In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

In the Forests of the Night was first released in hardcover print on May 11, 1999, about a month after she signed her contract. She then sent the manuscript in December 1997 and by mid-February 1998 she met her agent, Tom Hart, who later called her and informed her that Random House would publish the novel on her fourteenth birthday however, the novel was pushed back and released a little over a year later in May 1999. She finished the novel in August of that year and spent the next four months revising the manuscript. In the original manuscript, the character of Ather, an antagonist, was changed to Aubrey after the crash. During the writing process, Atwater-Rhodes suffered from writer's block and a computer crash, causing her to lose most of her work on the novel, and thus resulted in some changes to the plotline.

She began working on the novel in 1997, under the title White Wine. The character of Risika was taken from the brief mention in Atwater-Rhodes' unpublished novel, Red Wine. The inspiration for the novel came from an assignment she received in the seventh grade when her best friend Jessica had chosen ' The Tyger' for the assignment. Persistence of Memory, published in 2008, makes mention and features an appearance of the main character's brother.Īccording to Atwater-Rhodes' official site, The Den of Shadows, In the Forests of the Night is one of seven novels that she had finished writing and is the first she published.

The title refers William Blake's poem ' The Tyger', which appears at the beginning of the book.Ītwater-Rhodes' second book, Demon in My View, was published in 2000 when the author was 16 and is the sequel to In the Forests of the Night. The novel is told in first-person narrative by the protagonist, Risika. It tells the story of a three-hundred-year-old vampire named Risika and her struggles throughout her life, both before and after she was turned into a vampire. It is the first novel in the Den of Shadows series. Atwater-Rhodes wrote it at the age of thirteen, but it was published on May 11, 1999, about a month after she turned fifteen. In the Forests of the Night is a vampire novel written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, and published in 1999.

In the Forests of the Night by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes