PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:

Aeslin had a magical childhood capped by a new world to explore every night before bed. The Avalon Chronicles were the perfect tuck-in tale and her parents enjoyed reading the fantastic fables as much as she liked listening to them. Now Aeslin's a teenager and the magic is gone. At least it is until she finds herself magically transported into the book of her youth! Can she save the kingdom and return to her home?


(preview | official Once In A Blue Moon website)


AUTHORS' COMMENTS:

[Nunzio] This really WAS meant to be an ongoing series, we promise. And in our minds, it will be again one day. But Jen Quick went on to do her own thing (and quite successfully) and that left us without an artist. Finding a manga-styled artist who DOESN'T want to write his or her own series has proven very tricky. Our publisher at Seven Seas knows quite a few, but we're not likely to poach from him. So we (and James Lucas Jones, our overworked editor) continue our quest for a new artist. If you know anyone who has a manga-influenced style and wants a shot at a published series of OGNs, please point
them our way, okay?

[Christina] Ideas for stories come from all sorts of places. Once In A Blue Moon came from a stuffed animal. When Nunzio and I were in college, he had a purple dragon named Blue Moon. Blue Moon was given to him by a couple of girls in his Freshman year and was named after a sundae at a local ice cream shop. I arrived at Vassar a year after Nunzio and after, I think, the ice cream store had already closed. So I never knew Blue Moon's namesake. But I fell in love with Nunzio's dragon. When Nunz graduated, he gave me Blue Moon as something to remember him by. Little did I know we'd be living together two years later. But ever since that day that Blue Moon came to live with me in 1991, he has never left my side. He always travels with me and acts as a good luck charm. So when we decided to write a fairytale, it seemed to make a certain amount of sense that Blue Moon have a starring role. It's become something of a tradition since then, to get stuffed animals to commemorate various stories of ours. We have an owl to represent Aristotle in Amazing Agent Luna and we're in the process of finding a monkey to represent Kosuke, the monkey in the Japanese series Kagetora that we adapted.