I know all of you have been waiting patiently for the first Forever Fifteen sequel, a.k.a. what happens to Lucy and John, a.k.a. the second novel in the planned Forever Fifteen trilogy. In this recent interview with Rikki LaCoste for Kakophonos Internet Radio, I unveiled a sexy excerpt of the upcoming sequel to Forever Fifteen. A little spoiler: Martin Chen becomes a vampire! What can I say about this sequel except that it has a great deal of sex in it? One would surmise to think the author is very randy though the characters of Forever Fifteen have always written themselves–in other words, blame them, not me– and are part of my broader (undiagnosed) multiple personality disorder. I promise that I’ll post more about the Forever Fifteen sequel soon, which at this time is clocking in at 60,ooo words in about as many days since I started writing it November 1, 2011.

I also did my best to explain “the Kim” to Rikki, a lucid, humorous, and wonderful interviewer. Warm-hearted, funny, multi-talented people like Rikki are the primary reason I want to move to Canada.

I love Forever 15′s fans SO MUCH. The emails and FB comments I get every time I post a daily word count (right now I’m writing a minimum of 1000 words a day on the Forever Fifteen sequel) put light into my life and a spring into my step.

I haven’t seen the latest Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn, yet, though I’ve heard all sorts of things (euphemism). I couldn’t help my urge to break down and write 15 Reasons Why Forever Fifteen is Better Than Twilight.

My friend, Nathanielle Sean Crawford, responded my post with this hilarious sendup comparing Forever Fifteen to the Twilight series.

Nathanielle Sean Crawford: Now for my 15 reasons why Lucy is a better protaganist than Bella and Edward combined.

1: Though Lucy (pre-John) would love to have found someone she could trust and love, she didn’t waste half her life pining for him.

2: Lucy genuinely cares for the people she encounters and actually feels bad about having to leave them when her vampiric life catches up with her.

3: Lucy started out in a position of submission with little freewill of her own and became an independant woman who made her own decisions and built up a circle of people who cared about her. Bella started out with parents that pined for her and friends that bent over backwards to include her in their group and was willing to chuck it all for a guy that tells her who she can hang out with and when, oh and destroyed her truck because it wasn’t safe for her.

4: Lucy encountered a child molester and tortured him to death. Bella’s friends with a guy who “fell in love” with her baby.

5: Edward apprently rules the school because of his “reputation” and Lucy has to deal with detention.

6: Lucy fed on murderers. Edward admitted to murder. (So did Rosalie, but considering what they did to her I give her a pass)

7: When a friend of Lucy tried to blackmail her into turning her, Lucy appealed to her common sense…by bashing her brain in. Edward allowed Bella to cow her into turning her.

8: Lucy has actually lived on her own for a time. But when she lives with people she earns her keep. Edward has lived with his “parents” for a hundred years and has no visible means of income.

9: When someone threatens Lucy’s family, she deals with them one on one. Edward’s idea of protecting Bella is to leave her alone with a bow on her head before fedexing her to his enemies.

10: Lucy doesn’t pretend to have the bean on every modern aspect of humanity. She just does her best and sometimes it turns out all right. Edward has an opinion about music past the fifties, more or less because of all that free time dicking around in Algebra class gives him.

11: Lucy saw the Black Plague and lived to tell about it. Edward got so sick from Spanish Influenza that he didn’t know which side of the bed to piss on.

12: Bella cooks because she thinks her dad is incompetent. Lucy cooks because she recognizes that her foster mother and father respectively work all day.

13: Bella gives her dad grief when he expects her to be responsible and communicate with him over where she is and when. Lucy apologizes to her foster father for being late.

14: When Bella has the heart of a guy who is younger than her, she manipulates him into doing crap for her while her real boyfriend is off doing god knows what. Lucy recognizes her foster brother’s infatuation and only loves him for the fact that he’s her foster brother, not a means to an end.

15: Kimberly Steele draws inspiration from the real world and all the realistic pain it can bring. Stephanie Meyers based an entire series around one little dream of meadows and rainbow farting deer.

My friend Shaunessy has a new short horror story for the HorrorAddicts.net contest, Masters of Macabre. It’s the male counterpart of the Wicked Women Writers’ contest in which my story Greed was featured as part of the Seven Deadly Sins.

The challenge in the Masters of Macabre contest was to write and record a story based on the following:

1. a phobia
2. an event
3. a boy toy

Shaunessy’s assignment was:

1. spectrophobia (fear of mirrors and one’s own reflection)
2. a bachelor party
3. a motorcycle

Well, what are you waiting for?  Go to the Masters of Macabre and vote for No. 7!

Starting November 1st, I’ll be renewing a goal of 1000 words per day on the Forever Fifteen sequel.  As many of you know, I finished River’s Heart in less than a year (200,000 words!) by putting in at least 1000 words a day and tweeting about it on twitter @queeniemusic.  For a special flipbook preview of the sequel, please click the photo or this link.

Coming soon to KimberlySteele.net is an all new store area called The Art of Steele where you can buy autoplus a new improved free area especially for fans who have been in the FF Club or bought Queeniemusic or contributed a review on Goodreads, iTunes, and the like.  Still working on the details of the new FF Club, where there will be short stories, sheet music, and all sorts of stuff.  Please be patient!

My second novel, the vampire story River’s Heart, is finally done clocking in at over 200,000 words.  I maintained a goal starting officially November of last year of 1000 worlds per day.  I was actually finished with the rough draft around May 2011 and have been editing ever since.

River’s Heart is now being proofread by a cadre of devoted volunteer fans.  If you’re itching for a sneak peek, friend me at Facebook.com/KimberlySteele or visit my website kimberlysteele.net for a preview.

Thanks Kathy for alerting me that clicking on the Forever Fifteen ZIP files wasn’t working–I have re-uploaded them and they should now be available to all~

Thanks to all of you who are buying the Forever Fifteen 99 cent Kindle ebook!

Forever Fifteen is now around 88,000 in the Kindle rankings, or around 80,000 higher than April’s averages of approximately 160,000 on the Kindle Bestseller rankings.

Meanwhile, I’m about midway through my first final edit (third draft) of River’s Heart, my upcoming over 210,ooo word second novel about 13 year old serial-killer/vampire, Ann Rivers, the foster child of Evangelical Christians in the utopian suburb of fictional Cryersford, Illinois.  Mostly I update any news about River’s Heart on Twitter @queeniemusic–I wrote my goal of 1000 words or more a day from October 2010 until February 2011, now I’m deep in the editing process.  My plan is to immediately re-start writing 1000 words a day on the first Forever Fifteen sequel once River’s Heart is published.

Forever Fifteen is rising in the Kindle Bestseller list! From the period of April 1 to April 8, Forever Fifteen has risen meteorically from the 160,500 to 144,384 in the Paid area of Kindle’s store. My heartfelt thanks to all of you who are buying the Kindle Edition of Forever Fifteen for 99 cents and a special thanks to all of you who have left awesome book reviews!

This trailer represents my ideas for filming a live action commercial for Forever Fifteen . . . a beautiful girl walking out of a high school. She seems a little down, shy, and withdrawn. Little do you know that she’s a ruthless serial killer/vampire who survived the Black Plague! And perhaps someone you would NOT want to bother in a dark alley . . .

Forever Fifteen is now available for 99 cents on Kindle! Woohoo!!

Here it is at the KINDLE STORE!

I decided to make it really affordable thinking of you guys. The audiobook will always be free. What do I love best about all of Forever Fifteen’s fans downloading the Kindle ebook? Lots of trees being saved . . . whole forests of them!