HarperCollins Author Video - Meet the Authors

Another clip is up on youtube! This one is a brief introduction of The Familiars by the authors (Adam and Andrew).

Clink here to watch

First Broadcast Interview

Unless you live in Naperville, Illinois, you most likely didn't catch our first network appearance promoting The Familiars. Here's a link to the video on Youtube for your viewing pleasure. Thank you Becky Anderson for the opportunity to join you on Author's Revealed.

Click here for the video!

This weekend, we'll have photos that we took during the pre-pub tour up on the blog.

And if you took pictures of our book tour, please send them to thefamiliarsbook@gmail.com. We love the memories!

The Familiars Pre-Pub Tour: Day Three

So day three of the pre-pub tour has come to an end. We lost most of the day to travel, but still got in a terrific dinner with several independent Southern California booksellers. Here are a few of the highlights from our trip to LA.


Read All About It



La La Land



Taking Out The Competition



Well, thanks for stopping by the blog! Hope you enjoyed a look inside our very first book tour!

Special thanks to our awesome HarperCollins publicist, Elyse Marshall, for making the trip so smooth for us. And to all the great booksellers, thank you for being such fantastic hosts!

The Familiars Pre-Pub Tour: Day Two

Hi again! Thanks for watching our Adventures in Booktouring. Here are some highlights of our journey from San Francisco to Naperville, Illinois.

On the Streets of San Francisco



The Familiars is finding any way to make it on the news



Expanding our Audience



We had a bumpy flight



An unforgettable experience at Anderson's Bookstore



We have just one more day of our pre-pub tour left, back in Los Angeles! Who knows what kind of mischief we'll be getting into there :) Hope this is helping you get a little more familiar with The Familiars (and us!).

The Familiars Pre-Pub Tour: Day One

Hey everyone!

Excited to share with you our adventures as we travel around the country meeting booksellers, librarians, and teachers talking about THE FAMILIARS before its September release. Check out footage from our first day on the road.

Andrew is confused about what exactly a pub tour is:



Coming to an airport bookstore near you:





All buckled in for the flight:




Adam makes a special in-flight announcement:




Leaving our mark at Hicklebees:

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Be sure to check in all week as we continue on to San Francisco, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

The Familiars named one of hottest children's titles for fall in Publisher's Weekly

Hey everybody! Just saw Publishers Weekly's Kids' Bookshelf's post-BEA roundup of the hottest children's and YA titles for fall. Click here to see the article!

Was psyched to see that The Familiars made the cut!

"HarperCollins has two big new projects in the works, both with film deals in place: first in a middle-grade series, The Familiars (Sept.) by screenwriters Adam Jay Epstein and Andrew Jacobson is to be produced by Sam Raimi and Sony Animation; and I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore (pseudonymously co-written by James Frey), which Michael Bay is producing for DreamWorks, with D.J. Caruso directing."

The Book Expo of America - (Adam)

For all of you that are going to BEA 2010, I am incredibly jealous. For one, I love books. Just the idea of being around all of those dust jackets and librarians makes my heart go a flutter. Two, I love sneak peeks. It really doesn't matter what I get to look at early but the fact that only a rarefied group of people have laid eyes on the object in question makes said item 10 times more interesting. (I have been known to keep the Entertainment Weekly Summer Preview issue for many years after the films within it have hit basic cable. I just walked by the 1998 Summer Preview sitting on a shelf in my garage.)

So, going to the BEA and getting sneak peeks at the novels that will be lining the shelves of my neighborhood bookstore would be a thrill any year. This year, however, it's different.

Harpercollins Children will be giving out free copies of "The Familiars" :)

In my head, it's all very exciting to witness. The civility of the convention completely breaks down when a young editorial assistant calls out from Booth 3341, "Get your Familiars ARCs here!" What follows is pandemonium akin to the stands of an English Soccer Stadium after a goal. Third grade teachers elbow bloggers in the chest to get their hands on the 368 pages of animals and magic. Maybe, even a eager mom gets trampled in the scrum. (By no means do I condone violence, far from it. But the spirit and the passion of the audience is what I'm trying to capture here.)

In reality, I'm sure the ARC distribution will be a much more peaceful affair. But I will be curious to get the real scoop on how it goes. So if you're there, blog, send me pictures, tweet, and get your copies of the book.

Just be careful... it could get dangerous.