Who is Tiara King?
SHORT BIO
Welcome to the sparkling world of Tiara King, Creative Artist!
Tiara burst into the world of publishing in 2011 and has blazed a trail ever since. Writing adult fiction as L.J. Diva, non-fiction and teen stories as Tiara King, and young adult stories as T.K. Wrathbone, she started her own publishing house, Royal Star Publishing, to accommodate all of her books, genres, and multiple personalities.
Tiara has also been creating jewellery and accessories since 1990, turned her obsessive love for it into her label, Jewel Divas, and writes at her style site, Jewel Divas Style, a one-stop blog for sparkling jewels, style, fun, and dancing under disco balls. She added styling and colour courses to her repertoire through the Academy of Professional Image in 2013.
Tiara lives in Australia, has an obsession with colourful kaftans and kimonos, is a jewellery and sparkle addict, ’80s music lover, book collector, and loves anything tropical. She’s also the long-term carer for her mother, but hopes that one day she’ll finally be free to spread her wings and move her creative life to Queensland’s Gold Coast.
LONGER BIO
Welcome to the sparkling world of Tiara King, Creative Artist!
Tiara King burst into the world of publishing in 2011 and has blazed a trail ever since. Writing adult fiction as L.J. Diva, she moved on to writing books under her own name with How To Be A Jewel Diva: Tips And Tricks To Buying, Wearing And Caring For Your Costume Jewellery being published in 2014.
Following it up with Closet Confidential: How to Audit Your Wardrobe And Update Your Style in 2015, both books are based on her expertise as a jewellery designer and qualified stylist. She then started writing young adult stories as T.K. Wrathbone, born from an exhausted and overactive imagination that will not stop exuding ideas until it’s done.
In 2016, she wrote the first four novellas and three lengthy novels in the Porn Star Brothers series. Releasing three of the novellas at the end of the year to celebrate the first anniversary of Jackie Collins’ death, she also dedicated the series to her. Jackie is her mentor, and not just for writing adult fiction, but for living by her own rules. Under her own name she published teen book, #teenblogger: To Follow or Not To Follow? about the trials and tribulations teens face every time they go online, with trolling, bullying and the pressure to be yourself, plus she released four more T.K. Wrathbone stories.
In 2017, Tiara published the song lyrics she wrote from 1989 to 2002. Titled Poems of a Musical Flavour, the six volume series also features special deluxe editions. She released four more stories as T.K. Wrathbone, plus two novels from the Porn Star Brothers series, set up the website for L.J. Diva, and her book series Porn Star Brothers, and started her publishing house, Royal Star Publishing, to accommodate all of her books, genres, and multiple personalities.
By 2018, all of her books were finally released under the Royal Star Publishing banner along with two new Porn Star Brothers novels, and the yearly four T.K. Wrathbone stories.
2019 saw Tiara take major business steps to move forward with her social media and publishing decisions, with four more T.K. Wrathbone stories, and two more Porn Star Brothers books, released.
With 2020 being the year it was, Tiara only wrote and released the final instalment of her long-running family saga, the Porn Star Brothers series.
That meant 2021 was destined to be a busy year right from the start as Tiara made it to ten years of being published. She closed the website for the Porn Star Brothers book series in January and moved everything over to the L.J. Diva website. The final instalment of her Porn Star Brothers series was published in print, and her entire catalogue of books was released as hardcovers or large prints. She also released four more stories as T.K. Wrathbone after not releasing any the previous year. Tiara took 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 to advance her knowledge, and helped found her local library’s writing group.
2022 kept the busy going. With decisions to close multiple social media accounts for L.J. Diva and T.K. Wrathbone, as well as her jewellery business, Tiara knew it was time to cut and cull. Savagely, at that. Pinterest and Twitter accounts were closed, and Facebook and Instagram accounts went silent and private while decisions were made on their future. Tiara managed to write and release her eleventh novel as L.J. Diva, and released the print editions of the 2021 T.K. Wrathbone stories. Tiara also made the time to do more online writing courses in Profile Writing, Content Writing, and Media Releases to add to her knowledge.
An Opinion Writing course started off 2023, along with the two online events of Screenwriting with the creator of Bluey and Inside Publicity. She sent Ted Lasso actor, Jason Sudeikis a present of her books, wrote a six-page idea for a screenplay, and produced multiple audio books. Jewel Divas Style and Royal Star Publishing received new themes and logos, and the website of Tiara King received migrated posts from L.J. Diva and T.K. Wrathbone in order for those sites to be closed in September. And that was all by the end of April.
On the jewellery and accessories front, Tiara has been creating since 1990 and turned her obsessive love for it into her jewellery business, Jewel Divas, in 2008, after studying Introduction to Jewellery Making (silversmith) and Start an Online Business at WEA Adult Learning. She creates amazing one of a kind jewelled pieces of couture clothing plus jewellery to sell and wear; and is still amassing her own huge personal collection. Adding the styling courses Personal Stylist and Image Mastery for Men and Women and Personal Colour Analysis Theory to her repertoire through the Academy of Professional Image in 2013, she chose to go with wardrobe and accessory styling as she loves to organise and colour co-ordinate. Since 2016, Jewel Divas had been on permanent holiday due to Tiara’s burgeoning writing career, and her, and her mother’s, health issues, but after many decisions in 2021 Tiara decided to close the business and all of Jewel Diva’s social media pages to simplify her life even more. The remaining jewellery will be sold off at some point in the future.
