UPDATE: The winner is…flchen!
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Hello Delilah! Thank you for inviting me here today to share my new release! It comes out next week, but I wanted to give your readers a sneak peek. Love on the Clock is a new anthology I’m partaking in, and it is about…wait for it…relationships formed at work. I have to admit I like this setting. You can fit so many tropes into it: enemies-to-lovers, friends-to-lovers, rivals-to-lovers… Okay, there are others. But you see what I mean.
I, of course, sought the advice of my Plot Whisperer (I swear I can plot stories on my own, and I have a few coming up that will prove that). Still, I sought help. I needed a short story in a workplace. Oh, and I wanted to set it in the small town I’ve created. And it’s a gay romance. Plot Whisperer rolled her eyes (can you see an eye roll through chat with people on opposite sides of the world? I say you can…). We went through any number of different potential places of employment.
We settled on an architect’s office. With…wait for it…an architect. Then we figured he needed a coworker. Specifically, an interior designer. Oh, and the two had to be complete opposites. The designer is (stereotypically) a peacock, while the architect is strait-laced. Dresses more like a funeral director. Doesn’t do color. Yeah sure…but you know the designer is going to take issue with that.
Throw in a demanding client, a tight deadline, frayed nerves, and a cantankerous photocopy machine and…voila. A rom-com short story set in a workplace.
Man, did I have fun writing these two characters! In my beloved favorite town. The story is so tight that I couldn’t include cameos. Have no fear, though. I suspect these two will turn up again. Anyway, I hope readers fall in love with Orlando and Knight.
Thanks, Delilah, for letting me visit! I would love to offer a $5 Amazon GC to one lucky commenter. Let’s talk settings! I have to write another workplace romance later this year – where would you love to see one set it? Random will pick the winner so go ahead and comment!
Love on the Clock
Never mix business with pleasure
This collection of CEOs, assistants, partners and consultants have forgotten Office Rule No.1.
Whether it’s passion over the printer, scandal in the stationery cupboard or loosened ties in the boardroom, these co-workers are getting hot under the collar.
Join us around the Romance Café water cooler to discover the latest office scuttlebutt.
Authors:
Clarice Jayne
Sharon Michalove
Keighley Bradford
Kristine Charles
Élodie Garroway
Lisabelle Chretien
Katherine Moore
Harper Michaels
Sonja Flowers
Abigail Sharpe
Toni Bolton
Francis Black
Gabbi GreyThe anthology will only be available for a limited time.
Links:
Universal Link: https://books2read.com/tnrc2024loveontheclock
Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Clock-Romance-Anthology-Collection-ebook/dp/B0CLN4864V
Add it to Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200569229-love-on-the-clock
The Office Hotshot by Gabbi Grey from Love on the Clock…
Orlando
I’m a go-getter. Right out of interior design school, I’ve landed a plum job in a well-regarded architecture firm, and I’m ready to help the lead architect meet his deadline. Except the man’s a jerk, strung so tight it’s a miracle he hasn’t exploded. Offering a little stress relief is practically a service to humanity. But in the dark in the copy room, Knight’s a lot more human than I thought. Now stress relief isn’t the only thing I want to give him, and I’m dreading the day I’ll have to leave.
Knight
I’m working under a tight deadline, and all I want is peace, quiet, and an assistant who doesn’t give me lip. Right now, I have none of those things. The new hire is perky, pushy, and unfairly attractive. One hot encounter in the copy room isn’t breaking my oath to never get involved with a subordinate, right? Unfortunately, that one interlude leaves me craving more. What’s so special about Orlando, that he’s making me think about breaking all my rules and asking him to stay?
This is a 15k word gay romance novella with a successful architect, a quirky younger interior designer, and a cantankerous photocopier.
About Gabbi Grey
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.
