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2017 IN REVIEW! How Mercury ate Mars, shoved itself up Uranus, and then shit great big Mars Bars on me.

23/11/2017 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, Humans & Behaviour, Life - Death - Health, The World Leave a Comment

My year in review, oh what a year it has been.

January: started off hot and horrible as it does and I was working through the whole thing. Mum had doctor’s appointments and scans and I went on a low calorie shake diet and lost 6 kilos/14pounds/1stone in three weeks. Started getting some books done in paperback.

February: I came back to blogging under this name and another name as well. I lost 3 kilos/7pounds/.5stone for the month. Bought some blog templates for other websites, and a bunch of photos from Shutterstock for books which were full steam ahead.

March: I started releasing Poems of a Musical Flavour under my real name and was getting the paperbacks done. I released Retribution under this name and made tonnes of plans for the year. I think I also managed to buy myself some things.

April: The shit hit the fan in April. Our local phone company store treated me like absolute shit every time I went in. They were so incredibly unhelpful that I rang the company and they finally helped, paying that month’s phone bill and sorting out the mess their store had created. A second company, our Social Security, decided to screw with me and cut off part of my money as it was “in review”, and mum’s bank decided to screw with her.

By now, I was down 12kilos/28pounds/2stone. Went to see gyno for screwed up menstrual cycle, he changed my pills back to the ones he took me off in 2008.

Had books corrected.

May: Social Security cut my extras completely and I had to hurriedly re-arrange the publishing schedule for the year and do as much as I could towards it. It also meant most things had to be moved for later in the year but all of the Poems had to be finished. They’re still not, now, the covers need tweaks, but since I’m with a publishing company…more on that later… Had the current novel, Forever, edited.

Bought a dress from eBay that never arrived and blogged about it over at Jewel Divas Style. Had to go after the postal company for a refund.

Went back to the gyno.

June: Mum had a visit to the cancer clinic, and I had a couple of doctor’s appointments. Joined Author’s Alliance and bought a bunch of domain names and a business name as I decided to set up a publishing house.

At this point I’ve left lots out. Mums had multiple appointments because the doctor, and the hospital, screwed her around with her breast screens, but I can’t keep up with which months.

July: Bought more web templates for certain websites and decided to move hosting companies because ANOTHER company was screwing me over. They pissed me around so badly, they left websites down and didn’t bother helping at all. Fuck them!

Joined Gsuite for all of my emails, posted my half yearly schedule, and my style site, Jewel Divas Style turned 8.

Had to delete Indesign because of the cost. They stuffed me around with the final payment too. Decided to trademark three names.

Had eye test done, apparently need glasses to make reading clearer! Found out I had a fibroid in my uterus.

August: Bought another web template, had books corrected (costing me a bundle over the years). Decided to buy more business names and domain names I’m up to…quite a few… and I changed my publishing house name. Started setting up the L.J. Diva and Porn Star Brothers websites.

Mum finally got in to the hospital for her fat legs and was told she may need them bandaged every day to get the swelling down.

September: renewed my Sleuths and Norton subscriptions, and Jewel Divas business name. Decided to trademark a bunch of names for business. Way too many! Had gained weight so went back on diet and lost 3 kilos/7pounds/.5stone, and had hand x-rays.

October: bought a second-hand Macbook Pro from eBay and downloaded Vellum for doing my paperbacks which will save me massive amounts. The L.J. Diva and Porn Star Brothers websites were professionally finished and they went live.

Got the four paperback interiors done for the Porn Star Brothers novellas. Decided Vellum was not good enough for the overall look I wanted in paperback and went back to MS Word. Also decided to keep Poems, Bones, and #teenblogger professional looking with the book designer I use. Finished off another website.

Found out I had osteoarthritis in my fingers as well as a gallstone, and that fibroid I was told was in my uterus, nope, ON my uterus and not causing the mega bitch bleeding I’ve been having.

Mum finally called the hospital for her leg appointment. Had a bunch of appointments, mum found out she had another cancer which was removed.

We also had a mass amount of tradies doing work, and our manager came for the yearly inspection. Still haven’t got my money from Social Security.

Got my tax done, waste of money, but I need to do it to keep my business number and I learned the hard way a few years back when I had to file four tax returns at a cost of over $800 and try and get my business number back. I’ve done it every year since.

Ended the month with more issues than when I started and posted about the new Porn Star Brothers website.

