Time is of the essence

As time passes by, each day I become more aware that I’m ending an era in my life.

When I wrote my first book, Charming Selene, it was just a story. A story that started from a sentence that wouldn’t leave my mind. A story that felt like it was time for me to share. By the time I wrote the second book, Charmed Destiny, I knew that I wanted the final book to be the beginning and the end of the story I had built. With Charming it seemed that this book was cursed in many ways. From all the mishaps, the pain of trying to become an author, and telling a story for all to read was frightening.

Every day since publishing the first book, has been a task of keeping myself sane during this process. It was and is a form of therapy for my soul, but with that you are free to letting everyone see inside your soul. Writing is a form of laying it all out there. Letting the world read your dreams, your nightmares, and letting them having an open door into your mind. Nobody ever tells you that this is some scary shit. People see dollar signs as a way to make themselves happy, I see writing as an outlet to the chaos in my mind; that makes me happy.

No one ever tells you that once you publish something that people can begin to hate you and not even know you. Then you find out who your real friends are too. People will be jealous, people won’t want the best for you, and people will talk about you. They will become critics of everything you do, everything you said, everything you wrote. In a form it teaches you to overcome all of the hate out there, it teaches you to learn to see through the bull shit and it teaches you to learn what you out of life. I’ve never wrote for anyone, just myself. I never thought in a million years everyone would have an opinion on my life and my work… I just wanted to tell my story.

Writing this final book in the series that’s loosely based on my life is like letting go of everything and putting it out for all the world to read. It’s hard to do… It’s even harder to figure out how the book will end when you thought this day wouldn’t come. But if there’s one thing I’ve learned along this journey, I’m just me… I’m not the best writer, I’m not the best author, and I’m not the best at anything really. I just try. That’s all you can do. You have to try and make your dreams come true. You have to take that step and find yourself along the way. You see, I don’t know how to be anyone else or write any other way except for the way I do. That’s when you realize, you can only be yourself. You can only be the best YOU that you can be.

The time is coming for me to close this chapter in my life, and even though I’m mourning that part in a way, I can’t wait to see what the future holds. Keep true to yourself along the way. Keep your head up because life is too short to worry about the rest. I love the life I live… It took me a long time to find out who I was, what I was made of, and now… Now, I’m living for me. No one can take that away from you. Be proud of where you are and if you’re not.. keep striving till you look in that mirror and see that you’re only human, and you’re the only one who can ever make your dreams come true… Let’s face it, nobody is going to do it for you… People will use you, they will abuse you, but in the end, light that fire that’s burning inside of you. BE the light you want to see!

Peace, Love, and all that Jazz- Dee

It’s been months

For months now…

I think I have tried to get my wordpress to work for months now, and yet nothing. Finally, TODAY it did! Who’s excited? That’s right, Me! Haha. As I have always said, I’m not the normal author, nor do I ever claim to be. It’s all about just me saying whatever the hell my mind comes up with next. For the longest time the only blogging that was happening was on my other one from blogger. Hopefully, this one will now work.

Obviously, months have passed and my life just keeps going… writing, reading, music, all of it, just keeps going with no signs of it stopping any time soon. (That kind of sounded morbid. Oops, sorry about that.) Let’s see what’s going in this wonderful world of books that I live in. I’m writing the final book of the Charming Series. WOW! It’s a rough one, but it’s time. ALSO BIG news.. The newest version of Charming Selene came out, and that was a huge help! (If you read the first one, I apologize for all the screw-ups.) What else, hmm… Oh let’s see, made a new best sellers list, that was FUN! Having to make a new playlist at this time for the new book, oh, and I’m writing a new novel saga that will come out after this last Charming book. So, that’s about it in the book world.

