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A story from Luke Castellan’s point of view, from the days when he adventured with Thalia and Annabeth. Many people have asked me to write an adventure prequel to The Lightning Thief. Here it is!

It’s everything I wanted yet everything hurts.

I want to hug everyone in this story, and I haven’t read it yet!

A classic first-person Percy Jackson story, the first I’ve written since The Last Olympian. In this adventure, Annabeth and Percy’s date is interrupted by the god Hermes, whose staff has been stolen by a fire-breathing giant. This cannot be good …

Oh Riordan, you can’t even write fluff without trolling. I bet when you were writing it, you were like

And the rest of the fandom is stuck at “Percabeth date” and is like

And meanwhile I realize, holy crap, George and Martha are in danger and almost no one has noticed/cared about that, and I’m like

A Leo Valdez story, set at Camp Half-Blood. As Leo builds the Argo II, something goes terribly wrong. Now Leo will need the help of Piper and Jason, or the entire camp might be destroyed.

LEO VALDEZ STORY. LEO VALDEZ STORY. LEO VALDEZ STORY.

And, as announced on Rock Center, the anthology includes a debut short story from my son Haley. […] Haley ponders the question: “What happened to the demigods who fought with Kronos’s army after the battle in Manhattan?” This is the story of one such demigod, and I have to admit, some of Haley’s ideas are so good I wish I’d come up with them!

Aaaaaand on Twitter, RiRi said we’re getting official art for Thalia!

IN CONCLUSION: