Digital drawing of James Riley, a light skinned man with brown hair, green eyes, and stubble wearing a button up. He smiles as he holds an open book. Tiny/chibi versions of some of his different characters sit on him or are around him in some way: Ciara from The Dragon’s Apprentice sits on his head, looking at Scorch the dragon as he flies by. Rachel Carter and Jia Liang from The Revenge of Magic sit on one shoulder, holding hands. Forsythe “Fort” Fitzgerald sits next to them, looking at Cyrus who sits on the furthest end of James’ shoulder. Lena from Once Upon Another Time sits on his other shoulder with a smile, Jin floating nearby with Shefin on his head. Phillip, May Winterbourne, and Jack from Half Upon a Time sit on his arm, Phillip and May looking down at Jack as he tries to climb up. Bethany Sanderson from Story Thieves pops out from the pages of the book, Owen climbing up nearby and looking worriedly at Kiel, who happily dangles from the edge of the book’s cover and winks. Next to James it reads, “James Riley Author May 9th”.

The same drawing of James without the characters.

This is for the Birthday prompt for #JamesRileyAppreciationWeek2025 in honor of James Riley’s birthday!!

#jamesrileyauthor #halfuponatime #storythieves #revengeofmagic #onceuponanothertime #thedragonsapprentice

Various characters from James Riley's books in the "Wait, you guys get paid?" meme format. Lena from Once Upon Another Time smiles and says, "My dad is alive and I have no relationship problems with him." Bethany Sanderson from Story Thieves and Forsythe "Fort" Fitzgerald from The Revenge of Magic frown as Bethany says, "Our dads were traumatically taken away from us before we were able to get them back after a long time." Jack from Half Upon a Time frowns with concern as he says, "My dad ruined my family's name and abandoned me after being forced to work for the Evil Queen in order to get my mom back, and I was raised by my grandfather instead." May Winterbourne and Phillip from Half Upon a Time, Kiel Gnomenfoot from Story Thieves, and Ciara from The Dragon's Apprentice stare blankly as Owen Conners from Story Thieves gives a confused look and says, "Wait, you guys have dads?"

For today’s #JamesRileyAppreciationWeek2025 prompt, almost every character with a pov in a James Riley book and their dads/dad issues
#jamesrileyauthor #storythieves #halfuponatime #onceuponanothertime #revengeofmagic #thedragonsapprentice

Digital colored doodle of Ciara (drawn with light skin and freckles all over her body, brown eyes, and curly red hair in two loose braids, wearing a light green tunic) and Meg (drawn with brown skin and black hair in two braids behind her shoulders wearing brown and blue leather armor) from The Dragon’s Apprentice by James Riley. Both girls sit close next to each other, Meg leaning towards Ciara with an upset frown. Ciara frowns up at her in worry.

It’s #jamesrileyappreciationweek2025 day 2 for the small #jamesrileyauthor fandom and today’s prompts were Reunion / Hurt/Comfort! I went with the latter, idk the context but I just wanted to draw Ciara and Meg from his latest series #thedragonsapprentice

A photo of the cover of The Dragon’s Apprentice by James Riley

A photo of the pages of The Dragon’s Apprentice by James Riley, showing off the dragon design on them.

A photo of the inside page of The Dragon’s Apprentice by James Riley. It’s signed, “To Alex!” with a doodle of a dragon.

YIPPEE‼️‼️‼️ I completely missed that my copy of The Dragon’s Apprentice by @jamesrileyauthor.com arrived yesterday and finished reading the copy I borrowed, but that’s okay I’m just happy to have my own signed copy!! <3
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Pencil sketches. The first sketch is of two girls. One is tied up and gagged, looking exhausted. The other, in leather armor, protects the other girl, putting herself over her as she blocks an incoming sword, staring at the off screen attacker angrily.

Two girls side by side. One has freckles and curly hair in two braids, wearing a tunic and dark pants and shoes. The other girl is Black, her hair in two braids, wearing leather armor.

Busts of three different people. The one labeled "Captain/Meg's Father" is a Black man with a couple face lines at his eyes and corner of his mouth with short curly hair and beard wearing leather armor. The one labeled "Prince Aiden" is a brown skinned boy with curly hair. An annotation next to him reads "dark red hair". The one labeled "Bianca" is a Black girl with freckles, a wild curly afro and a tunic. She is smiling unlike the other two.

YIPPEE!!! I finished the book!! #jamesrileyauthor #thedragonsapprentice

The Dragon’s Apprentice (Book Review) Everyone’s favorite New York Times best-selling middle-grade madman is at it again. James Riley is back, bringing us a classic dragon story full of heart, snark, magic spellbooks, and hugs. T…

It's book review day!

Featuring a chatterbox protagonist, a cranky dragon, and a flying spellbook with a mind of its own, The Dragon's Apprentice by @jamesrileyauthor.com will be out April 1, 2025!

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