ANIMORPHS is back! First ever K.A. Applegate live signing event at LA Times Book Fest. Saturday, April 30. (No Controllers, please.)

K.A. Applegate & Michael Grant SigningK.A. Applegate ( Read more... )

a_happy_book and anyone else who might happen to be in Australia, I have news! I went into a bookstore today and asked when the books are coming to Australian stores, and it turns out the answer is...August. Which sucks ( Read more... )

Hi, all! Long time lurker, first time poster. However, I just wanted to mention that I was at my local Waldenbooks last night, and they already have the first two books in stock! I almost bought them on impulse, but I decided I should maybe save my money ( Read more... )

I had the first two books on pre-order with Amazon. I just got this email from them:

We have good news! We're able to get this part of your order to you faster than we originally promised ( Read more... )

OKAY SO. A little bit more from Michael Grant, who twittered to me.

MG: Plz pass along to all that we share blame for Marco issue. We did receive pix. We r never quite sure whether art is
MG: in final form when we see it. But honestly on this we just spaced out. Glanced, focused on the morph and missed it.
MG: We share blame. Should have clicked ( Read more... )

Guys, I've gotten a response back from Scholastic and it's great news!

Thank you again for getting in touch with us about the Marco model for the cover of Animorphs #5: The Predator. We always appreciate hearing from Animorphs fans, and we want you to know that we have heard and share your concerns. We will, in fact, be using a different model for ( Read more... )

For those who are interested, racebending.com recently posted an article on the whitewashing of Marco's model in the new series, where they talk about the impact of the casting and quote a few of the responses to the recent petitionI also sent an email to Scholastic about this recently - I have received a response, and while they haven't said ( Read more... )

Okay, for those of you who follow Michael Grant's twitter, this conversation just went down.

HPC = HotPinkCoffee/lisacharly

HPC: MG has someone contacted you about the whitewashing of the models for the Animorphs rerelease? There's movement in Ani fandom over it
HPC: petitions and letters to scholastic and all
MG: I haven't heard anything about this. We ( Read more... )

I've created a petition for Scholastic to replace the awful cover model for Marco in the re-release. (Thanks to lisacharly for help with the info.) The link is here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/marcomodel_animorphs/ and for those who haven't seen it yet the model is here: http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/characters/Marco.htm

Tell your friends! ( Read more... )

With character profiles and shots of the models!

Some of my notes:

( Minor rerelease spoilers, maybe? )