Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
| Amelia Atwater-Rhodes | |
|---|---|
| Born | Amelia Holt Atwater-Rhodes April 16, 1984 Silver Spring, Maryland |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1999–present |
| Genre | Teen fiction |
| Subject | Vampire, shapeshifter, ghost, witch |
| Notable works | The Den of Shadows Quartet, The Kiesha'ra Series, Return to Den of Shadows, The Maeve’ra Trilogy |
Amelia Holt Atwater-Rhodes (born April 16, 1984), known professionally as Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, is an American author of fantasy and young adult literature.
She was born in Silver Spring, Maryland, and lived most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts. Her debut novel, In the Forests of the Night, was published in 1999, when she was fourteen years old. She has published a new young adult novel every subsequent year since her first and has moved from her family's Sudbury home to a nearby Massachusetts town.
Atwater was born in 1984 to Susan Atwater-Rhodes, a vice principal of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School.
Atwater-Rhodes wrote her first novel at the age of thirteen, which earned her the title of "teen successor to Anne Rice." At the time, she said she had over a dozen stories in various stages sitting on her shelves.
In middle school, Atwater-Rhodes was questioned by an English teacher when a girl she knew proceeded to brag that Atwater-Rhodes was trying to get a book published. As it turns out, the English teacher was also a literary agent and asked to read some of her work. This teacher later represented Atwater-Rhodes.
She began writing her first novel, In the Forests of the Night, under the working title White Wine. On May 11, 1997, after her best friend, Jessica, had picked the William Blake poem, "The Tiger", the book's final title was derived. The first draft of the novel was completed in August of that year. During the writing process, Atwater-Rhodes suffered from a case of writer's block and a computer virus crashed her computer. Atwater-Rhodes spent the next four months revising the novel before she submitted the manuscript on December 31.
In mid-February 1998, Atwater-Rhodes met her agent, Tom Hart, and he would go on to contact her to announce that Random House had accepted her manuscript for publication. Hart also stated that it would be published on April 14, 1998, her fourteenth birthday. The novel, however, was not published until May 11, 1999, two years after she began working on the manuscript. The novel was written in first-person narrative, a feat she did not repeat in the three later novels. Hart stated that the novel was "the fastest sale [he] ever had."
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