Now, in the real world so much has changed. Political wise, we won’t even get into that. Let’s just say you try to “grab” me anywhere and you won’t like what happens to you or your hand. I think that sums up where I stand on that. Haha. (Seriously, I will cut you, so don’t even think bout it! LOL)

My daughters are growing up right in front of my eyes, and that alone is so freaking scary. If this seems like I’m rambling, I am. I keep thinking that word press is going to not publish this, because I’ve done this about a hundred times, and nothing ever comes of it.

Alright, we will see if this random words of utter bullshit publishes and if it does.. Then heck yes, I’m BACK! Whoop! Whoop! Also, if you’re still reading this, then thank you! You guys have stuck by me, kept reading this and you have rocked my world. Hope to get write again on this blog! I have SO much more to share! EEK!

As usual- Peace, Love, and all that Jazz my friends.

Good Grief… Word press obviously hates me. That or I’m not tech savvy.

I didn’t forget you…

The past couple of months have been crazy. I am sure that everyone says that, but I literally felt like I was going “nuts”. For months we have been working on Charmed Destiny and trying to get this damn book published. Between edits, more editing, and oh, editing that took more time than I was prepared for. (Note to self, try to think of that next time.) I am glad to say the book has FINALLY been published. This book took over a year for everything to come together for it. In a million years I never thought it was going to take that long to finish this book. (Seriously, I didn’t think that far ahead.)

Writing the next installment to the Charming Series was way more than I had expected it to be. One, from the male’s perspective really surprised me.. Two, writing a completely different story than was planned. When you start writing a book or hell, writing anything you think of the ideas, you make an outline etc.. Not this book. I never wrote the outline, I never thought of where, who, how or what was going to happen. I literally just wrote a story. From there the story started taking a mind of it’s own. I had stopped writing for over three months. Not just that story, but all together. I was discouraged, heart broken at times, and honestly, wanted to give up. But then something happened..

I woke the hell up and pulled myself together! It didn’t matter anymore if anyone read any of my books, I didn’t start this process for anyone but myself. There has been great days with this career and there has been days where I didn’t know if I was going to get the hell out of bed. If anyone EVER says that writing is easy.. They are lying to you! In one way it is easy, you write and write, then you scribble (or I should say back space) entire ideas out. You always hope that you write a story that captures peoples attention, but that’s not always the case. Being an author is a career that you really have to love to keep going. Even if you are writer just for blogs (let’s say), it’s still something you have to want to do.

There has been great times with writing though.. I have won some awards, I have had people tell me how they enjoy what I write, and I think that’s the cure to this whole “writing” thing. Even if you can just reach one person with your words and somehow it has an effect on them, then that’s worth all of this. I should be promoting the holy hell out of my book that I just published, but I needed to tell you where I was at when writing this story. I took from my life and made an elaborate story with Charmed Destiny. There’s going to be people who hate it, there’s going to be people who love it, and there’s going to be people who want to tear everything I do down. BUT that’s the love of writing.. This series (Charming) is literally parts of me that I let leaked out into the world. You hide behind your writing sometimes and I never saw this book going the way it did. Critics have said that I shouldn’t be such a smart-ass in the books that readers won’t understand, to it’s the worst writing that they have read, to the story confused them, to I hate your writing.. Well, I got two words for those people.. (I will let you use your imagination) If you are a writer then you write. You write what you want and what makes you happy. Or hell, even if it makes you sad and you have to get those feelings out then you do that! Don’t EVER let the “nay sayers” take your dreams from you. Believe me..

Now.. FOR the shameless plug time! (Yea, I know you saw it coming too.. Haha)

Charmed Destiny is about a guy who is madly in love with a female whom he now has to marry if he wants to be with her (forever). Their story isn’t like most love stories, they have to battle every step of the way, then their story takes a crazy turn. They have to either fight for themselves and what they want or just let the gods rule their lives as they have always done.

I hope that you check out the book, maybe just the cover.. You can find it on amazon!

Thank you! A million times over THANK YOU for reading my random thoughts of the every day writer..

