This isn’t an April fools. Heavy Lifting, a new story and the start of a new series from Andrew Grey, is releasing April 20th. It is available for preorder at Amazon and will be available in Kindle Unlimited. When deciding on the type of story that I wanted to write, I figured that I’d return to some of my own experiences. In school I was a geeky gay kid, but I used to watch the handsome well built guys. Not that any of them would have anything to do with me, but a guy can dream. So in this story, we have a geek and a middle weight professional bodybuilder who discover things about each other and themselves that neither expected.
Would-be journalist Reg Applewhite is a slight, geeky guy who knows from high school experience that he’s the perfect size to be shoved into a locker. He writes for his sister’s fashion and gossip blogs and is very understandably reluctant when assigned to cover a local bodybuilding competition for material.
Jack Ponte is a physical god, with a perfect body, poise, and intense eyes. But it’s his grace that captures Reg’s attention, and when Reg asks for an interview, Jack agrees. After all, he’s looking for a life after bodybuilding, and Reg’s blogs offer a chance at something less fleeting.
During the interview, they discover mutual interests in fashion and video games that lead to friendship and deeper feelings neither expects. Reg finds it hard to believe that a god-man like Jack would see anything in him, and Jack is just as shocked when Reg seems to see beyond his looks to the person inside. But there is a price to pay for everything, and Jack draws the kind of unwanted attention that could threaten to pull them apart… or worse. Together they need to figure out a way to lift each other up and push through the challenges.