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.

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 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!

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!

I tallied up the iTunes and other stats for Forever Fifteen and it has been downloaded over 750,000 times! Woot!

Thanks to FF Fans everywhere for making my book the phenomenon it has become. And thanks for all the emails, I do read them all!

Greed 1 is also coming your way soon–it’s an audio story about a demon tongue. Greed 2 is about a rather short-sighted character who has that curse of not appreciating the things he already has.

It’s about 15 minutes long. I’ve written this story for a Horror Addicts contest: 7 women horror writers are writing the 7 deadly sins as short fiction.

Children are strongly cautioned: keep in mind it’s me, Kimberly Steele. Expect swear words, references to sexual organs, and other grown-up only subject matter.

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I’m delighted to announce that I’ve won the Best In Blood Award (Best Author) of HorrorAddicts Season 3! I was voted the most popular among every author featured during the entirety of Season 3.

In a new interview with Horror Addict’s Sapphire, I answer questions running the gamut from the journey towards an FF sequel to Kiki’s penchant for bizarre poses.