Below is a timeline of everything I’ve done…
1986
– Phase one of Tiara’s writing and publishing career begins…
– Wrote and illustrated her first two books in primary school.
1988
– Co-wrote her third book in high school.
1989
– Started writing song lyrics.
1990
– Phase one of Tiara’s jewellery career started.
– Started making jewellery for herself and for presents.
1996
– Wrote her last song…or so she thought…
2002
– Now she wrote her last song…supposedly…
2006
– Phase two of Tiara’s writing and publishing career started.
– Wrote her first novel, The Road To Vegas, from July to September.
2007
– Sent out The Road To Vegas on submissions.
2008
– Phase two of Tiara’s jewellery career started.
– Wrote her second novel, How I Won Lotto, Moved to L.A. & Married A Really Huge TV Star!, across three weeks in February.
– Sent both books of her novels out for submission.
– Started making and selling jewellery on eBay, and attended the WEA Adult Learning courses of Introduction to Jewellery Making and Start an Online Business.
– Started her jewellery company, Jewel Divas, and set about creating her first collection, African Safari, in October right after having nose surgery.
2009
– Went live on January 1st with the original author blog, Bitchfest, at Blogger/Blogspot under her first name of Jewels Diva (completely different to her jewellery name).
– Trademarked her jewellery name of Jewel Divas in February, but failed due to bullying opposition and a lack of finances.
– Tiara’s “Charmer” hair bobbies and “Sunset Dusk” hair ties from the debut collection, African Safari, featured in Beads etc. magazine in May.
– Trademarked her first adult author name of Jewels Diva in June.
– Opened the website for Jewel Divas, and also started the companion blog Jewel Divas Jewellery on Blogger in July. It was purely for talking about the business and promoting what was for sale.
2010
– Set up www.tiaraking.com.au as a landing site to bring all of her personas together in one place.
– Wrote her third novel, Life and Death Adventures in London, across three weeks in November and 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.
2011
– And the universe soon came a calling early in the year. After reading a blog post about self-publishing, Tiara now knew such a thing existed. She took her career into her own hands and set about making it happen, bursting into the publishing world by the second half of the year.
– Bought the very royal title of Lady (see new author name below) from a very Scottish company, and owns a one foot squared piece of land in the Scotland highlands for conservation.
– Published the e-books of Lotto and London as the first author name of Jewels Diva in July, and then reissued them, and published the paperbacks, as Lady Jewels Diva in October.
2012
– The blog, Jewel Divas Jewellery, was updated and changed to Jewel Divas Style.
– Tiara’s “Inca Man”, “Deep Ocean Diver”, and “Marilyn Monroe” sets from her own personal collection featured in Australian Beading Magazine in April and June.
– Published the e-book and paperback of The Road To Vegas as Lady Jewels Diva in June.
2013
– Phase three of Tiara’s writing and publishing career started.
– Phase three of Tiara’s jewellery career started.
– Added the styling courses of Personal Stylist and Image Mastery for Women, Personal Stylist and Image Mastery for Men, and Personal Colour Analysis Theory to her repertoire through the Academy of Professional Image recognised by AICI – Association of Image Consultants International in January/February.
– Overhauled her hosting and domain issues in May and moved Jewel Divas Style over to WordPress in 2013 and started transforming it to the style website it is today.
– Closed down her original Jewel Divas webstore in July and moved it to MadeIt, Australia’s answer to Etsy.
– Changed her author blog’s name to Lady Jewels Diva.
– Wrote Her Secret Island of Sex and Torment from July to September.
– Wrote How Positivity Can Be A Bad Thing! at the same time.
– Wrote Dream It, Write It, Publish It! An Australian Guide To All The Hard Parts No One Tells You About Self-Publishing at the same time.
– Wrote a book about being a carer at the same time.
– Started writing the beginnings of How to Be A Jewel Diva.
– Trademarked her second author name of Lady Jewels Diva, along with her jewellery label, Jewel Divas and style blog, Jewel Divas Style in October.
