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. SummaryĮxcept for reading the Kiel Gnomenfoot magic adventure series, Owen's life is boring until he sees his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library and he learns that Bethany is half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character.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. Or it might just destroy the Kiel Gnomenfoot series, reveal Bethany’s secret to the entire world, and force Owen to live out Kiel Gnomenfoot’s final (very final) adventure. Besides, visiting the book might help Bethany find her father. It turns out Bethany’s half-fictional and has been searching every book she can find for her missing father, a fictional character.īethany can’t let anyone else learn her secret, so Owen makes her a deal: All she has to do is take him into a book in Owen’s favorite Kiel Gnomenfoot series, and he’ll never say a word. Owen knows that better than anyone, what with the real world’s homework and chores.īut everything changes the day Owen sees the impossible happen-his classmate Bethany climb out of a book in the library. Life is boring when you live in the real world, instead of starring in your own book series.
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