Author Name: Iyana Jenna
Book Name: Strictly Professional (Part
of the ‘Just Desserts’ anthology)
Publisher: Iyana Jenna
Cover
Artist: Renee George
Release
Date: June 20, 2015
Blurb:
As the only
senior graphic designer at Downey
Handbags, Zane Kotsky expected to
become the head
of the creative art department when the company planned to expand
its business.
His hope crashed when it turned out that the company wanted someone
from outside to
be the manager. Knowing that, Zane planned to leave the place at
once, but that
was before he met the man who would become his boss,
Joachim
Wessling.
Pages or Words: 8,000 words
Categories: Contemporary, Fiction, Gay
Fiction, M/M Romance, Romance
Excerpt:
"I don't know, but..." He
sighed and began telling her everything that was said in the meeting, including
his own thoughts and self-promise not to go. He also asked her not to tell
anyone.
"Of course I won't. But I agree
with you. You can't leave. You have to show them how good you are and how wrong
they are not to pick you."
"Thank you, love." He
sniffed and sank his fork into his warm, moist muffin. It looked tasty enough
that it helped him forget about the meeting though only for a second.
"Still, there's a chance you
might like this new guy."
Huh? Zane's head whirled up so fast he
got dizzy. "I thought you were on my side."
"I'm not taking sides. I’m just
thinking of what's best for everyone. For you, for the company."
"Then you must think I'm not
good enough to be the art department manager."
"I never said that."
"No, seriously." He set
his muffin aside and folded his arms on the table, facing her straight on.
"What do you think I need to improve? Like I told you earlier, the
management people thought I wasn't mature enough."
"I don't think there's
something wrong with you. I said something about the new person because I think
finally you'll get someone equal to you. Someone you can argue with about a
design and who can argue back. You realize that no junior designers dare say
anything against you, right?"
"I, err..." Zane didn't
know what to say. He always thought he treated them fairly. He wasn't a tyrant.
“You can be childish sometimes.”
“See? You think there’s
something wrong with me.”
Mira sighed. “Come on. It’s for your
own good. If you behave properly, management will see that you’re serious. That
newcomer is an outsider anyway. He won’t know shit about our company.”
“Whoa.” He had never heard dirty
words out of her mouth before. Then he shrugged and took a sip of his caramel
macchiato.
“You promised yourself you’d show
Downey they couldn’t get rid of you easily.”
Zane still said nothing. She nudged
at him, almost tipping over the contents of the cup he was holding.
“Hey.”
“Promise me.”
“Okay, okay.”
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About the
author:
Iyana lives in Jakarta, a city famous for its traffic jams, a lot of cars and motorcycles, and people selling stuff on the roads. You can spend two hours on the road going to a place you can reach in half an hour in a normal situation. Thanks to the traffic jams, though, Iyana can come up with a lot of stories, mostly shorties, as she prefers to spend the time during her trips writing into her cell phone rather than sleeping.
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