Merry Christmas, Everyone!

Wow, can't believe it's another year gone by already....

The BICO blog tour continues on My Life With Books, where I'm talking about inspiration and Bridget Jones and dodgy reindeer jumpers....


Hope everyone has a Merry Little Christmas, and just to help you on your way.... Here's Judy doing the definitive version of this song IMHO




Right off to watch the fabulous Arthur Christmas while wrapping presents like a fiend.

BICO BLOG TOUR: My Reading Room

The Baby It's Cold posse are over at My Reading Room today, basking in the golden glow of Crystal's wonderful review (thanks Crystal!). There's also an interview with the lovely Aimee Carson and another giveaway of the ebook, so get on over there and enter.

And here's a little snippet of her review of Tis the Season to Love Shopping:

I love this. Loved the characters, Ryder was amazing and not what I expected at all and Kate was too. I loved how they were together, how things played out and how things turned out. Amazing story that gives hope and love to the holiday season.

Yay!

BICO BLOG TOUR: Feeling Fictional & In Love with Romance

The Baby It's Cold Outside blog tour rushes on and our first two stops this week are at Feeling Fictional (thanks for the cool review Sarah) and In Love with Romance... And as well as Amy Andrews riffing on the wonders of a snowy Christmas, a chance to pick your favourite festive song and some very tempting sneak peeks of our four stories there are also more prizes to win. Yay! So get on down there and check 'em out.

And if you're stopping by as part of the Entangled Under the Mistletoe Blog Hop, just scroll down...

Heidi Rice & Amy Andrews: Entangled Under the Mistletoe Blog Hop!

Amy and I welcome you to our stop on the Entangled Under the Mistletoe Blog Hop... Yay!

We'll be giving away a copy of our gorgeous Festive anthology Baby It's Cold Outside (check out that chest, ladies!) so don't forget to click on the Rafflecopter below to enter.

Psst: Our fellow anthologists Kate Hardy and Aimee Carson are appearing at Kate's blog as part of the Hop with another prize to win!

Here are two tantalising tastettes from our two stories to get you in the mood to win a copy - or maybe just in the mood for some hot Christmas lovin'...

Tis the Season to Love Shopping

by Heidi Rice

When a Christmas Day blizzard strands an up-and-coming marketing manager Katherine Braithwaite and Ryder Sinclair, her boss's very off-limits, very hot playboy son, in Sinclair's luxury Fifth Avenue department store overnight, the two toe the line between naughty and nice as they unwrap their holiday presents—and each other!

And here's the tasty tastette - when Ryder and Kate have just discovered they are going to be stuck together alone in the store overnight...

“We should head up to the electrical department first for a couple of flashlights," Ryder began. "So we’re all set if the generator goes again.” He led her toward the stairwell. “Then we need to find you some dry clothes.” He glanced down at her attire. “Unless of course you want to wear the lap-dancing elf outfit again. I certainly wouldn’t object.”

“I’m not putting that on again,” she said, so relieved at the change of topic she felt almost giddy. “I looked ridiculous.”

Giddy relief turned to giddy shock when his arm tightened and he murmured, “Katherine, you did not look ridiculous. You looked seriously hot.” The blush shot up her neck and set fire to her ears. “But if you’re dead-set against giving me any more cheap thrills,” he added, apparently oblivious to her embarrassment, “which I personally think is a little small of you, then I suggest we check out the lingerie department and find a compromise we can both live with as a fallback position.”

“Um...” She stammered, her wits having completely deserted her. Was he flirting with her? And if he was, why was it making the giddy shock turn into a giddy thrill? “I’m not sure that’s appropriate...” She continued trying to find her indignation. Or at least a tiny iota of her usually very reliable common sense.

“Katherine, we’re stranded in the middle of a major weather event here. Forget appropriate. The only benefit to a situation like this is that appropriate no longer applies.”

Over to you Amy:

‘Tis the Season for Kissing

by Amy Andrews

Down-on-her-romantic-luck kindergarten teacher Tamara plans to drown her New Year’s Eve sorrows in a gallon of spiked eggnog, but the arrival of her best friend's sexy brother Luke Jackson threatens to melt the snow piling up outside the tiny Vermont cabin.

After almost bashing Luke over the head with a golf stick, then stripping off most of her clothes in a cluelessly drunken striptease because she was hot, Tamara goes on to regale Luke with the hopeless state of her love life:

Luke chose his words carefully, taking a pull of his beer before he said anything. She might have been intoxicated but this angst was obviously coming from somewhere. “So...this ban on casual sex includes kissing?”