Tiara’s been blogging since 2009 and still posts on her style site, Jewel Divas Style, a one-stop blog for sparkling jewels, style, and dancing under disco balls. JDS, as it’s affectionately known, is all about living life to the fullest when it comes to your clothing and accessories. “The more the merrier, the bigger the better”, and “BE YOURSELF and wear as much jewellery as possible!” are the JDS philosophies!
On a personal note, Tiara lives in Australia, has an obsession with colourful kaftans and kimonos, is a jewellery and sparkle addict, ’80s music lover, book collector (especially Nancy Drew and Jackie Collins), and loves all things pink, blue, and tropical. She’s also the long-term carer for her mother, but hopes that one day she’ll finally be free to spread her wings and move her creative life to Queensland’s Gold Coast, and desperately wants to visit Mykonos and Santorini one day. She’s keeping everything crossed that all of that will happen.
EDUCATION
2008
WEA Adult Learning
– Start an Online Business
– Introduction to Jewellery Making (silversmith)
2013
Academy of Professional Image
– Personal Stylist and Image Mastery for Women
– Personal Stylist and Image Mastery for Men
– Personal Colour Analysis Theory
2018
Self Publishing Formula/Launchpad
– Self Publishing 101
2020
Self Publishing Formula/Launchpad
– Cover Design for Authors
– Ads for Authors
2021
Self Publishing Formula/Launchpad
– Facebook Live for Authors
– Pinterest for Authors
– Instagram for Authors
– SPF University
Australian Writers’ Centre
– Plotting and Planning
– Fiction Essentials: Grammar and Punctuation
– Cut, Shape, Polish: How to edit your own stories
2022
Self Publishing Formula/Launchpad
– TikTok for Authors
Australian Writers’ Centre
– Profile Writing
– Content Writing
– Media Releases
2023
Australian Writers’ Centre
– Opinion Writing
Writers SA
– Screenwriting with the creator of Bluey
– Inside Publicity
ARTICLE/BIO FOR JOURNALISTS
Welcome to the sparkling world of Tiara King, Creative Artist!
And it’s a world that encompasses writing and publishing, jewellery designing and styling, because Tiara King was always destined to be surrounded by books and jewellery. This is why both feature so predominantly in the bright and colourful life she leads.
It all started way back in the decade Tiara loves most, the ’80s, when she started the first phase of her writing career in primary school by “self-publishing” her first two books with two other classmates. While doing this, her obsession with jewellery and fashion grew, and after having her ears pierced multiple times she started the trend of wearing one huge chunky earring in one ear. By high school, she’d not only made a third book, but was also writing song lyrics inspired by her favourite singers and bands.
Once school was behind her, Tiara kept writing songs and started analysing other artists’ lyrics to better her own, which led her to analysing books… So little did she know, that over the seven plus years she wrote lyrics, it was setting her up for bigger and better scribblings, namely short stories, novellas, and novels over 300,000 words. And it all started in 2006, with the second phase of her writing career, when Tiara wrote her first novel, just four years after she stopped writing song lyrics, but then nothing… Until 2008, when her two passions collided and she found herself setting up her jewellery label, Jewel Divas, after studying Introduction to Jewellery Making and Start an Online Business at WEA Adult Learning. She also wrote her second novel, and sending her books off for submission.
Two years later, in 2010, after writing her third novel, Tiara thought her hard work had finally paid off when she 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. But that was not the end of being an author.
In early 2011, the universe showed Tiara the way. After reading a blog post about self-publishing millionaire author, Amanda Hocking, Tiara now knew that self-publishing existed. She read through Amanda’s blog, and having run the gamut of rejections from traditional publishing houses and agents, she took her career into her own hands and set about making it happen, bursting into the publishing world with two of her novels by the second half of the year.
2013 saw Tiara take her jewellery business to another level by adding the styling courses Personal Stylist and Image Mastery for Women, Personal Stylist and Image Mastery for Men, and Personal Colour Analysis Theory to her repertoire through Academy of Professional Image. She chose to go with wardrobe and accessory styling as she loves to organise and colour co-ordinate, and also found the time to pen her fourth novel and four non-fiction books.
With both sides of her life warring for attention, and entering phase three of her writing career, she released How To Be A Jewel Diva: Tips And Tricks To Buying, Wearing And Caring For Your Costume Jewellery, along with the new novel and non-fiction books in 2014. And a new germ of an idea started that took a year to percolate…
Along came 2015, and Tiara decided to start writing young adult stories as T.K. Wrathbone, which was born from an exhausted and overactive imagination that cannot and will not stop exuding ideas until it’s done. She followed up How To Be A Jewel Diva with Closet Confidential: How to Audit Your Wardrobe And Update Your Style, set up tiaraking.com.au as an information site bringing all of her businesses together in the one place, and had an idea for a new novel, inspired by the passing of her mentor, not just for writing adult fiction, but for living life by her own rules, author, Jackie Collins.
