Brexit: it's done get over it

So i'm an Australian who is living in the UK. I'm married now to my wonderful English girl, but still have to leave for 6 months, come back and apply for a visa. Life has been made harder by visa hurdles, but it's what you expect, you want to live somewhere, you'll have to apply for a visa.

So Brexit has come and I couldn't vote but I supported Leave strongly. I have lots of reasons I supported it, but now i'm being bombed by social media and the news papers, all doom and gloom and telling me i'm an idiot who will ruin the country. 

The main point I want to make, and I am happy to outline why I supported leave, if anyone cares, is that the people voted and Leave won, now it's far from fair to try derail that, or make the people that voted for it feel like shit. The people I know who voted leave and their were lots of them, knew that things would suck in the short term. The money markets got it wrong, so the dollar has dropped, people are scared so the market gets effected, but in the long term it will be much better.

The major thing  find strange is that being a member of the EU is at it's heart undemocratic. An elected official makes a law, which is then overturned by the EU and that's ok? The future is now the countries to take. They can form bounds with anyone they want, deals and trade with the whole world and Europe. Please if you voted Remain, I know you're scared but try get over it, help the country move forward and for goodness sake don't try overturn an decision by the majority of the people just because you don't agree with it. Where will the world be when a bloody referendum gets overturned?

I guess i can start calling myself a writer now

So a few years ago now, it's a lot longer when i think about it than it feels. Four years, probably. I decided to write a novel. I'd always read heaps and heaps, and done short stories and always wanted to be a writer when i grew up, but by then i was around 29 and hadn't done F-all.

So i had this idea, it started off a bit different. Person sacrifice someone to demon, demon say no and opt to serve the victim, they get all their memories and talents. at first, seth was a kid and the wolvern was actually a young girl with animal teeth. I like this better.

So now i write this, my third book is out on Amazon. I'm spending my days living in the UK, and writing like mad for my next series. I've done book one and elbow deep in book two, should be good, all slave pirates, vikings and creepy sea monsters.

It's crazy, it doesn't feel like four years since i started, i now have very different issues. I worry about sales and sales, not can i actually do this and getting the words out. I want to thank anyone who has bought my book, and especialy those that got all three and actually care about old setho and friends. Don't worry book three is probably the best in the series.

Coffee and Bookaholic: book blog

So as you know i;m pimping my books like crazy, trying to get more readers and all that. So it'svery cool when someone, you don't know, just decides to help you out.

A couple of days ago i did a free book blast and one of the people to get it was Monica of 'Coffee and Bookaholic' Blog. she says she was swayed by my bio in which i said i wanted to be like bram stoker or ramaro and make a new monster or make something popular and show it in a different way.

here is the link to her blog, thanks again.

https://coffeeandbookaholics.wordpress.com/2016/02/25/giving-a-new-author-a-chance/

Sample Chapters: Take the Body and Give me the Rest

So it's hard to find new writers and sometimes taker a risk to find out if someone is anygood. Wouldn't it be great if someone like me was offering the first two chapters of his awesome book for free?

Thanks right, Take the Body and Give me the Rest - is available throught pay with a tweet.

That means you can grab the sample for the price of giving me a tweet, of FB about this post. Hope you all like the writing and get hooked on my man Seth and want to read more! have fun.

          Pay with a tweet: Get your Free Two Chapters Now!

will Playing Magic the Gathering make me a better writer?

So just recently i've started getting into MTG and i'm surprised given my level of love of this kind of thing i've never really thought of it before. I mean i love skyrim and fantasy games, i love fantasy TV and books so why not card games. Now i've yet to go to my first real world battle but will be this friday, but i've been smashing the 'Magic duels" game online.

So we'll see, will expose to all these creature, spells and gods make me a better writer? or will it just rob me of sleep and money for better cards. time will tell.

Take the Darkness - Needs reviews!!

Hi All,

Just a quick one, My second book 'Take the Darkness and Give us the Light' has been out for around a month or maybe two. It's doing well in sales and the reviews, thank god, don't mention spelling and grammar, so paying those editors and proofreaders was well worth it! It only have seven reviews currently and i need at least 15 to get some good Amazon love.

If you've read the first and want the second one, just shoot me an email and i'll send you a copy for your kindle. If you don't have kindle you could get the kindle app for your computer. If you can then give me an honest review in excahnge that would be great.

Also a quick sorry to the people who have sent me comments on here i haven't seen, just tweet me, or facebook, i see that more often.

email: xjuliousbx at gmail.com
twitter: @juliusx_x
facebook: www.facebook.com/juliusschenkaus

The free tool all self published authors should get - Bit.ly

 As most of you know, being self published means ,lots and lots of pimping your own work, often your'll find your doing heaps of promo and even paying for things and then wondering if it's worth you time or money, imagine you had an easy way to track it.

Bit.ly www.bitly.com

is a free website that shortens your big ugly links, into small sexy ones. I guess it was originally for tweeter. Anyway if you sign up, free, they will let you track your links. So if you're going to spend a few hours doing facebook promo, you can create and name and link and see how many click have resulted from it/ Yesterday, i did this to some facebook groups and got ten clicks, so it was good, if you wanted to go further, you could do one per group.

Best for Paid promo.

Most of us are happy to shell out some cash if it results in sales but we have no really way of knowing. You might see a bump in sales on a day but it could be from anything. Recently i paid $19 for a promo from 'Book tweeters' it's to their group of around 500k followers. Now twitter, normally sucks for promo, but they are running it on friday, and i'll be able to see what the direct result is., Also if i get 100 clicks and only 10 sales, i'll know my sales page needs some work!

If you don't have bitly get it, your probably using it anyway.