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 am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

I've worked throughout California as a poet: in colleges, universities, worker camps, migrant education offices, continuation high schools, juvenile halls, prisons, and gifted classrooms.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.