2014
- Published the e-book of Dream It, Write It, Publish It! An Australian Guide To All The Hard Parts No One Tells You About Self-Publishing as Lady Jewels Diva in March.
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Wrote How To Be A Jewel Diva: Tips And Tricks To Buying, Wearing And Caring For Your Costume Jewellery and published the e-book as Tiara King via her Madeit store from May.
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Published the book about being a carer as Tiara King in May.
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Published the e-book of How Positivity Can Be A Bad Thing! as Lady Jewels Diva in May, and the paperback in August.
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Published both the e-book and paperback of Her Secret Island of Sex and Torment as Lady Jewels Diva in June.
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Had the idea for a new novel, but put the idea aside to percolate.
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Had the idea to start writing children’s stories, but put the idea aside to percolate.
2015
– Phase four of Tiara’s writing and publishing career started.
– Wrote #Teenblogger: To Follow Or Not To Follow? early in the year.
– Wrote Closet Confidential: How To Audit Your Wardrobe And Update Your Style and published the e-book as Tiara King via her Madeit store in July. Republished it on Amazon, along with How To Be A Jewel Diva, in October.
– Trademarked her young adult author name of T.K. Wrathbone in July.
– Published the paperback about being a carer as Tiara King in September.
– Published the paperback of Dream It, Write It, Publish It! An Australian Guide To All The Hard Parts No One Tells You About Self-Publishing as Lady Jewels Diva in September.
– Set up tkwrathbone.com for her young adult pseudonym and went live on September 18th.
– Wrote Next Top Mannequin, Cinderfella and Princess Charming: Witch Hunters, www.badluck-youredead.com, and The Bones of Wrath: Changes and published the e-books as the new young adult author name of T.K. Wrathbone, from October to Jan 2016..
– The idea for the novel grew, inspired by the sudden passing of her mentor, not just for writing adult fiction, but for living life by her own rules, author, Jackie Collins.
– Dealt with her mother’s illness which resulted in her own mental and physical fatigue.
2016
– Phase three of Tiara’s jewellery career ended.
– Put her jewellery label, Jewel Divas, on semi-permanent holiday in January due to caring for her mother, and that gave her brain the go-ahead…
– To take that idea about a new novel and turned it into The Porn Star Brothers Series…
– Wrote Carlos, Pedro, Tomas and Retribution from April to May.
– Published the e-book of #Teenblogger: To Follow or Not To Follow? as Tiara King on May 21st, and the paperback on September 1st.
– Officially changed the author name of Lady Jewels Diva to L.J. Diva.
– Shortened the title of Her Secret Island of Sex And Torment to Her Secret Island…and reissued the four standalone novels as L.J. Diva.
– Reissued Positivity and Publish It! under the dual names of L.J. Diva and Tiara King.
– Typed up all of the song lyrics she’d written from 1989 to 2002 and formed an idea.
– Wrote The Bones of Wrath: Ghosts in February.
– Wrote The Orphanage, Hantel and Gresel: Food Critics, Mirror, Mirror On The Wall and The Bones of Wrath: Haunted from February to April and published the e-books as T.K. Wrathbone from June to September.
– Published the e-books of Carlos, Pedro and Tomas as L.J. Diva from September 19th to October 18th, marking the first anniversary of Jackie Collins’ death and what would have been her birthday. She dedicated the entire series to her.
– Wrote Forever in October.
– Published the paperback of One Bone: Anthology 1 as T.K. Wrathbone on November 1st.
– Wrote Love Never Dies in November.
– Wrote half of Stefan: The New Generation in December.
2017
– Finished writing Stefan: The New Generation in January.
– Wrote the short story of Simon in January.
– Wrote DeLuca in January.
– Published the paperback of Two Bone: Anthology 2 as T.K. Wrathbone on March 1st.
– Published the e-book of Retribution as L.J. Diva on March 19th.
– Published her song lyrics as the six volume e-book series, Poems Of A Musical Flavour, as Tiara King, from March to August and published two e-book collections in September.
