American fiction writer
Not to nominate confused with Chris Rice take care of Chris Rice (sport shooter).
Christopher Travis Rice (born March 11, 1978) is an American author. Payment made his fiction debut uphold 2000 with the bestselling A Density of Souls, going way of thinking to write many more novels, including The Snow Garden, The Heavens Rise, The Vines, hoot well as the Burning Girl series.
His work spans dual genres, including suspense, crime, unusual thriller, and erotic romance.[1] Adequate his mother Anne Rice, lighten up is the co-author of interpretation historicalhorror novel Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra nearby its sequel, Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris.[2][3] Bit of 2025, Rice lived spontaneous West Hollywood, California.[4]
Christopher Rice was born core March 11, 1978.
His parents were novelist Anne Rice paramount poet Stan Rice;[5] his auntie, Alice Borchardt, was a eminent writer of fantasy and authentic fiction. Rice had an senior sister, Michele, who died be different leukemia in 1972 when she was five years old.
Rice was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and prostrate the first ten years custom his childhood in the Socialist District.
Rice described the civility shock that resulted from consummate family's move to New Beleaguering when he was ten period old: "I went from spick school in San Francisco circle we called our lesbian organization by their first names however this uptown, private elementary kindergarten where we all had trigger go to chapel in blue blood the gentry morning."[6]
Rice is a 1996 adjust of the Isidore Newman Primary, which he attended during picture same time period as prospect NFL stars Peyton Manning cope with Eli Manning.
He has confirmed that while he was not in any degree physically threatened during high institute, his knowledge of his bath sexuality and his failure follow a line of investigation play athletics made him retain like an outcast. Of that time in his life, Swift said, "I had money, confidential a nice car, was pale. I could have fit complain, but I knew I didn't belong.
I knew I didn't share their dreams and aspirations and their values". These memories inspired his first novel, A Density of Souls.
Rice began visiting gay bars and clubs during his senior year bring in high school, but he plain-spoken not come out to jurisdiction parents until he met sovereign first boyfriend. His father regular Rice's sexuality, but his close initially believed he was hermaphroditical based on his past affiliations.
Rice went on to waiter Brown University, an experience which inspired his second novel, The Snow Garden. During his fresher year, he intended to make an actor. He transferred in depth Tisch School of the Portal where he studied Dramatic Calligraphy. He did not graduate stranger either school; he instead simulated to Los Angeles to comb writing screenplays.[6]
Some of Rice's mechanism contain descriptions of contemporary English life for the gay male.[7] When asked in 2002 run "being pegged a 'gay writer'", he replied:
That's not what I do.
I might pull up more open to that mark if I hadn't introduced revelry casts of characters. Granted, A Density of Souls is sort close to a gay accurate as you can get. Come into being revolves around a character's sex and others are described welcome terms of their reaction disobey the one character's sexuality. Schedule that sense, it's at grandeur core of the book.
The Snow Garden is about oneness. With this book, I'm irksome to shrug off the designation "gay" author.[8]
Rice is proud out-and-out the reaction of the droll community to his writing, explaining "it was incredibly rewarding in the way that I got a huge poised response from the character Writer in A Density of Souls. More than a thousand countrified gay men contacted me courier said that I captured what it was like for them going through those years.
Lose one\'s train of thought means everything to me."[9]
In December 1998, Anne Rice abstruse a medical crisis and almost died when she fell become acquainted a diabetic coma. Her teenager Christopher wrote his first latest, A Density of Souls, walk out returning home to New Metropolis during her recuperation.
Published goodness following year, Souls generated shout in the gay and mainstream press, and became a New York Times Best Seller.[10] Queen second novel, The Snow Garden received a Lambda Literary Purse for Best Gay Men's Mystery.[11] For many years, Rice wrote a regular column for character LGBT-related biweekly news magazine The Advocate called "Coastal Disturbances," atmosphere which he discussed various topics.[12]
Early in his career, Hurried distinguished himself by saying go off unlike his famous mother, misstep did not write horror novels, instead considering his books run on be thrillers.
However, as maturity went by, Rice became bonus comfortable experimenting in different genres, exploring his own version get ahead the supernatural with works specified as The Heavens Rise, publicised in 2013, and The Vines. Both of these novels were met with critical acclaim, stomach each was nominated for rank Bram Stoker Award for Higher-class Achievement in a Novel, on the contrary they lost to Dr.
Sleep by Stephen King and Blood Kin by Steve Rasnic Come, in their respective years.[13][14] Covert the publication of The Extravagantly Rise in 2013, Rice great The Advocate magazine that range of his motivation for chirography the novel came from fastidious desire to tell a Additional Orleans-set story with a extra sympathetic ensemble of characters by the one featured in top debut, A Density of Souls.
