CHANGERS BOOK 1: DREW

Akashic’s new Black Sheep YA imprint launches with a spectacular novel in the tradition of Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Zombieland.
It's the eve of his freshman year of high school in a brand-new town, and Ethan Miller has just said goodnight to his parents and climbed into bed. He's laid out a fresh pair of kicks he worked all summer to afford, is finally sporting a haircut he doesn't hate, and has grown two inches since middle school. At last, everything is looking up in life. Until the next morning. When Ethan awakens as a girl.

Unbeknownst to him, Ethan is a "Changer." He will wake up every year of high school as a different person, beginning in ninth grade when he becomes Drew Shue, a petite blonde with an enviable figure. (After four iterations, Changers must declare the identity in which they will live out the rest of their lives—and no, you cannot go back to who you were before the Changes began.) Ethan/Drew must now navigate the treacherous waters of freshmen year while also following the rules: Never tell anyone what you are. Never disobey the Changer Council. And never, ever fall in love with another Changer. Oh, and he also has to battle a fascist underground syndicate thwarting Changers everywhere (called "Abiders"). Fans of Zombieland, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, the books of John Green, and even Buffy the Vampire Slayer will find much to love in this first of a four-part series that tracks the journey of an average suburban boy who becomes an incredible young woman who becomes a reluctant hero who becomes the person she was meant to be. Because, while changing the world can kinda suck, it sure beats never knowing who you really are. Allison Glock is the author of the New York Times notable book Beauty Before Comfort. Her work has been published in the New York Times, GQ, Rolling Stone, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, O, the Oprah Magazine, Elle, Marie Claire, and many others. She is currently a senior staff writer for ESPN and a contributing editor for the magazine Garden & Gun. Her first poem was recently published in the New Yorker. T Cooper's most recent book is Real Man Adventures (McSweeney’s), which Vanity Fair calls "brave and hilarious." He is also the author of three novels including the best-selling Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes and The Beaufort Diaries. Cooper's work has also appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Believer, O, the Oprah Magazine, One Story, Poets & Writers, and elsewhere.