Last Friday, a fire broke out at an electricity substation in Hayes, causing Heathrow Airport to go dark.
Some 1,300 flights were affected, leaving thousands of people stranded around the world or having to cancel holidays over the weekend.
Talk about a calamity.
But here’s where it gets embarrassing (and why Heathrow bosses are sweating)…
Heathrow is one of the busiest airports in the world and they didn’t even have…
Wait for it…
An emergency backup generator.
🤯
What is it with these giant corporations not shelling out a few measly shekels to protect their interests?
sigh
I could dig into how this opens the UK up to a multitude of threats not just from terrorists or hackers, but foreign governments looking to weaken the country’s infrastructure and wreak chaos (did someone say Russia? 🤔), but that’s for legacy media to groan about. Not me.
Rather, it serves as a poignant reminder to always have a backup.
It could be something as simple as a power bank for your mobile phone.
Or, in my case, building out an entire Storehouse to flog my fictional wares.
It’s not that I don’t want my books on other platforms like Amazon — I just don’t trust them to consider my interests should shit ever hit the fan (which it almost always does in a long enough timeline).
I’ve seen this happen to countless other authors.
One day, the cash register is ringing, and the next, they are faced with a random account shutdown.
Just like that… 🫰
Their publishing business takes an arrow to the heart.
No, thank you.
D.J.J. Watson Store is my emergency backup generator for whenever retailers hurl lemons my way.
But it’s also a place where I can put together offers you won’t find anywhere else (like book bundles) and products not even a genie could have listed for me on Amazon (like Digital World Art of The Divided Region).
So there are definitely some perks to running my own operation.
Another one:
I’m currently offering Legionnaires the opportunity to bag the mother of all deals for a limited time on what will be my best digitally narrated audiobooks.
Long story short:
I am “upgrading” my current narration to a vastly superior voice, and once I’m done, the prices for these audiobooks will hike. However, you can avoid this jump and be “grandfathered” into the new and improved versions at the current prices — but only if you stretch those fingers of yours.
The rules are simple:
– Purchase any (or all) of my audiobooks at the lowest price they will ever be…
– Enjoy listening to my books while I work line by line upgrading the narration…
– When the improved audiobooks are ready, I will send you a private link to download each audiobook you have bought onto your BookFunnel app.
But you must act by Friday at 23:59 EST.
Bag ‘em here before the flight leaves the tarmac:
https://djjwatsonstore.com/audiobooks
DJJW