According to Murphy, Random House plans to release the series (Ace Hits the Big Time, Ace Hits Rock Bottom, and Fly Like an Eagle, possibly renamed as Ace Flies Like an Eagle) as part of a new print-on-demand service in 2000. Readers can place an order online and have a copy printed and mailed to them.

Also according to the author, several of Murphy's books, No Place to Run (now called Tripping the Runner),Fly Like an Eagle, Annie and the Animals, and Annie at the Ranch will be back in print through the Authors Guild.

Using the online service Backinprint.com, authors offer their private book supplies and quality paperback editions of their books.

Murphy and Wolkoff set the first novel in the series, Ace Hits the Big Time, in the New York City. It describes the adventures of Horace "Ace" Hobart, a sixteen-year-old...