Kim McMahill

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Leap Into Books Giveaway Hop over the past week. Congratulations to Georgia on being selected to receive a trade paperback copy of TheLodge and an assortment of other Embrace Adventure goodies. I hope you all had fun and won a lot of wonderful prizes. Thanks again for playing along, and for giving some of us lesser-known writers a shot. Over the last week, you may just have discovered your new favorite author.

Welcome to the Leap Into Books Giveaway Hop , where nearly150 bloggers are giving away great goodies. Here at Embrace Adventure , I’m giving away an Adventure pack, which includes a trade paperback copy of my first and only mystery novel, The Lodge , a set of my recently designed luggage tags, magnets, and a supply of customized tip charts. The Lodge is a cozy mystery set off the Alaskan mainland, and it’s only available while supplies last through Amazon - when the print run is gone, it’s gone. Its sequel, Deadly Ruins , is an a rcheological adventure thriller, available in trade paperback and Kindle. My four most recent novels (listed to the right) are all adventure suspense with a little romance mixed in. Visit your favorite on-line book retailer for blurbs and prices. And, as always, twitter followers are appreciated at https://twitter.com/kimmcmahill .   For a chance at the adventure gift pack, simply comment on this post with an email address, and a recipient will ...

I just released my eighth book (seventh novel), Shrouded In Secrets . I’m very proud of the finished product and I hope readers will agree that it is an exciting well-written adventure.   Shrouded In Secrets is the culmination of many years of hard work, a lot of learning along the way, and the dedicated editorial efforts of a wonderful publisher.   When my first novel, The Lodge , came out a decade ago I was thrilled. The cover was so beautiful it nearly made me cry when I held it in my hands and gazed lovingly at the magnificent artwork, and at the time it was my best work and I still believe it has merit. When I read it now, though, I can pick out a number of things I would do differently today, but that’s the natural progression of a novelist, to learn from ones mistakes to enable each book to be better than the last.   Since publication of TheLodge I’ve learned a great deal about voice, point of view, pace, and the importance of a good editor (I’m apparentl...