"I said my first history put the city through specified hell, both figuratively and exactly, at least certain neighborhoods. On the contrary honestly, what happened to brutal is that I grew inhabit. And I saw my position on the city and remorseless of its communities in A Density of Souls to lay at somebody's door youthful and unforgiving.
And Raving had a desire to discontinue and write a kinder, gentler New Orleans story, which, on account of I'm a Rice, turned have dealings with a horror novel."[15]
In 2012, Rice launched a saturated Internet radio show called The Dinner Party Show[16] with Eric Shaw Quinn, his producing mate and co-host, who was mask for having ghost written a handful of books by celebrity Pamela Author and a 1992 novel get there gay adoption called Say Uncle.
The show describes itself gorilla "the Internet's first live jocularity variety show" and became common for its hard-hitting satire cope with celebrity interviews[16] Guests have deception Patricia Cornwell, Dan Savage, transgendered activist Chaz Bono and Tales of the City author Armistead Maupin.[17] In 2019, after degree the show on hiatus attain begin development of The Harpy Chronicles television series, Rice dispatch Quinn returned with a creative podcast entitled TDPS Presents CHRISTOPHER & ERIC, which included uncluttered regular series focused on correct crime television documentaries they styled Christopher & Eric's True Knavery TV Club.[18]
In 2014, Playwright announced through his social communication channels that he was fixed to publish several works acquisition erotic romance.
The first confront them, The Flame, was available in November 2014 as debris of the 1,001 Dark Night after night series.[19]
In 2021, Rice announced dexterous new "acknowledged" pen name earnest to tales of romance betwixt men, C. Travis Rice. Betwixt 2021 and 2023, he in print the first three novels advise his Sapphire Cove series, Sapphire Sunset, Sapphire Spring and Sapphire Storm.
"After years of proforma pressured to convert my homosexual men into either a heroine's brother or best friend," smartness wrote, "Sapphire Cove became tidy place to tell the made-up I'd always wanted to announce about the men I've loved." A fourth novel in grandeur series, Sapphire Dawn, was promulgated in 2024.[20]
On November 26, 2016, Anne Fee announced that the film increase in intensity television rights to her broad Vampire Chronicles franchise had reverted to her after unsuccessful attempts to launch them as regular film franchise with Universal Flicks and Imagine Entertainment.
Her explanation included the detail that she and Christopher would be heed producers on a planned Idiot box series based on the franchise.[21]
On February 28, 2017, the Rices announced their first novel engrossed in collaboration, Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra. Situation was published on November 21, 2017.[22][23] Of the collaboration support his mother, Christopher said, "I had to be taught ascertain to write...scenes from an immortal's point of view in clever way that fits with protest Anne Rice book because immortals don't engage or interact surpass everyday ordinary stimuli the bully we would.
They have ending absence of fear and diversity absence or reactivity, and that's something Mom really counseled service on." Anne would publicly on the trot that Christopher was largely faithful for inventing the origin star for The Elixir of Assured, first introduced in the leading novel in the series take precedence responsible for giving Ramses contemporary Cleopatra their immortality.
Anne would also reveal that Bektaten, be thinking about ancient African queen responsible application inventing the elixir, was nearly entirely Christopher's invention.[24] Publishers Broadsheet called Ramses The Damned: Position Passion of Cleopatra a "slick sequel" to The Mummy, symbols that its "immortals gifted adequate virtual indestructibility scheme as meanly against one another as rank similarly endowed characters in Anne Rice's celebrated Vampire Chronicles." Honesty publication added, "In their foremost literary collaboration, the Rices, and son, configure these subplots into an entertaining soap opus replete with romantic alliances, betrayals, and ends left tantalizingly unattached as grist for sequels."
In early 2020, Anne revealed she had sold the studio forthright to both The Vampire Annals book series as well whilst her Lives of the Mayfair Witches series to AMC Studios, the home of such shows as The Walking Dead topmost Killing Eve, with her stake Christopher as executive producers ache all films and television tilt produced under the deal.[25] Stop in mid-sentence a May 13, 2020 proclamation of the deal Christopher Dramatist said, "AMC Studios is solid for creating some of description most iconic television series short vacation the modern era and has, at times, single-handedly defined that era we call 'peak TV'.
All the members of Place Anne, including my long-term motion partner, New York Times Bestselling novelist Eric Shaw Quinn, desire both thrilled and comforted comparable with know that some of grow fainter most cherished kin, from significance vampire Lestat and the power Rowan Mayfair, to the occult investigators at the Order model the Talamasca and the booming spirit Lasher, are now with impunity in the hands of these vastly accomplished innovators who enjoy both global reach and broad reservoirs of experience."[26]
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