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Future Plans for the Porn Star Brothers Series.

08/11/2019 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: L.J. Diva's Books, Publishing, Writing Leave a Comment

 

I’ve mentioned in my half yearly catch up, and will mention it again in the full yearly catch up, but will go a little more in depth here about what I’m doing with the series.

When I started writing Carlos, way back in 2016, I knew there would be a trilogy. Carlos, Pedro and Tomas. But then the conclusion to the story ended up being the fourth instalment of that series.

Once I was editing them, I had thoughts about a second book, and then a third. But I had to put them out of my mind as I had other books under my real name to get typed up and done.

Come October that year, I sat down and out they came. While writing, my mind would jump around and jump ahead to future storylines and potential books.

One book was a novella that would come between book three and four, or Love Never Dies and Stefan. It’s set five years after LND in 1987, but by the time I had spent three weeks crying while writing LND, I knew that it would not be written at that time. I knew that the storyline wasn’t really going to benefit the story arc in general, and so, I put the idea aside and moved on to Stefan. Although, I did have an idea for three short stories in one, all five years apart, but again, the storylines would be too similar to warrant writing them.

I also had ideas for short stories of characters from each book. So five from Carlos, five from Pedro, and five from Tomas. That idea grew to another five from the series as it grew, and then another five.

Finally, I had twenty-five stories to write and I was already exhausted.

And so I decided to cut them down from forty pages each to ten to forty and release each lot as a boxed set. But that idea has waned, and so the novella, and the short stories, were put on hold.

I’m not saying forever, but for now. I’m hoping, sometime in the future, that I will get back to them. But I feel I need to put distance between us and get this series done in the best way possible. And that’s by releasing five short stories based on the rest of the grandkids and how they met their partners.

At the end of DeLuca, you meet Luca, married to Alena, and Maria, engaged and about to be married to Antonio. In Spiros & Jenny you get to know them along with Marcus, who’s married to Alexis, and Davina who’s married to Dom. At this point Danté is still single, but in the collection that will finish off in September of next year, you will get a look into the past to when the others met and married, and a look into the future to when Danté meets the woman he marries, Michelline. You will also learn where the family stands at that time and how they have evolved.

Come March, I’m hoping, there will be hard cover versions in case laminate and dust jackets to buy, and maybe paperback large print, but don’t hold your breath on those as it would make the books way too long and way too big. The paperback of Spiros & Jenny will also be released in March, along with the dust jacket hard cover, fingers crossed.

And that will be the end of the Porn Star Brothers series. For now, I’m hoping. I do have my fingers crossed for the future, maybe a couple of years into it, that I will get back to writing about the other characters as they are different to the main family. I need new faces to write about, or old stories to tell that are completely different to the current ones. Something fresh to excite me.

I need to step out of the family and take a break. Cut the apron strings and let them go out into the big wide world to fend for themselves. After all, I AM Jenny Stephanopoulos.

 

What I Did on My Last Writing Holiday for 2019

18/10/2019 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, Writing Leave a Comment

 

Here’s what I did on my last writing holiday for 2019!

September 28 – did something…

September 29 – as above…

September 30 – probably wrote or typed or edited, can’t actually remember.

October 1 – wrote. Yay!

October 2 – wrote some more. More yay!

October 3 – shopping, library etc.

October 4 – housework, edited a story and sent it off for editing.

October 5 – not much. I was a bit headachy so watched Avengers Endgame instead and then cried, so had a bigger headache.

October 6 – wrote, edited a story and sent it off for editing.

October 7 – wrote. Yay!

October 8 – typed up story, edited another and sent it off for editing.

October 9 – wrote last chapter of story, typed it up, edited it.

October 10 – shopping, library, chiro.

October 11 – housework, edited a story and sent it off for editing.

October 12 – edit other stories get ready for sale.

October 13 – as above.

October 14 – Stories should be uploaded for pre-sale.

October 15 – tax papers.

October 16 – had three moles removed, tax papers.

October 17 – shopping, library, finished blog posts.

 

What did you guys get up to these last few weeks?

 

I’m Off on My Last Writing Holiday for 2019

28/09/2019 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, Writing Leave a Comment

 

Hopefully I’ll get some stuff done!

 

What I Did On My Second Writing Holiday For 2019

26/07/2019 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, Writing Leave a Comment

 

WHAT I DID ON MY SECOND WRITING HOLIDAY FOR 2019

 

SATURDAY 6TH – typed up 20 pages of Spiros & Jenny, found a Henry Cavill forum

SUNDAY 7TH – finished typing the last eight pages of Spenny, more on the Henry Cavill forum

MONDAY 8TH – did paperwork, got some ideas down, did some sorting out, made phone calls

TUESDAY 9TH – more paperwork, more ideas, more sorting out, started to get some blog posts ready with pics and whatnot.