November: Revealed my new author website and posted book reviews on Valley of the Dolls and Lace. This is the last month of the year that I’ve been blogging, and hopefully December and January will be better. I’ve posted my writing schedule’s yearly update below. Most of the list has been done except for what’s left, and that will be done eventually over the next few months and into the new year.

Next year’s schedule is all ready to go, and who knows, maybe I’ll get a holiday over xmas and new year’s. Three days off here and there.

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In February I told you of my writing plan for the year. Now it’s time for a full year catch up.

I’ve edited the plan to show what’s happened and what hasn’t so I’ve colour coded all of them. Green is for ‘done’, orange is for ‘in the process of’, red is for ‘not done yet’.

(1) Under Tiara King the two series I had planned to write have been waylaid for another year or two but…

– 1 – I did release the six
book series, Poems Of A Musical Flavour, from March across e-book. The paperbacks
have been mostly done and need tweaking as setting up my own publishing house
came up, and along with the omnibus edition in e-book and paperback, will
hopefully be out March 2018.

– 2 – I released two books in
paperback, How To Be A Jewel Diva and Closet Confidential in May. I have decided
to add to them in 2018 and will re-release under my own imprint.

– 3 – I haven’t got #teenblogger to Ellen DeGeneres yet, but
it’s in the planning.

– 4 – I want to get my jewellery
back into its own website but it’s on the plan, so we’ll see. Selling has been
on hold during the year to save money and time. I’m still looking for
wordpress.org templates that would suit the type of website look I want, but
with everything else going on, this won’t happen for some time.

(2) Under T.K. Wrathbone

– 1 – I released a paperback in March called Two Bone:
Anthology 2 which is 2016’s stories in paperback.

– 2 – I got three stories
written, typed up, edited, assessed, and out along with an anthology. Thank God
I had already done the e-covers. All four were released late in the year.

–
3 – Will get the paperback version done professionally and it will be out in
March 2018…I think.

(3) Under L.J. Diva

– 1 – I’ve started getting the first four Porn Stars books done
in paperback plus an omnibus edition of all four and release them across
September and October.

Didn’t quite happen! I only did the interiors myself late
October, but the covers need to be done and they will be out next year. The omnibus
e-book was released in September and
the paperback version will be on sale in March 2018 along with the four
novellas and the paperback of Forever, as well as the e-book of Love Never
Dies.

– 2 – I typed up book #2 and
had it edited, assessed, and a cover done for release in September 2017, it is
called Forever. The paperback will be done for release in 2018.

– 3 – get books #3, #4, #5, #6 typed up
along with any short stories if I have time. (so far, only #3 is typed
up and being edited this month)

– 4 – Did the websites for
the book series, plus an author one purely for books and they are live.

– 5 – Got family and business
trees for the book series made up. The Stephanopoulos family tree is huge and
keeps growing with every book, along with the business tree. I also have
character lists and a family/book timeline typed up but that is an ongoing
process. All are up on the Porn Star Brothers site now.

What I did on my recent writing holiday, a quick catch up on mum and the weird weather we’ve had.

02/06/2016 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: L.J. Diva's Books, Publishing, The World, Writing 2 Comments

*a quick catch up on mum and the weather*

She went in for an endoscope on Wednesday the 25th of May to
see if 1 – the ulcer had gone and 2 – why she wasn’t able to keep her food down
because she’s been vomiting a lot since January.

The weather was overcast and rained off and on all day while
I op shopped. On Thursday the weather was sunny and warm yet we had a rainbow in the morning. You know the old song, a rainbow at night the Sheppard’s delight, a rainbow in the morning the Sheppard’s warning. Well it didn’t rain even though the rainbow was there.

On Friday it pissed
buckets down and reached about 12 degrees celcius which is freakin’ cold and I
dug my winter woolies out even though it ain’t winter yet. On Saturday it was
sunny once again, Sunday was overcast and cold and it’s been like that since.
Weird shit! One day on, one day off.

It turns out mum’s stomach is full of infection thanks to
the hospital pissing around wasting time and not doing anything about the ulcer
back in February when they found it. Basically, it’s festered. She was admitted
and has had a tube shoved down her nose sucking that shit out since so it’s
just over a week. Today, Friday, she has surgery to hopefully get rid of the
fucking shithead and so I’m not sure when she’s coming home.

Now, onto the post.

Recently while the school holidays were on, I had a writing
holiday. Now this approach worked wonders for me because I had three novellas
to get out and didn’t want to worry about being online and dealing with the
blog and social media.