– Published the paperback of How To Be A Jewel Diva as Tiara King on May 12th.
– Published the paperback of Closet Confidential as Tiara King on May 12th.
– Trademarked her third and final adult author name of L.J. Diva, and her family saga series name Porn Star Brothers in July.
– Trademarked her first publishing house name of Royal Crown Press in July, but failed due to opposition and a lack of finances. She decided to let it go after having already changed the name of her publishing house to Royal Star Publishing, and along with the three imprints of Chances, Skull & Bone and Notes on Life, trademarked it in September.
– Wrote The Howler, Shadow Walkers, and Faded in April, and published all three along with The Bones of Wrath: Ghosts as e-books as T.K. Wrathbone from July to October.
– Published the e-book of Forever as L.J. Diva on September 19th.
– Published the e-book of Porn Star Brothers boxed set as L.J. Diva on September 19th.
– Set up her own publishing house, Royal Star Publishing, for all of her books and short stories and started releasing all of them under that brand.
– Turned on the websites for ljdiva.com, pornstarbrothers.com, and royalstarpublishing.com.au.
– Started on the interior paperback format of all the novels.
– Found out that the publishing house that had called her in 2010 about her book had gone bust in 2015. She was glad they didn’t have her book.
2018
– Filed for the trade marks of two publishing imprints in January but had to withdraw due to legal complications.
– Trademarked her production and management company names along with the publishing imprints of Love Beats, Dream Star, Life Styling, and Sleuth in February.
– Published the e-book of Love Never Dies as L.J. Diva under RSP on March 19th, and the paperback on September 19th.
– Trade marked her series title of Poems of a Musical Flavour in June.
– Published the e-book of Stefan: The New Generation as L.J. Diva under RSP on September 19th.
– Reissued the e-books of Carlos, Pedro, Tomas, Retribution, the Porn Star Brothers boxed set and Forever, and published the paperbacks of Carlos, Pedro, Tomas, Retribution, Porn Star Brothers, Forever and Love Never Dies under RSP in September.
– Published all six volumes, plus the omnibus edition, of Poems of a Musical Flavour in paperback, and reissued the two boxed sets and all six volumes as e-books under RSP in September.
– Reissued the e-book and paperback of #Teenblogger: To Follow or Not to Follow? under RSP in September.
– Published the paperback of Three Bone: Anthology 3 as T.K. Wrathbone, and reissued the paperbacks of One Bone and Two Bone under RSP in September.
– Wrote I Spy With My Little Eye in May, and Knock, Knock…Who’s Dead? It Creeped At Midnight, and The Bones of Wrath: Monsters in September, and published the e-books as T.K. Wrathbone under RSP from November to December.
– Unpublished the original paperback versions of her four standalone novels for a makeover.
– Copyrighted all books till now.
– Celebrated ten years of blogging on her author blog by choosing to combine both the blog and the website into ljdiva.com, and overhauled all other social media.
– Sent #teenblogger, with a six page letter and little royal bits and pieces all wrapped up in a pretty box, to Ellen DeGeneres!
2019
– In January the blog for L.J. Diva was migrated over to the website and formed one business.
– Wrote an extra 15,000 words and then an additional 67 plus pages for DeLuca and published the e-book as L.J. Diva on March 19th, and the paperback on September 19th.
– Published the paperback of Stefan: The New Generation as L.J. Diva on March 19th.
– The first four standalone novels were given cover makeovers and three were re-titled. All four were re-published, still as L.J. Diva, as e-books in March, and paperbacks on May 1st.
How I Won Lotto, Moved to L.A. & Married A Really Huge TV Star! became Hollywood Dreams: A Karmic Tale of Money, Love, And Bitchy TV Drama Queens! Life and Death Adventures in London became Falling For London. Her Secret Island of Sex And Torment/Her Secret Island became The Billionaire’s Dirty Little Secret.
– Published the paperback of Four: Anthology 4 as T.K. Wrathbone in April.
