“Kim Baldwin adeptly depicts the fictional world with sharpness to rival the real world, writing realistic action, emotion, and descriptions in every scene.”             Midwest Book Review        High Impact, my eleventh novel, is out!   It’s available exclusively in print and ebook  from the BSB Webstore and goes into wider  release in mid December. Click the links below  to order or download your copy now. You can  read the prologue and Chapter One by clicking  here.  The book is another Alaskan adventure-  romance, which includes a supporting cast of  familiar faces from both Breaking the Ice and  Whitewater Rendezvous. Drop me a line at  baldwinkim@gmail.com and let me know what  you think of it, won’t you?                                 In other news, got a nice couple mentions in The Advocate. Dying to Live made their list of Best Overlooked Books of 2011. And the magazine’s November issue includes a picture of me in my Porsche; it’s among the photos selected for this year’s A Day in Gay America feature. Just finished up final edits on Demons are Forever, the fifth book in the Elite Operatives Series I’m co-authoring with Xenia Alexiou. Look for it next March. If you’ve not stopped by for a while, you’ll see I added a fair amount of new content to the site in recent months, including an audio/video page with a lot of recent interviews, audio clips, and behind the scenes stuff concerning my first audiobook--the 7 CD release of Breaking the Ice. It’s been a great year in terms of honors and awards. I’m very grateful to all the readers who support and encourage my work, and recommend my titles to their friends. You inspire and motive me to always improve my craft. I listen to your feedback, and answer every email personally. Missing Lynx was a 2011 Lambda Literary Society Award finalist, and also a finalist for two 2011 Golden Crown Literary Society Awards, winning in the Best Romantic Suspense/Intrigue/Adventure category. It also won in both the Favorite Mystery and Favorite Adventure categories in this year’s Lesbian Fiction Readers’ Choice Awards. and it got an honorable mention in the 2010 LGBT Rainbow Awards for Best Lesbian Mystery/Thriller. No risk is too high. No adventure too daunting.   Emery Lawson reinvents herself after another near-death experience prompts a thorough  reevaluation of her priorities. Empowered to live a life of no regrets, she casts aside all that is  familiar to face her fears and chase her dreams. But as she heads for the wilds of Alaska, romance is  definitely not on her agenda, because she’s convinced she’s incapable of falling in love.  Pasha Dunn has learned to expect the unexpected, in her job with an Adventure Outfitter in the  remote Alaskan interior. Adaptability is essential in such a savage and unforgiving landscape. But  she’s woefully unprepared when her infallible intuition tells her that client Emery Lawson is the  soul mate she’s been waiting for all her life. Emery is clearly determined to remain unattached, and  her high-risk vagabond lifestyle is too far outside Pasha’s comfort zone.  All that they think they want and know will be challenged when the two are thrust into a nightmare  of survival and endurance high above the Arctic Circle. Courtesy Zoomndog Productions   March 2012        Kim Baldwin Breaking the Ice  won First Place (tied) in the Contemporary Fiction category, in this  year’s Rainbow Awards for Excellence. The RAEs are given out by the Rainbow  Romance Writers, the LGBT Chapter of the Romance Writers of America. Last year, the  novel won an Independent Publisher Book Award-- the Silver Medal in the Romance  Category-- and was also voted favorite romance in the 2010 Lesbian Fiction Readers’  Choice Awards. In addition to the new audiobook version, Breaking the Ice has also been  released in Russian. Thanks for stopping by, and Happy Holidays to you and yours.