She nodded vigorously and Luke was left in no doubt that kissing was off the table. Damn.

“Most definitely,” she added for extra emphasis. “It’s like a gateway drug.”

“A gateway drug?”

She looked directly at him and somehow, sitting in her long johns with no bra, possibly no underwear, and high on eggnog, she still managed to look just like a kindergarten teacher.

“I don’t have good impulse control. Not when it comes to kissing anyway. I like kissing. Hell,” she bugged her eyes at him, “I love kissing. It’s addictive.”

She held his gaze and Luke was captured by the earnestness he saw in hers. “You know those deep, wet, hungry kisses with plenty of tongue and a lot of groaning that taste like cotton candy laced with cocaine and reek of anticipation that can go on for hours until you can barely breathe and every cell feels alive? Just kissing and kissing and kissing like it’s never going to end?”

When she shut her eyes and sighed with her mouth slightly parted, Luke swallowed. Hard. Hell yeah, he remembered those kisses.

She turned her troubled gray gaze to the fire. “But then I want more. I want to feel his hands all over my body. I want to be naked. I want to be horizontal. Or not,” she shrugged. “It depends. And I don’t want to leave until I know all of his kinks and erogenous zones and he knows that I like it when he talks dirty to me as I’m about to come and we’re lying in an exhausted heap barely able to breathe.”

Luke didn’t say anything as she stared into the fire. Her voice had become husky and he could hear a hitch in her breathing. Her admissions sent all the blood rushing from his head and other areas of his body straight to his dick. There was none left for his vocal cords, which seemed to have gone into some weird kind of paralysis.

She sighed and looked at him. “Gateway drug.”

He cleared his throat. “Right,” he said and hoped it came out a lot more manly than it sounded.

Has that whetted your apetite? I thought so. To enter the giveaway and be in with a chance of winning a copy, click the Rafflecopter link below! And Good Luck.

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And Calling All Tweeps...

Entangled are also hosting a Twitter Party tonight (7th December) at 9pm Eastern Standard Time in the US (so I'll probably be fast akip, but Amy hopes to be there). Lots of other cool Entangled authors will be attending and followers can answer fun holiday-themed questions with the hashtag #EntangledUnderTheMistletoe to win 10 prizes -- including ebooks, gift cards, and more!

Party On... And have a great Christmas.

BICO BLOG TOUR: Caribbean Accent Book Reviews

Yo, I'm stopping at Caribbean Accent Book Reviews today y'all to sun myself on the beach with the lovely Sasha H while talking about Tis the Season to Love Shopping... How cool is that? The Gift Card Giveaway only has one more day to go... So get on down there and enter. But don't forget my fellow authors Kate Hardy, Amy Andrews and Aimee Carson will also be doing giveaways during the next three weeks of our blog tour.

And later today I'll be doing a joint post here with the fabulous Amy Andrews as part of the Baby It's Cold Posse's contribution to the Entangled Under the Mistletoe Christmas Blog Hop!

BICO BLOG TOUR: Good Choice Reading

Sheesh, we're over at Good Choice Reading on the Baby It's Cold Outside Blog Tour and no-one's left a comment yet to win a copy of the book.... That sounds like pretty good odds to me, so get on over there, leave a comment and you could get a free shot of our sexy, seasonal anthology.

BICO BLOG TOUR: Once Upon a Twilight

Me and the guys are over at Once Upon a Twilight blog for the next stop on the Baby It's Cold Blog Tour talking about all sorts of interesting sexy, seasonal things (such as men, muscle cars and mistletoe!).. And we're also giving away a free copy of the ebook for one lucky commentator plus there's a chance to win a $10 Amazon Gift Card... So get on over there and comment.

BICO BLOG TOUR: Entangled in Romance, Gift Card Giveaway & Liz Fielding

I'm at the Entangled in Romance blog today launching the Baby It's Cold Blog Tour and talking about Matt Boomer, dating Superman (aka Henry Cavill) and my story in Baby It's Cold Outside (all the important stuff basically) plus a bit about my writing life.

We're also launching the first of four $10 Gift Card Giveaways today on the Entangled in Romance blog so check it out to enter.

For more info on the BICO Blog Tour just click on the logo on the right and it'll take you to all the scheduled blog stops on the tour (and more chances to win a $10 Gift Card! plus a copy of Baby It's Cold Outside).

The BICO posse are also popping over to Liz Fielding's blog later today to talk snow and Christmas and hunky guys (not necessarily in that order)