made up and publish your book, let's say on Amazon KDP, and you are ready to go.

Now, you need to figure out how to promote it. This includes getting reviews on the Amazon bookstore, writing press releases, and, possibly, finding an agent, but that's optional.

Create an Author Website.

If you're self-publishing, you should consider creating an author website as part of your author platform. An author website will help you build credibility as an expert in your field. It's also a place where you can share your work with others. If you create a blog, you can keep in touch with your readership by writing regular articles on aspects of your books and life. Blogger is free.

Build an Email List.

Once you've published your book, you need to start building an email list. This is one of the easiest ways to promote your book because you can send out emails to your subscribers at any time. There are free options available like Mailchimp.

Promote Your Book.

There are several different ways to promote your book. One of the simplest is to use social media. If you're not using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, TikTok, etc., then you should be. These sites allow you to easily share links to your book and blog with your followers.

Sell Books Directly.

Another option is to sell your book directly through Amazon KDP. This is an easy way to reach a large number of potential buyers at once. However, there are some drawbacks to selling your books directly through Amazon. First, you must pay a fee to list your print book. Second, you must wait until your book sells enough copies to qualify for free shipping. Finally, you must keep track of inventory yourself. You could buy, say, twenty author copies at a time from Amazon, and sell them signed through your blog, but then there's shipping to take care of too.

Special Offers.

Many publishers and aggregators, such as Amazon and Smashwords make it easy to make promotional offers with discount coupons or time sensitive price reductions. These special offers often work well to boost sales just before the summer and Christmas holidays. You can also run competitions, raffles and give-aways.

Grow Your Audience.

This takes time and patience. Some people have a gift for self-publicity, but most find it difficult. You can join blog tours, host virtual book reading parties. Give away book markers, pencils and keyrings, all bearing your contact details. You will need to write articles for your blog, and post regularly on social media. You could also publish press releases, contact your local paper and ask your local library to buy a copy. A sequel often helps in selling self-published books too. Readers like box sets and series.