When I write, I need absolute peace and quiet and no
interruptions. And thankfully, after finishing of the last T.K. Wrathbone
story, Mirror, Mirror on the Wall (now available for pre-sale at Amazon,
Smashwords and Kobo) just days before starting these books, I decided the only
way to get these novellas written was to take time off and write them since I
had planned to start them last December but then mum got sick and my plans got
fucked, so they were pushed back and back and back until April when I finally
fit them into the schedule.

Below is how I started, with three 240 page A4 spiral
notebooks, a 10 pack of blue pens and a new pack of post it notes.

The day before I read some inspiring work by Jackie Collins

And then I got to work. I found by the end of book 1, which took me four days to write 120 handwritten pages because I only write on the right hand side of the paper (it’s so I can make notes and add extra stuff on the left hand side opposite it during editing and reviews), that it came quickly, writing 40 pages on Sunday, 30 each on Monday and Tuesday and finishing it off with 20 pages on Wednesday, that I was going to need another notebook.

All to write the conclusion to the stories, and because one of the notebooks did not have the full amount of pages in it (talk about rip off!) I raced out and bought another notebook.

As you can see, I went through seven pens, albeit not from the pack I bought especially as I ended up finishing off another pack I had been using. And I went through all of the small post its.

Book 2 took me about 7 days because he was hard and took his time coming. The third book took me 10 days as my writing plan for that was different. Book 1 and 2 were written in the holiday, book 3 came from May 8th to May 16th with days off for shopping and doctors in between. I was tired and my hand was cramping so I figured if I wrote at least 10 pages (or 1 chapter) a day then I could get it done in 12 days. I got it done in ten because in two days I wrote four chapters. So he came at a relaxed pace.

I also managed to get a hell of a lot off my list. Below is the huge three month list I’ve been using this year in front of a very small part of my Nancy Drew collection. This is April, May and June and this pic was taken at the beginning of April (I had already gone through Jan, Feb and March). On the other side of the cardboard (my own DIY To Do list) is July, August and September, then I’ll do another one for Oct, Nov and Dec.

And here it is at the beginning of June below, now in front of my Jackie Collins burgeoning collection. I re-arranged a few things in the last few months as I suddenly started buying Jackie’s books from everywhere. As you can see, even caring for mum, writing under two names and releasing under another, it’s all in the To Do list. If you have your list in front of you with everything spread out across the months, it is easy to keep up and keep across three different writing names.

As you can see, under Lady Jewels Diva there is still work to do as it was pushed back, but that’s okay, because the novellas I wrote in April and May will be typed up this month, all 360 pages of it.

Yep, I do the handwriting and the typing!

As for anything left, this month is for getting the print versions of my T.K. Wrathbone and #teenblogger books into print. So not so busy, then come July it’s all about the novellas being assessed and the covers created, releasing the rest of my T.K. Wrathbone books and writing more for that pen name. Come September, the novellas will be released and then comes getting them into print next year.

Yep, even next year is already in the planning!

That’s how my writing is coming along and how I used the school holidays for productivity even though I don’t have kids. Holidays do come in so handy!

God I hate the new domestic violence ad for the Australian government.

05/05/2016 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Humans & Behaviour, Manners & Decency, The World 4 Comments

This is the latest ad in showing the violence against women, that the Australian government has produced.

Every time I see this ad it enrages me, not just for the pathetic bullshit humans have taught their children, but more for the fact that so many women have not taught their daughters any better.

If a boy hits you or abuses you it’s because he likes you!

I was never taught that bullshit because from grade 1 I had boys chasing me around my school, cornering me and assaulting me.

It wasn’t funny.

I was hit, punched, spat on, dropped onto the ground which fractured my coccyx bone, sworn at, called names and not once did I EVER think or believe it was because he liked me. If it was a man doing all of that it would be assault plain and simple. But because it’s a boy it’s because he’s a boy and he likes you.

All I want to do with this ad is scream at the women to get the fuck up and fight back. Stop sitting on the floor like a pathetic piece of shit and stand up for yourself.

How sad that the human race has been dumbed down. How sad that political correctness and molly-coddling of children has gone too far past the possible point of no return. How sad that women are not to taught to defend themselves. How sad that Boomer parents didn’t teach their Gen Y children to defend themselves. How sad that women think that defending yourself is just more violence and not a human right. How sad that women would rather their child stand or lie there and be beaten up because they don’t believe in fighting back and defending one self.

How fucking sad that some human beings have become as dumb as shit.

