Melting Mr Frosty's Heart #free

Melting Mr Frosty's Heart is free until Tuesday, but don't wait. Give yourself a little treat for the weekend on me! 

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Did you miss this first time round?

If you missed Anything But Vanilla (part of the ice cream girls trilogy) when it first came out, Mills and Boon are publishing it in a British Bachelor's 3-in-1 in the UK next month.

It's available in paper and digital wherever you buy your books. Of course it is available everywhere in the world to download as a single title. Just click here for Amazon UK.

The other "ice cream" books are Tempted by Trouble and Vettori's Damsel in Distress. And there is a short story available in digital only, Melting Mr Frosty's Heart.

Release day!

It's here!

Melting Mr Frosty's Heart is about to go live and I couldn't be more excited.

I've been wanting to give Ria and Graeme a story ever since Anything But Vanilla was published (still available as an ebook) and finally it's here.

It is a short story but a longish one well worth the 99p/99c which is the minimum Amazon and iBooks allows me to charge. Less than I pay for my morning paper - and much less than a cup of coffee - so this is the moment for those of you who have enjoyed my ice cream girls to one-click.

And if you enjoy it, I would be so grateful if you'd leave a review if Amazon gives you a prompt. :)

Click now and it will be on your favoured device ready to read with your morning coffee/commute tomorrow morning. Here are the links -

Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon Australia

iBooks US
iBooks Australia
iBooks UK

Barnes and Noble
 
Kobo

Lipgloss Lollies for ice cream lovers...

My lovely daughter - knowing my love of all things ice cream - spotted these cute lipgloss lollies and sent me one. I've now grabbed a handful to add to my "goody box" and I'll add one to the signed book that one of my newsletter subscribers wins each month

This month's newsletter will also have a free read of Melting Mr Frosty's Heart.

(Hint: you can sign up on the sidebar just there on the right!)

Get a free download of Melting Mr Frosty's Heart

Those of you who've been with me for a while will know I have a bit of a thing for ice cream. Three books - Tempted By Trouble, Anything But Vanilla and Vettori's Damsel in Distress - have charted the romances of the three Amery sisters who founded the ice cream events business "Scoop!".

Often one book will lead to a spin-off - great characters cannot be left dangling while the main event sweeps on to its inevitable conclusion.

Two such characters were that magician with ice cream, Ria (Knickerbocker Gloria, herself) and uptight millionaire with a passion for opera, Graeme Laing.

Sorrel Amery's parting gift to him was to tell him that Ria loved the opera. Great Uncle Basil's response was that she would "shake the creases out of his pants".

Melting Mr Frosty's Heart is a short story that catches up with the moment when Graeme, much against his better judgement, decides to ask her to join him in his box at Covent Garden.

Will she say yes? Do opposites ever attract? And what happens to his pants?

This short story on pre-sale at moment with an August 1st release date for just .99c.

Or you could sign up for my newsletter and get it free a whole week before it goes on sale. That's right, My newsletter subscribers will be getting a secret link where they can read it free.

It's a gift to my wonderful readers, some of whom have been reading my newsletter from the first issue. Total treasures.

And here, just in case you're not already thoroughly tempted, is the cover.

More Ice Cream...

I'm over at Tote Bags 'n' Blogs today tying up loose ends in the ice cream saga (Tempted By Trouble, Anything But Vanilla, Vettori's Damsel in Distress).

Are their any other characters in the ice cream books, or any others, whose stories you want to read? Click on the link and come on over. I'm all ears! :)

There's more ice cream on the way...

With Elle and Sorrel happily settled and up to their eyes in ice cream and babies, Geli strikes out on her own Things don't go according to plan....

Guest Post

I'm guest blogging with S. j. Francis today about reading, writing and my latest book, Vettori's Damsel in Distress.

Do drop by and say hello.

And my latest newsletter has just gone out. You can read it here - and sign up on the side bar so that you don't miss the next one!

Any Excuse for a Kitten Pic...

I'm writing the third in my "ice cream" trilogy at the moment.

This is Geli's story - she's the one who looks like a skinny vampire and collects stray animals.

Well, the vampire has grown up and she's no skinny any more, although she's still addicted to wearing black. And she hasn't been in Italy for more than an hour before she finds a stray kitten. That's gattino in Italian. Or rattino, as the hero insists on calling it.

One of the best bits of writing is research - especially when it's someone glamorous like Milan.  And hero is Dante Vettori. It's all fashion, art, style and although I can't actually get away to the city for a long weekend of walking the ground at the moment, I am having the best fun watching stuff on

A final kiss...

It's the last week of the release month in the US and Australia for Anything But Vanilla and here is the final kiss...

And it's also available direct from Harlequin US and Harlequin Mills and Boon in Australia and on iTunes, Kobo and Sony - there are links on the sidebar as is Elle's story, Tempted By Trouble.

Second Kiss...

Here's the second kiss from Anything But Vanilla 

"Melting his heart lick by delicious lick."

...Desere Steenberg, Goodreads

Romance Bandits

I'm a guest of the Banditas today, over at the Romance Bandits blog where I'm giving away three copies of Anything But Vanilla. Drop by and tell me where you'd like to visit in the UK if you want your name to go into the hat.

And if you're at the RT Convention, do check out Jackie Braun's fabulous writer clothes store.

