BOOK DEDICATIONS
The dedications have varied from book to book and have been updated over the years since my first release in 2011. Here’s each dedication for each book.
The Road To Vegas…
Original Dedication…
This book is dedicated to the men who inspired the characters.
The incredibly studly, so rough and ready, Italian stallion himself: Carmine Giovinazzo.
The insanely gorgeous, sexily suave and debonaire James Bondage: Michael Weatherly.
My gorgeous Michael Weatherly and Carmine Giovinazzo, without the two of you the characters of Diega and Vegas would not exist. The men you are, the men you will be. Go ahead in life and soar.
To the Weatherlys and Giovinazzos for bringing two beautiful baby boys into this world. Without them to inspire the characters I’d still be waiting to write a book.
To me, for giving me the story that played like a movie in my head as I wrote it down. Well, who else was I going to thank….
And to Jackie Collins for writing The Love Killers. There’s a particular scene in the book that stuck in my head for over ten years and I knew I wanted to write a book like that. Full of sex!!!!
Updated in 2019 with a new cover…
My gorgeous Michael Weatherly and Carmine Giovinazzo, without the two of you the characters of Diega and Vegas would not exist. The men you are, the men you will be. Go ahead in life and soar.
And to Jackie Collins for writing The Love Killers. There’s a particular scene in the book that stuck in my head for over ten years, and I knew I wanted to write a book like that. Full of sex!!!!
Hollywood Dreams: A Karmic Tale of Money, Love and Bitchy TV Drama Queens!
Original dedication under the original title of…How I Won Lotto, Moved To L.A. & Married A Really Huge TV Star!
Who are the people I need to thank?
Well, there’s only one to thank ……. ME DAHLINGS!!!
Well Duh!!! Who else am I gonna thank for writing it out in long hand.
But definitely most importantly, my gorgeously gorgeous husband, NCIS star, Michael Weatherly, and my Italian Stallion lover, CSI New York stud, Carmine Giovinazzo. Need I say more? You inspired a HUGE amount of the book!!!
Those that inspired some small piece of the book in some small way …..
Cyn-B-Demented, my first Bitchfest! follower!!!
Australia’s TV morning show Gods, David Reyne and Larry Emdur, for giving us something good to look at and listen to in the mornings. I’ll be your co-host any day Laz!
Australia’s Singing Sexpots, Human Nature. I thank you for all the dance-able pop songs I bounce around to, and for She’s Taken My Words. Which is your only decent love song!
President and C.E.O. of CBS, Leslie Moonves, for having the best shows on TV – NCIS, CSI New York, Criminal Minds, Hawaii 5-0, The Mentalist – if you didn’t have such great shows all of us women folk wouldn’t have such gorgeous men to drool over and have a ”date night” with every week. Or have the inspiration to write a book which featured running into the C.E.O. of the biggest network in the world!!!!
80’s Aussie pop group, Indecent Obsession. Michael Szumowski, you started my ”obsession” with hot blue-eyed brunettes named Michael in such a Gentleman Style. I sooo blame you for that!!!! But I still ”Believe”.
Jackie Collins, the Queen of sex, for writing a book that stuck in my head for over ten years.
Those I want to thank for no particular reason, although I know there is one!!!!!
Radio Gods, Hamish and Andy – Hamish, Michael Weatherly ain’t the only one with a crush on you!!! Remember that from Rove back in 2007!?!?!?! God, that was awhile ago….
Nancy Drew, thanks for a great read for the last 80 years, and a massive addictive obsession for the last too many to count years! Rock On Girl!!!
Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey. Just because!!!! Because why? Mentioning you will mean I get to be on your show. Hurray for me!!!!
Magnum, for his short shorts, Hawaiian shirts, moustache and damn fine chest hair! MacGyver, for being able to get out of any predicament with a paperclip and a piece of string. The (fictional) Hardy Boys, and Parker Stevenson for being the BEST Frank Hardy. Gorgeous George Clooney and Beautiful Brad Pitt. The steamingly hot men of CBS, and any other TV stars/actors who have inspired many a wicked laugh and a dirty dream……
Debbie Gibson for her bopping 80s music.
Everyone I’ve mentioned at jewelsdiva.com.au, or on my Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Smashwords, LinkedIn, Tumblr and God knows how many other pages. Hello!!!
And then last and definitely least, there’s those few people who inspired the bitches and bastards in the book …. You know who you are!
Oh yes you do!!!
To all of those that I can’t think of now but I know when the book is published I’m going to remember and go ‘I should’ve thanked you and you and you….’
And for those that don’t know yet … yes … I AM ”The Mystery Woman” who saved the world’s biggest network!
Now that you know …. GO AWAY!!!!!
