Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

You're a stalker with hooves." "I am not! I followed her to the Big House and hid in a bush and watched the whole thing.

All of my characters tend to be montages of different people I've met: little bits and pieces of their personalities put together.

The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said.

I come to writing the same way I come to teaching, which is that my goal is always to create life-long readers.

Thalia's shoulders relaxed. "I owe you one." "Two." "One and a half," Thalia said. She smiled, and for a second, I remembered that I actually liked her when she wasn't yelling at me.

We can’t make a portal—” “We’ve got a flying boat,” Carter offered.