The Big Picture If you’re of a certain age and weren’t into Harry Potter growing up, you were undoubtedly a Percy Jackson & the Olympians kid. The middle grade series about a young boy with ADHD who discovers he’s the demigod son of a Greek god has been a massive hit since its inception in 2005 with The Lightning Thief, spawning multiple spinoffs, two films, a Broadway musical, and a forthcoming Disney+ series starring Walker Scobell.
Check out the full interview below, and pick up a copy of The Chalice of the Gods wherever books are sold. RIORDAN: I mean, I think the selfish reason is that's what I know best. I was a middle school teacher, and I think I have learned over the years that I write in some registers better than others. And my time in the classroom as a middle school teacher, my own kind of sense of humor, my sensibility, is very middle school.
But it hasn't been that long since my own sons were in high school, getting ready for college. I remember how tough that was. It's a time when everything's in flux, and so I just drew on that and kind of projected Percy forward to seventeen, and hopefully the readers will like it and think I recaptured that enough that it sounds like Percy.
Which I love so much. It makes me feel like a little kid again. But I want to get slightly nerdy and talk about your writing process.
Do you find that, whether it's Percy or any of your other characters, they kind of go off and do their own thing and you're like, “Wait, you weren't supposed to go in that direction!” I love that in your work, especially going forward, you've been such a massive champion of inclusivity, whether that's LGBTQ stories or things like ADHD. But when you're writing this compared to writing Percy back in 2005, did that kind of change the way that you looked at him as a character, or has it all just been, he's always been kind of the same in your head?
Oh, that's great to hear. Yeah, I agree. And that's a reason that the Rick Riordan Presents imprint was so important to me is that, not only am I maybe not the right person to write certain mythologies, but the power of a young person picking up a book, and not only does the hero on the cover look like them, but the author also looks like them. That is such a powerful message, that “I could be this person too. I could tell my own stories.
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