Serena Valentino

Serena Valentino
Background information
Born	April 6, 1970 (age 54) United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Author, writer

Serena Valentino is an American author and writer of fairy tale-inspired webcomics, especially for Disney.

For the Disney Press, she has written the young adult Villains series, focusing on the backstories of Disney Villains and how they were led down their paths to evil. They also heavily involve original characters, such as three sister witches called the Odd Sisters (whom are often responsible for guiding the focus Villains to their wickedness) and Princess Tulip Morningstar, the Beast's wife before he married Belle.

Her first novel Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen is based on the Evil Queen, and was released on August 18, 2009. Her second novel is based on the Beast, titled The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince and was released on July 22, 2014. The third novel in the series, about Ursula titled Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch, was released July 26, 2016. The fourth novel, Mistress of All Evil: A Tale of the Dark Fairy is about Maleficent, and was released October 3, 2017. Her fifth novel is about Mother Gothel, is called Mother Knows Best: A Tale of the Old Witch, and was released August 7, 2018. The sixth book, The Odd Sisters, focuses on the titular sister witches and was released on July 2, 2019. A seventh book starring Cruella De Vil titled Evil Thing was released July 7, 2020. An eighth book starring Lady Tremaine titled Cold Hearted was released in July, 2021. A ninth book called Never Never from the perspective of Captain Hook was released in July 2022. A tenth book called Fire and Fate, from the perspective of Hades, is planned for release on July 18, 2023.

Trivia

• The book series was reportedly set to be adapted into a Disney+ series titled Book of Enchantment. After a year of working on the series and finding its tone too dark, efforts were made to make it more lighthearted partway through production, but Disney was still unsatisfied with the results for remaining too dark. Rather than make further compromises to the project's tone, the show was cancelled before it was greenlit.

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