Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

Coach Hedge grumbled as he tended their wounds. “How come I never get invited on these violent trips?

The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.

Now fight me! For today thee House of Hades will be called the saviors of Olympus.

I always love it when I hear back from kids who say they discovered Percy Jackson and now wear their learning difference as a badge of honour.

Kids, if anything, are harder to write for because they are a more discerning audience. They will not stay with you if you go off on a tangent or if you give them extraneous information that doesn't serve the story. You really have to tell a tight story. You have to give them humor and suspense and believable characters. All those things that adults want too, but you have to be really on your game when you're writing for kids.

The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me.