I am over these ads. I know they are made for a reason. I know that men are beaten up as well. But violence is violence no matter what the age. Women beat up men, children and other women. Men beat up women, children and other men. Children are beating up their mothers, fathers, other kids and raping and molesting other human beings.

What the fuck has this world come to when children as young as ten are raping and molesting other children and elderly women? Either the male side of the species is incredibly sick and we need to get rid of them, or we all need to get tough and straighten these little bastards out before they get to adult hood.

Either way, I am over women not standing up for themselves and fighting back. I am over pathetic women who have been taught badly, and don’t get their god damn acts together.

It’s time to grow up and be an adult and not that pathetic little child who was taught that if a boy treats you badly it’s because he likes you. If anything, this is the one thing that has fucked women up mentally over anything else, and it’s time for women to sort their shit out and start fighting back.

Australia has ANOTHER Prime Minister! Jesus, not another one!!!!

17/09/2015 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Humans & Behaviour, The World Leave a Comment

This week the shit hit the fan in Australian politics.

AGAIN!!!!!!!

Not only did we have another spill, but we lost ANOTHER Prime Minister.

This time it was Liberal leader and PM, Tony Abbott, ousted by narcissistic, egotistical Liberal MP, Malcolm Turnball.

I used to like Malcolm. Many a year ago he seemed charismatic and genuine. Now, he’s narcissistic and a steam roller. He’d rather roll over anyone in his way to get the head job and his ego grew bigger over the week.

He’s become slimy and a turn-off for many. Regardless of how badly Tony was going, he was barely in the job for two years.

After the Labor bullshit of the last five years we thought we’d had enough, but no, Malcolm kept stirring the pot, just like Kevin Rudd did with Julia Gillard after she knifed him in the back to get the top job.

Now, Malcolm has done the same to Tony.

This may or may not end well. We go to an election in about 18 months, and we’ll see whether Malcolm will be popular enough to make Liberals win again. After all, the Labor leader, Bill Shorten, is a pussy.

With Donald Trump trash talking women, I ask why men treat women that way!

20/08/2015 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Humans & Behaviour, Manners & Decency, The World 2 Comments

With Donald Trump’s recent, and not so recent, comments
about women (although I agree with his comments about Rosie O’Donnell as I can’t
stand her either), and all of the sexist misogynistic banter on social media I,
as I’m sure many others are asking, why do men do this?

Why do grown arse adult men, who know better, who have
wives, sisters, daughters, think that it’s okay to talk about women in such a
way? Especially when they would rip the guts out of any guy who spoke that way
to their daughter.

Has it got to do with their age? I doubt it. Sure they may
be stuck in a certain century with their knuckles dragging on the ground, but
many men of that era DO NOT speak that way to women.

Has it got to do with their upbringing? Sure some of them
may have seen their fathers treat their mothers badly and followed suit once an
adult, but many men of that upbringing DO NOT speak to women that way.

Has it got to do with hating their ex-wives, hence they have
been turned against women? Sure, there are many men, just as there are many
women, who have been turned off the opposite sex by bad experiences with their
partners, but many men with bad past relationships DO NOT speak to women that
way.

So what the bloody hell has it got to do with?

They don’t hate women, they had a decent upbringing, what in
fuck’s name makes them speak to, and treat, women so badly?

Look at what males do to women on social media. Rape jokes,
fat jokes, whore jokes. I know that it’s probably a genetic hatred of women in
general, as men were genetically modified to hate women right from the dawn of
humans, as you could go back over the centuries to show how much men hated
women by the way they treated them, but in this day and age, what in fuck’s
name makes males treat women that way?

Why do they do it? Does it make them feel so big and so good
when they put down someone below them? I know all about people like this. They hate
themselves so much that they must tear down anyone who seems to be happier,
have a better life and have more things in general, just so they feel better
about themselves. Just so they look big to all their mates.

Because that’s what it’s like in school, and in the real
world. Get them on their own and they’re gutless little cowards who wouldn’t hurt
a fly. Get them in a group and mob mentality sets in. They do it to look big
and feel good. But they don’t really. We know they don’t. Because afterwards, when the glow dies down, they’re still the tiny little pissant nothings they
were before they even opened their mouths.

How ironic!

Bruce Jenner, Nepal, Baltimore and Bali. The world has gone to shit this week!

30/04/2015 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Celebrities, Life - Death - Health, Movies & TV, The World Leave a Comment

This week Bruce Jenner finally came out on his interview
with Diane Sawyer.

