![]() ![]() ![]() “She just popped into my head,” he recalled. ![]() “But ever since that final Half book came out, I’ve had readers asking about when I’d be doing more, probably because I left things on a bit of an ‘and the adventure continues!’ sort of note.”īut Riley gave serious thought to revisiting that fairy tale realm when the idea of the character of Lena emerged. “I’d already tried fitting in as many classic fairy tales into the Half series as I could, and I’d told the story I had wanted to tell from the beginning,” he said. Riley noted that he never expected that he’d return to the world of Half Upon a Time, or even to fairy tales in general. Launched in April 2022, the Once Upon Another Time trilogy, which has more than 75,000 copies in print, is set in the same twisted fairytale world as Riley’s Half Upon a Time, the first of the author’s middle-grade series (which also include Story Thieves and The Revenge of Magic). The novel wraps up the saga of undersized giant Lena, young genie Jin, and the power-hungry Golden King, who controls shadow magic and a legion of faceless knights. Fantasy author James Riley will bring his most recent series for young readers to a close with Happily Ever After, due from Aladdin on May 30. ![]()
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