The Magic Maze Trilogy, by Samuel Warren Joseph and Phil Proctor | Awareness Tour

The Magic Maze Trilogy Awareness Tour is presented in partnership* with Samuel Warren Joseph & Phil Proctor and The Children’s Book Review.

When a founding member of the legendary Firesign Theatre and an award-winning playwright join forces, magic happens—literally.

Step into a world of riddles and wild adventures as we kick off the virtual book tour for The Magic Maze Trilogy by Samuel Warren Joseph & Phil Proctor.

Meet Tyler and Tess Porter, eleven-year-old twins who couldn’t be more different—yet find themselves bound together by an extraordinary adventure. When an ordinary day takes an unexpected turn, the siblings are swept into the strange and wondrous world of the Magic Maze, where nothing is quite what it seems. From tricky riddles to puzzling rules, and from quirky allies to cunning foes, each twist of the maze challenges their courage, wit, and teamwork. The Magic Maze Trilogy is a fantastical journey brimming with imagination, humor, and heart—reminding readers that sometimes the greatest adventure of all is discovering the strength we have in each other.

Imaginative, exciting, and uplifting, this trilogy is sure to become a fantasy favorite.

—The Children’s Book Review

As part of this virtual book tour, one lucky winner will receive a classroom set of The Magic Maze Trilogy in paperback—the perfect way to spark imagination, teamwork, and a love of reading in young adventurers. Enter below for your chance to bring Tyler and Tess’s unforgettable journey into an entire classroom of eager readers!

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About the Book

The Magic Maze Trilogy

Written by Samuel Warren Joseph & Phil Proctor

Ages: 9-12 | 244 Pages

Publisher: Sam/Phil Books (2025) | ISBN: 979-8-9927464-6-4

Publisher’s Book Summary: The Magic Maze Trilogy includes three books: Tyler and Tess in the Magic Maze; Madness in the Magic Maze; and Escape from the Magic Maze. It is about eleven-year old fraternal twins, Tyler and Tess Porter, who accidentally get sucked up into the bizarre world of the Magic Maze. Geared to appeal to children from seven to thirteen and older fantasy fans as well, the story propels the twins into an “Alice in Wonderland/Wizard of Oz” world. In order to return home, they must get through twelve separate parts of the maze. Each is its own world with strange rules, riddles and puzzles that the twins must solve using their wits, knowledge and athletic prowess. Tyler and Tess learn how much they mean to each other as they evade the evil QUEEN ZEBRA and her ZENTAURIAN GUARD of two-faced POLINERDS, and a duplicitous wizard, SIMON PERCIVAL. They form alliances with the rebel TRIDGETS (tiny trolls with Mohawk hairdos) led by the feisty BELKIN, and an assortment of other bizarre and funny characters. At the end, they must track down and put back together three parts of a MAGIC AMULET before they can be finally transported home, safe and sound.

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About the Author

Samuel Warren Joseph’s credits include the movie Off Your Rocker, a comedy-drama about a revolution in an old folks’ home starring Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Dorothy Malone, and Lou Jacobi.  

He has written animation episodes for such shows as Duck Tales, Dennis the Menace, Batman and Beast Wars. 

Sam’s stage play, Window of Opportunity, a suspenseful dark comedy about corporate corruption, premiered at the Met Theatre in Los Angeles in the spring of 2006 to rave reviews.  It has been turned into a feature film, which he wrote and directed, and was released in 2015. The film was produced and co-scored by John Densmore, the drummer of The Doors.

Sam wrote the book and co-wrote the songs for the stage musical Campaign, which premiered in October 2010 to excellent reviews.  

His couple’s comedy, Two Times Two, also had its world premiere in 2010 in New Orleans to great reviews.   

In 2016, his musical, Psychosexual: A Love Story, for which he wrote the book and lyrics, premiered at the Met Theatre in Los Angeles. The same year, his play, Moral Imperative, had its world premiere at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills. 

With Phil Proctor, Sam co-wrote God Help Us!… a political comedy that toured the United States starring the late Ed Asner. Sam also co-wrote Ed’s autobiography, Son of a Junkman. 

With Phil Proctor, Sam also co-wrote The Magic Maze Trilogy. 

Sam has also been a special education teacher in inner city Los Angeles and currently is a community college Assistant Professor of English.

About the Author

Phil Proctor was born of Amish/Irish ancestry in Goshen, Indiana, and is a founding member of the thrice-Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre (one of the “Thirty Greatest Acts of All Time”), whose archives were purchased by the Library of Congress. He’s appeared on and off-Broadway, toured the USSR with the Yale Russian Chorus, and also toured the US and Canada with the L.A. Guitar Quartet as Don Quixote. 

He has appeared in scores of commercials, audiobooks, video games, radio and TV shows, and films, including Window of Opportunity, written and directed by his partner, Samuel Joseph. Phil received Theatre World, LA Weekly, LA Free Press and Drama Critics’ awards over his long career.

His voice credits include memorable characters in Academy Award-winning films for Pixar and Disney, the Drunken French Monkey in Dr. Dolittle, Dr. Vidic in Assassin’s Creed, Simon Stagg in Batman: Arkham Knight, and Howard in the multi-Emmy winning Rugrats, which has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

He recently appeared in the world premiere of Dan Castellaneta’s For Piano and Harpo at the Gary Marshall Theatre, is a 20-year member of The Antaeus Theater company, and has written several new books, including his autobiography, Where’s My Fortune Cookie? co-authored by Brad Schreiber. With Samuel Joseph, he co-wrote a political comedy, God Help Us!, which toured the country starring the late Ed Asner to rave reviews.

To learn more about Phil, visit PlanetProctor.com.

To learn more about the series, visit MagicMaze.com.

Thanks for following along with us on Samuel Warren Joseph and Phil Proctor’s he Magic Maze Trilogy awareness tour!