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Another Anniversary, New Books, and The To-Do List for April 2021

01/04/2021 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, L.J. Diva's Books, Writing Leave a Comment

 

I still can’t believe it’s the start of ten years of self-publishing…

You can see my very first blog post about self-publishing here dated 3/4/2011 (click link)

I’m still on a bit of a weirded out high from that. Ten years is a long time to be doing anything. And considering that I used to think the only way to be published was to be “traditionally published”, well times have certainly changed.

It was ten years last month that I signed up to Smashwords, ten years since my first step into something that would take ten years of my life.

Who knows where they’ll be in ten years? I mean, hell, I didn’t know thirty years ago I’d be here doing this. Or twenty years ago for that matter. and the only other thing I did for ten years of my life was school as I left after year ten.

Don’t they say people find success at the ten year range? For some it’s the 10,000 hour range. But if one equates to the other…then my ten years/10,000 hours are here and I’m ready for success!

But now…

 

Let’s get into what I achieved in March from the list of things to get done…

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An Awesome Anniversary, Book Releases, and The To-Do List for March 2021

01/03/2021 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, L.J. Diva's Books, Publishing, Writing Leave a Comment

 

WOOHOO!

What anniversary could I possibly be talking about?

The 10th anniversary of me self-publishing…

WOOHOO!

That’s right. It’s ten years this month since I first signed up to Smashwords, a book website where you can sell your e-books to voracious readers.

The exact date is the 13th, so twelve days from now.

It was ten years last month since I first found out about self-publishing, and now it’s ten years since my first step into something that would take ten years of my life.

A little back story: I wrote my first novel, The Road To Vegas in 2006, the second (at that time called How I Won Lotto, Moved to L.A. & Married A Really Huge TV Star!) and now called Hollywood Dreams, in 2008. In November 2010 I wrote my third novel (then called Life And Death Adventures in London) now called Falling for London, and that’s when I received the call. Yes, THE CALL, the call from a publishing house wanting Lotto. But after much thinking, and crying, and decision making, I decided to say no. So, in 2011, I found a blog post by an American agent I was following about Amanda Hocking who was massive in self-publishing. Via her I found Joe Konrath and the rest is history. I’ve been self-publishing ever since. And in 2017 I set up my own publishing house, Royal Star Publishing, to deal with all of the novels, novellas, non-fictions and stories I write and release.

So, back to now. It’s now ten years this month since I took my publishing career into my own hands, and my ten year anniversary.

They say people find success after 10,000 hours or the equivalent of ten years, don’t they?

Now, onto other things…

 

Let’s get into what I achieved in February from the list of things to get done…

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Let’s Get This Done, 2021!

01/02/2021 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, L.J. Diva's Books, Publishing, Websites & Social Media, Writing Leave a Comment

 

 

Last year was an absolutely fucked up year, and shit has already been happening this year, personally, BUT, to bring this back around to blogging/writing/publishing, I found that posting monthly was a good fit for me, so I’ll continue doing that this year.

I’ll still be talking about what I’ve done in the last month, and what the plans are for the coming month. Post about the release of the Porn Star Brothers books in hardcover (finally), potential new books, and the odd post about other things, such as the anniversary of Jackie Collins’ death, and anything to do with legalities where writing and publishing is concerned. Or I’ll post something just for the hell of it. There are also some anniversaries coming up this year so I’ll be talking about those things as well.

A lot has already happened, as you’ll soon see. Something I decided in late November 2020 was to close down the Porn Star Brothers book series website to make life easier for myself. And as much as I loved it, and thought it was so freakin’ awesome, again, I needed to make life easier for myself and not have an extra website to upload a whole pile of details to. And also, the series has come to an end with And Always, so it’s not like the website would be added to in the coming years.

To get this party started, let’s launch into February 1st’s post containing what I’ve already done so far this year, and what I hope to get done this month and what I have planned for the year.

Green is for done, orange for in the process of, and black is what is yet to be done.

So let’s get into it.

 

Here’s what I have already achieved in the first month of the 2021…

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Happy Freakin’ New Year!

01/01/2021 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Holidays & Festivities Leave a Comment

 

Not only is it the new year, HELLO 2021, but it’s also this blog’s 12th birthday.

It will continue as it has been for the last year, with a monthly post, and a few others thrown into the mix. I might blog a bit more this year about things that are important to authors and writing, especially since there are quite a few anniversaries this year. More on that in the months to come.

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

I’ll be heading off for the rest of 2020

14/12/2020 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Holidays & Festivities Leave a Comment

It’s Christmas…Fuck Yeah!

04/12/2020 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Holidays & Festivities Leave a Comment

 

Well…what else was I gonna say after the year it’s been?

One more month to go before 2021 and a new year and new times…

FUCK YEAH!

 

 

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