Trivia / Everworld

• Attention Deficit Creator Disorder: Just as Animorphs entered its ghostwritten era so author K.A. Applegate could write this series, so too was Everworld very abruptly wrapped up once it became clear it wasn't going to take off the way Animorphs did to make way for another new series, Remnants.
• Creator Backlash: Not even the author liked the ending.
• Creator Breakdown: Along with the shift to Remnants, this also played a part in the very abrupt end of the series. In a 2011 FAQ, Applegate confessed that she "overcomitted" by trying to write a 250-page monthly book series, and by that by Everworld's end she was "in an exhausted, burned out wheeze".
• Follow the Leader: A self-follow, as Scholastic expected another Goosebumps-tier hit out of Everworld the way Animorphs was. Unfortunately what they got, at least financially, was a...
• Follow-Up Failure: Whether it was poorer marketing, the more mature premise, the way it was kind of a World of Jerkass, or just the wrong genre at the wrong time is and will likely never be known for sure, but for whatever reason Everworld never achieved the critical or commercial success of Animorphs. It maintains a small fan following, but culturally has slid almost completely into obscurity.
• God Does Not Own This World: From its release up until 2021 Scholastic owned the rights to and had complete creative control of the Everworld property. In December 2021 Applegate revealed on social media that Scholastic had returned the rights to her and her husband Michael Grant, and that the series would be re-released. No word, at least as of this writing, if that means a continuation.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: "The Everworld Experience" a 4-song CD created to promote the book series at launch, is unfathomably rare.
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: It's rumored to this day that the last 2-3 books in the series were ghostwritten. Unlike Animorphs which freely copped to its ghostwriters, it has never been confirmed or denied by K.A. or Scholastic that any of the Everworld books were ghostwritten. Still, it would go a long way to explaining the Character Derailment that the final books revolved around...
• Screwed by the Network: Because there was a chance the series could be renewed, the ending was deliberately vague. As a result, the series ends with David having just come out of hitting bottom, and proceeded to mostly ignore him and leave him isolated, most likely because there wasn't enough length left to devote to building him back up. In addition, the Ka Anor plot ends up reading like a better foreshadowed, lighter version/prelude to the Animorphs' Bolivian Army Ending.

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