Rick Riordan

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

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

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

A kid is something precious, and you want to protect it and keep it fun. I'm not a dad, but I've seen people and how they behave with their kids.

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