It all started way back in the ’80s, the decade Tiara loves most, when she started the first phase of her writing career in primary school by “self-publishing” her first two books with two other classmates. 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 non-fiction, 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, and then nothing… Until 2008, when she wrote her second novel.
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.
In 2014 she started writing under her own name, releasing the non-fiction book, How To Be A Jewel Diva: Tips And Tricks To Buying, Wearing And Caring For Your Costume Jewellery, and come 2015 added a third author name to her repertoire.
In 2017, Tiara started her own publishing house, Royal Star Publishing, to accommodate all of her books, genres, and multiple author personalities, and by 2018, all of her books were finally released under the Royal Star Publishing banner.
In 2018 Tiara sent #teenblogger, with a six page letter and little royal bits and pieces all wrapped up in a pretty box to Ellen DeGeneres!
In 2021 came the publication of all of her books in hardcover, and many in large print. And as it was also a new decade, being ten years since she first published, a lot of milestones happened.
2025 brought about the publication of three updated and refreshed non-fiction books, her memoir, three novels, a short story, and a horror guide.
Tiara’s Timeline
1986 – Wrote and illustrated her first two books in primary school, and wrote short stories.
1988 – Co-wrote her third book in high school, as well as continuing those short stories.
1989 – Started writing song lyrics.
1996 – Wrote her last song…or so she thought…
2002 – Now she wrote her last song…supposedly…
2013 – Non-fiction books How Positivity Can Be A Bad Thing, and Dream It, Write It, Publish It! An Australian Guide To All The Hard Parts No One Tells You About Self-Publishing, were also written, along with a book about being a carer.
2014 – Dream It, Write It, Publish It! An Australian Guide To All The Hard Parts No One Tells You About Self-Publishing was published as an e-book under the pen name of Lady Jewels Diva in March.
– How To Be A Jewel Diva: Tips And Tricks To Buying, Wearing And Caring For Your Costume Jewellery was written and published as an e-book via her MadeIt store in May.
– The book about being a carer was published in May.
2015 – #Teenblogger: To Follow Or Not To Follow? was written early in the year.
– Closet Confidential: How To Audit Your Wardrobe And Update Your Style was written and published.
– Published the paperback about being a carer as Tiara King in September.
– Dream It, Write It, Publish It! An Australian Guide To All The Hard Parts No One Tells You About Self-Publishing was published as a paperback under the pen name of Lady Jewels Diva in September.
2016 – #Teenblogger: To Follow or Not To Follow? was published an e-book on May 21st, and the paperback on September 1st.
– Typed up all of the song lyrics she’d written from 1989 to 2002 and formed an idea.
2017 – Poems Of A Musical Flavour, her song lyric series, was published as six volumes of e-books from March to August, along with two e-book collections in September.
– How To Be A Jewel Diva was published in paperback on May 12th.
– Closet Confidential was published in paperback on May 12th.
– Set up her own publishing house, Royal Star Publishing, for all of her books and short stories and started releasing all of them under the label.
2018 – Published all six volumes, plus the omnibus edition, of Poems of a Musical Flavour in paperback, and reissued the two boxed sets and all six volumes as e-books under RSP in September.
– Reissued the e-book and paperback of #Teenblogger: To Follow or Not to Follow? under RSP in September.
– Sent #teenblogger, with a six-page letter and little royal bits and pieces all wrapped up in a pretty box, to Ellen DeGeneres!
2021 – Published the entire series of Poems of a Musical Flavour in casebound hardcovers on May 21st.
– #Teenblogger: To Follow Or Not To Follow? was published in large print paperback and casebound hardcover on May 21st.
2023 – #Teenblogger was published as an audio book on Google Play and Kobo.
– Multiple songs and essays were written early in the year.
– A six-page idea for a screenplay was written in the first half of the year.
2024 – June, July, and August was spent writing the outlines for many series and stories.
– Threw together a memoir in November out of the essays and stories written at the beginning of the year. Wrote seven new poems for it, and added three more that had been written through the year.
– Ended the year by starting a horror guide.
2025 – Two children’s picture books were written in January.
– Unfulfilled: A Not So Sparkling Life, my memoir, was published in e-book and print formats on May 21st.
– Updated two non-fiction books, How To Be A Jewel Diva and Closet Confidential, and re-published them in e-book and print in June.
– Finished writing the opinion piece on the character of Joe Hill from the TV show Blue Bloods on my website in June. It’s final word count is 21,315 words.
– Finished the Australian Horror Guide and published it on October 31st. Halloween!
– Updated the non-fiction book of Dream It, Write It, Publish It! throughout the year and re-published it under her own name in e-book and print on November 15th.
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To buy any of these books please visit Royal Star Publishing
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