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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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L.J. Diva’s End of 2020 Catch Up

01/12/2020 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, Publishing, Writing Leave a Comment

 

Back on the first of Feb I posted this list of shit to get done (you can see that here), and now I’m rounding things up since it’s the last post of the year. So here we go…

 

Here’s what I had ALREADY achieved in January (all in green)

– 1 – I reorganised how I’m going to do things on LJDiva.com.

– 2 – I changed LJDiva.com’s tagline to make it more about my author status and what I write as I move away from blogging.

No longer is it, Author, Blogger, Social Media Commentator, it’s now the awesome line of Kick-Ass Author of Sexy, Sassy, Kick-Ass Romances!

Which, quite frankly, I am!

– 3 – I added a privacy policy page to ljdiva.com.

– 4 – I updated my bio and logo, plus a few pictures and pages on my website, and updated all of my social media as well.

– 5 – I reorganised my social media and updated my Pinterest boards.

 

What was ALREADY in the making this year…

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

01/11/2020 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, L.J. Diva's Books, Publishing Leave a Comment

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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The Final Instalment of the Porn Star Brothers Series continues in AND ALWAYS

28/09/2020 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: L.J. Diva's Books, Publishing Leave a Comment

The final instalment of the Porn Star Brothers Series continues in AND ALWAYS…

 

 

We all know the stories of how Diana came to be with Charles Kensington, and Cabot was introduced to Tony DeLuca, but you don’t yet know how the rest of the Stephanopoulos grandchildren came to meet their forevers.

Alena falls head over heels for hot Italian American singer musician Luca Saint on the first night of her European tour. He was her support act; she was his passion.

Antonio first lays his eyes on fiery French Italian model Maria Van Star on Valentine’s Day, and beds her that night in the back office of the family’s club.

Dom tours London for the first time DJing and meets Greek Australian TV reporter Davina Smythe. She interviews him, and he gives her the most blazing encounter of her life.

Alexis is in need of a new doctor at the centre, and thanks to Dan and Derek playing matchmaker, Marcus Wellcroft MD sweeps her off her feet and into his bed.

Danté’s living an incredibly good life and about to turn forty. But after multiple family tragedies, he’s stunned when singer, Michelline Volmeyer, appears in his life. Is she an angel, or was sent by the two most precious people in the family who are no longer with them?

It all started with Carlos, Pedro and Tomas back in the ’70s with an iconic story that become their Forever, and now the family saga comes full circle with the marriages of the remaining Stephanopoulos children for their forever in the final instalment of The Porn Star Brothers series…And Always.

 

 

And Always is the seventh and final novel in the Porn Star Brothers contemporary romance, family saga.

If you like family sagas, music and fashion, money and power, then you’ll love L.J. Diva’s page-turning series.

Continue your love affair with The Porn Star Brothers Series today!

 

OUT NOW AT ALL ONLINE BOOKSTORES!

 

**In order of reading – Carlos, Pedro, Tomas, Retribution (or the Porn Star Brothers box set or collector’s edition paperback novel), Forever, Love Never Dies, Stefan: The New Generation, DeLuca, Spiros & Jenny, And Always.**

 

And Always. More Book Quotes from the Last Porn Star Brothers Series Novel.

21/09/2020 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: L.J. Diva's Books, Publishing Leave a Comment

The final instalment of the Porn Star Brothers Series continues in AND ALWAYS…

 

 

And Always is the seventh and final novel in the Porn Star Brothers contemporary romance, family saga.

If you like family sagas, music and fashion, money and power, then you’ll love L.J. Diva’s page-turning series.

Continue your love affair with The Porn Star Brothers Series today!

 

 

 

OUT NOW AT ALL ONLINE BOOKSTORES!

 

**In order of reading – Carlos, Pedro, Tomas, Retribution (or the Porn Star Brothers box set or collector’s edition paperback novel), Forever, Love Never Dies, Stefan: The New Generation, DeLuca, Spiros & Jenny, And Always.**

 

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