Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (April 16, 1984) 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 just fifteen years old. She has published a new young adult novel every subsequent year since her first and has moved with her family from Concord.

1 Bibliography
2 Plagiarism
3 Publications
- 3.1 Novels:
- 3.2 The Kiesha'ra Series:
4 External links

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In the Forests of the Night

Often dubbed "the goth princess" in her early publishing years, and as the "teen successor to Anne Rice", Atwater-Rhodes wrote her first vampire novel at the age of thirteen. At the time, she said she had over a dozen stories in various stages sitting on her shelves.

During a tour of the high school when she was in eighth grade, one of Amelia's friends bragged to an English teacher that she had written a book. The teacher knew her sister, and offered to read the book to give her some advice as he moonlighted as a literary agent. The teacher was so impressed with her work, that he offered to represent her.

Two months later, on her fourteenth birthday, Amelia received a phone call telling her that Bantam Doubleday Dell had accepted her manuscript, White Wine, for publication. Her agent said it was "the easiest sale [he] ever had." White Wine would later be published when she was fifteen as In the Forests of the Night.

She is attending the University of Massachusetts, where she is double-majoring in English and psychology. She hopes to be a teacher.

She has been featured in Seventeen, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, The New Yorker, The Rosie O'Donnell Show and CBS This Morning. Several of her novels have been ALA Quick Picks for Young Adults; Hawksong was The School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, and Voice of Youth Advocates Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Selection.

[edit] Plagiarism

Midnight Predator

Several years ago, I was in a writing group, named Rikai. To that group, I submitted several works, including a draft of a book I had been working on, titled (at that time) Predator, Prey.

A little while after that, I discovered two very personal pieces I had posted up on a writing website, with someone else's name on them. As you might imagine, this upset me greatly; after some argument, I managed to have the pieces removed.

I thought that was the last of the plagiarism, but a couple months later, someone asked me about He Who Carries the Whip.

For the record: He Who Carries The Whip was Predator, Prey, posted illegally, without my permission or knowledge, with all the names changed (including my own). Shortly after the plagiarism witch-hunt which ultimately destroyed my beloved writing group, I understand that the person who posted Carries added a note saying something along the lines of my wanting to post my work to see what kind of feedback I would get without having my name attached.

I do not have an account on FanFiction.net, and as of this date (June 12, 2006) I have never had one. I do not have an account on any fanfiction site. -Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (as written at AARBookLovers at LiveJournal on June 12, 2006)

Predator, Prey was published in 2002 as Midnight Predator.