Welcome! This the Official Max Quick website, run by the author.
Also please note that I look exceedingly serious in this picture. For this, I apologize. I am actually not that serious. I will endeavor to look sillier next time, promise.
Mark Jeffrey is the author of the Max Quick Series of books and podcast audiobooks. His first podiobook, 'Max Quick 1: The Pocket and the Pendant', has received over 2.4 million downloads to date. He has co-founded four internet companies and written two novels.
When not writing Max Quick books, Mark is CEO & cofounder of ThisWeekIn.com, a new web tv venture with Jason Calacanis and actor/comedian Kevin Pollak.
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Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 05:18PM Last week, a new homemade MAX QUICK book trailer appeared on YouTube. It is pretty awesome, you should check it out :) I don't know much about the kid who made it other than that he lives in Wisconsin and is extremely cool.
Here are MY MAX QUICK trailers. I think his is better but still like these as well :)
Friday, May 18, 2012 at 07:10PM
First up: I've been Skyping into classrooms across the US! It's been extremely fun, here are some snaps ... and if YOU would like to have my Skype in, email me at mark dot jeffrey at gmail.com. Also: I do this for free. I know that sounds obvious, but apparently, a lot of authors CHARGE to come in. Which is lame in every way I can imagine. Anyway: I am and always will be .... FREE.
Here are some more snappy-snaps:
Next up: Zach from Maine and his sister came for a visit, have a look:
And then: here is Chris Tyson in Broken Arrow, Wyoming, with his SIGNED copy:
Tuesday, April 10, 2012 at 02:01PM This Saturday April 14 from 3:00 PST to 4:00 PST I will be in a Worlize virtual world / video chat. Come hang out with me! http://worlize.com/ 
Friday, March 16, 2012 at 09:10PM 
Just got some VERY exciting news: MAX QUICK: THE POCKET AND THE PENDANT has been chosen by an 'academy' of sorts of Maine teachers and librarians as a Nominee for the Maine Student Book Award!!!
This is a pretty huge deal, as this is a well-respected award won by several huge books in the recent past -- The Hunger Games won a few years back, as did the Percy Jackson books and several others you would recognize. I am very thrilled and honored to be in this company, as you might imagine!
Over the coming months, students will read the nominated books and then vote on their favorite -- this is very much a grassroots / people's choice sort of thing. True, the list is curated by teacher and librarians, but the student are the ones who will decide!! This makes it even MORE exciting to me -- so keep your fingers crossed!!
In other news: Look what Suzy Lee Leow found in a rare bookstore in Van Nuys, California!
And lastly: Here I am, Skyping into a Maine classroom for National Read Aloud Day about a week ago:
Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 09:34PM First up: REALLY nice review of MAX QUICK: THE POCKET AND THE PENDANT from a member of the Maine Children's Book Award committee ... this could lead to something big! :)
"This book was first brought to my attention by my friend, Linda, who serves on the Maine Student Book Award committee with me. She had a fifth grade boy who brought this book to her claiming it was "the best book I've ever read!" He asked her to read it. She did. Then she brought it to our committee, shared her story and asked if others would please read it. She and I are both committed to listening carefully to what kids are saying about books so I promised her I would read it, even though I felt like all I was reading was fantasy/sci-fi stuff...not my genre of choice. But a promise is a promise...and so I opened the book....and did not put it down until I had finished the last page!"
More here: http://thebookmavenshaven.blogspot.com/2012/02/book-reviewthe-pocket-and-pendant-max.html
Next up: a bunch of snaps of my visit to Highlands Elementary: enjoy!
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