– Wrote Spiros & Jenny from May to June, and published the e-book as L.J. Diva on September 19th.
– Wrote Trick or Treat?, All Hallows Possession, They Rise On A Blood Moon, and The Bones of Wrath: Horrors from August to October, and published the e-books as T.K. Wrathbone in October for Halloween.
– Copyrighted the year’s books.
– Started getting books into libraries.
– Made many business, publishing, brand, and social media decisions, including the choice not to write the forty short stories that were planned for the Porn Star Brothers series.
– Made many business, publishing, brand, and social media decisions.
2020
– Published the paperback of Spiros & Jenny as L.J. Diva on March 19th.
– Published the paperback of Five Bone: Anthology 5 as T.K. Wrathbone in March.
– Wrote And Always, the final instalment of the Porn Star Brothers series, from April to August, and published the e-book as L.J. Diva on September 19th.
– The hardcover and large print formats of the novels, and the hardcover formats of the PSB series, were formatted for release. But due to issues they were delayed.
– Copyrighted And Always.
– Wrote the first 16 pages of The Demon Resides in October, but feeling exhausted by life in general, chose to not write the year’s T.K. Wrathbone stories.
2021
– Phase five of Tiara’s writing and publishing career starts.
– Closed the website for the Porn Star Brothers book series in January to make her business life easier and moved everything over to the L.J. Diva website.
– Published And Always in paperback and the entire L.J. Diva PSB series in casebound and dust jacket hardcovers on March 19th.
– Published all of the L.J. Diva stand-alone novels in large print paperback and dust jacket hardcovers on March 19th.
– Started at the local library’s writers’ group that she founded, in April.
– Published all of the T.K. Wrathbone Bones books volumes 1-5 in large print paperback, case laminate hardcovers, and dust jacket hardcovers on April 20th.
– Updated the website for Tiara King with a new theme, colour scheme, logos and business cards in May.
– Published the entire Tiara King series of Poems of a Musical Flavour in casebound hardcovers on May 21st.
– Published the Tiara King book #Teenblogger: To Follow Or Not To Follow? in large print paperback and casebound hardcover on May 21st.
– Trademarked a new publishing imprint, Pen to Paper, in August.
– Wrote All Clowns Must Die!, The Demon Resides, and The Bones of Wrath: Terrors from June to July, and Infestation from October to November, and started publishing the e-books as T.K. Wrathbone from September 19th. They were released through December 19th.
– Had the idea for a new novel, thanks to copious episodes of the TV show Blue Bloods, and planned the outline for it and its sequel in September.
– Had the idea for another novel after watching a little movie called Colossal with a certain actor called Jason Sudeikis…
– Copyrighted the year’s books.
– Added to her knowledge with the online writing courses of Plotting and Planning, Fiction Essentials: Grammar and Punctuation, and Cut, Shape, Polish: How to edit your own stories from the Australian Writers’ Centre.
2022
– Started the year executing MANY decisions about her life, her business, and her social media…
– Officially closed her jewellery business, Jewel Divas, and reverted it back to a jewellery label. All photos were uploaded to Jewel Divas Style on its own dedicated page, as well as dedicated boards on the Jewel Divas Style and Tiara King Pinterest pages.
– Closed the Jewel Divas social media accounts of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram on January 31st. All followers were redirected to either Tiara King or Jewel Divas Style. The webstore remained.
– Closed the L.J. Diva Pinterest and Twitter accounts on January 31st. The Instagram and Facebook pages went silent and private. Followers were redirected to Tiara King, or Royal Star Publishing. But then she re-opened a Twitter account to claim her name and redirect.
– Closed the T.K. Wrathbone Pinterest and Twitter accounts on January 31st. The Instagram and Facebook pages went silent and private. Followers were redirected to Tiara King, or Royal Star Publishing. But then she re-opened a Twitter account to claim her name and redirect.
– Wrote Anything for You, the idea that came after watching that little movie called Colossal, from February to April, and published the e-book, audio book, and multiple print formats as L.J. Diva from September 19th through October 31st.
