It’s the first writing holiday for 2019 and I’m hoping, if I haven’t done it yet, that the next Porn Star Brothers book will be written, due out in September this year.
YIKES!
I’d better get on with it!!!
Wish me luck!
L.J. Diva’s Writing Plans for 2019
Since I’m here at a new site, and you may not be able to follow me on the google blog roll anymore, I’m still at bloglovin’.
Now, let’s get on with my plans for 2019…
(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.
(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
– 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.
– 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 July or 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.
As you can see, not a lot to do this year overall, just following through with the rest of Porn Stars and the yearly T.K. Wrathbone stories, and finishing what was started late last year, my novels, which will soon be done, and then there are only three books left to move over to my publishing house name in paperback. Although all three are going to go through the updating process, and may not come out again until 2020, so that may be the plan for then.
So, what are your plans for the year ahead?
L.J. Diva’s End of Year Catch Up for 2018
At the beginning of the year, as I’ve done for the last couple of years, I’ve detailed my “to do” list for the year. All the books to be written, edited, released etc. You can read the original post for 2018 here.
Green is for ‘done’, orange is for ‘in the process of happening’, and red is for ‘not bloody happening’.
(1) Under Tiara King I have these planned…
– 1.1 – Release the six book series, Poems Of A Musical Flavour, in paperback.
– 1.2 – The paperbacks have been mostly done and need tweaking, which will be done sometime in Feb or March. I had a time limit for March for the 6 pbs, but it might be pushed back to May.
– 1.3 – All will be released through Amazon and Ingram Sparks which I have joined as a publisher and they will be under my imprint.
– 1.4 – I will also release the omnibus e-book and make e-book #1 permafree in March.
– 1.5 – The omnibus pb will be released in September and I’m doing my own interior and having the cover done professionally. It will be 6×9 size and very thick.
UPDATE – ALL six plus the omnibus deluxe edition which is actually 7×10 are out in paperback and so are the two e-book box sets
ALL ACHIEVED!!!!!
– 2 – Update my two paperbacks, How To Be A Jewel Diva and Closet Confidential.
– 2.2 – I have decided to add style sheets to the pbs 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. Deadline is May, but I’m having trouble completing them due to MS Publisher claiming I have no disc space left when trying to add pages to the document. I do have space, and need to fix the problem so I can get it finished. If anyone knows how to fix the problem, let me know.
UPDATE – I’ve updated the interiors to both, made up the style files workbook for both books, will most likely be released in 2019. I just have to set up an email account for a newsletter.
– 3.1 – I still haven’t got #teenblogger to Ellen DeGeneres yet.
– 3.2 – It’s in the planning and I want to make it as professional as possible and tweak it in the next month or so. It’s important that I make it look good, and important that I try and get it out there even though it’s been two years since I released it.
UPDATE – #teenblogger was sent to Ellen on August 30th 2018
ACHIEVED AND BLOGGED!!!!!
– 4 – I want to get my jewellery back into its own website so we’ll see. Selling has been on hold for the last two 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.
UPDATE – not happening this year.
(2) Under T.K. Wrathbone I have these planned…
– 1.1 – Get three stories written up, typed up, edited and out along with an anthology. Thank God I’ve already done the e-covers.
– 1.2 – All four will be released in the second half of the year.
– 2.1 – Will get the paperback version of last year’s stories done professionally, and it will be out before this year’s new stories.
– 2.2 – I am also updating the first two Bones pbs and will release them under my imprint during the year.
UPDATE – ALL three bones paperbacks were re-released under my own imprint.
I’ve written, typed up and released this year’s stories across Nov/Dec.
ALL ACHIEVED!!!!!
(3) Under L.J. Diva I have these planned…
– 1.1 – Put the next book, Love Never Dies through two more rounds of editing (one was done on the Australia Day long weekend on the 26/27th of Jan).
– 1.2 – Get the cover finished, and release it in March.
– 1.3 – Then comes the paperback interior and cover for release in September.
– 2.1 – I typed up the last couple of hundred pages of Stefan: The New Generation in January.
– 2.2 – I need to put it through 3-4 rounds of editing.
– 2.3 – Then send it off to my editor across three months because it’s so long it will cost a fortune.
– 2.4 – Then two more rounds of editing and get the cover done.
– 2.5 – Release it in September as an e-book.
– 2.6 – Then comes the paperback interior and cover.
