![]() ![]() ![]() How could I write the characters while self-examining the book? There were lots of fun things for me to play with. “I wanted to write about characters who were jumping into stories and wondered how much I could do on a meta level. “I used to get so drawn in to stories like the Chronicles of Prydain and other fantasy stories,” Riley said of what sparked his Story Thieves idea. But at that book’s end, the author leaps into the action, too, adding a whole new level of complexity. 2016), Owen needs to team up with boy magician Kiel (the hero of his beloved series), solve a real-world mystery, and rescue Bethany from disaster. He soon learns that she’s a half-fictional girl (her mother human, her father fictional) in search of her missing dad, and insists on joining her quest, by traveling into one of his favorite fantasy series to procure some help. In the first volume, regular kid Owen sees his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. ![]() The paperback edition of Story Thieves has been on the New York Times bestseller list for 20 straight weeks to date. Who hasn’t fantasized about becoming a character in their favorite book? Author James Riley has turned that idea into a bit of wish fulfillment by creating the briskly selling Story Thieves series (S&S/Aladdin), whose first two books have sold more than 170,000 copies combined since the publication of book #1, Story Thieves, in January 2015. ![]()
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