Also, Annabeth is modeled after Atalanta, the most famous Greek heroine, who is also described as a blond warrior with fierce eyes. I've never known anyone named Annabeth, though I've met a few fans with that name since. I just thought it sounded good with Percy.Īnnabeth is a name I made up. Also, Jackson was the name of my protagonist in the adult mystery series I began writing in 1997, which featured private eye Jackson "Tres" Navarre. Jackson is a name I've always been fond of. I know the original Perseus was the son of Zeus, but as explained in The Sea of Monsters, Percy's mom named him this because Perseus is one of the few heroes who has a happy ending (in most versions). Percy is short for Perseus, the old Greek hero. Most of them are simply names I like - names I think will sound good in a book. I get too many requests to accommodate shipments of books, and by the time they get to me (if they get to me) they tend to be in pretty bad shape. It makes me sad that I can't do that anymore, but it just isn't possible to get through a signing line that big in a single event.įinally, please don’t attempt to mail your books to me for signature. Most stores that host an event for me will take your order, get your books signed on the day I do my event, then ship the books to you.Īt the actual book events, there are always signed books available for sale, but I am NOT able to sign and personalize all the books that every fan brings from home because of the size of the crowd and the number of books. If you don’t live close to an event, you can contact a store that is hosting me and pre-order signed books. I also post my public events on social media. Most of these events happen around the time a new book is released. You may be able to snag one that way if you order from your favorite bookseller. Whenever a new book is released, I always pre-sign several thousand copies that are sent to various bookstores. The only bad part about the books being so popular is that it no longer possible for me to accommodate requests for signed books. The story was such fun, and so different from my adult fiction, that I found myself spending a lot of time on it. I had a lot to do already, but I somehow found the time to write the first Percy Jackson book over the next year. It took about three nights to tell the whole story, and when I was done, Haley told me I should write it out as a book. Off the top of my head, I made up Percy Jackson and told Haley all about his quest to recover Zeus’ lightning bolt in modern day America. Then I remembered a creative writing project I used to do with my sixth graders - I would let them create their own demigod hero, the son or daughter of any god they wanted, and have them describe a Greek-style quest for that hero. When I ran out of myths, he was disappointed and asked me if I could make up something new with the same characters. I had taught Greek myths for many years, so I was glad to comply. My son Haley asked me to tell him some bedtime stories about the gods and heroes. This is where you find out what's going on with them next. Again, different approach, the whole thing being told from Apollo's point of view as a mortal teenager, but all the characters from PJO and HoO show up in Trials. If you haven't read Heroes of Olympus yet, try it! I promise it’s not the end for Percy and the gang it’s a new twist.Īnd following Heroes of Olympus, you visit Percy's world again in The Trials of Apollo series. A story has to keep developing to be fresh, and if the author gets bored, the reader will get bored too. I know you’re thinking it's not the same, but that’s exactly the point I didn’t want it to be the same. Many of your favorite characters from PJO appear again in those books, but there is also a cast of new main characters. Because of this, I launched the Heroes of Olympus series, starting with The Lost Hero in October 2010. Having said that, I had a ton of ideas from Greek mythology that I could not fit into the Percy Jackson series, and there were many other stories about the characters at Camp Half-Blood that I wanted to explore. I’m so glad everyone enjoyed the series, but if I tried to keep it going longer it just would not be as exciting. I believe it’s important for a series to have a strong ending, and I always knew that Percy’s story would be five books. The main story that started in The Lightning Thief is wrapped up in The Last Olympian. Percy Jackson & the Olympians is a five book series.
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