L.J. Diva's Blog

If 2024 was busy, 2025 ramped the metre up and blitzed the shit out of everything. I started January with a mile long to-do list. Nothing new for me, but I refined it as the months moved on. I started marking off the books and stories I was working on in green Sharpie highlighter. I […]

  Write what you know works insanely well if you’re a doctor, lawyer, dietician, nutritionist and you’re writing a non-fiction book about the field you have a degree in. It means you know what you’re talking about and can be trusted with information. It works insanely well if you’re a lawyer, cop, detective, judge, and […]

  Here is the video collection from Dream It, Write It, Publish It!  

  Triggers warnings only came about in the late 1990s on feminist message boards to warn of assault and abuse stories. They became dominant on TikTok twenty-five plus years later in the 2020s, when non-writers felt they could rip apart authors and start dictating to them, especially indie authors, to add them to their books. […]

A ten year journey from the first to the last.   Dream It, Write It, Publish It! Self-Publishing For Australian Authors is for up-and-coming Australian authors who choose the path of self-publishing so they can own all of the rights and make all of the money. This book is broken down into these bursting-at-the-seams, easy to […]

Oi! There’s that word again… It’s stalking me… Apparently, even staring at a blank page is a syndrome. (Get ready for eye rolls at fifty paces) According to Masterclass, Blank Page Syndrome is another word (make that three to whomever wrote the definition on the Masterclass website and learn the correct definition of these things […]

This book has been on a very long, tiring journey. I started writing it in 2013, along with three other non-fictions. After it was edited and formatted; I published it as an e-book on Smashwords in 2014. I then decided to turn it into a print book, and after having it formatted and the cover […]

  The AAA. The Arrogant Amateur Attitude. Unfortunately, many people who are starting out as authors, those who want to write something, those who are writing something, have written something and want to publish it, or have published something and now claim to be an expert, tend to take on a fake air of authority. […]

Here is the video collection from The Illicit Things series  

  My first non-fiction book, Dream It, Write It, Publish It! has been reborn eleven years later with one mother of an overhaul. Dream It, Write It, Publish It! Self-Publishing For Australian Authors is for up-and-coming Australian authors who choose the path of self-publishing so they can own all of the rights and make all […]