One-star Review

Well, to be honest, this is not the first one-star review I got. I got one, I guess, for my previous story. I have to admit that I still need to improve my writing and I don't blame any of my betas and editors for the end result because no matter what, those stories are mine. I also hate it if readers feel disappointed with what they buy because of course, I want to give my best. I just thought that we provided excerpts for readers to sample before they bought my stories. From those excerpts, hopefully, they could see what my writing was like. It wasn't as if we asked readers to blindly buy something. There is of course a possibility that the excerpts are much more interesting than the stories as a whole, but the writing style is more or less the same.

It broke my heart to get those one-star reviews. Right now I'm listening to Pan's Labyrinth Lullaby and I think I'll be here in my corner.

By the way, the recent story to get one star is A Single Black Rose. You can check it out on the following.

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New Releases and Release Party

I almost can't believe it. I think I will have two releases this week. One is with Leap of Faith Publishing, the other JMS Books. For them I will have a release party that will be held on November 17, 2013. I planned it only for A Single Black Rose, initially, but I think it will be great also to include the release of A Boyfriend for Christmas. The party will be held on my fan page, Books by Iyana Jenna.

Blurb:

Cold, injured, and afraid his ex-boyfriend would come find him, Oliver chose to run away from the hospital and hid in his cabin on Christmas Day this year. Little did he know that Santa Claus and the Big Boss would drop a surprise for him through his fireplace. The surprise's name was Derek.

Blurb:

When actor Sean O’Reilly receives a flower bouquet containing a single black rose on set, he assumes they’re from his boyfriend Nate. But they aren’t. Flowers keep arriving for him after that, each with a black rose in the arrangement. Soon other things arrive as well, such as photos and a recording of Sean’s voice. As the number of flowers dwindle with each bouquet, Sean begins to worry they’re supposed to be some kind of a countdown ... but to what?

Fan Gene Scott worships Sean. He maintains a blog dedicated to the actor and writes out all his fantasies there. He wants Sean to belong to him, and only him, and he’ll do anything to make the actor his own. He can’t accept the fact that Sean has a boyfriend. To Gene, Nate might as well not exist.

Despite increased security and all efforts to keep him safe, Sean vanishes, and Nate feels as if his world has come tumbling down. When the police response is too slow for him, Nate enlists the help of his producer and bodyguard to find Sean. Will he manage to find his lover before Sean disappears forever? Or will Gene finally get what he’s always dreamed of, and make Sean the love of his life, instead?

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A Trip to Makassar

I was suddenly assigned to go to a city called Makassar, about 2.5 hour flight from Jakarta, to administer a test on Friday. What was a bit exciting was that I went back to Jakarta on the same day. So I left my house at 5 am and returned almost at midnight. Heh. Never in my life have I taken a plane two times in one day. :P

And here is the sight before we landed in Makassar. There are a lot of small islands near the main island and this is one of them. I wonder if anyone lives there. :)