Rick Riordan is the author of numerous successful book series. The Shamus, Anthony, and Edgar Awards went to Tres Navarre, an adult mystery series featuring a Texas private detective.
He came up with the concept for the Percy Jackson trilogy while reading bedtime stories to his son Haley about ancient Greek heroes.
Is Rick Riordan done with the Percy Jackson series?
When author Rick Riordan completed the final book in the Camp Half-Blood Chronicles series, The Trials of Apollo: The Tower of Nero, fans of the series had to say goodbye to Percy Jackson in 2020.
Haley had ADHD and dyslexia, which inspired Riordan to make the main figure hyperactive and dyslexic.
In his Percy Jackson and the Olympians book, the titular twelve-year-old realizes he is the modern-day son of Poseidon.
Is Rick Riordan making a Percy Jackson movie?
The Percy Jackson and the Olympians series has been formally picked up by Disney+ after a long wait.
Despite the fact that the program was first hinted at in May of 2020, Rick Riordan, the author of the five-book fantasy-adventure series, only made the formal announcement on January 25, 2022.
Riordan also contributed to the creation of the children’s book series The 39 Clues. He wrote several of the series’ volumes, including The Maze of Bones, which debuted at the top of The New York Times Best Seller list on September 28, 2008.
In the preface to the Puffin Classics version of Roger Lancelyn Green’s Tales of the Greek Heroes, he writes that the book encouraged him to create his Greek mythology trilogy.