– 3 – Release all four Porn Star Brothers novellas in paperback, along with the deluxe collector’s edition novel, and the novel Forever all in paperback. March is the deadline, but it could be April or May as I need proofs first.
– 4.1 – I want to type up next year’s novella which isn’t due for release until March 2019 so it gives me time to edit and add to it.
– 4.2 – I also want to try and get the last book in the series written up. That isn’t due until Sep 2019, but I like to be ahead of myself due to outlay costs so I know ahead of time where I can fit it all in.
– 5 – I’d like to try and get some of the short stories for the series written up. I can do the e-book covers myself and I’ve bought the pictures for them, so I will save money doing that. It will just be editing I’ll have to pay for. But who knows, they won’t be due until after the last novel, but I will release them weekly, so they will need to be all done.
– 6.1 – I also want to update my four standalone novels. I updated the interiors last year, changed them to a 6×9 format, and will have the covers re-done for them.
– 6.2 – Then re-release under my imprint in September, December by the latest. They are still available at Amazon in paperback, but, with the new format in 6×9, and with recent changes in CreateSpace, it means the prices can be lowered, so…
– 6.3 – I also have to re-evaluate my pricing strategy.
UPDATE – ALL four Porn Star Brothers novellas and three novels were released in paperback in September through CreateSpace (now KDP Print) and Ingram Sparks so they can be ordered via bookstores
Stefan was released as an e-book and the interior and cover is in the process of happening. I also typed up and edited the next year’s release.
I am yet to write up the final book, but will get to it over December. I’ve already set myself a 20 day period to write at least 10 pages a day, which would make 200 pages of a book. Not sure whether it will be that long, but I do also hope to get at least five short stories done for “future” PSB story lines. Written’s one thing, at least the story’s done. Getting it typed up will be next, followed by editing, then releasing.
ALL four novels are still undergoing cover changes and will be re-released under my imprint by the end of the year or early in 2019.
That will mean all but three of my books will be moved to my own imprint. The last three can stay under Amazon’s imprint until I remove them or update them. Dream It, Write It, Publish It! has a deadline for updating of 2020. Which means, in 2019 I will need to massively update it for a mid-year re-release, hopefully.
I also copyrighted all of my books with the US copyright agency.
ALMOST ACHIEVED!!!!!
As you can see, there’s a hell of a lot of green and still some orange going on, and thankfully, everything will slow down come next year. There will be three to four paperbacks to release as books come out under L.J. Diva and T.K. Wrathbone. Tiara King is doing nothing at this stage although there’s a couple of book series I want to do, but until the Porn Star Brothers series is out of my head in full, only then can I really get into anything else and that won’t be until 2020-2021. Yikes! And T.K. Wrathbone releases every year, so they need to be done as well.
I also want to get the prequel and sequel to The Road To Vegas done, plus I’m considering two sequels to Hollywood Dreams (formerly How I Won Lotto), purely because I want to use the pictures I bought. So, we’ll see what happens. I have until I’m 50 and that’s 5.5 years away.
The Writing Groups I’ve Joined in the Last Year
On the path through any journey, you need to keep educating yourself about your craft, reading, listening, watching, learning from all others that went before and all that have come after you.
It’s a great way to learn of all the new things that are coming our way.
As authors, we need to be across the board and on the ball because the publishing field is changing so much and so fast, that sometimes, we can’t keep up.
But one way of doing so, is to look at all of the writing/publishing groups you come across. Figure out if you can learn from them, if they are supportive of each other and not egotistically narcissistic in dictating how the publishing business is, and how authors should be.
Find a group that loves to learn and help each other out instead of pull each other down. And believe me, there are quite a few of those, apparently.
But the two I belong to, aren’t.
Alliance of Independent Authors I joined last year. Known as Alli, it was started by Orna Ross for authors like herself and grew from that. Alli has partnerships with companies such as Ingram Sparks where we self-publishing authors get a great deal on publishing our books with them.
There are book designers and editors who will do Alli members a deal, and John Doppler wades through all of the information on publishing houses and whether or not you need to beware and stay away.
For an author who’s already published, it’s a yearly cost of $129AUD. Varying levels of membership have varying costs, it all depends on where you are in your writing journey. Also, as a member, you get free books to publishing written by Alli members themselves, and you get to join the Facebook page.
The next group is Self Publishing Formula by Mark Dawson.
