It all started way back in the ’80s, the decade Tiara loves most, when she started the first phase of her writing career in primary school by “self-publishing” her first two books with two other classmates. By high school, she’d not only made a third book, but was also writing song lyrics inspired by her favourite singers and bands.

Once school was behind her, Tiara kept writing songs and started analysing other artists’ lyrics to better her own, which led her to analysing books… So little did she know, that over the seven plus years she wrote lyrics, it was setting her up for bigger and better scribblings, namely non-fiction, short stories, novellas, and novels over 300,000 words. And it all started in 2006, with the second phase of her writing career, when Tiara wrote her first novel, just four years after she stopped writing song lyrics, and then nothing… Until 2008, when she wrote her second novel.

Two years later, in 2010, after writing her third novel, Tiara thought her hard work had finally paid off when she received the call all authors dream of. The call from a publishing house wanting her novel. After much consideration, she thanked them and declined their offer. But that was not the end of being an author.

In early 2011, the universe showed Tiara the way. After reading a blog post about self-publishing millionaire author, Amanda Hocking, Tiara now knew that self-publishing existed. She read through Amanda’s blog, and having run the gamut of rejections from traditional publishing houses and agents, she took her career into her own hands and set about making it happen, bursting into the publishing world with two of her novels by the second half of the year.

In 2014 she started writing under her own name, releasing the non-fiction book, How To Be A Jewel Diva: Tips And Tricks To Buying, Wearing And Caring For Your Costume Jewellery, and come 2015 added a third author name to her repertoire.

In 2017, Tiara started her own publishing house, Royal Star Publishing, to accommodate all of her books, genres, and multiple author personalities, and by 2018, all of her books were finally released under the Royal Star Publishing banner.

2021 came the publication of all of her books in hardcover, and many in large print. And as it was also a new decade, being ten years since she first published, a lot of milestones happened.

In 2022, Tiara wrote and released her eleventh adult novel and released the sixth Bone anthology while still trying to get everything else done.

 

Writing Timeline

 

1986 – Wrote and illustrated her first two books in primary school, and wrote short stories.

1988 – Co-wrote her third book in high school, as well as continuing those short stories.

1989 – Started writing song lyrics.

2014 – Wrote How To Be A Jewel Diva: Tips And Tricks To Buying, Wearing And Caring For Your Costume Jewellery.

2015 – Wrote #Teenblogger: To Follow Or Not To Follow?

           – Wrote Closet Confidential: How To Audit Your Wardrobe And Update Your Style.

2016 – Typed up all of the song lyrics she’d written from 1989 to 2002 and formed an idea.

2017 – Set up her own publishing house, Royal Star Publishing, for all of her books and short stories and started releasing all of them under the label.

2018 – Sent #teenblogger, with a six page letter and little royal bits and pieces all wrapped up in a pretty box, to Ellen DeGeneres!

 

 

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To buy any of these books please visit Royal Star Publishing