Kevin Tinto is the author of the ICE Trilogy, with more than 600,000 sales worldwide. The ICE series has won awards, including the 2016 National Generation Best Indie Book (ICE). AUDIOBOOKREVIEWER: Best Audiobook of the Year, 2021 - (ICE). AUDIOBOOKREVIEWER: Listeners Choice Award, 2021 - (ICE GENESIS). AUDIOBOOKREVIEWER: Best Series 2021 - (THE ICE TRILOGY). In addition, ICE was a finalist in the Thriller category for the 2021 Society of Voice Arts Awards. (Narrated by Pamela Almand.)

The ICE Trilogy is in development for a film series by Emmy Nominated Producer Ken Atchity: (The Kennedy Detail (Discovery). Atchity Entertainment International films include Joe Somebody (Tim Allen, Julie Bowen), Life Or Something Like It (Angelina Jolie, Edward Burns), and The MEG (Jason Statham).

Kevin is one of many successful authors in the fast-growing category of bestselling independently published authors. Indie authors are responsible for writing and hiring professional editors to cover designers, formulating and executing reader marketing and distribution strategies, and developing a plan to widen the ‘brand,’ including audiobooks and films. They also retain ALL rights to their work.

Born in Wallace, Idaho, Kevin moved many times due to his father’s career as a Civil Engineer building dams across the United States. Finally, his family settled in Novato, California, in the early 1970s. Kevin attended San Marin High School, became an Eagle Scout, and graduated from Sacramento State University, majoring in Business Marketing while working at Boreal and Northstar-at-Tahoe as a Certified Private Instructor on weekends and holidays.

After college, Kevin worked for Chesebrough-Ponds, now Lever, starting in San Francisco, then moving to Southern California, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Washington DC, and finally to the corporate headquarters in Greenwich, Connecticut, in sales and marketing. Next, he moved on to News Corporation and worked for Rupert Murdock in marketing on Murdock’s newspaper and magazine businesses. Then, in the 1990s, he decided he strike out on his own, starting a marketing company: American Marketing and Communication, Inc.

Kevin comes from a family of writers, including Captain Terry Reece: FLYING NORTH, JACKET SCAT, GLORY HOLE. Colleen Reece: More than 170 titles and 6,000,000 books sold. Melissa K. Norris: THE FAMILY GARDEN, THE MODERN WOMEN’S GUIDE TO MADE-FROM-SCRATCH, SIMPLE WAYS TO CREATE A NATURAL HOME. Melissa has a podcast on healthy and straightforward modern living with more than 1,000,000 subscribers.

Adventure writing comes naturally for someone who spends his free time high-altitude mountaineering, wreck diving, offshore fishing, cycling across the US, solo motorcycling to Alaska, and much more.

Kevin is working on his next print and film project, based upon a true story: VORTEX.