Quick Update For Kindle Unlimited Subscribers

Hey, guys! Just wanted to make a quick announcement letting you know that all of my full-length horror books are now available to read for free if you are subscribed to Kindle Unlimited! With spooky season quickly rolling in, I thought this was a good time to make my spooky books readily available in a more affordable way. If you are a member of Kindle Unlimited, I hope you consider checking them out! If you are not a member, you can read about the service here: Kindle Unlimited and sign up for a 30 day free trial!

Books I have enrolled include:

The Monster Entries Trilogy
The Vampire's Castle
The Fates' Messengers
The Devil's Playground

The Mad Alice (Fear & Fairy Tales 1)

Halloween Street Collection: 31 Short Stories

The Fates' Messengers - Book Two of The Monster Entries - OUT NOW!

Wow, over a year since my last post. It's been a hell of a year, and I'm still trying to get my bearings.

But good news! The Fates' Messengers has been released on Amazon! It's the second book in my Monster Entries Trilogy, and this book features a slew of new monsters! Don't want to overly spoil it, but in this one, the vampire Nicklas builds a monster and his mate, inspired by Frankenstein, to add to his monster family.

Official book description:
Eleven years have past since the horrors that took place at the vampire’s castle, but Diana and her children are still haunted by the memories. Diana, obsessed with training to be the perfect monster killer, gets her chance to put her new skills to the test when her daughter Sarah is kidnapped and held prisoner at a creepy old mansion. Diana and her children encounter new monsters, as well as old foes, in their quest for survival—and sanity. ~

I'm really excited to have finished this book and continue The Monster Entries Trilogy! I grew up on old monster movies, so this series holds a special place in my heart. I'm sorry the wait has been so long between the first and second release, but I'm already working on the third book and am planning for an early 2018 release!

Lonely Nights of Winter (Moonridge Memories, #3) Now Available!

The third installment of my Moonridge Memories series, Lonely Nights of Winter, is now available on Kindle and Smashwords!



Description:
In book three of the Moonridge Memories series, Theresa's world is turned upside down. Between an unusual offer from her mother, David leaving town on business, and her smarmy new boss at work, Theresa's life quickly spirals out of control. If that isn't enough, the bonds of friendship are tested when tragedy strikes her best friend Beth, who begins to question her place in the group. ~



The ebook will be coming soon to more online retailers! I'll keep you posted!

Dog Days of Summer - FREE on Kindle!

As promised, I'm posting a quick update to let everyone know that Dog Days of Summer has gone free on Amazon! The free links are below:

Amazon
Kobo
Smashwords

Barnes & Noble (Nook) and Apple links should be coming soon. Just waiting on distribution from Smashwords!

I have also added a new tab at the top of my blog for the Moonridge Memories series, so check that out for more information!

Dog Days of Summer -- Freebie!

Today through Friday (Nov 16), Dog Days of Summer is free to download at Amazon! Get your copy today.

The free promo is in celebration of the sequel, Leaves In Autumn, which will be out this weekend! Be sure to check back for more details!

Amazon Genres

Boy, I feel like an idiot right now. It's always bugged me when browsing through books on Amazon that the product pages don't list the genre of books. Sure, usually the cover and blurb are enough to tell me the genre but not always. I even emailed Amazon requesting they add the information. Little did I know, the information is there! If you scroll all the way to the bottom of a book's product page, the genre(s) is listed. Now seriously, has that always been there? Am I THAT unobservant? Oh well. I guess I should just be glad I noticed it at all ;)

Free Ebook Promotion & Book Update

The free ebook promotion for Dog Days of Summer is still going strong, and there's still a whole day left to get a free copy!

I would like to point out that I noticed a minor formatting issue with my book early this morning that I have since fixed. Some of you may be familiar with it. The text was defaulting to a very tiny font. My apologies to those who downloaded my book prior to the fix, and if you go to Manage Your Kindle in your Amazon account, you can delete the old download and re-download the book again, if the text issue bothers you (it bothered me, so I completely understand!). You can also request an updated file from kdp-support@amazon.com (Dog Days of Summer by L.M. Pfalz - ASIN: B008ZLPVR8). Again, I'm so sorry for the inconvenience. There's a lot of trial and error happening since this is my first Kindle book, and with any luck (and if Amazon doesn't change formats again), my future books should be published without issue.

Since the problem turned out to be a pretty easy fix, I thought I'd share it with my fellow writers/publishers, since it seems to be a pretty common problem (and undetectable in Kindle previewers, unfortunately). In Kindle's latest update, they have introduced Kindle Format 8, which I guess is for use with the next generation of Kindles, I'm not entirely sure. Anyway, for whatever reason, this new format doesn't play nice with font-size tags in the html file of your book. Even though I liked the idea of a larger font for the title page and chapter titles, I ended up not worrying about it, as I didn't want to keep playing around with the file during my free promotion days. Once I removed all my font-size tags (and for good measure, the font-face tags), the text on the Kindle now defaults to the proper size (nice and readable!). And I actually am not minding having the same size font for my chapter titles, so it seems like a small price to pay for my readers to have an easier (and hopefully more pleasurable) reading experience.

These posts helped me solve my issue:

Text Shrunken on Kindle
Kindle Touch Showing too small font

Free Ebook of Dog Days of Summer!

Well, today and tomorrow starts the free giveaway of my ebook, Dog Days of Summer! Click the link below to get your copy!

Dog Days of Summer

Quick Announcement

Just a quick heads up that my Kindle book Dog Days of Summer will be free this Friday and Saturday (Aug 31-Sep 1)! Link below:

Dog Days of Summer (Moonridge Memories)

Don't forget! :)

Still Going Strong...

Well, gee, time sure does fly! My book is going well! I have finished the rough draft and first round of edits, and now I'm on the second one. Just need to find all the little things I might've overlooked, misplaced commas, typos, etc. It should definitely be out by the end of August *crosses fingers*. It's just a matter of making sure all the little details of the self-publishing adventure are hammered out. The devil is in the details, as they say!

I redesigned the cover while taking a breather from edits. So that should be good to go. I will try to get a pic posted here before the book "officially" comes out.

I'm a little nervous about tackling the formatting for Kindle, but hopefully it won't be too complex. I'm pretty computer savvy (not to toot my own horn or anything!), so I'll figure it out I'm sure. I just hope it doesn't take too long and force me to push back the release.

Well back to edits, and then, bedtime for me (yes, 8 a.m. EST...ack, such a night owl!). 

Back to work...

Yes, I've been lax with my blog, but I have a good excuse this time. I've been sick with a cold and haven't had the energy to spend much time at the computer. I'm finally starting to feel better, and catching up on some writing.

I know this blog needs some re-vamping. I designed it quickly, and haven't even set up links or labels or any of that good stuff to help people, you know, actually navigate this darn thing. I'll get to it, honest. I know how badly it needs sprucing up.

What else is going on with me? Well, before I got sick I was trying to decide which Kindle to buy at Amazon.com. It's between the basic one (ahem, *cheapest* one) or the Kindle Keyboard. The idea of being able to take notes easily in books is appealing, but I wonder how much I'd really do that. Hmm. Decisions, decisions.

Oh well...back to writing...