Came out as a woman that is. Something many knew but most
were waiting for him to talk about, because really, whose business is it but
his.

“For all intents and purposes, I’m a woman,” Jenner said in
a special two-hour edition of ABC News’ “20/20.” “People look at me
differently. They see you as this macho male, but my heart and my soul and
everything that I do in life — it is part of me,” Jenner, 65, said. “That
female side is part of me. That’s who I am.”

Jenner detailed his internal struggles with being
transgender, which he said he has wrestled with since childhood. “I look at it
this way—Bruce always telling a lie. He’s lived a lie his whole life about who
he is. And I can’t do that any longer. My brain is much more female than it is
male. It’s hard for people to understand that, but that’s what my soul is.”

Experts and Jenner explain that there is a difference
between gender identity and sexuality, and the thrice-married Jenner revealed
that he has only been attracted to women. Jenner said that each wife, including
reality TV star and Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner, knew about some aspects
of his struggle.

There are two things that really shit me about situations
like this.

1 – The mixed messages real straight women receive on a
daily basis that we must accept who we are, the bodies we have, the problems we
have, and learn to deal with and live with them.

So then why is it different for transgender, gay, bi,
whatever the hell you want to call it?

Why is it perfectly okay to tell a man that if it makes him
happy to be a woman go ahead and change?

Straight women need to suck it up and accept ourselves so
then why shouldn’t men, or other women who feel the need to be men? Why should
it be different for straight women?

The mixed messages suck shit and I’m sick and tired of one
section of the community being pandered to while the rest of us are told to get
the fuck over ourselves and deal with our own shit.

2 – I don’t give a flying fat rat’s if you’re gay, bi, trans
what-fucking-ever, if you have any inkling that you may not be straight then
you don’t fuck with others emotions.

I have read and heard many stories from gay men who are
finally happy being out and proud and talk about how they first knew and how
they first felt. Yet they went on to marry women and/or have children.

First off you cock sucking piece of shits, where do you guys get off being all confused about your sexuality
but still going ahead and marrying? Where do you get off fucking with others
emotionally, psychologically and physically? Where do you get off confusing
others just because you’re confused yourself?

If you’re so confused then stay single until you sort your
shit out because fucking with others and their lives is NOT okay!

Shit also happened around the world this week so let’s get started.

First, Nepal had its earthquake, and with anything like this
it’s always horrible. But there is something that shits me. Families have the
right to worry, absolutely, but to get shitty because you don’t hear from your
loved one straight after it happens, especially in a country like Nepal, is
crap. For a start, wifi and internet, let alone cell phone connections are
going to be few and far between. Secondly, your loved one may be in a place
that has none of these and they would need to find them.

As for the survivors, I seriously doubt contacting loved
ones or updating their Facebook status is their first priority. What would be
first and foremost in their mind would be getting to safety, if they’re alive.
So why is it so hard for families to then comprehend that they cannot be
contacted immediately? I get it, your loved one could be dead, but to demand or
expect an immediate phone call or some other form of contact is stupid and
expectant and rather arrogant and narcissistic on your part. Grow up and
understand that contact is not the first priority for people in situations like
these.

Second, Baltimore was set on fire this week because once
more black people rioted over a black person being killed by a white cop.

One mother took charge of her son and beat him upside the head to get him home and the whole country is applauding her for it.

What in God’s name is in the head of these uneducated
fuckwits that says to them it’s okay to trash their own town because they don’t
like something? You have fucked up many more people’s lives by burning their
business (leaving people unemployed), their homes, their cars (they now cannot
get to work), but probably emotionally as well.

And black people wonder why they get called apes. Maybe it’s
because they act like wild animals when they don’t get their own way.

Third, Bali. The
death penalty was brought down upon two Aussies this week after ten years in
jail. Aussie celebrities came out with a video to “I stand for mercy” in a last dash
effort to bring help to the two boys in jail. Sadly, it backfired, showing these
actors having nothing but a shit fest on Prime Minister Tony Abbott. Julie
Bishop, our Foreign Minister, was not even mentioned in the video even though
she had slogged her guts out to stop Indonesia from killing them.

But no, it was all Tony’s fault. One of the celebs, Brendan
Cowell, apologised the next day on radio but the damage was done. These actors
have gone down in my eyes, and when you have Oscar winner Geoffery Rush as one
of them, forget it, not interested in anything else you have to say.

They realised they were in the wrong to crap on Tony and
apologised too late. It should have been about the two on death row, not our
Prime Minister. Pack of dicks they are!