{"id":234,"date":"2010-04-28T01:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T06:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hiracdelest.com\/blog\/?p=234"},"modified":"2010-04-28T01:50:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T06:50:50","slug":"upcoming-may-releases-tour-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/2010\/04\/28\/upcoming-may-releases-tour-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming May Releases &#038; Tour Date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">This isn&#8217;t technically Animorphs news, but it <em>is<\/em> related to the people who were involved with the series. Most of you fans already know this, but if you don&#8217;t, then here&#8217;s a quick rundown of what you can look forward to this May.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The first one is obviously:<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hiracdelest.com\/blog\/images\/lies-thumb.jpg\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"100\"><\/img><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>LIES<\/strong> (Gone #3)<br \/> by Michael Grant<\/p>\n<p>Release Date: May 4th, 2010.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061449091?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=hiradele03-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0061449091\" target=\"_blank\">See Product Details<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=hiradele03-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0061449091\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6Pas78XJ1bs\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Trailer<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pensivesarcasm.blogspot.com\/p\/michael-grants-lies-gone-novel.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read the first 6 chapters<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">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 &#038; greet is at:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">Tuesday May 04, 2010<br \/>\n6:00 PM<br \/>\nOrange Town &#038; Country<br \/>\n791 South Main Street Suite 100<br \/>\nOrange, CA 92868<br \/>\n714-558-0028.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The second book that might be of interest to fans is: <br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hiracdelest.com\/blog\/images\/monsterslayers-thumb.jpg\" hspace=\"10\"><\/img><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong>MONSTER SLAYERS<\/strong><br \/> by Lukas Ritter (aka, Jeff Sampson.)<\/p>\n<p>Release Date: May 11th, 2010.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0786954841?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=hiradele03-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0786954841\" target=\"_blank\">See Product Details<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=hiradele03-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0786954841\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffsampsonbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visit the Official Website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/DnD\/Article.aspx?x=dnd\/4dnd\/20100426\" target=\"_blank\">Read the &#8220;Training Day&#8221; prequel short story. (Online exclusive)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8216;Lukas Ritter&#8217; is actually just a pen name for Jeff Sampson. If <em>that<\/em> name doesn&#8217;t sound familiar to you, then simply open up your copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiracdelest.com\/missions\/books\/22.htm\" target=\"body\">Animorphs #22<\/a>, and you&#8217;ll see that the book is dedicated to him! <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Jeff Sampson is the Animorphs fan who is mostly known as the owner of <em>Morphz.com<\/em>, 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/animorphs\/books\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Anibase<\/a> for Scholastic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiracdelest.com\/database\/articles\/seriesendmarketing-full.htm\" target=\"_blank\">acted as <i>The Informer<\/i><\/a>, and then later went on to writing a bit of K.A&#8217;s following series <em>Remnants<\/em> as well! <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffsampsonbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">He&#8217;s now a published author<\/a>, and <em>Monster Slayers<\/em> is his very <em>first<\/em> hardcover release. I enjoyed his <em>Dragonlance<\/em> series quite a bit in the past, which is why I&#8217;m promoting his new book here. For D&#038;D and fantasy fans especially, I think <em>Monster Slayers <\/em>will be worth looking out for this May.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\nThat really about covers it for now. I&#8217;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&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;ll still keep you guys updated, depending on my schedule.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Until next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This isn&#8217;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&#8217;t, then here&#8217;s a quick rundown of what you can look forward to this May. The first one is obviously:&nbsp; LIES (Gone #3) by Michael Grant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors-ka-michael","category-community","category-gone-series","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hiracdelest.com\/newsfeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}