Rick Riordan

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.

I saw 'The 39 Clues' as a potential vehicle for doing some education in a fun way - to take some of these amazing stories from history, dust them off and make them alive.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.