Changers Book Four

Akashic launched our BLACK SHEEP YA imprint with the first book in this series, Changers Book One: Drew. We have licensed the series into translation into German, Spanish, Norwegian, and to Little Brown in the UK.TV producer Meryl Poster optioned the entire 4-book series for TV. The authors are currently writing three episodes for YouTube Red, with A&E studios producing the show.The series has received reviews and been featured in the New York Times, O, the Oprah Magazine, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly (starred review), The Guardian (UK), etc.John Green has been supportive of the series, including sending tweets to his legions of followers (Green currently has 5.42 million followers)This is the final book in a four-book series of YA novels all starring the same protagonist (who take on different identities in each volume).The authors (they are parents of young teenage children) will be very active in book promotion, including visits to schools and library programs in addition to book festivals and YA book club visits.T Cooper recently made a feature-length documentary about transgender men called Man Made which will be released in early 2018 by Mandalay Sports Media. T received a grant from the Sundance Institute and the documentary is supported by Creative Visions.Both authors have written for TV as well as print media (Glock-Cooper writes for several magazines including Elle, Marie Claire, the New Yorker; she is currently a staff writer for ESPN: The Magazine. We are also making this title available in a simultaneous POD/NONRETURNABLE hardcover edition.