A former lawyer and trad pubbed author, when he was dumped by his pub house, as so many authors are, he started self-publishing and slowly built up Self Publishing Formula. You can join the Facebook group, buy the courses, watch or listen to the podcasts, and learn so much it’s ridiculous.
I really wish all of these things had been around 12 years ago when I wrote my first book. Back then, I only had my local writing centre and Romance Authors of Australia. I left both behind years ago.
If you’re a writer or author and are looking for your tribe, these are two groups you need to check out and join.
What I did on my last Writing Holiday for 2018
This is the last holiday for 2018, and yes, I did get a lot of writing done, as well as typing up. Here’s what I did…
SATURDAY 29TH – finished off short stories
SUNDAY 30TH – finished off short stories
MONDAY 1ST – wrote a chapter of one of my kids’ larger stories
TUESDAY 2ND – wrote another chapter…
WEDNESDAY 3RD – wrote another two chapters and finished it off.
THURSDAY 4TH – shopping, library, did the rest of my taxes, watched Suicide Squad on tv.
FRIDAY 5TH – washing and paperwork during the day, Henry Cavill at night, oh, wait, make that watched Batman V Superman on tv.
SATURDAY 6TH – started typing up Bones of Wrath: Monsters, got 30 pages done.
SUNDAY 7TH – typed up the rest of Bones of Wrath: Monsters, 20 pages, and dealt with daylight savings
MONDAY 8TH – woke late due to daylight savings, ugh, ended up doing a bunch of paperwork
TUESDAY 9TH – started another kids’ story, first chap
WEDNESDAY 10TH – wrote two chapters
THURSDAY 11TH – shopping, library and chiro
FRIDAY 12TH – washing, dishes, JDS blog posts, last chapter of TKW story
SATURDAY 13TH – started typing up my kids’ stories
SUNDAY 14TH – as above
MONDAY 15TH – as above
TUESDAY 16TH – as above, and my sister came down
WEDNESDAY 17TH – wrote the final chapters
THURSDAY 18TH – shopping, library, got this blog post scheduled
FRIDAY 19TH – washing, pottered around
What did you guys get up to these last weeks?
What I did On My Second Writing Holiday for 2018
Saturday 7th – had a lie in, watched Niall Horan (former One Direction member and my current crush even though he’s actually young enough to be my son and why I didn’t crush on One Direction in the first place, because they were and are all too young. But puberty smashed into him real hard and made him as hot as fuck!) interviews on YouTube, started the updates for the paperback series Poems Of A Musical Flavour while listening to country music I used to line dance to. Yee Haw!
Sunday 8th, Monday 9th – as above, still doing Poems and trying not to get distracted by Niall. I’ve been listening to One Direction a lot this year, and have only recently gotten Zayn’s and Harry’s cds from the library. I’ve gone back to listening, in full, to Niall’s Flicker cd, and it’s damn good. I’m addicted. And he’s still as hot as fuck and so damn distracting…
Tuesday 10th – finished perfecting #teenblogger and it’s finally done. I hope.
Wednesday 11th – did stuff, can’t remember.
Thursday 12th – shopping, library, usual, my sister came down. Trying to get over my Niall addiction.
Friday 13th – washing, dishes, faffed around online and did a couple of things, watched One Direction videos on YouTube.
Saturday 14th – Can’t remember what I did, but it would have been stuff.
Sunday 15th – started editing Porn Stars Love Never Dies.
Monday 16th – continued above.
Tuesday 17th – started editing Porn Stars Forever, 1D as above.
Wednesday 18th – continued editing Forever, 1D as above.
Thursday 19th – shopping, library, the usual. Did some social media work online in the evening.
Friday 20th – did the washing and dishes, finished editing Forever, my sister came around, watched One Direction at San Siro twice in a row.
Saturday 21st – tried to get extra stuff done, like blog posts etc.
Sunday 22nd – got down to editing Porn Stars, Carlos and Pedro during the day, watched One Direction at night .
Monday 23rd – edited Porn Stars Tomas and Retribution, 1D as above.
Tuesday 24th – finished off porn stars interiors.
Wednesday 25th – finished Teenblogger and uploaded the interiors for Poems as well.
Thursday 26th – shopping, library, chiro, scheduled this post at 11 pm after completely forgetting about it and going to bed fuck One Direction…
Did I write that…
And who knows, with the way I’m going I might have a crush on someone completely different next writing holiday…
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