Serena Valentino
Serena Valentino is an American writer known for comic books and fairy-tale inspired stories. She created Gloomcookie and Nightmares & Fairy Tales, and she writes the Villains books published by Disney Press. She has published ten Villains novels, starting with The Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen (2009). Other titles include The Beast Within (2014), Poor Unfortunate Soul (2016), Mistress of All Evil (2017), Mother Knows Best (2018), The Odd Sisters (2019), Evil Thing (2020), Cold Hearted (2021), and Captain Hook (2022). Three more Villains books are planned, bringing the total to twelve.
In 2019, Disney announced a TV adaptation called Book Of Enchantment, with Michael Seitzman as showrunner. The project went into script work for 13 weeks but was canceled in August 2019 before Disney+ launched. Disney kept the TV rights, saying the show would be too dark for a family audience.
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