Kim McMahill

Midnight in Montana, a micro-read prequel to the Risky Research series, is now available in audio book for free from Pelican Book Group at https://go.pbgrp.link/MidnightMontana_AudKM . The ebook can be downloaded for free from Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08YZ53XKJ . Will FBI Agent Devyn Nash expose who’s behind a surge in counterfeit currency or will a wild west shootout end her career before she solves her first case? I hope you download your free read or audio and find out.

For those of you who have checked out my serialized story, Professor of Lies (Renegades’ Redemption Book 1) on Kindle Vella, Thank you. For those who haven’t or who are not familiar with Kindle Vella, 27 of the 46 total episodes are now live and new episodes drop every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday until the story is finished. Kindle Vella is fairly new and is intended to be a way to read short episodes on your cell phone or Kindle Fire. If you have a kindle app on your cell phone, you can read the first three episodes of any Kindle Vella story for free. After that, you pay with tokens to unlock subsequent episodes, but this gives you the opportunity to check out an author’s writing style before committing. In a Professor of Lies, a chance meeting with Russian professor, Alex Volkov, on a remote Utah highway plunges Megan Warner into a relationship she's been dreaming of for years. She believes she's met her soul mate. However, her best friend, Immigration, and the FBI que...

I hope everyone has a happy Valentine’s Day. I don’t really consider myself a romance writer, but every novel has characters falling in love. I write suspense and there is no better catalyst to encourage characters to take risks than to protect the ones they love. So, if you’re looking for a Valentine’s read that has lots of suspense and just enough romance, check out one of my novels. Marked in Mexico continues to be my best seller, Deadly Exodus is my only young adult novel (dystopian romance), and I adore the love shared between Deuce and Niki in Big Horn Storm (modern western romantic thriller).

Welcome to Snippet Sunday. Below is a snippet from my Kindle Vella novel, Professor of Lies. Kindle Vella is a way to read short episodes on your cell phone or Kindle Fire. You can read the first three episodes of any Kindle Vella story for free. After that, you have to pay a small fee with tokens to unlock subsequent episodes, but this gives you the opportunity to check out an author’s writing style before committing. Anyway, here’s a snippet from Episode five. With the engine and music silenced, there was no mistaking the problem. The hissing sound wasn’t coming from an angry rattlesnake—it was coming from the vehicle’s back tire. As she listened to the life draining from the inner tube, she wanted to break down and cry. “Damn it! Didn’t this evening suck enough already?” she screamed into the dark night. Megan kicked the slowly deflating tire until her toe throbbed, and she cursed again. After several more strings of profanity, she regained her composure and dug her small flas...

  I know there is still a lot of winter left, especially in Wyoming, but it feels like we’re over the hump and on the downhill slide toward spring. The days are finally perceptively longer and something about Valentine’s Day seems lighter, brighter, and warmer. I hope if you made a New Year’s Resolution, that you are still holding strong. Good luck!     FREEBIES The first three episodes of any Kindle Vella story are FREE. You can find mine at https://www.amazon.com/Professor-Lies-Renegades-Redemption-Book/dp/B0BPYNQQY9/ Midnight in Montana (Risky Research Series Micro-read prequel ebook):   https://books2read.com/u/mgjR7K A Formidable Foe (Risky Research Series novelette prequel ebook): https://books2read.com/u/b6MGE6 WRITING NOTES AND NEWS As I mentioned in the January Newsletter, I’m publishing episodes of Professor of Lies (Renegades’ Redemption Book 1) on Kindle Vella. Twenty-one episodes are currently live, and I’ve gone to publishing new episod...