A "Kiss" that's Anything But Vanilla

And it's also available direct from Harlequin US and Harlequin Mills and Boon in Australia

Anything But Vanilla goes Sexy in Oz

Anything But Vanilla... by Liz Fielding

Sorrel Amery is determined to make her summer event the talk of the town, and she knows just the way into people's hearts - Champagne sorbet! It's the perfect strategy…until the ice cream parlour's owner runs off, leaving Sorrel's plans melting faster than a sundae in the summer sun.

When the luscious Alexander West arrives to help pick up the pieces, Sorrel's life gets shaken up more than ever before! Especially as this globe-trotting adventurer is determined that nothing in her life should ever be boring old vanilla again…

It Was Only A Kiss by Joss Wood

For driven businessman Luke Savage success is the only option. So when gorgeous marketing intern Jess Sherwood waltzes into his office and casually informs him that his newly inherited vineyard has an image problem, he's outraged! She's naïve and overly ambitious, all Luke can do to stop her talking...is to kiss her.

Eight years later the vineyard needs a boost - and Luke needs a hip new marketing strategy to save it. Jess may drive him crazy but she's the right woman for the job. Their only problem is how to keep their minds on work and off that kiss!

 You can buy here

 

The Last Woman He'd Ever Date winners...

Thanks for dropping by everyone. Loved all your airport scenes - interesting that they were all in hot places!

Sheryl, Diane, Ruchita - if you'll email me your snail mail addy's I'll get copies of the book in the post. Vince I have your address and it's already on its way.

I'm eager to see the US cover for this release - July, I think - and how different the new Riva cover will be when the book is finally released in the UK sometime in the late autumn.

Moving on...

We've had the equinox - the days are now as long as the nights which is brilliant. I love getting up in daylight - it puts, well, a spring in my step. There are swathes of daffodils all along the road into town, too.

The hellebores are in full flower in the garden, and yesterday I spotted a bud on one of the plants I grew from seed a year or two ago. Exciting to see what that looks like.

Meanwhile, following the fun I had with Tempted By Trouble, I'm working on Book 2 in the ice cream saga - Sorrel's story.

My hero, Alexander Laing, remains something of a mystery, but I'm getting there. Here's an idea of what I have in mind.

Weirdly, Sorrel is not impressed. Give her time!

THIS WEEK I'M NOT...

at the Romantic Novelists' Association 50th Anniversary conference in Greenwich.

This has to be extremely bad planning, because while I sit here in my jammies at the crack of a Saturday dawn, all my writing mates are, right now, stirring, groaning and reaching for something to soothe the ravages of a night partying at the Gala celebration dinner.

Of course I am also missing out on the shocking heat in London and remain cucumber cool and headache free in a rather damp Wales.

Which would you choose?

Yes, I thought so.

Next year I'm going to have to plan my deadlines with rather more precision, since I've been roped in to give a talk or something. (I need plenty of notice of these things - a year should be about enough to come up with something interesting.)

Meanwhile my world is bounded by all things ice cream.

Elle, the heroine of my story (working title SCOOP!) has just gone for a ride in Rosie with a dishy bloke who's turned up at her door with a 1962 Commer Ice Cream van that is about to turn her world on its head.

(The dishy bloke might have a little to do with that, too!)



Oh, and just so that you know I really was working when I was pretending to be on holiday last week - here's my research photo.

This giant ice cream was spotted on the station at Paignton, where I boarded a steam train to Dartmouth. The sight of it moved me to go inside and buy one, although it wasn't a Whippy but some delicious west country dairy cream ice scooped onto a cone.

The jolly nice young man who served me wrapped it in a napkin (something Mr Whippy never did when I was a kid) and for which I was extremely grateful since it was a hot day.

Some books are just more fun to research than others.

RESEARCH

I think one of the best things about starting a new book is the research. The excuse to browse for books -- my latest acquisition is OF SUGAR & SNOW, the history of ice cream making by Jeri Quinzio. Okay, so Nero poured honey onto snow, but actually, no, that's not ice cream!

I've also been having chats with the charming Ian at Mr Whippy, who has been giving me the lowdown on the how the music jingle works. I'd assumed something boring like a button. Apparently not.  Back in 1962 (which is when my heroine's ice cream van was on the road) the driver wound it up each time - he even sent me a photograph of the mechanism. Such tidbits of information are gems that the author can take full advantage of.

And then, of course, I had to buy a book about making ice cream. And I've been looking at eBay to check on ice cream makers - although I'm manfully resisting actually buying one.

I will, very soon, actually have to get down to writing, but for now I'm just having fun.

Well, that was fun.

Thanks to everyone who came up with names for the new gadgets.

The camera is going to be "Rosie" and the Sony eReader "Kitty". Thanks to Lois and Ginette for those - an advance copy of SOS: Convenient Husband Required (retail July in the States, August in the UK, September in Oz and New Zealand) will be in the post to them as soon as I have their snail mail addies.

I'm feeling pretty rosy about this book, actually, having just heard that Romantic Times have given it a stonking 4.5 star rating. Here's what they say: -

"The premise isn’t new, but Fielding’s deft handling of it is a triumph. The characters are fabulous, the relationship between them complex and nuanced…and keep a tissue handy at the end!"

I'm also going to be featured on the Romantic Times blog, talking about A Wedding at Leopard Tree Lodge (out now!) and my time in Botswana - I'll post a link when it goes live.

Right now I'm having a lovely time researching ice cream for the new book.

The history of ice cream. Vintage ice creams vans. And ice cream recipes - imagine me smiling here.

Talk amongst yourselves. I may be some time... :)