– Published the paperback, large print paperback, case laminate hardcover, and dust jacket hardcover of Six Bone: Anthology 6 as T.K. Wrathbone on October 31st.
– Copyrighted the year’s book.
– Added more online writing courses to her repertoire with Profile Writing, Content Writing, and Media Releases from the Australian Writers’ Centre.
2023
– Started the year making more decisions about her life, her business, and her social media…
– Added another online writing courses to her repertoire with Opinion Writing from the Australian Writers’ Centre.
– Set up #Teenblogger as an audio book on Google Play and Kobo.
– Set up the five stand-alone L.J. Diva novels as audio books on Google Play and Kobo.
– Set up the L.J. Diva Porn Star Brothers book collection as an audio book on Google Play and Kobo.
– Set up the first four T.K. Wrathbone stories as audio books on Google Play and Kobo.
– Ordered copies of Anything for You, One Bone, Six Bone and #Teenblogger, then bought a candy-covered gift box, and dug out some wrapping paper, ribbon, and crown logo envelope seals. Emailed multiple people for the right address to send it to, and then packed it up and sent it off to Colossal and Ted Lasso actor, Jason Sudeikis.
– Added the online events of Screenwriting with the creator of Bluey and Inside Publicity with Writers SA.
– Updated the website for Jewel Divas Style with a new theme, layout, and logos.
– Updated the website for Royal Star Publishing with a new theme and layout, and updated logos.
– Migrated the blog posts from L.J. Diva to Jewel Divas Style and Tiara King, and the blog posts from T.K. Wrathbone to Tiara King and started blogging on Tiara King.
– Wrote the first novel of the year, Burning Desires, and chose not to publish, but to have a break from nine years of back-to-back publishing.
– Wrote multiple songs, starting with those left over from the Porn Star Brothers series.
– Wrote multiple essays after relearning the craft.
– Wrote a six-page idea for a screenplay.
– Wrote the second novel for the year, the 2021 idea based on the TV show Blue Bloods, and re-planned the second novel in the duology.
– Made the decision to close the L.J. Diva and T.K. Wrathbone Instagram on April 30th. The Facebook author pages became book pages. The websites closed on September 19th after fifteen and eight years online. Followers were redirected to Tiara King, or Royal Star Publishing.
– A year after closing her business, Jewel Divas, but keeping the webstore open for potential future sales, the store was closed due to new website rules. The remaining jewellery will be sold off at some point in the future, but at this stage, this is the end for Jewel Divas after fourteen years.
– Rounded out the year attending her first book event, the Author Night Market, and doing several interviews for radio and newspaper
– Was called a Literary Legend in a newspaper interview and loved it so much added it to her social media bios.
2024
– Did three edits of, and found a cover designer for, the new novel.
– Sent the new novel off to her editor, and did the fourth edit and interior formatting for all four formats of the book.
– Finished off the novel’s covers and printed off proofs. Got a head start on all of the social media posts and images for a September release.
– Uploaded audio books to Findaway Voices.
– Wrote the first novel for the year. The second book in a duology from a 2021 idea based on the TV show Blue Bloods.
– Wrote a 14,000 word opinion piece on the character of Joe Hill from the TV show Blue Bloods and published it to her website in May. Added another thousand words a week later after watching a deleted scene from a vital episode, and another thousand after watching the season 13 special feature “The Legacy of Joe Reagan”. When the show started again in October, she added another 1500 words.
– Spent the last two weeks in May and the first week of June cleaning out all of her business paperwork, and stationery and jewellery containers for a mind cleanse to reinvigorate her energy to get more writing done over winter.
– Spent June, July, and August doing the outlines for many series and stories, and revamping three books and their planners.
– Typed up (instead of handwriting) three short story ideas in July and had them edited in October.
– Wrote a light crime cop show trilogy series from August through October.
– Published Burning Desires as L.J. Diva in e-book, audio book, and multiple print formats on September 19th.
