James Michael Riley (born May 9, 1977) is an American novelist, most famous for the fantasy series Story Thieves.

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 in his first eight novels and his last three.

[12][13] Half Upon a Time was included on the 2014–2015 Sunshine State Young Readers Award Middle School Master List,[14] was a Mark Twain Readers Award finalist,[15] and was listed as a NCTE/CLA Notable Children's Book in the English Language Arts.

[19][pages needed] James Riley covers a number of different genres in the Story Thieves series.

[29] The Revenge of Magic, the first book in Riley's third series, was released on March 5, 2019,[30] almost a year after his previous work.

[citation needed] Fort and other children from the school eventually use magic to banish the Old One before it can summon others of its race to their reality.