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Gabbi Grey: Tying stories together (Contest)
Monday, October 30th, 2023

UPDATE: The winner is…Mary Preston!
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Hello Delilah!  Thank you for inviting me to visit today!  Earlier this year, I partook in a couple of projects that were published about the same time.  My story Blue Sky Boyfriend was in the Love is All Volume 6 charity anthology.  Then I was part of the HEA Collective (Happily Ever After) and my story Fly Guy Boyfriend came out that same month.  While Blue Sky was on my radar for almost a year, Fly Guy was…last minute.  But I made certain the story didn’t read like I’d written 37k words in 10 days, even though I had.

As I was writing that novella, though, I was putting the finishing touches on Blue Sky.  I had an opportunity, I realized, to create a crossover scene within the two stories.  I’d love for readers to think everything was planned, but I’ll share with your fans that wasn’t the case.  Only as I neared the end of writing did I see the chance to tie the books together.  Because the HEA Collective was a patron-based subscription, I knew many readers wouldn’t have had access to it.  Also, not everyone buys and reads entire charity anthologies (although I say it’s a great way to meet new authors while helping out worthy causes).

Anyway, eventually the stories came back to me.  I’d already picked the premade cover (which had Blue Sky Boyfriend on the cover, so how perfect was that?) and figured I could put the stories together to create an immersive experience for my readers, giving them two great stories in one place.  I set them in the small fictional town in British Columbia I’d created and now the box set out in the world!

I would love to give a $5 Amazon gift card to one lucky commenter.  What is your favorite setting for a romance? Small-town? Big city? Cattle ranch? Mountain chalet? Hot in the sun or leaves changing color in the fall?  One random commenter will win the gift card.  Thanks for hosting me, Delilah!

The Boyfriend Duet

Love in Mission City: The Boyfriends Duet includes two novellas

Mission City is tucked in the charming Cedar Valley in southwestern British Columbia. If you love heartwarming, contemporary small-town gay romances, then come home to Mission City and fall in love with the men who live there. Romance blossoms in the unlikeliest places. And trouble has a way of finding them…

Blue Sky Boyfriend

Wyatt and Tate were high school sweethearts. After graduation, Tate left Wyatt for the big city and university while Wyatt took over his family’s farm. Fifteen years later, Tate’s come home in disgrace. Can Wyatt forgive the man who broke his heart?

This is a 24k gay romance second-chance novella with a small-town farm boy, a big-city fancy boy, and a puppy named Winnie. The novella previously appeared in Love is All Volume 6.

Fly Guy Boyfriend

When Tex is tasked with piloting the shy and nervous Davey in his helicopter, he sees an opportunity to bring the younger man out of his shell. With Tex’s friendship, Davey finds the courage to be his true self. But when things go south with his family, Davey turns to Tex. Will the budding friendship turn into more or are rough skies ahead?

This is a 37k gay instalove romance novella with a daredevil pilot, a nerd in search of the answer to the universe, and what happens when those forces collide in a single bed. If you were an HEA Collective Patreon last year, you might already own this novella.

Links:
Amazon US:  https://www.amazon.com/Love-Mission-City-Boyfriends-Duet-ebook/dp/B0CJ9P69FL
Universal Book Link:  https://books2read.com/Boyfriends

About the Author

USA Today Bestselling author Gabbi Grey lives in beautiful British Columbia where her fur baby chin-poo keeps her safe from the nasty neighborhood squirrels. Working for the government by day, she spends her early mornings writing contemporary, gay, sweet, and dark erotic BDSM romances. While she firmly believes in happy endings, she also believes in making her characters suffer before finding their true love. She also writes m/f romances as Gabbi Black and Gabbi Powell.

Personal links:
Website: https://gabbigrey.com/
Newsletter sign-up:  https://sendfox.com/gabbigrey
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorgabbigrey/
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/gabbi-grey
Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15456297.Gabbi_Grey
Amazon Author Central: https://www.amazon.com/Gabbi-Grey/e/B07SJVFX1M
Audible Profile:  https://www.audible.com/author/Gabbi-Grey/B07SJVFX1M
Facebook (page): https://www.facebook.com/AuthorGabbiGrey
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GabbiGrey

11 comments to “Gabbi Grey: Tying stories together (Contest)”

  1. Diane Sallans
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    · October 30th, 2023 at 12:10 pm · Link

    I like all those locations – I vary my reading as to time frame and location – the characters and the story are the important part.



  2. Colleen C.
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    · October 30th, 2023 at 12:24 pm · Link

    I love variety, so I am happy for all sorts of settings! 🙂



  3. Mary Preston
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    · October 30th, 2023 at 4:09 pm · Link

    I’m happy to read about any location, but a misty moor is a great favorite. (I have just finished re-watching WUTHERING HEIGHTS.)



  4. Jennifer Beyer
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    · October 30th, 2023 at 4:32 pm · Link

    I’ve been really enjoying small town romances lately. I enjoy all kinds of settings.



  5. ButtonsMom
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    · October 30th, 2023 at 7:51 pm · Link

    I like reading romance set in all kinds of locations. I enjoy continuing series where each book is about a different couple and yet we still get glimpses of couples from previous books. I’ve really enjoyed all of your Mission City stories and I one-clicked Love in Mission City as soon as I saw it on Amazon last night.



  6. BN
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    · October 30th, 2023 at 9:54 pm · Link

    any



  7. flchen
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    · October 30th, 2023 at 11:20 pm · Link

    I love how you tied these two stories together! I did already have Fly Guy Boyfriend from the HEA Collective, and hadn’t yet read Blue Sky Boyfriend–how fun! As for settings, I do tend to read a lot of small-town romance, but admit I love all the settings. One of the things I enjoy most about reading is the armchair travel I get to indulge in with each story! You authors take me places (and times) I might never get to visit in real life!



  8. Debra Guyette
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    · October 31st, 2023 at 6:34 am · Link

    I like them all. If I read the same setting all the time, it gets boring.



  9. Mary McCoy
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    · November 5th, 2023 at 12:09 pm · Link

    At the moment, my favorite is small town in spring.



  10. Delilah
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    · November 10th, 2023 at 3:55 pm · Link

    Thank you to Gabbi for being my guest!!

    The winner (chosen by a random number generator) is…#3 — Mary Preston!



  11. Mary Preston
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    · November 10th, 2023 at 4:04 pm · Link

    THANK YOU!!



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