In addition to Michael Scott appearing at the San Diego Comic-Con on Thursday (see news post below), he will also serve as a special guest moderator at a spotlight presentation with fellow author Rick Riordan!

Michael will also be signing immediately following the presentation.

Here is the details:
Rick Riordan Spotlight, Room 6A
Sunday, July 25
PANEL: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
SIGNING: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join Michael Scott as he moderates a spotlight presentation on Rick Riordan.

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In addition to the San Diego Comic-Con appearance, Michael Scott will be making several stops near the end of July on the East Coast.

Tuesday, July 27th @5pm
Politics and Prose
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20008
Event Details:
In-store, public event including a reading, talk, Q&A, and signing

Wednesday, July 28th
Boy Scouts of America 100th Jamboree event
Event Details:
Closed to the public

Thursday, July 29th @1pm
Jabberwocky
810 Caroline Street
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Event Details:
In-store, public event

Thursday, July 29th @7pm
Barnes & Noble
7851 L. Tysons Corner Center
Store #2238, Tyson’s Corner, VA
Event Details:
In-store, public event


Be sure and send us an email if you attend one of these events!

If you're headed to this years San Diego Comic-Con, you can see Michael Scott along with a panel of other writers!

Thursday July 22nd, 10:30-11:30am
The Power of Myth— Fantasy authors discuss claiming world mythology to shape one's own stories. Authors include Comic-Con special guest Rick Riordan (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series), Amber Benson (the Calliope Reaper-Jones Novels), Esther Friesner (Sphinx's Princess), Thomas Greanias (The Promised War), Lev Grossman (The Magicians), Les Klinger (editor, The New Annotated Dracula), Seanan McGuire (the October Daye novels), Michael Scott (the Secret of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series), and Thomas Sniegoski (Where Angels Fear To Tread). Moderated by Maryelizabeth Hart of Mysterious Galaxy. Room 24ABC

Program Schedule


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US bookstore chain, Borders, launches its eBookstore today with word that those who download their mobile app July 9-10 will receive 5 free best selling book titles! With one of those titles being The Alchemyst, Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel!

Borders claims that they hope to capture 17% of the eBook market by this time next year.

Their mobile app options are for the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android.


Thanks to Piers Scott for the tip.

Internet book giant Amazon.com recently ranked The Necromancer, Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel as #1 on their Best Books of 2010... So Far for Teens!

Granted this is a changing list throughout the year, but with the year half over and the book only having been out in the US for a little more then a month, its rather impressive!

Congratulations Michael!!!


:CLICK HERE: to see the list.

As we've been reporting, the covers for the entire series are getting a revamping for the UK only. We now have a good look at the UK cover of The Alchemyst. :CLICK HERE:

Below are the other covers of the series.

UK - The Magician

UK - The Sorceress

UK - The Necromancer

Hop over to the Forum and weigh in with your thoughts!

We've just got in some information about some release dates for the foreign translations

The Necromancer:
Germany - Spring 2011
France - September 2010
Holland - October 2010

The Sorceress:
Italy - October 2010

And last on the list is a new translation to the series!!
The Alchemyst:
Russia - June 2010

More information about the world wide publishers can be located on our Publishers Page and on our Forum.

We previously told you that Random House has plans of bringing out a boxset of the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, called The First Codex: Books 1-3.

The first boxset will contain The Alchemyst, The Magician, and The Sorceress. And is available for Pre-Order now via this LINK.

We can also reveal what the box containing the books will look like!

The First Codex Boxset

As we've been reporting for a few months, the covers for the entire series are getting a revamping for the UK only. The other day we posted what the cover for The Necromancer will look like.

We now can show you revamped covers for The Magician and The Sorceress!!!

UK - The Magician

UK - The Sorceress

And in case you missed it:
UK - The Necromancer

Hop over to the Forum and weigh in with your thoughts!

The Where's Michael? contest game has come to an end! Thank you all for participating!

We randomly drew a winner from the pool of correct answers. And the winner is... Forum member Lucothea!

Congratulations! The winner will receive a copy of The Necromancer signed by Michael Scott and a matching sports bottle!


Special thanks to Random House for providing the prizes!