L.J. Diva

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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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Shit to Get Done for March 2020!

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

 

– 1 – Get the proofs of the large print and hardcover versions of all my books.

– 2 – Finish off the character lists I started, thanks to doing them for the Porn Star Brothers series I’ve now spread it across all books, and upload them to the ljdiva.com website.

– 3 – Post weekly to social media.

– 4 – Get March’s blog post done.

– 5 – look into getting a mailing list for my books and setting up a newsletter on the website as looking may be all I can do at this point.

 

As you can see, I did three things on the list and didn’t do two. But then, it was only a list of five things.

I also had many other things that I did, such as doctor’s appointments and bloodwork done, read a lot of books that were not my own. Went through my book boxes and found some old books and I’ve posted them below. Wrote some emails and got the proof of Spiros & Jenny in paperback. Sent my books off to the NLA for legal deposit. I shopped online for caboodles and sassabys, op shopped, tried out my new social media schedule so I certainly achieved that.

And if you want to see the others things I’ve been up to, head over to my style blog, Jewel Divas Style.

 

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

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Let’s Get This Shit Done, 2020!

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Last year I decided to go from posting weekly to posting monthly. It’s a matter of clearing brain clutter and making things better and smoother for my work lifestyle. I don’t have an assistant, so have to do everything myself, and felt that cutting back to once a month was better for my health, both mental and physical.

On the first of every month, there will be a post talking about what I’ve done in the last month, and what the plans are for the coming month. There will be posts talking about the new Porn Star Brothers book that will be coming in September this year, so the usual posts to go with that.

I’ll also post about the new formats for my books. I have large print and dust jacket hardcovers coming this year, so I’ll definitely be posting about those. There will also be 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.

To get this party started, let’s launch into February 1st’s post containing what I have planned for the year, what I’ve already done so far this year, and what I hope to get done this month. The usual mid-year catch-up and end of year catch-up will also happen, but that will be the basic structure of each month’s blog posts from now on. What I’ve done and what I’m going to do. And once again, green is for done, orange for in the process of, and red for not fucking getting done (although that won’t happen until the end of the year).

So let’s get into it.

 

Here’s what I want to achieve, and have already achieved, just in the first month of the 2020.

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A Brand New Year, A Brand New Site, and What I Did Over The Holidays!

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Yes, here I am!

Here at L.J. Diva, the official website.

For those who don’t know, I had my dear old Blogger blog migrated on Jan 21st, 2019. It’s the start of a new era for me. Ten years I was at blogger, ten years I had that blog, but, 2019 is my year to cut and cull.

Again!

Every year I cull some social media, some emails, some web pages. This year I will be culling massive amounts of email adds. I have emails for all of my websites and multiple adds for multiple reasons. Outlook, live, hotmail, gmail, ymail, they just have to go.

Over the next month I will be slowly culling all of my excess baggage, along with my weight, yep, on another diet, and hopefully, it will refine and define my online business so it is easier to deal with.

 

As for all of the blog posts here at L.J. Diva…

Well, they came over from Blogger. I will be updating or deleting some I no longer think are worthy of being here. Or, are just embarrassing and hideous and I no longer want around. 10 years worth aren’t really worth it in the grand scheme of things. And it’s a new start here on the new site for 2019.

For those who are new, when I started my blog it was called Bitchfest! I then changed it to A Bitchfest! Lovefest!, it was then Lady Jewels Diva, and in it’s final incarnation, it was L.J. Diva. When I started, I swore, so if you don’t like swearing, don’t go back. For those who don’t care, feel free. I blogged about a lot of things, some, received massive attention and scored many comments, but over the last five or so years, I’ve toned down and written more about publishing, writing, books and movies I’ve read. I don’t feel the need to comment on everything in the world anymore, only when I feel like it.

And, since migrating comes with issues, I only went through the last year’s worth of posts and fixed issues, any from 2017 and beyond, I’m not going to worry about, so ignore the horrible issues that came with migrating.

 

As with every year, I’m sticking around and here’s what I got up to over the holidays.

