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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 november 2021

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

 

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

 

– 1 – Get November’s blog post done.

– 2 – Keep posting weird things on social media. 

– 3 – Start reorganising my life and work schedules to be more in sync with each other so I can actually get some books written and take time off.

– 4 – Start writing a novel for release next year!

YAY!!!!!!

All three got done!!!!

 

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

 

– 1 – Get December’s blog post done.

– 2 – Keep posting weird things on social media. 

– 3 – Keep reorganising my life and work schedules to be more in sync.

– 4 – Reorganise how I do things from this year going forward and think about next year’s plans.

– 5 – Wrap up everything so I’m ready for a break in December and January.

– 6 – Keep writing that novel for release next year!

 

You’ll find out more come next year as things are definitely changing. For the better for me after twelve years of blogging here I want to get back to “before” when I wrote down the ideas that came to me and I didn’t have all of THIS drowning me in a quagmire of life.

But, more on that next year.

 

Meanwhile…

 

My social media and book site links are below, so if you don’t want to follow me on social, then you have three book alternatives. Goodreads, Amazon or BookBub.

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Until next month…

 

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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