Status Report

This isn’t technically Animorphs news, but it is related to the people who were involved with the series. Most of you fans already know this, but if you don’t, then here’s a quick rundown of what you can look forward to this May.

The first one is obviously:
 

LIES (Gone #3) by Michael Grant Release Date: May 4th, 2010. See Product Details Watch Trailer Read the first 6 chapters.

It is the highly anticipated 3rd book (out of the planned 6) in the GONE series by Michael Grant (co-author/co-creator of Animorphs). As part of the release of this book, Michael Grant has also once again announced a tour date to promote his series. According to his latest Twitter update, his first meet & greet is at:

Tuesday May 04, 2010
6:00 PM
Orange Town & Country
791 South Main Street Suite 100
Orange, CA 92868
714-558-0028.

The second book that might be of interest to fans is:
 

MONSTER SLAYERS by Lukas Ritter (aka, Jeff Sampson.) Release Date: May 11th, 2010. See Product Details Visit the Official Website Read the “Training Day” prequel short story. (Online exclusive)

‘Lukas Ritter’ is actually just a pen name for Jeff Sampson. If that name doesn’t sound familiar to you, then simply open up your copy of Animorphs #22, and you’ll see that the book is dedicated to him!

Jeff Sampson is the Animorphs fan who is mostly known as the owner of Morphz.com, a popular Animorphs fan site that ran until the series ended. He was in direct contact with K.A for several years, and provided fans with many exclusive sneak peaks at upcoming books, and various news and trivia regarding the series. He even helped write the Anibase for Scholastic, acted as The Informer, and then later went on to writing a bit of K.A’s following series Remnants as well!

He’s now a published author, and Monster Slayers is his very first hardcover release. I enjoyed his Dragonlance series quite a bit in the past, which is why I’m promoting his new book here. For D&D and fantasy fans especially, I think Monster Slayers will be worth looking out for this May.

That really about covers it for now. I’m currently going through many of your submissions and trying to find the time to get to them as best as I can. So don’t worry, I’ll still keep you guys updated, depending on my schedule.

Until next time!

Just a heads up, the deadline for Michael Grant’s Fan Promo Video is tomorrow (April 16th). If you plan on participating, be sure to submit it by then! For those that don’t follow Michael Grant’s Twitter, this promo video is for the GONE series, which will hold compilations of fans talking about why they love the series. In order to participate, here are a few things that Michael Grant has listed you must do:

1. Follow @TFSubmissions, and send an @reply to this account saying that you want to participate.
    
2. Record yourself saying what you like (or don’t like) about the GONE series. High quality video is better, but anything is accepted.
    
3. At the start of the video, have a parent say that they are OK with you being in the video.
    
4. After they step out of the video, pause for a second, and say what you like/don’t like.
    
5. Email the video to jake@jakemates.com. Don’t upload it to YouTube or any other video site, just email the file.

To keep up with any future updates for the video promo project, just follow @TFSubmissions. Best of luck to everyone!

Here’s a great fan made summary of the Animorphs series by Expression. It includes original artwork, explaining every single Animorphs book in all of 10 minutes. The video is broken into two parts. Here is Part 1:

Go here for Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUo-ZhLEI0s