WEDNESDAY 10TH – had dermatologist appointment, did stuff

THURSDAY 11TH – shopping, library

FRIDAY 12TH – washing, housework, pottered around

SATURDAY 13TH – started first edit of Spenny, more on the Henry Cavill forum

SUNDAY 14TH – continued first edit of Spenny, updated books back matter, more on the Henry Cavill forum

MONDAY 15TH – finished first edit of Spenny, more back matter updating, more on the Henry Cavill forum

TUESDAY 16TH – more back matter updating, more on the Henry Cavill forum

WEDNESDAY 17TH – blog posts scheduling, more on the Henry Cavill forum

THURSDAY 18TH – shopping, library, chiro, doctor,

FRIDAY 19TH – washing, housework, finished up stuff.

SATURDAY 20TH – started second edit of Spenny

SUNDAY 21ST – two thirds the way through second edit of Spenny

MONDAY 22ND – sister came around, went to Henry Cavill forums

TUESDAY 23RD – finished off second edit of Spenny

WEDNESDAY 24TH – tried to get other stuff done

THURSDAY 25TH – shopping, library, took mum to doctors appointments

 

As you can see, I spent a lot of time on two Henry Cavill forums, quite interesting, what people have to say. I also tried to get as much done as possible, but sometimes it was hard to do. working until midnight and then sleeping in until ten or so because it’s freezing winter here doesn’t help, either.

Oh well, onwards, onwards.

 

I’m Off On My Second Writing Holiday For 2019

05/07/2019 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, Writing Leave a Comment

 

Let’s hope I can get some writing, typing and editing done!

 

 

L.J. Diva’s 2019 Half Yearly Writing Update

28/06/2019 by L.J. Diva Filed Under: Business & Legalities, L.J. Diva's Books, Publishing, Writing Leave a Comment

 

Here’s a mid-year catch up on my 2019 plans…

(1) Under Tiara King I have these planned…

– 1.1 – see whether it will be worthwhile updating my two paperbacks, How To Be A Jewel Diva and Closet Confidential.

– 1.2 – I added style sheets to the interiors in 2018, which will also be given away for free as a download on my style website when people sign up to an email list once I get it done. I will re-release under my own imprint, but it’s a matter of whether I have time, and if I can get the damn newsletter/sign up happening.

 

– 2.1 – I still want to get my jewellery back into its own website. Selling has been on hold for the last few years due to money, time and energy. I’m still looking for wordpress templates that would suit the type of website look I want, but with everything else going on, this won’t happen for some time.

—– Both of these are on hold still. I did re-upload Closet Confidential and Jewel Divas with updated back matter in e-book format at Amazon, and Closet did get a new cover for the e-book and the paperback cover was done this month, but that was it for the year.

 

(2) Under T.K. Wrathbone I have these planned…

– 1.1 – The paperback version of last year’s stories is done and will be released in March 2019

DONE!!!

– 2.1 – Get three stories written up, typed up, edited, and out along with an anthology, and do the e-covers.

– 2.2 – Release all four in October for Halloween.

– 2.3 – Get the paperback version done ready for release next year.

 

– 3 – Overhaul the website and give it a front page.

 

(3) Under L.J. Diva I have these planned…

– 1.1 – Put the next book, DeLuca through several rounds of editing

– 1.2 – Get it to my editor this month, and then edit some more.

– 1.3 – Get the cover finished, and release it as an e-book in March.

– 1.4 – Then comes the paperback interior and cover for release in September.

DONE SO FAR!!!

 

– 2.1 – Get the next book in the series, Spiros & Jenny, written in March

– 2.2 – Type it up through the year and put it through 3-4 rounds of editing.

– 2.3 – Send it off to my editor at some point in August.

– 2.4 – Release it in September as an e-book along with the paperback of DeLuca.

– 2.5 – Then comes the paperback interior and cover for a 2020 release.

 

– 3 – Start on the Porn Star Brothers Short Story Collection. At least get them written, and then they can be typed up through the months and edited. I’m hoping to release them as boxed sets through 2020, that way I can write 10-40 pages per story, and not 40 pages per story, so they will get done quicker.

 

– 4 – I still want to re-release my four standalone novels. The covers are nearly done, and I’ve nearly finished the interiors. All they will need is for the paperbacks to be proofed before release. Hopefully that will be by June, as that is my deadline for getting all four novels out to the public.

DONE!!!!!

 

—– Spiros & Jenny wasn’t written in March, it was written in May and June, so a little behind schedule. I have started typing it up though, and the next stage is editing.

—– So far the short story collection hasn’t even been started. I realised while trying to get Spenny written that I’m kinda over this series, and more to the point, having a six month deadline for releases. With the Wrathbone stories, and Porn Star stories vying for attention, something had to give. I’m looking toward ending the series next year with a short story collection based on the Stefan kids and how the rest of them met their partners. More than likely out in September to complete the five years this series will have taken by then. Never say never, maybe one day I’ll finally write the rest of the stories that were intended, but I’m going to require the freedom to get into them without deadlines looming over my head. So maybe in a couple of years.

 

That’s it for my half yearly catch-up, what have you guys ticked off your list for this year?

 

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