![]() Percy, Annabeth and Grover have to find that chalice and return it to Ganymede before anyone realizes he lost it. It’s also a potential disaster, since any mortal who happens to drink from the cup will gain immortality. (That sound you hear is Percy screaming into his pillow in frustration.)įirst quest: the cupbearer of the gods, Ganymede, is missing his chalice. Percy has to run quests to get the letters. New Rome University requires recommendation letters from three gods, which means. He has a much harder quest: getting into college. The novel unfolds during Percy’s senior year at Alternative High School in New York - after the action of The Heroes of Olympus, but before The Trials of Apollo. This time around, Percy is not worried about saving the world. And so I said, “You know what, I happen to have an outline for a new Percy book. I wanted it to be a book you all might actually love, a kind of ‘thank you’ for sticking with me all these years as you waited for a better PJO adaptation. My friends at Disney Publishing came to me and said, “Hey, Rick, what can we publish that will help us take advantage of the new interest in Percy when the TV show comes out?” We talked about all manner of things, but I didn’t want to publish something just to publish something. įlash forward to 2022, when we got the green light to begin filming. And those ideas sat with me, slowly baking in my mind to a rich golden brown. but it left me with several unused outlines for potential Percy Jackson books. ![]() 20th Television was able to secure approvals to make the show without any extra incentive, which was great. I sketched out the plots for several adventures that would take place during Percy Jackson’s senior year in high school. Over a decade later, however, I figured such a book would not only be fun to write once again - it would promote the show and vice versa. As you might imagine, this is the main request I get from readers: a sort of “Percy Jackson 6.” For years, I resisted doing this because I was having too much fun writing from other points of view, expanding Percy’s world through other characters. If they’d help me get a live-action series off the ground, I would be willing to write a new Percy Jackson novel, or even several, which Disney Publishing could release when the show came out.Īs you probably know, I have continued to write about Percy’s world in many different books, from many different points of view, but I have not done a first-person, Percy Jackson POV full-length novel since The Last Olympian in 2009, and I haven’t done a novel centering on our classic trio, Percy, Annabeth and Grover, since The Lightning Thief in 2005. īack in 2019, when we were beginning to explore the idea of a new Percy Jackson adaption, I pitched an idea to Disney that I hoped might convince them to move things along. ![]() Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the PJOTV show. What’s this? More news just broke in Publishers Weekly? A brand-new Percy Jackson novel? What is going on!!
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