Peace, Love, and all that Jazz- Dee King

 

Video (Yea, that’s the whole title)

With every book I have wrote, there has been a video. Now, that being said.. Not all the videos were good, because I may not be the best tech savvy person. I can own that. I know this. (Haha)

With that being said, I had some major help with this one. It was a collaboration of efforts this time. The video has two great songs from two of my favorite Indie Rock bands. The Shameless Pursuit and Ships Have Sailed. (Seriously, I LOVE THEM!) Anyhow.. with their songs I felt it could tell the story a little better than the usual background music. We took some of the teasers, some of the photos I have used to describe certain scenes, and my words straight from the book.

Now, as long as I have your attention here I need to give thanks! Thank you to my TEAM who works so very hard for me to do this job. (Being an author is great, but I need a team for so many reasons.) One of my team members put this video together for me. It was way better than mine were. (Haha.. This is the truth!) We thought it would be good just to share something a little different than what I have done before. This book is driving me right into the crazy house, but I think I must like it there.

Hopefully, you will enjoy this video for Charmed Destiny. Maybe it gives a little insight into where the series is headed. (Can’t give away to many spoilers..) Thank you to all of you who view the video, thank you for taking the time to read my random words, and thank you haters for encouraging me. That’s right, even the haters get some love. Without haters how would you know how well or bad you have done. (Haha..)

Let’s see how this goes.. As I hold my breath, cross my fingers, and possibly rock back and forth in my chair anxiously awaiting the thoughts of others. Thank you again!!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2yYApHzNjDXMW1DT3hsb2dZVDA/view?usp=drive_web&pref=2&pli=1

Best Sellers….

We often find ourselves, as writers, reaching for a particular goal. That beloved best seller list. We don’t start out on that dream, we start out as just what we are. Writers. Then you start to want something more..

You want to see your name on a best selling list. It doesn’t matter which one, just one. That to you would say, Hey, you did an awesome job. In reality what it would clarify is all the times you doubted yourself, the I give the hell up’s, and the F this shit attitude would have all been worth it. As a writer, author, we tell these stories that somewhere inside of us this is what we want the world to know. We don’t know how we do it, we just do it. It’s something that seems to come second nature to us. Any kind of award makes you feel like you have been approved. Honestly, though, you write for you.

Hell, I write and never think anyone is going to read what I say. Why would they? I am just another person rambling on about bullshit that often doesn’t matter to anyone but myself. I mean I could write some beautiful poetry, love song, etc.. but in reality, I would be doing that for other people not myself. When you sit down and write a book, you are doing much more than rambling on. You are creating a world that somewhere lives inside of you. It may be that it’s a world you dream of, or it could be a world filled with your nightmares. Either way, that story is yours to tell. Only you.

Well, I recently made the best seller list. Now, I know what you’re thinking.. How they hell did that happen? I honestly have no idea. But, it did. I have it for two different genres. Paranormal Romance and Fantasy. I wrote my first book over two years ago now, and it’s just now being read. Do I feel amazing? Yes. Am I worried that people who bought will hate it? Hell yes. Do I feel that I have something to look forward to? Of course. We all want some kind of validation in our lives from all sorts of things. Yes, it feels awesome to have this now, but it also feels like a big brick was just placed on my shoulders. What if the next book is awful? I thought the first one wasn’t that great.. In the end..

We should remember why we started writing in the first place.. Our love for telling a story. It doesn’t matter if you make a list or if you never sell a single copy of your work. You did what you wanted, you worked for an ultimate goal, and that my friends, is what sets us apart. We, as authors, have to know that we will be under a microscope at times. People will tear your work apart. BUT, it’s that one person that says.. I loved it. I cried. I felt such a connection with the characters. That is what makes this all worth it. So NEVER give up on your goals. You never know, two years later, you may just be a best seller too!

 

YOU GOT THIS! Reach for the stars! Peace, Love, and all that Jazz- Dee

P.S. Here is my shameless plug for my book series. Feel free to let me know your thoughts. These two covers were my concept ideas, I chose the last one.

