Today, millions of copies of his books have sold throughout the world (and Haley has a master’s in higher education specialising in learning differences, of which Riordan is very proud). Then there’s the Kane Chronicles, set in the same world but with Egyptian myth the Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard trilogy, set around Norse myth and the five Trials of Apollo novels. I barely scratched the surface,” he says.Īs well as the five Percy Jackson books – which take place around Camp Half-Blood, a training camp for the descendants of the Greek gods – Riordan wrote the Heroes of Olympus series, focusing on the Roman Camp Jupiter. “I thought five books would be all I would need to completely cover Greek mythology. By the third book, Riordan was starting to top the charts. Riordan quit his job as a teacher after landing his book deal – “it was not enormous, but it was a lot of money for a middle-school teacher” – and spent the first few years touring relentlessly. Riordan showed the novel to the kids he was teaching: they approved. So was Percy: but in Riordan’s world, ADHD is a sign you might be a demigod, while Percy’s dyslexia is attributed to his being hard-wired to read ancient Greek. Haley had been struggling in school, having been diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD. He came up with Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon and a mortal woman, and sent him on a quest to recover Zeus’s lightning bolt in modern America. Out of myths to retell, the teacher remembered a task he used to set his sixth-graders, where he asked them to create a demigod hero and give them a quest. Riordan’s young hero first appeared in the author’s debut children’s novel, 2005’s The Lightning Thief, dreamed up by Riordan for his son Haley’s bedtime story. The Tower of Nero features appearances from some of Riordan’s most beloved characters: Nico di Angelo, the son of Hades Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena and Percy Jackson himself, of course. I hope I’ve given the readers a good send-off.” But it is also the last time I’m with these characters and it’s bittersweet to say goodbye. In the absence of that PhD, this is another kind of graduation, he thinks, “in the sense that there’s a sense of accomplishment and excitement, I’m glad to have finished it, and I’m excited for what comes next. If I do go back to this world, it might be for the occasional one-off, but I like the feeling of being able to pivot more quickly from one idea to the other,” he says. “What started with The Lightning Thief ends with The Trials of Apollo. It’s the last book set in the world of Percy Jackson, although Riordan doesn’t rule out visiting the world again.
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The fifth and final book in The Trials of Apollo series sees the god, sent to Earth in the form of teenager Lester Papadopoulos, trying to regain his place on Mount Olympus. Riordan is speaking by Zoom from Boston, with a pile of copies of The Tower of Nero behind him.
I’m guardedly optimistic.” All of the kids that I write about, at one time or another, have been in my classroom “So instead of learning Celtic languages, I’m now learning the language of the film industry, which definitely has its own lingo,” Riordan says. Both of them are now producers on the Carter Kane and Percy Jackson series, and are working on the script for the pilot of the latter.
Riordan and his wife, Becky, decided they “owed it to the fans to try one more time”. They really wanted new adaptations, and they felt bitterly disappointed by the movies.”
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I could care less about TV and film, honestly. And I’m not a fan of Hollywood, I’ve never been starstruck. I had a plan for what the next few years would look like. “So we had to make kind of a soul-searching decision. There’s a new willingness to work with the content creators that perhaps hasn’t been present before,” he says. “Because of the streaming wars, there is a new sense in Hollywood that they need content badly. And Fox, which owned the rights to the Percy Jackson books, had been sold to Disney. But then Netflix was also interested in adapting The Kane Chronicles, in which siblings Sadie and Carter Kane take on the gods of ancient Egypt. Riordan was understandably nervous when Disney called.
It had been 10 years since The Lightning Thief hit screens (it was a box-office success and spawned a sequel, despite mediocre reviews from fans and critics). (From left) Brandon T Jackson as Grover Underwood, Logan Lerman as Percy Jackson and Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase in Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief.
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