HollyAnna, Book
2
Contemporary Women's Fiction, Chick-lit
Published: June 2020
Publisher: Independently
Published
Jordyn Fairweather has worked hard
to reach the top of the magazine world,
but now she’s in
trouble.
Younger stars are
scrambling to steal her crown, and media companies are
collapsing around her in the face of a new
threat - the internet.
She’s come a long way from
small town Beddo, where she obsessed over
teen glossies until pushing her way into an
internship with Sixteen
magazine. But if Jordyn’s empire is going
to survive, she needs to
move fast and keep reinventing
herself.
Spanning the late 90s and
2000s, Media Queen is a compulsive read with an
outrageous main character. It comes with
the essential ingredient that
Jordyn demands of all her stories:
juice!
Book No 2 in the
#HollyAnna series – following Goodbye Newsroom
– Media Queen can also be enjoyed as a
standalone novel.
Excerpt
Chapter 1
Jordyn Fairweather knew one
thing for sure. She never wanted to clean
another toilet in her
life.
She shouldered open the
door to the stall and dumped the tin pail onto the
floor. Warm air rushed in from the toilet
block windows above, really just
rectangular gaps in the red brick building.
She could hear girls calling out
goodbyes to each other, and car doors
slamming. The tennis squad was going
home after practice. Jordyn wished she
could go home, too.
‘Still here?’ a voice sang
out, followed by a giggle.
Jordyn didn’t respond. She
didn’t even bother looking around.
She knew who her interrogator was. She
wiped the toilet cistern with an old
blue cloth, secretly wishing she could
shove it down someone’s
throat.
Tina appeared in the
doorway behind her.
‘I don’t know how you do
this job,’ she said.
Jordyn splashed detergent
into the bowl, flushed, and backed out of the
stall, hoping to crash into Tina and slop
bucket water over her.
No such luck. Her tormentor
moved away to lean against the row of
sinks.
Tina Goodman was a head
taller than Jordyn, even though she was a grade
lower in high school. Her dark hair was
tied in a high ponytail and her
short skirt barely covered her golden legs.
She was a gladiator and this
toilet was one of her many
arenas.
‘Goody wants to know if you
want a lift home,’ Tina said.
Jordyn scowled. ‘I’m
getting a lift home with my mum – he
should know that.’
Tina shrugged slowly, as if
wearing a heavy fur coat. ‘That’s
what I told him, but he wanted to
check.’
Jordyn watched Tina
appraise herself in the mirrors – her tanned face
free of any teen blemishes. Her vicious,
vacant eyes.
‘If you’re hangin’ around,
it must mean you wanna take
over the cleaning …’ Jordyn
said.
Tina tipped her head back
to laugh. ‘No way! I’m never gonna
clean a toilet.’
With a speed propelled by
fury, Jordyn grabbed the mop propped in a corner
and thrust its handle beneath Tina’s chin.
The girl froze, her eyes
round.
‘Are you crazy?’ Tina
croaked. ‘We’re not in
prison!’
‘Start mopping,’ Jordyn
hissed.
Tina shoved her and used
the newfound space to wriggle away and flee
through the toilet block
door.
‘Cow!’ she
shouted.
Jordyn laughed, clutching
the mop like an old friend. She wished Tina had
struggled for a little longer; she was in
the mood for a fight. She often
felt
like that these days.
About the
Author
Michelle Prak is an indie author and
university teacher who runs her own PR
agency. She loves creating energetic and
ambitious characters who will make
you laugh and inspire you at the same
time.
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