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Ice, Wind And Fire by Mel Keegan

20th Anniversary reissue cover by Jade

ICE, WIND AND FIRE
by Mel Keegan

Paperback and ebook

242 pages
100,000 words

EBOOK DESIGNED FOR PC & MAC: $9.99

EBOOK DESIGNED FOR SCREENREADER: $9.99

Read the first 10% of the novel right here on The Bookshelf, for free: Click me!

Paperback: due 12/09

the GMP cover for ICE, WIND & FIRE

1989 cover by

Derek Brazell,

PUBLISHING HISTORY:
1989 - GMP original edition
2000 - Milivres reprint
2009 - DreamCraft ebook
2009 - DreamCraft paperback

IN PRINT?
YES!

ICE, WIND AND FIRE

20th Anniversary Celebration!

Join us in this event, with the long-awaited reissue, bound in a brilliant new jacket by Jade -- and the much-anticipated ebook release of this evergreen favorite!

It’s hurricane, bushfire, drug smuggling, murder and mayhem when two newspaper men try to take a Caribbean vacation ... and walk right into the storm of the decade ... sizzling gay Romance from the pen of the maestro!

In this first of the Mel Keegan thrillers – reissued here with a brilliant new cover to celebrate its twentieth anniversary – Greg Farris and Alex Connor, two hot-shot newsmen from Perspective magazine head out to Jamaica on a vacation which soon goes askew. Scuba diving right after a Caribbean storm, they discover the wreck of a light plane ... and in hours the lid is off Pandora’s box. Their holiday becomes a fight to survive in the teeth of smugglers, slave traders, murderers – and the worst the elements can throw at them.

Cover notes from the original, 1989 edition from GMP:

"Ice, Wind and Fire introduces the work of an exciting new Australian writer, in a fast-moving and colourful thriller set against the skillfully evoked background of the Caribbean."

REVIEWS: "This rip-roaring and colourful new gay thriller zooms along with a breathless enthusiasm that never flags" — Time Out.

Mel Keegan comments on
ICE, WIND AND FIRE

ICE seems, in retrospect, to be something of a departure from the usual Keegan book ... the story is strong, of course, but it's a lot "raunchier" than the norm! In fact, someone who posted a review to the Amazon.com page got it dead right: "Not even James Bond has this much sex," s/he said. This is completely accurate! Remember, ICE was the first novel I'd managed to place with a gay publisher — and one should never underestimate the difficulties involved in trying to get a contract with any publisher! In fact, ICE was an "attention getter." It was much more sensual, (also "loud and obnoxious" in places) ... but it did indeed grab attention, where more subtle pieces had been languishing in limbo for some time already. With this one out of the way the rest could follow on — which is not to say there's anything amiss with sensual stories! I've written reams of them in the past, and expect to write more. But I confess that I'd like to stay on "this side" of the line and not cross over into the purely "adult fiction" category, if only because my novels are a world more difficult to craft than the majority of adult books. To put it another way, I want to appeal to a wider readership, and I'm keenly aware that a percentage of readers can be troubled by narrative that crosses the line. My usual stuff is no more "adult" than Harold Robbins ... but it would be fair to say that ICE is quite a sizzler ... with good reason!