History Literature / StoryThieves

* ShoutOut: Several books are namedropped in the first book such as Literature/HarryPotter, Literature/TheLightningThief, and others.

** A minor example in the third book where the writing will ocasionally be interrupted by comic pages showing things that have already happened, usually when Owen is in the inbetween world with the giant comic.

** Fowen, good god, Fowen. He shares Owen's love of books and large imagination but he's almost Owen's exact opposite in personality and actually genre savvyness.

!! This show provides examples of:

* FromNobodyToNightmare: or rather, from nobody to Nobody. Nobody used to be a random mook under a mad scientist who escaped into the non-fictional world and learned how to rewrite himself.

* AuthorPowers: A quite literal version. All fictional people can rewrite themselves, but they require a non-fictional anchor, preferrably an author, to do it without dissapearing.

** Lampshaded earlier in the story when Owen does this as the ending to his book and calls it out as cliched. This turns out to be a bit of forshadowing.

** [[spoiler:Additionally, in the second book: Nobody is James Riley. (Except not really because the fifth book reveals that James Riley is actually a real person who was absorbed by Nobody. Mind Blown.]]

* ShowWithinAShow: A weird version in that Story Thieves is actually a series in the fictional world and you, the reader, are in fact fictional. [[spoiler:Or not, as it turns out that at the end of the book, James Riley (The real one) publishes the book in the non-fictional world. So there's a 50-50 chance of you being fictional.]]

* AudianceParticiapation: The Fourth Book, which is formatted like a choose your own adventure book.

* SwappedRoles: A minor example in the third book where Bethany is more restless and eager to jump into books while Owen is more cautious. This is likely a product of the CharacterDevelopment in the first two books.

** [[spoiler:Also in the third book: Nobody is... some random mook we've never met before. And also evil.

[[caption-width-right:184: Be More Fictional]]''Story Thieves'' is a book series by James Riley, author of the series ''HalfUponATime''. It chronicles the adventures of Owen Conners and his half-fictional friend Bethany Sanderson as they travel through fictional worlds in search of Bethany's father who went missing when she was four. In the process, the two friends come across and befriend many fictional people and discover a plot to separate the fictional and non-fictional worlds by removing non-fictional people's imagination. The series consists of five books.

* MoralEventHorizon: Dr. Verity definitely crossed this when he planned to kill Kiel (actually Owen) though he might have crossed it beforehand in his own book series.
** The Magister also crosses this when he plans to take control of Non-Fictional People.
** [[spoiler:Nobody crosses it when he successfully separates Bethany and separates the two worlds. If not then, then his plan to destroy all of the fictional worlds and start over is this.]]

* MoralEventHorizion: Dr. Verity definitely crossed this when he planned to kill Kiel (actually Owen) though he might have crossed it beforehand in his own book series.