Move over, Anne Rice; hold your hat, Christopher Pike. Amelia Atwater-Rhodes has proved herself a publishing phenomenon: At age fifteen, she found herself a literary celebrity after the publication of her vampire novel In the Forests of the Night in 1999. A resident of Concord, Massachusetts, she shares literary fame with a host of big guns from the American literary canon who were also once residents in that town, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott, yet she shares a similarity only with Alcott. Alcott also penned a novel as a teenager, but had to wait for adult fame to get her first book published. No such hardships attach to Atwater-Rhodes, who penned her first novel at age thirteen and then landed a publishing contract for it on her fourteenth birthday. Other early writers come to mind: Anne Frank, who began writing her...