A big thank you to Angie Hodapp for this link! 😀
SF Signal: Special Needs in Strange Worlds
SARAH: Is there enough disability in SFF?
ROB: I think there should be more.
So do I, and I wrote it: Vampire Syndrome
A big thank you to Angie Hodapp for this link! 😀
SF Signal: Special Needs in Strange Worlds
SARAH: Is there enough disability in SFF?
ROB: I think there should be more.
So do I, and I wrote it: Vampire Syndrome
Jack Wendell
Former Special Olympics champion sprinter and 400-meter sprint national record holder. Now the world’s fastest running Vampire, able to run at over 100mph for long distances. Retains his sincerity and good will towards others while living and interacting with a Vampire population generally not known for these qualities. Jack gets his first girlfriend in my trilogy’s second novel, “Vampire Conspiracy”. Jack’s heroism and unique abilities gradually become known to the world’s human Vampire population… and others. 😈
Damien Tepesh
Physical age: 39
Calendar age: 267
Chief Venator (law enforcer) of the United States region. Targets Jack for termination, as Venators traditionally do when they discover a new special-needs Vampire. Jack escapes two of Damien’s assassination attempts, eventually causing Damien to reconsider his position about Jack. Damien enjoys fast cars and fast women. Damien has been married for over 250 years, and has had several mistresses as well.
Lilith Morrigan
Physical Age: 44
Calendar Age: 308
President of the world’s human Vampire Community. Breaks with her own Venator past by protecting Jack from her husband Damien. Feels some maternal instinct for Jack, but Lilith realizes she would not make the best adoptive mother for him. The conflicts over Jack push her relationship with Damien to a breaking point.
Zetania Vinescu
Physical Age: 25
Calendar Age: 135
Chief Venator of Romania. Summoned to Colorado by Damien, to help him hunt Jack. Lilith over-rides her husband and orders Zetania to protect Jack from Damien and the other Venators. Zetania gradually realizes Jack’s incredible potential, and discovers that Jack may be the key to help Zetania and the Romanian Vampires end their dispute with their most feared enemy… one way or another.
Ronald and Diane Pepper
Physical and Calender Ages: 40
Ron Pepper, Jack’s former Special Olympics coach, and his wife Diane are the closest that Jack has ever had to a real family. Damien and Lilith come to a rare agreement and choose the Peppers to be Jack’s new adoptive parents. Damien and Lilith turn the Peppers into Vampires and hire them as private investigators. The Peppers’ longtime hobby of investigating cattle mutilations becomes their full-time occupation, as they finally uncover the mystery of who is behind all of those mutilations.
Stella Reynolds
Physical Age: 27
Calendar Age: 71
Lilith’s presidential secretary and Damien’s current mistress. Over the last 250 years, Lilith has killed Damien’s previous four mistresses (and several other women who had short-term flings with Damien). The fact that Lilith hired Stella to be her secretary suggests a major change of strategy on her part, in which she plans to heighten her control and influence over Damien.
Gl’Ag
Physical Age: Mature Adult Male
Calendar Age: Over 25,000 years
The human vampires’ worst nightmare. And he realizes Jack’s true potential far more than any human Vampires can.
Fred Henderson
Physical Age: 41
Calendar Age: 266
Chief Mechanic, the MacGyver of Vampires. Owner of Roman Auto Salvage. His kindred’s predilection towards fast cars ensures Fred’s job security. Enjoys customizing pickup trucks and hunting deer. Owns a large collection of vintage film prints, including an original print of “Nosferatu” acquired during his vacation to Germany in 1922.
Tivor Sebestyén
Physical Age: 25
Calendar Age: 43
Mute autistic Vampire, native to the city of Debrecen, Hungary. Pursued by Hungarian Venators upon his change to human vampire in 1991, reported “missing, presumed dead” that same year. Confirmed sighted by several U.S. Venators in Colorado twenty years later. Possesses a unique superpower that could be dangerous to the human Vampire community.
Today at work, a middle-age male customer had a Breaking Dawn Part 2 Blu-Ray in his shopping cart.
Obviously for his two adolescent daughters, who were with him.
When I finished ringing up the order, I said: “There’s a million people out there who said they could write something better than Twilight. Meet the one who did.”
I handed him a copy of Vampire Syndrome.
They were studying my novel, going “cool”.
The kicker was, they didn’t seem to realize it was my creation until I pointed to my “Daven” name tag, and said “Not too many guys out there with my first name, and as you can see it’s not just a pen name.”
Another copy of my novel, sold! 😀
Thank you for your thorough and insightful review, Ariesgrl!
By: Daven Anderson. Format: eBook. Read: January 2013.
Jack Wendell has led a rough life after being born with Down’s Syndrome. However with the help of Coach Ron and his wife Diane, he has become a star athlete competing in the Special Olympics. Unfortunately for Jack, all of this is about to change when he gets bitten by a rabid vampire one afternoon. As he searches for fellow vampires to help teach him about being a vampire, he learns that not all vampires are friendly. In fact, Jack learns that many vampires feel that he needs to be put down due to his previous diagnosis. Enter Lilith Morrigan, the President of all the human vampires, who tries to hide Jack and protect him. Enter her husband, Damien Tepesh, Chief Venator and the man that is hunting Jack. Will Jack ever be safe, or is he just a pawn in…
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