However, at the end of the year, after being her mother’s long-term carer for years, her mother’s sudden illness completely took over her life and something had to give. Sadly, it was her jewellery label, Jewel Divas, which she hopes to bring back at some point in the future.
That decision gave her brain the time to obsess over writing, and in 2016 phase three of her writing and publishing career moved into phase four. It was also an incredibly busy and tiring year. She became mentally and physically exhausted, but still managed to write four novellas and three lengthy novels for the Porn Star Brothers series. She released three of the novellas at the end of the year to celebrate the first anniversary of Jackie Collins’ death and dedicated the series to her. Under her own name she published teen book, #teenblogger: To Follow or Not To Follow?, and as T.K. Wrathbone released that year’s short stories along with two paperbacks.
In 2017, Tiara made the decision to set up her own publishing house, Royal Star Publishing, to accommodate all of her books, genres, and multiple personalities, and started releasing all of her books under that brand. Such as the song lyrics she wrote from 1989 to 2002. Titled Poems of a Musical Flavour, the six-volume series also features several special deluxe editions. As T.K. Wrathbone she released another four stories, and as L.J. Diva she published the fourth novella and first full novel of Porn Star Brothers. She also set up websites for Royal Star Publishing and L.J. Diva along with a website for her book series Porn Star Brothers.
In 2018, the Porn Star Brothers series continued with two more lengthy novels, the yearly stories under T.K. Wrathbone came out, and the Poems of a Musical Flavour series, #teenblogger: To Follow or Not to Follow? and all her other books were released in paperback under her publishing house, Royal Star Publishing.
She also sent #Teenblogger, with a six-page letter and little royal bits and pieces all wrapped up in a pretty box, to Ellen DeGeneres.
2019 saw things slow down a little as Tiara worked towards creating other formats for her books, took steps towards getting her books into libraries, and made many business, publishing, brand, and social media decisions. She also completed and published another two books in the Porn Star Brothers series, and the yearly T.K. Wrathbone stories.
In 2020 Tiara only released one book, And Always, the final instalment of the Porn Star Brothers series. There were no releases under T.K. Wrathbone, unfortunately, but the print formats were prepared for release. It also brought phase four of Tiara’s writing and publishing career to an end.
2021 saw Tiara move into phase five of her writing and publishing career, with the publication of her entire book catalogue in hardcover, and many in large print, plus the yearly T.K. Wrathbone stories were released in e-book format. It was ten years since she first started publishing, so a lot of milestones happened that year. Tiara took 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 to advance her knowledge, and helped found her local library’s writing group.
2022 kept the busy going. With decisions to close multiple social media accounts for L.J. Diva and T.K. Wrathbone, as well as her jewellery business, Tiara knew it was time to cut and cull. Savagely, at that. Pinterest and Twitter accounts were closed, and Facebook and Instagram accounts went silent and private while decisions were made on their future. Tiara managed to write and release her eleventh novel as L.J. Diva, and released the print editions of the 2021’s T.K. Wrathbone stories. Tiara also made the time to add more online writing courses to her repertoire with Profile Writing, Content Writing, and Media Releases from the Australian Writers’ Centre.
2023 started with an Opinion Writing from the Australian Writers’ Centre, and the two online events of Screenwriting with the creator of Bluey and Inside Publicity with Writers SA. She wrote an idea for a screenplay, created multiple audio books, and started writing essays. Tiara also added more songs and several novels to her production list. Jewel Divas Style and Royal Star Publishing were refreshed with new themes and logos, and the website of Tiara King received migrated posts from L.J. Diva and T.K. Wrathbone in order for those sites to be closed in September, and she started blogging weekly, excited by all of the changes happening. Tiara rounded out the year attending her first book event, her local Author Night Market, and doing several radio and newspaper interviews.
She also sent copies of One Bone, Six Bone, #Teenblogger, and all three formats of Anything for You, along with a saucy letter all wrapped up in a candy-covered gift box and sent it off to actor, Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso, Colossal, Kodachrome, Tumbledown, Sleeping with Other People, Race, Masterminds, We’re The Millers, Hall Pass, SNL).
On a personal note, Tiara lives in Australia and has been blogging since 2009, so she’s always on her style site, Jewel Divas Style, a one-stop blog for sparkling jewels, style, fun, and dancing under disco balls. She loves showing off all the things she makes, the bargains she buys, and the items she collects. She has an obsession with colourful kaftans and kimonos, is a jewellery and sparkle addict, ’80s music lover, book collector (especially Nancy Drew and Jackie Collins), loves all things pink, blue, and tropical, and hopes that one day she’ll finally be free to spread her wings and move her creative life to Queensland’s Gold Coast, and desperately wants to visit Mykonos and Santorini one day. She’s keeping everything crossed that all of that will happen.
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