BUT READ MY BOOKS FIRST!!!!
This book is dedicated to Michael Weatherly.
The man I would move halfway around the world for.
The man I would throw myself off a cliff or into a raging sea for.
The man I would take three bullets for.
The man I would protect with my life and my love.
Well, when I wrote the book way back when anyway!
Updated in 2016…just shortened
Who are the people I need to thank? Well, there’s only one to thank…ME DAHLINGS! Well Duh!!! Who else am I gonna thank for writing it out in long hand.
But definitely most importantly, my gorgeously gorgeous ex-husband, NCIS star, Michael Weatherly, and my Italian Stallion ex-lover, CSI New York stud, Carmine Giovinazzo. Need I say more? You inspired a HUGE amount of the book!!!
President and C.E.O. of CBS, Leslie Moonves, for having the best shows on TV – NCIS, CSI New York, Criminal Minds, Hawaii Five-0, The Mentalist – if you didn’t have such great shows all of us women folk wouldn’t have such gorgeous men to drool over and have a ”date night” with every week. Or have the inspiration to write a book which featured running into the C.E.O. of the biggest network in the world!!!!
Jackie Collins, the Queen of sex, for writing a book that stuck in my head for over twenty years.
Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey. Just because!!!! Because why? Mentioning you will mean I get to be on your shows or networks. Hurray for me!!!!
And then last and definitely least, there’s those few people who inspired the bitches and bastards in the book…. You know who you are! Oh yes you do!!!
Updated in 2019 with a new cover, and is now very short…
To the two most important people who inspired this book…
Michael Weatherly and Carmine Giovinazzo.
Need I say more?
Falling for London…
Original dedication under the original title of…Life And Death Adventures In London…
Well, there’s only one to thank…ME DAHLINGS!!! Who else am I gonna thank for writing it out in long hand? Spending countless hours editing and editing and editing…..
To Sgt Callum Stone, Bob and Linda Sampson, Megan Mortimer and the doctor who saved my life, twice, thanks for being there to help me through.
Yes people, I know they’re fictional characters but you just never know…they may actually be real….
David Tennant, the BEST Dr Who. And yes, I KNOW you’re NOT gay!!!! The boys from The Bill, (even though it’s technically gone, it’s still in repeats). Top Gear, especially Richard Hammond. Simon Cowell for his acidic tongue. I do love you! Graham Norton, I want to be on your show!
Kelly Clarkson, P!nk, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Robbie Williams, Take That, Adam Lambert, Elvis Presley, Short Stack, Thirsty Merc, Bruno Mars, 80s, 90s, old time rock n roll and anyone and anything else I’m listening to at the mo for inspiring music to blast out of my cd player.
And then last and definitely least, there’s those who inspired the bastard in the book, you know who you are because I mentioned you…..
Updated in 2019…with a new cover and title and is now very short…
To those who inspired the characters in the book, the music I sang, and the actors I used, you know who you are because I mentioned you…thank you for the inspiration you gave me.
The Billionaire’s Dirty Little Secret
Original dedication has always been under all three names…Her Secret Island of Sex and Torment, and, Her Secret Island…
This book is dedicated to Conrad Coleby.
Anything for You
For Oscar, and his partner in crime, Jason Sudeikis, for giving me a Colossal idea for a novel
The Porn Star Brothers Series
In 2014 a vague idea to write a book about a porn star came to me. In 2015 the idea brewed and grew and when my idol, Jackie Collins, passed away, the idea flourished with a vengeance. I knew I wanted to get three stories about three young Australian men getting into the world of porn in the ’70s, written, edited, and released on the first anniversaries of Miss Jackie’s death and birthday.
Jackie Collins is the biggest inspiration in my life when it comes to writing, if not the only inspiration. She had the passion, the brains, the ballsy rollicking attitude, and the kind of life that made me want to be her.
Without her, these books would not exist, for I would not have had the inspiration to follow in the same ‘write whatever you want’ league.
Without her, I will continue trying to write the kind of books she wrote. Real, ballsy, and bonkbustingly good.
Jackie, the Porn Star Brothers book series is dedicated to you as so many of my other books are. I thank you for the inspiration you have given me and hope you continue giving me, to go on and write more. I hope that you are well and having a good laugh wherever you are. I miss you and will continue doing so. Sometimes I think I feel you egging me on with my writing. Maybe that’s true, and maybe it’s just my rampant imagination; the same imagination that has given me the books I have written so far in my life. And sometimes, I really wished I could be you. You will forever be my idol and inspiration and I thank you.
RIP, Miss Jackie C.
And to the three Stefanovic brothers, Carlos, Pedro, and Tomas, without whom I would not have had names for my porn stars.