L.J. Diva

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It’s Been Five Years Since My Family Saga Book Series The Porn Star Brothers Was Released

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On the first anniversary of Jackie Collins’ death, I released the first book in a series that was to become four novellas and seven novels long.

Starting with the release on September 19th, 2016, was Carlos, the eldest brother of the family.

On September 26th, 2016, came Pedro, the youngest brother in the family whose story starts where Carlos’s left off.

And on October the 4th, 2016, what would have been Jackie’s 79th birthday, came Tomas, the middle brother of the family, whose story picked up where Pedro’s left off.

What followed was the fourth novella of Retribution. All four novellas were turned into the novel of Porn Star Brothers and was followed with six more novels, Forever, Love Never Dies, Stefan:The New Generation (a nod to Jackie’s Hollywood Wives:The New Generation), DeLuca, Spiros & Jenny, and the final novel, And Always, which was released on September 19th, 2020.

The entire series is dedicated to Jackie, and you can see the dedication, with a fabulous leopard print-clad Jackie, here on this page. Just scroll down to the bottom.

I hope, in the future, to release something each September 19th as an ode to the woman I call author mentor and inspiration.

She was ballsy, rollicking, a fabulous dresser, and a woman who made her heroines tough and ballsy like her, as well as fierce ass kickers, and I hope to be like her when I grow up.

 

 

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

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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

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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!

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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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A Ten Year Anniversary, and Shit To Get Done for November 2020!

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Let’s jump into that anniversary news…

 

First off, it’s the ten year anniversary of when I wrote what is now called Falling for London. I wrote it in 2010, set it in 2011, and now, here we are, ten years later and it’s had two covers and two titles. It’s also gone from being independently published to being under my publishing house name.

YAY!

Second, it’s also the ten year anniversary of receiving the call.

Which call?

THE call…from a publishing house.

That’s right, I’ve been one of the lucky people who have actually received a call from a publisher, but after much consideration I turned them down. I’m glad I did. I found out in 2017 that they had gone bust in 2015 and owed their authors a lot of money.

Next year it will be ten years since I discovered self-publishing so there will be some more anniversaries to celebrate.

Feck! Ten years!

 

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

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Shit To Get Done for October 2020!

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

 

1 – RELEASE the last novel in the Porn Star Brothers series, And Always, on September 19th.

2 – Do book quote and book release blog posts.

3 – Do my yearly Jackie Collins post.

4 – Get the interior done for the print books.

5 – Do October’s blog posts.

6 – Maybe get the print covers done? That will all depend on the cover designer.

 

Well, would you look at that! Five items were completed and I’m feeling very good about myself.

The covers are not done, at this point. They may be done after the rest are complete, but we’ll see how they go.

 

 

Okay, so let’s launch into what I want to do in the month of October…

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