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Natasha Rhodes is a British-born author best known for her contemporary fantasy

Fantasy

Fantasy is a genre of fiction that commonly uses magic and other supernatural phenomena as a primary element of plot, theme, or setting. Many works within the genre take place in imaginary worlds where magic is common...

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

Blade: Trinity

Blade: Trinity is a 2004 American superhero vampire action film, written and directed by David S. Goyer, who also wrote the screenplays to the first two Blade films...

and the Final Destination

Final Destination

Final Destination is a 2000 supernatural slasher film written and directed by James Wong. The film was co-written by Glen Morgan and Jeffrey Reddick, both of them having previously worked with Wong in the TV series The X-Files. The film stars Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith and Tony Todd...

series of movies, as well as original books based on films such as the Nightmare On Elm Street series. Rhodes was born in Kent

Kent

Kent is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the Thames Estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent and the unitary borough of...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

on April 8, 1978. She currently lives in Orange County

Orange County, California

Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

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

Fantasy

and horror

Horror

Horror may refer to:*Horror fiction*Horror film*Horror and terror, two techniques in Gothic literature and film*Survival horror, a video game genre*Horror , 2003*Horror , 2008...

. She wrote her first movie novelization

Novelization

A novelization is a novel that is written based on some other media story form rather than as an original work.Novelizations of films usually add background material not found in the original work to flesh out the story, because novels are generally longer than screenplays...

on her grandmother's typewriter at age eleven - a 200-page book adaptation of the children's fantasy movie Short Circuit

Short Circuit

Short Circuit is a 1986 comedy science fiction film starring Ally Sheedy and Steve Guttenberg and directed by John Badham. Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, and G. W...

. 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

Cinematography

Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...

, she was hired to write official movie novelizations for Black Flame

Black Flame

Black Flame was an imprint of BL Publishing, the publishing arm of Games Workshop and a sister imprint to the Black Library and Solaris Books. Black Flame was devoted to publishing cult fiction in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror...

, an imprint of BL Publishing

BL Publishing

BL Publishing is a division of Games Workshop, and is split into three sections:* The Black Library publishes novels, art books, background books and graphic novels set in the Warhammer Fantasy world and the Warhammer 40,000 universe....

, the publishing arm of UK gaming giant Games Workshop

Games Workshop

Games Workshop Group plc is a British game production and retailing company. Games Workshop has published the tabletop wargames Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000...

.

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

Buffy

Buffy may refer to:*Buffy the Vampire Slayer , various media on the TV series.*The Buffy EP, 1999 EP by Velvet Chain*Buffy coat, a component of blood...

-style book trilogy was set on the streets of Los Angeles and was published by Solaris Books

Solaris Books

Solaris Books is an imprint which focuses on publishing science fiction, fantasy and dark fantasy novels and anthologies. The range includes titles by both established and new authors...

, an imprint which focuses on Science Fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

, Fantasy

Fantasy

and Dark fantasy

Dark fantasy

Dark fantasy is a term used to describe a fantasy story with a pronounced horror element.-Overview:A strict definition for dark fantasy is difficult to pin down. Gertrude Barrows Bennett has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". Both Charles L...

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

Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. It is one of the four largest English-language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin and HarperCollins...

.

Her most recent work was a short horror story set in the world of the Los Angeles heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

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.

Official Movie Novelizations

Blade: Trinity (October 2004, ISBN 1-84416-106-4)
Final Destination: Dead Reckoning (2005, ISBN 1-84416-170-6)
Final Destination I: The Movie (2006, ISBN 1-84416-317-2)
Final Destination II: The Movie (2006, co-written with Nancy A. Collins
Nancy A. Collins
Nancy A. Collins is a United States horror fiction writer best known for her series of vampire novels featuring her character Sonja Blue. Collins has alsowritten for comic books, including the Swamp Thing series, Jason Vs...

, ISBN 1-84416-318-0)
A Nightmare On Elm Street: Perchance to Dream (February 2006, ISBN 1-84416-322-9)

Kayla Steele Series

Dante's Girl (March 2007, ISBN 1-84416-666-X)
The Last Angel (July 2008, ISBN 1-84416-577-9)
Circus of Sins (May 2010, ISBN 978-1-906735-73-9)

Short Stories

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

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