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.

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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