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FOREVER FIFTEEN FREE VAMPIRE AUDIO NOVEL
FOREVER FIFTEEN . . . a rare offering . . . one of the only truly FREE audio books on the internet!
Forever Fifteen: the free audiobook phenomenon. Download each chapter for your personal MP3 collection or stream directly from this site. This 34 chapter, great fiction audiobook is available FREE, a whole audio novel, not a lame preview offer or a paid subscription club!
THE STORY OF FOREVER FIFTEEN
Forever Fifteen follows our heroine, Lucy Albert, who is a vampire who is eternally stuck at fifteen years old. We meet Lucy in 1980's high school as she languishes in detention hall.
.. Lucia by artist Rosa Nevarez
Flashbacks of Lucy's background takes us back to1340's Renaissance Italy. Lucy is a normal girl who is thrown into an arranged marriage with a Florentine diplomat twice her age. She is fifteen, married, and pregnant when the bubonic plague (known historically as the Black Death) sweeps Europe, killing her family.
Shortly after being struck by tragedy, Lucy is abducted by her doctor Sebastianus, who makes her his wife, traps her in his castle, and turns her into a vampire against her will. Eventually she escapes Sebastianus as she discovers how diabolical he truly is, however, life on her own is seldom easy.
Much to her chagrin, she finds herself being cleverly seduced by a high school boy in 1980, the intrepid John Diedermayer. As she becomes more entranced with John, her new "friend" Michelle begins to pry into her past. Michelle becomes more of a stalker than a supporter as the book builds to its climax. Please enjoy!
WHAT INSPIRED ME TO WRITE FOREVER FIFTEEN
A few years ago, I went through a very dark time in my life where a series of unfortunate events led to a dark depression. I am loathe to mention specifics--I guard my privacy religiously--but it involved remodeling a house in the country and a robbery where nearly everything I owned was stolen. Things got so bad that I seriously considered quitting my job, buying a plane ticket, and moving away to a foreign country where nobody knew me. They say the grass always looks greener on the other side and the place where I was felt cursed and barren. Out of circumstance, I spent many sad afternoons alone in an old, crummy house. Though I had never so much as finished a short story, not even for English class, I began writing a horror novel about a vampire named Lucia Alberti who survives the Black Death of 1348 Italy only to be abducted by an evil vampire.
Forever Fifteen is sometimes compared to the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyers. Stephenie Meyers and I are the exact same age (born in 1973) and wrote our novels around the exact same time!
I hand-wrote the novel that would become Forever Fifteen over the period of a year. I still have the original manuscript, much of it torn out of spiral notebooks and scribbled on computer paper! I converted it to text on the computer eventually. As I never expected to write a novel, I had no problem recording it with my existing home recording equipment and turning into a free podcast on iTunes.
My vampire audiobook, Forever Fifteen, was one of the first free audiobooks to reach the internet in 2006. It gained a readership larger than I had ever anticipated. To this day, I receive fan mails from people who passionately love the book on a weekly basis. The weirdest thing happened: I realized that I wanted to write more horror stories because they helped me work through my pain, fears, and troubles.
So I keep writing whenever I can squeeze in the time, even though my life is a great deal better now.