Kick-Ass Author of Sexy, Sassy, Kick-Ass Romances!
– 1 – Get a new logo made.
– 2 – See if I can watch the Jackie Collins doco.
– 3 – Get September’s blog post done.
Two of those things did not get done. The Jackie doco is still not available here in Aus, so that will have to wait. And the logo is on the list, but other things have taken over the budget. I’m hoping to get it done by by next year along with a new web theme.
– 1 – Write a short story as a reader magnet for my mailing list.
– 2 – Get my mailing list done.
– 3 – Get August’s blog post done.
– 4 – Find other stuff to post on social media. It’s tough when you’re not doing much to promote yourself and you have to find something outside of yourself to post about.
As you can see, the first two did not get done, and as for finding stuff to post on social, I need to do better.
On July 18 it will be the tenth anniversary of uploading my two books Lotto and London onto Smashwords and going live. That means, as of the 18th of July, it will be exactly ten years of self-publishing.
Fuck!
There’s a new docu-movie about Jackie that premiered last month at Tribeca, aired in London, and on CNN in America, but I’m still waiting to see where and when it comes to Aus.
The trailer is below and it’s saucy and sexy. CANNOT WAIT to see it. Even the music is perfect.
A couple of months ago I was talking about the tenth anniversary of me self-publishing, and I linked to the first blog post I did talking about taking the bull by the horns.
Well, here’s a link to my second ever post about self-publishing from June 19, 2011. How my writing is going. My books are coming soon, I promise!
– 1 – Write a short story as a reader magnet for my mailing list, AND get my mailing list done. (This will go on until it gets done)
– 2 – Get June’s blog post done.
– 3 – Deal with whatever else is on the horizon.
Well, as you can see, only two things on the list got done. I’m not really in writing mode, haven’t been all year since I had the large prints and hardcovers to get out into the world, but things are settling down and hopefully the muse will come a calling and so will inspiration.
– 1 – Write a short story as a reader magnet for my mailing list, AND get my mailing list done. (This will go on until it gets done)
– 2 – Get May’s blog post done.
– 3 – See where life takes me…
Well, as you can see, with only three things on the list two of them got done. Maybe I should live by #3 for the rest of my life, but who knows. The reader magnet is yet to happen as I’ve been busy releasing books and dealing with doctors and legalities, and so the mailing list will need to wait, but I do have the newsletter which you can sign up to.
Way back in 2013 I blogged about a dream I’d had in great detail. And you can read that post right here in this link.
While I had forgotten the dream in full, and the year in which I had it, I always remembered parts of it.
Late last year in November, I was having a clean-up of this website, adding things from my Porn Star Brothers website so I could close that down, and sending lots of old posts back into draft mode. I kept coming across a post about a dream I’d had but thought nothing of it. I updated the size of the picture, changed the tags, and didn’t think anything more. And then one day, while cleaning through the posts, as it took quite a few days, I decided to read it, and lo and behold, it was a post about the dream.
My jaw hit the floor as I saw how great a detail the dream had been in and how much I’d forgotten. So I pasted the post into a word doc, tidied up the spelling, and printed it out. I then made a bullet list of points from the post and printed that out as well.
Why?
Because I’m going to turn that dream into a book.
Also…
The actor from that dream, the one I mentioned in the post and how I’d been seeing him in a Kellogs Just Right ad back then, well, he’s back on air with another ad eight years on. But this time it’s for a Toyota Hilux and the damn song playing over the top of it is Don’t Stop Believing from Journey. Or, depending on what generation you are, the whole first season of Glee.
Now, I could take this as a sign.
I generally don’t believe in signs anymore. I DID stop believing in them years ago as they never seemed to amount to anything, but in the last couple of years I’ve kind of figured that some things might just be signs after all. Like finding a black cat on my roof, for example. I bought extra lotto tickets after that, but nothing came of it. See, what’s the point in believing?
I try and listen to my muse and guides and helpers when it comes to my writing, but rarely get a whisper.
Well, if I want to stretch this ad out into a sign, then there’s been a few since 2013 and I could maybe stretch a few things that have happened recently into more signs.
So let’s start…