December 1 – started low calorie diet, also started wardrobe overhaul

December 2 – as above

December 3 – as above

December 4 – skin cancer clinic, had mole cut off right inner knee, continued wardrobe overhaul

December 5 – two doctor’s appointments, some shopping

December 6 – shopping, library, usual

December 7 – washing, housework

December 8 – chiro visit in the morning, started jewellery overhauls

December 9, 10, 11, 12 –  continued jewellery overhaul, cleaning, repairs, reorganising

December 13 – shopping, library

December 14 – washing, housework

December 15 – got stuff done

December 16 – xmas shopping, library

December 17 – continued stuff

December 18 – cancer clinic for stitches out. Borderline melanoma

December 19 – continued stuff

December 20 – shopping, chiro, library

December 21 – washing, housework, weighed self, lost 1 stone/6.5 kilos/14 pounds

December 22 – continued stuff

December 23 – as above

December 24 – ran out to get lunch and dessert, watched carols on tv and had munchies

December 25 – home, some work, sister came round

December 26 – some more work

December 27 – shopping, freakin’ hot

December 28 – washing, finished off all of the above

December 29 – as above

December 30 – as above

December 31 – watched New Year’s celebrations and had munchies

January 1 – started new publishing list for this year, weighed self, gained 3 kilos/7 pounds, back to diet

January 2 – sorted out diaries and finished off others

January 3 – shopping, freakin’ hot

January 4 – washing, stuff

January 5 – edited next novel, DeLuca

January 6 – as above

January 7 – as above

January 8 – shopped online

January 9 – edited DeLuca

January 10 – shopping, library

January 11 – washing, finished off stuff, got some blog posts scheduled and planned ahead

January 12 – edited DeLuca

January 13 – as above

January 14 – did back matter updating

January 15 – started Stefan pb edit, 300 pages

January 16 – continued Stefan edit

January 17 – shopping early as it was hot, library, more Stefan edit

January 18 – started scheduling blog posts

January 19 – went back to hand writing and wrote more of DeLuca

January 20 – as above

January 21 – had L.J. Diva blog migrated, dealt with some business

January 22 – finished editing the paperback proof of Stefan

January 23 – tried to get shit done online, holy hell it’s hot here. Tidied up last year’s blog posts.

January 24 – shopping, library, chemist, burgers for lunch

January 25 – washing, caught up on excess stuff and leftovers and dealt with website stuff

January 26 – back to handwriting more Deluca, finished off other things

January 27 – sister came over, some reading

January 28 – editing

January 29 – edited books and dealt with website stuff

January 30 – typed up rest of DeLuca

January 31 – shopping, library

 

So, what did you guys get up to over the holidays?

 

Happy 10th Blog Blogaversary Birthday to Me….. I’m Moving!!!!

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That’s right, this little old blog turned 10 today.

On January 1st, 2009, it started as Bitchfest! under the domain of jewelsdiva.com.au. Over the years, it has grown by name, A Bitchfest! Lovefest! to Lady Jewels Diva, to the same domain just last year of ladyjewelsdiva.com.

But now, with the brand spankin’ new author site LJDiva.com being released late 2017, I have decided to cut and cull my social media just that little bit more, and have tidied up all of the labels here to be cleaner and leaner.

This blog is moving to my author website on WordPress sometime this month.

After ten years, lots of love, and definitely LOTS of colour, we will be setting up our new home over at L.J. Diva. 

It’s nothing new for authors to link up or migrate old Blogger blogs to their new WordPress websites. WordPress has it all over Blogger/Blogspot/Google who have not given bloggers the opportunity to be too much in control.

On WordPress, you are in control of your website and how it looks, with millions of themes available to use, whereas Blogger doesn’t give you much. Although I will miss my kiss background, my huge header space, my side bar (although you do get one on WordPress) and all the wonderfully colourful stuff I’ve done with it, it’s time to adultify myself and move my blog to my adult author website.

Blogger does, however, give you Blogroll, so I will be keeping this profile for now as this blog will be here for the next few months, giving an updated post so people know where I’ve gone. Hopefully you’ll follow me over at my website and continue to post, or even on Tumblr where I send this blog to, same as Google+. If I remember, you can follow WordPress blogs in Blogroll, so I won’t be too hard to find. And I find it better to use than Bloglovin, although my blog is there as well for those on it.

However, when it comes to comments, I may not be providing many on yours. My apologies in advance, but with everything going on in my life (especially the last three years), with the way times have changed, the age I’ve gotten to, all of the books I need to write and have written, and having been doing this for ten years, I’m buggered. Literally! And I need to cut and cull as much as possible and that means no longer following blogs and commenting. 

It’s nice taking December and January off without worrying about posting or leaving comments. Instagram and Facebook is where I find all of my info these days and see what’s going on in the world, or there’s Twitter and Pinterest. Feel free to follow me there instead if you don’t want to follow a blog anymore, and I’ll follow you back so we can keep commenting. But I’ve grown tired and worn out and I’ll be 45 in May, so the time has come to slowly grind to a halt.

I’ll see you on the website in February.

Cheers to ten years!

 

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