 

P.P.S. The book is not edited correctly and had major formatting issues, but none the less, I wrote a book and published it. The hell with it. I had to go for my dream! You should too!

Wonders never Cease

I have wrote on here a hundred times, and each time I have deleted it. I didn’t know where to start or even how to explain why I stopped writing on this blog, but now I don’t think it matters. I didn’t want to be a coward or say anything bad about anyone, but I am over it now. I stopped writing in here due to finding out that someone who was once (let’s call maybe a friend) had started following this blog. I was trying to make sure that this person couldn’t see what was going on with my life.. Then wordpress started acting weird, and I just gave up all together on here. That’s why I took a long hiatus from writing on this blog. Of course, I kept writing on my other blog, but I completely dropped this one.

I want to back up the story for just a moment. It wasn’t that I was afraid of the person, I had been hurt. I never understood how so much anger could come from me publishing a book, but I think I get it now. Jealousy. I wasn’t ever upset that she was doing something wonderful for herself and also helping me, but when someone just walks out of your life and you have no idea why… Well, that makes you question everything. Now, I am sure that everyone goes through friendships and friends and usually something happens where you become closer or you break apart. The break apart friendships always leave you wondering why? Were you not as close as you thought? How many times had that person stabbed you in the back to make sure they felt better about themselves? How many times did you try to do everything you could for that friend and vice versa just to have the friend be done with you over something besides lame excuses? These were all the questions I had to ask myself. Now, almost a year later… I feel no regrets. I was a great friend, and she had been a great friend to me … but sometimes life changes your plans.

We all struggle with friendships and relationships, that’s just how life is. I never wished and never wish anyone harm, but I am glad I finally feel I can close that chapter of my life. It was a lesson learned. Out of all that I was able to write a story, and write is just what I did. I told a story of relationships, friendship, and love. I wrote a story from somewhere deep inside of me. I never thought I could be so cold at times…. but the book just seemed to carry itself out that way. Enchanted Legacy has been the book that I hold close to my heart. Of course, my Charming Series was a book I just wanted to tell my life story through, but even that has changed in a dramatic way. Enchanted Legacy has proven to be my dark side, with the good and dark that hides within ourselves. I hope that you all will check out the book. It’s something different from me that’s for sure.

Thank you for taking the time out to read my words… Peace, Love, and all that Jazz- Dee King-

No time like the present…

Cover Reveal for Enchanted Legacy

It’s been a minute…

 I loved this! I wanted to share with you all. You actually have to read it, because you may think you know what it says. I really got a kick out of this. I agree with this more than I would like to say. I feel like I should have a caffeine drip on tap or something. 

Twilight was one of the very first YA books I read, and I loved the whole saga. I know, I know, so many other books that are fantastic. I have read some of them too. I am currently trying to catch up on two books I have now. I love to read, and I was worried with writing that I wouldn’t find the time to still do what I love. I have now promised myself to keep reading, and finding new books to love all the time. I am currently reading, Allegiant from the Divergent Series. I also have the book, Witchstruck, and am currently waiting to read The Fault in our Stars, and If I stay. I am trying to catch up with the rest of the world. I think my TBR list is getting longer and longer by the minute. I enjoy reading, I also enjoy writing. Making a story come to life is so exciting. I wanted to give a message to anyone who reads my blog… if you have a dream, no matter how old you are, go for it. The road may be long, and the road may be hard, but it’s worth it if you love it. Follow those dreams! You can do this! Don’t give up, and never let anyone tell you that you won’t be anything. WE know that’s not true. You keep pushing forward. Plus, I will always be in your corner. -Dee King-

A marriage proposal

What would you do if you felt you had to get married to prove that you are capable of making your own decision’s… How would you feel if the one you loved asked you to marry them, and you only had one option. Do not fail!