My name's Lola Jaye and I'm from London - England.
I'd been trying to get my work published for a loooong time and it has now happened. My first novel; By The Time You Read This… (Harper) is out NOW.
This Blog will continue where my first Blog www.upadiary.blogspot.com ended. You see, THAT one was about the journey to getting a publishing contract. THIS diary is about the journey since getting published.
Hope you enjoy it.
Happy reading!
Make believe writer land….. The other evening – it was Halloween to be exact - I was out at a bar, a Halloween party no less, with my friends. I am single and a mum – I don’t get out that often to places where actual, real, grown men might be, let alone where there may be the chance
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… (along with three front covers) from my publishers. Three copies and Three weeks until the release date. They look BEAUTIFUL. I am so thrilled with the cover, front and back and the qoute at the top…. I love it all!! Thank you, God.
….TODAY and three whole weeks before the official release date. Here’s the picture to prove it – sent from a lovely well wisher. I am stunned. I am in my PJ’s There’s no way I can sleep tonight!!!!!!!!!
Samantha March tells us what it’s like being a disciplined self published author and running a successful Blog! Take it away Sam (oh, how very Casablanca!!) A big reason why I started Chick Lit Plus was to help me write a book. Even though I had been interested in writing for years, I though
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Rosemary is a very talented lady. She’s also a wannabe published novelist, poet, performance poet, mum, lecturer at Open University in Creative Writing, winner of countless writing competitions and all round dreamer! AND she’s kindly found the time to write a Blog piece about her jo
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…from my publishers in New York City. Basically, this is ‘the book before the book’ and the copy which gets sent round to magazines and Blogs for review… And it’s lurrrvly (if I do say so myself). Okay, back to writing the new novel, plus a new ‘Guest Blog’
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Hello All, I hope your 2012 has got off to a great start! I’m furiously making headway on my new fantasy novel (still untitled) as it now needs a very good ‘going over.’ So, because of this, I don’t have the time to update my blog… But never fear, as promised and as
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Yep, that’s correct… I HAVE JUST FINISHED THE FIRST DRAFT OF MY NEW (UNTITLED) FANTASY NOVEL! I think I can safely say this is the fasted output for any novel I have written since By The Time you Read This… The story just poured out of me, so fast I could hardly keep up. I did it!
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YES, I have been so busy over the last few weeks, sorting out the new website/blog/fantasy novel (ok, a web developer helped me with the website etc!) but I did manage to enjoy my Christmas whilst working everything out and now as I sit here typing this post, we’re into the early hours of 2012
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…And I am still in my PJ’s writing… Yes, my aim is to get LOADS done on my new fantasy novel, over the holidays. Of course I will have Christmas Day and Boxing Day off, but the rest of the time will (hopefully) be devoted to clocking up a certain number of words each day. [...]
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