Trivia / Daughters of the Moon

• Covers Always Lie: The French editions used the original cover art, but inexplicably switched the covers for The Sacrifice and Moon Demon.
• Dub Name Change: The series was renamed to Magic Friends in Germany.
  • Along with this, the German translation renamed the book titles:
    • Goddess of the Night became The Flames of the Atrox.
    • Into the Cold Fire became The Silver Amulet.
• Follow the Leader: As this series came out around the early 2000s, it definitely feels inspired by Urban Fantasy series that were popular at the time such as Charmed (1998) or Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The series is now out of print, but can easily be found online or in secondhand/thrift stores.
• Orphaned Series: Not the original series, but the omnibus books. There were two books released, which included the first six books, but no new issues have been released. Considering that the omnibus series were released in 2010-2011, it seems unlikely that they will be finished.
• Real-Place Background: The series takes place in Los Angeles and while there are some well-known locations mentioned (like the Hollywood Bowl), there's plenty of small retail locations that are name-dropped, such as Polka Dots and Moonbeams, Retail Slut, and Aardvark's Odd Ark.
• Schedule Slip: The first twelve books were written consistently throughout a five year period, but there was a three year gap between the twelfth and final book.
• Spinoff: Sons Of The Dark was told from the perspective of a group of guys who had managed to escape the Atrox and worked to help defeat it.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Lynne Ewing said in an interview that she originally intended for Vanessa and Stanton to end up together, but abandoned the idea by book two due to Vanessa's character already being dead set on Michael.
  • The girls were supposed to be 14, with their 16th birthday being when they made their decision (Ewing stated that this was due to the prevalent idea that a person's 16th birthday is supposed to be special). They were aged up a year so that they could do older activities (driving and clubbing being the most obvious) without it seeming inappropriate.
  • Ewing also mentions in the same interview that there had been talks for a possible television adaptation of the books with Disney or Fox, but that nothing had ever really come of it.