Heidi Rice: Heidi Rice... USA Today Bestseller!!

Thursday, 4 March 2010

Heidi Rice... USA Today Bestseller!!

Woohoo!! There's snoopy dances galore in North London today with the release of the latest USA Today bestseller list and the news that Public Affair, Secretly Expecting has hit the top 100 (at 100, but who's counting right??).

Can not believe it. I'm so excited and feeling ever so slightly smug. Who said you can't do movie star heroes in category romance? All you have to do is make them Irish and super-sexy and all moody and intense and articulate like Colin Farrell and you're all set (cheers Colin, what a great muse you turned out to be). All right, I'll shut up now before my head gets so enormous it starts lolling onto the keyboard.

Am also sending my Modern Heat stable mate Kelly Hunter a high-five who's RT top pick book Exposed: Misbehaving with the Magnate also made the list. Yay Kelly! And here's another high-five to Kate Hardy whose latest Good Girl or Gold-Digger? got a coveted 5-star review from Cataromance.

It's official: Modern Heat Rocks!

14 comments:

Sally Clements said...: Ah, Colin. Dark, Irish, sexy. Perfect. Congratulations on your success! Well deserved.; 4 March 2010 at 02:28
Janette Radevski said...: Congrats!; 4 March 2010 at 02:47
Kimberly Lang said...: Yay again (and this time in public!)

I knew this book would have many, many fans!; 4 March 2010 at 05:56
Kate Hardy said...: Yay, Heidi!

Ditto what Kim said, to both - and thanks for the high five :); 4 March 2010 at 06:17
Kat said...: I am hot footing it over to amazon without passing go to snap it up - hot, articulate and Irish... what's not to love?!
Congrats on your success Heidi, I reckon something cold & bubbly is called for tonight. :o)

Jo; 4 March 2010 at 07:15
Heidi Rice said...: Sally, Janette, Kim, Kate and Joanne... thanks so much for the congrats. Oops think my head just got even bigger.

And Kate, you're welcome for the high-five, have your book in my teetering TBR pile and will be sneaking it into my luggage for my trip to the USofA next week!; 4 March 2010 at 10:34
Jackie Ashenden said...: Fantastic news, Heidi! Of course it just confirms what we knew already. Your books rock. :-); 4 March 2010 at 11:02
Romance, Rumours and Rogues said...: Congrats again, Heidi!!!!; 4 March 2010 at 11:39
Lacey Devlin said...: Congrats Heidi!

I'm STILL astounded that movie star heroes are suppose to be a no-go areas. Proved them wrong :D !; 4 March 2010 at 22:58
Caroline said...: Posting late - but huge congrats Heidi. Caroline x; 5 March 2010 at 09:05
Joanne Coles said...: Yay, huge congrats, Heidi. What a wonderful achievement!

And can I say, what's not to get inspired about when it comes to Colin Farrell? I officially *heart* him :-); 6 March 2010 at 12:35
Anonymous said...: Heidi -- just finished reading Public Affair, Secretly Expecting and loved it! I especially loved Mac your celebrity hero -- why can't we have more movie stars/rock stars in books? I loved Daisy and Connor's story too, but Mac and Juno were really special.

Looking forward to reading your new one.

Cheers,
Emmie; 3 April 2010 at 17:52
Robin said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4 April 2010 at 01:18
Heidi Rice said...: Thanks so much you guys.

and Emmie glad you liked Mac and Juno's story... And yes, they were a bit special to me too! Now, if I could get a rock star hero into a Presents novel I feel my work would be done!; 4 April 2010 at 01:20

My Book Recs!

Dirty Secret by Mira Lyn Kelly
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

So I know absolutely NADA about ice hockey, I'm a Brit after all. But when I saw my old writing mate Mira Lyn Kelly had written a series of HAWT hockey romances I hit the insta-buy button because I know what a fabulous writer she is – and I had a week-long holiday in Spain with lots of lounging-around-a-pool time to fill. I'm happy to say I was not disappointed. Because this book hit all my sweet spots hot hero, smart savvy heroine, snappy dialogue and deep deep emotion wise.... (Although I still know nada about hockey I feel I can now talk quite knowledgeably about how hot ice hockey players are at least!)

Dirty Secret is the first of the Slayers Hockey team stories (although Greg and Julia feature in Dirty Player, in another series, which I will sooo be checking out after I finish this series). Anyway Dirty Secret features team captain Greg Baxter's arch rival Vaughn Vasser and Greg's little sister Natalie, who is absolutely OFF LIMITS to the rest of the team. But most of all to Vaughn, who recently threw a punch at the cap, is not much liked by the Chicago press, the Slayers fans or nearly all of his teammates either, and has his sights set on a trade back to Oregon ASAP...

But what Vaughn does not know is that the "Allie" he had an uber hot one-night stand with eight months ago in Vancouver, and who ran out on him without leaving a number and who he cannot forget is none other than the guy he hates little sis. Natalie is so busted when Vaughn turns up at her door, after discovering who she is... And that she knew who he was all along, and that's why she was using an assumed name. To say he's pissed is putting it mildly, but the truth is he is also hurt. WTF was she thinking, leaving him in the lurch like that after pretty much the best night of his life? Ofc, it's only a matter of time before pissed gives way to provocative, because these two really cannot keep their hands off each other, or any other crucial parts of their anatomy tbf. But while the secret sex scenes are the perfect blend of explosively intense and toe-curlingly spicy, the real secret in this book is that the hard-nosed (and hard everything else) Vaughn, is actually a really sweet guy. But only Natalie ever gets to see that side of him...

Not all that surprisingly, given their explosive chemistry, it doesn't take long before their under-the-radar romance is impossible to keep under the radar (or anything else for that matter).

Once Greg finds out that his rival is secretly dating his kid sister, all hell breaks loose, leaving Vaughn's career in the crosshairs and Natalie having to deal with her big brother's ego explosion. So how is Vaughn not gonna blow up his career and get over the girl he can't have but still wants all the damn time? How is Natalie gonna get her big bro to back the hell off and give her space to figure out that Vaughn is the guy for her? Which is a big ask for her, because she spent her whole life living in the shadow of Greg's career. And she does not want to risk living in the shadow of another man's career - however right he seems....

I'll leave the answers to those crucial questions for you to find out, but I was rooting for them both throughout the fallout, even when they made mistakes. I loved the underlying theme,too, that love is never easy, that chemistry can be dangerous as well as delicious but that ultimately it's the compromises you make and the secrets you are brave enough to share about who you really are, and what you really want that give you the greatest rewards.

What a terrific start to this series, I'm already three books in and I am TOTALLY ADDICTED which is good because I'm now back in a cold and rainy London, and some Slayers Hockey heat is the perfect antedote. So thank you Mira Lyn for giving me my summer back, I appreciate it.

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Thursday, 4 March 2010

Heidi Rice... USA Today Bestseller!!

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