Tiara King's Blog: Jewel Divas Style

  Every year I write the same things on my lists, simply because I can never seem to actually finish anything. Collections are never completed, bits and bobs never bought. So year after year my plans are the same. Here we go with my JD Style plans for 2025 and what I’ve completed. Social Mafia – 1 – Do the usual beginning of the year...

Read More

I started the year off with all of the holiday bargains I had bought, and followed it up with the last of the Millers bargains I bought before they closed down. Now I’m wrapping up the year with the clothing, jewellery and accessory bargains I’ve bought since.   I found a Homer Simpson top, $4, perfect for winter around the house under a jumper, and...

Read More

For me, buying books is usually relegated to Nancy Drews, Jackie Collins, writing, and the odd Megan Hess book. But this year I bought a few more.   First up, this gorgeous Marilyn Monroe book from Megan Hess. She has so many out I’ve decided to limit which ones I do buy, so there are a couple more on the list. Wrapped in pink, with...

Read More

I’ve missed a lot of Jem goodies over the years. I always remember, back in the late ’80s, seeing the dolls, outfits, and playsets on the shelf at Kmart. I only had one doll, we couldn’t afford them. From memory they were $30 each, but I could be wrong. I really wish I had them all, but did end up buying another doll from a...

Read More

This year, mainly the last six months of the year, I found myself buying all sorts of toys. I didn’t have some of them when I was a child, but I have found myself buying them now due to a resurgance in American companies licensing the rights to reproduce them. Let’s start with the brand new Rainbow Brite GLITTER pop funko. Yep, she’s glittered. I...

Read More

Burn After Reading – Catherine Ryan Howard SPOILERS A ghostwriter is tasked with capturing the memoirs of a celebrity widely suspected of murder; now she’s locked in an interview room with a killer and he’s ready to confess… The night Jack Smyth ran into flames in a desperate attempt to save his wife from their burning home, he was, tragically, too late – but hailed...

Read More

THE WRITER – JAMES PATTERSON AND JD BARKER NYPD Detective Declan Shaw gets a call: How fast can you get to the Beresford building on Central Park West? In the tower apartment, Shaw finds a woman waiting for him. She’s covered in blood. A body is lying dead on the floor of the luxurious living room. Every book in the apartment’s floor-to-ceiling shelves is by the...

Read More

  I can’t believe it’s already ten bloody years since she passed away. We’ve had no more books, no memoir, even though she had been writing it, and the Lady Boss documentary is yet to be released on DVD to buy. You can read about that here. I dedicated an entire book series to her, mention her in stories and novels, and try and live...

Read More

I seem to be reading more through winter, while I’m not writing myself, so here are four more books I’ve read in the last couple of months.   You Are Fatally Invited by Ande Pliego The Host Legendary mystery author J. R. Alastor’s books are sold all over the world, but no one knows his real name. After years hiding in the shadows, he has...

Read More

Joni Lark wants to create the melodies that get stuck in your head…and your heart. Her hometown has always given her surf, sand, and inspiration. But when her parents decide to close the family music venue, Joni’s life begins to fall off key – she couldn’t possibly write another song. Until a melody comes to her, half-formed, and with an imagined voice that she can’t...

Read More