Natasha Rhodes

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Natasha Rhodes

Natasha Rhodes at Comicon, California
Born April 8, 1978 (1978-04-08) (age 33)
Kent, England
Occupation Novelist
Nationality British
Period May 2004-Present
Genres Dark Urban Fantasy, Paranormal romance, Action, Adventure, Horror
Notable work(s) Blade: Trinity,
Nightmare On Elm Street: Perchance To Dream,
Dante's Girl
www.natasharhodes.com

Natasha Rhodes is a British-born author best known for her contemporary fantasy book series Dante's Girl, starring supernatural crime-fighter Kayla Steele. She has also written many film novelizations of popular blockbuster movies such as Blade: Trinity and the Final Destination series of movies, as well as original books based on films such as the Nightmare On Elm Street series. Rhodes was born in Kent, England on April 8, 1978. She currently lives in Orange County, California.

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[edit] Life and Works

Growing up in rural South England, Rhodes stumbled on an original 1858 edition of the Grimms' Fairy Tales in her grandmother's attic, and so began her fascination with fantasy and horror. She wrote her first movie novelization on her grandmother's typewriter at age eleven - a 200-page book adaptation of the children's fantasy movie Short Circuit. The manuscript was rejected by Sony Pictures, but the editor included a note praising her writing ability at such a young age.

After graduating from the University of Wales in Newport with a BA Honors Degree in Film Production and Cinematography, she was hired to write official movie novelizations for Black Flame, an imprint of BL Publishing, the publishing arm of UK gaming giant Games Workshop.

Rhodes penned five movie-based original novels and novelizations for the company as a way of supporting herself during a move to Los Angeles, USA, a city she had fallen in love with on her post-university travels. Inspired by the often colorful characters she met in famous locations such as Sunset Strip and Venice Beach, she wrote her first original novel Dante's Girl three years later at the age of 28. Her supernatural Buffy-style book trilogy was set on the streets of Los Angeles and was published by Solaris Books, an imprint which focuses on science fiction, fantasy and dark fantasy novels and anthologies by both established and new authors. The series was distributed to the UK and US booktrade via local divisions of Simon & Schuster.

Her most recent work was a short horror story set in the world of the Los Angeles heavy metal scene. It was published as part of an anthology of new horror writers in The End of the Line: An Anthology of Underground Horror by Rebellion Books.

[edit] Official Movie Novelizations

[edit] Kayla Steele Series

[edit] Short Stories

  • The End of the Line: An Anthology of Underground Horror (October 2010, ISBN 978-1907519338) (Contributor: short story "Crazy Train")

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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