James Riley (writer) from Los Angeles, California to Alexandria, Virginia. James Riley's first published novel, "Half Upon a Time", was released on September 7, 2010. It is a fantasy novel centered around a boy named Jack, the fictional son of the main character from the children's story "Jack and the Beanstalk", and a girl named May who is from our nonfictional world. The novel incorporates plot points from various Brothers Grimm fairy tales, including "Little Red Riding Hood", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Snow White". This is Riley's first story centered around the idea that the fictional and nonfictional worlds are connected, a common theme
The Sleeping Beauty (novel) making it happen, even though it involves not being able to touch each other for a very long time. In a review by "Publishers Weekly", the reviewer wrote that "despite plenty of twists and laughs, the plot is surprisingly forgettable, and most of the fun comes from finding all the fairy tale in-jokes peppering the pages". The Sleeping Beauty (novel) The Sleeping Beauty is a novel by Mercedes Lackey, published in 2010 as the fifth book of the Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series. As in the previous book, "The Snow Queen", characters from earlier books are either mentioned