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Tricky things to write, blurbs. Trying to condense multi thousand word novels into a couple of hundred? That’s not easy. But I put mine up for your perusal and look forward to any criticism or complements you send my way: FLYING ANT DAY by Jon Lymon It’s 2030, and junior eco-warrior extremists are a year into their first term as the government of the First World - formerly known as Northern Europe. Elected on a promise to put the needs of a dying planet before the wellbeing o

KEY SUMMARY • What’s the worst day of the week for Amazon Free Book Offers? You’re about to find out.   All through 2025, I offered at least one of my books for free almost every day of the year, so I’ve got some findings that may be of interest to other indie writers looking for any insights that could help increase their profile and sales.   When it comes to giveaways, there was an outcome I found surprising. The day of the week in which I achieved the fewest giveaways wa

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles include the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was carried out manually, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used w

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles are the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was manually conducted, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used when y

Enjoy this free excerpt of Last Night at The Stairways on me! When you’re a teenager at war with yourself, the first casualty isn’t the truth. It’s your mother. She’s the one on the front line, witnessing first-hand your self-doubt turn to self-hate. She’ll see you off your food and on your bed for hours on end, staring out of the window, wishing you were someone else somewhere else. She’ll see your tears and you’ll swear her to secrecy with a ‘Please don’t tell Dad.’ And she

KEY TAKEAWAYS Discover which day of the week was best for book sales for dark comedy and horror author Jon Lymon in 2025  I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles include the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threev e. Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The trac

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles include the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was carried out manually, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used

Tricky things to write, blurbs. Trying to condense multi thousand word novels into a couple of hundred? That’s not easy. But I put mine up for your perusal and look forward to any criticism or complements you send my way: THE ZOMBIE COP by Jon Lymon Having escaped from Bluff Cove, the epicentre of an alien invasion, criminal conspiracy and zombie uprising, PC Jake Rodwell finds his daughter, Emily, in the clutches of her grandparents who’ve been hiding a dark secret. Before

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles are the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was manually conducted, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used when y

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles include the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was manually conducted, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used wh

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles are the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was manually conducted, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used when y

I write to be read, remember. This is way I'm not averse to making snippets of my many and varied works available for your free perusal. And here's the opening of my debut novel The Diamond Rush to prove it: ‘The Whittington’ crashed in a treasure chest of flames onto the steps of St. Paul’s Cathedral in the early hours. The charred body parts, burnt bones and sinew of the crew littered the ancient grey stone cobbles. Fried metallic wings lay bent amid discarded fried chicken

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles are the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaways, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was manually conducted, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used when yo

I’m Jon Lymon, an indie book author whose best selling titles are the novel The Wronged and the novella The Ghost of Christmas Threeve . Not heard of either? Well, like I said, I’m an indie book author.   For the whole of 2025 I tracked the sales, giveaway, and KENP performance of my books (10 novels, 3 novellas and several children’s books). The tracking was manually conducted, looking at reports from Amazon and D2D. No Ai was used, because Ai never needs to be used when yo

Tricky things to write, blurbs. Trying to condense multi thousand word novels into a couple of hundred? That’s not easy. But I put mine up for your perusal and look forward to any criticism or complements you send my way: A KILLING SPREE AND SOME BLOODY ZOMBIES by Jon Lymon Bluff Cove. Cornwall. England. The unwitting epicentre of a bloody zombie uprising, freak alien invasion and fake chemical spillage is now in lockdown. Armed forces have been deployed to take out the remai

If there’s ever an apocalypse, have this book about your person. It’ll provide a handy guide to survival in the most extreme circumstances.   Be sure to have plenty of cans of chicken noodle soup to hand. And it’ll help if you can fly a microlite. That’s what Max does in this gripping, highly detailed tale of survival in the wake of the complete breakdown of the world.   Max, (his surname redacted presumably by whoever found his account of his exploits) is guilty of aiding an

Here are some of the books on my To Read List for 2026. Some I’ll listen to via Audible. Others I’ll buy in paperback. One, I’ll be writing myself and reading it multiple times until I get to the point where I read through and don’t want or need to make any changes. Look out for Dead Headz coming when I finish it in 2026.   TBR 2026:   ANIMALS – Emma Jane Unsworth   DEAD HEADZ – Jon Lymon I’ll be reading through this multiple times, getting it ready for release this year.   P

Blubbering into your laptop.   That’s how having to write your book synopsis can leave you (and it’s such a technical sounding word!)   After slaving away over your novel for months/years/decades, you’re finally finished. Except you’re not.   Unless you’re lucky enough to have someone else to do it for you, you’re going to have to sum up all those multiple thousands of words in a few snappy, salesy paragraphs if you want to attract readers, publishers, agents.   Good luck.  

Vicious Circle   Danny Gibb had a U-bend scar on his face that his girl used to like. Said it gave him character. Made him look hard. But trouble attracts trouble and soon their relationship was in it. The end came the night he hit his girlfriend for the first and last time. Hard on the right side of her face which was the wrong side because it was her good side. He hit her after finding out about   Dr Hambell, who hadn’t always had letters and women after his name. Sitting i

I like pubs a lot, to the extent that I have invested several thousand of my hard-earned in them over the years. So it’s always sad to read about one closing, especially if it’s somewhere I’ve spent many happy times with friends in the past.   Indeed, many of the pubs of my youth, which extended from the late 1980s to the late 2000s have either closed and been turned into apartments or shops, closed and not turned into anything, or changed their name.   So those that survive