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An Anniversary, the New Jackie Collins Movie, a Half Year Catch-Up, and The To-Do List For July 2021

01/07/2021 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Authors & Books, Writing Leave a Comment

Let’s get into the other things first…

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!

Onto other even more exciting things…

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.

Onto the half year catch-up…

Here’s what I had ALREADY achieved in the first month of the 2021…

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The To-Do List for June 2021 and Another Anniversary!

01/06/2021 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Authors & Books, Writing Leave a Comment

Another Anniversary to start with…

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!

But now, let’s get into what I achieved in May from the list of things to get done…

– 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.

Now let’s launch into what I want to get done in June…

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The To-Do List for May 2021

01/05/2021 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Authors & Books, Writing Leave a Comment

Let’s get into what I achieved in April from the list of things to get done…

– 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.

Now let’s launch into what I want to get done in May…

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It’s been 8 years since I had a dream about a hunky actor, and now he’s back in my head…

25/04/2021 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Humans & Behaviour, Writing Leave a Comment

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…

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Another Anniversary, New Books, and The To-Do List for April 2021

01/04/2021 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, L.J. Diva's Books, Writing Leave a Comment

I still can’t believe it’s the start of ten years of self-publishing…

You can see my very first blog post about self-publishing here dated 3/4/2011 (click link)

I’m still on a bit of a weirded out high from that. Ten years is a long time to be doing anything. And considering that I used to think the only way to be published was to be “traditionally published”, well times have certainly changed.

It was ten years last month that I signed up to Smashwords, ten years since my first step into something that would take ten years of my life.

Who knows where they’ll be in ten years? I mean, hell, I didn’t know thirty years ago I’d be here doing this. Or twenty years ago for that matter. and the only other thing I did for ten years of my life was school as I left after year ten.

Don’t they say people find success at the ten year range? For some it’s the 10,000 hour range. But if one equates to the other…then my ten years/10,000 hours are here and I’m ready for success!

But now…

Let’s get into what I achieved in March from the list of things to get done…

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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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An Anniversary, the New Jackie Collins Movie, a Half Year Catch-Up, and The To-Do List For July 2021

Let’s get into the other things first…

Onto other even more exciting things…

Onto the half year catch-up…

Here’s what I had ALREADY achieved in the first month of the 2021…

The To-Do List for June 2021 and Another Anniversary!

Another Anniversary to start with…

But now, let’s get into what I achieved in May from the list of things to get done…

Now let’s launch into what I want to get done in June…

The To-Do List for May 2021

Let’s get into what I achieved in April from the list of things to get done…

Now let’s launch into what I want to get done in May…

It’s been 8 years since I had a dream about a hunky actor, and now he’s back in my head…

Another Anniversary, New Books, and The To-Do List for April 2021

Let’s get into what I achieved in March from the list of things to get done…

An Awesome Anniversary, Book Releases, and The To-Do List for March 2021

WOOHOO!

The 10th anniversary of me self-publishing…

WOOHOO!

The exact date is the 13th, so twelve days from now.

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

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