14-year-old horror queen!
Amelia spent New Year's Eve that year with her mother at the post office sending out letters to agents. Those letters would return to her, rejected.
By chance, when she was touring the high school with her class, a friend bragged to an english teacher about Amelia's work and that she was trying to get publish. The teacher had known her sister and, since he was a literary agent on the side, offered to read Amelia's book to give her some advice. Later that month, he offered to represent her.
Amelia has continued to publish a new horror or fantasy novel every year since her debut, with two more vampire novels in 2001 (Shattered Mirror, the story of a witch who makes a dangerous friendship with a vampire) and 2002 (Midnight Predator, the story of a girl who once was a slave to the vampires who now, as a hunter, must put an end to the trade). In 2003, Amelia took a break from the vampires and published Hawksong, the first of a 5 book series about shapeshifters. Snakecharm and Falcondance followed in 2004 and 2005. Her eighth novel and the fourth installment of The Kiesha'ra Series, Wolfcry, is due out September 12th 2006. The final chapter of the series, Wyvernhail, is expected in 2007. The series follows two generations of serpent and bird shapeshifters as they struggle to end a thousand years' war, and later end the racial hatred left in its wake.
Amelia, now 22, has moved with her family from Concord and attends the University of Massachusetts. She wants to be a teacher.
Amelia's favorite authors are Laurell K. Hamilton and Stephen King, but her favorite book is Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein.
Amelia created her own language, ha'Dasi, for the Kiesha'ra Series. You can learn to read it on her site!
Did you know?: Amelia enjoys playing piano and belly dancing. She wants to learn the flying trapeze.
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