She began working on the novel in 1997, under the title White Wine, and during the writing process with the novel, two incidents had accord, Atwater-Rhodes began suffering from writer's block and then her computer crashed from a virus during the months of July and August.In the original manuscript the character of Ather was to play the main antagonist but after the loss of her computer and having to retype the manuscript it was changed to Aubrey, another character in the novel. The character of Risika was taken from the brief mention in Atwater-Rhodes' unpublished novel, Red Wine.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 makes mention and 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 only the first she ever published. 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 transformed.Ītwater-Rhodes' second book, Demon in My View, was published when she was 16 in 2000 and is the sequel to In the Forest of the Night. The title refers William Blake's poem "The Tyger", which appears in the beginning of the book. The novel is told in first-person narrative by the main protagonist, Risika. It is the first novel in the Den of Shadows. The book was published on May 11, 1999, about a month after she turned fourteen. Originally entitled White Wine, she wrote it at the age of thirteen.
In the Forests of the Night is a vampire novel written by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, and published in 1999. Delacorte Press, a division of Random House
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