gwyneth young
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Rick Riordan:
Hi Rick! I’ve been a huge fan for years, since my best friend showed me the Percy Jackson series about 10 years ago. I was wondering, every author or actor etc. has regrets of films or books they did, do you have any books you regret? If you had to choose one book you wish you could’ve made better, which would it be?
Rick Riordan
I would re-do every book if I were doing them today, because I am a different person now, the world is different, the readership is different, but as an editor told me once, "A book is never done, it's just due." You have to turn it in and hope for the best, even though I would keep revising it forever if I could. I just have to try to do the best job I can at the time I am writing it, because once a book is out, it's pretty much frozen in time. You can revise electronic versions, sure, or new printings, but 99% of the copies people will read are the ones that came out when the book was first published.
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Simone
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Rick Riordan:
Hey, I have read your books but prefer to listen to them on audiobooks, I love the narrator's voice and it gets the emotion of the characters across perfectly. my rapid-fire questions are, will The Chalice of the Gods become an audiobook, when will it become an audiobook, and who will narrate it? Thanks! P.S. For the book tour will you come to the Pacific Northwest?
Eduardo Pineda
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Rick Riordan:
Hi, Rick! I'm a huge Leo Valdez fan—I relate to my bro so much and not only because I'm Mexican, hahaha. I have some questions about him. What would you say is his real fatal flaw as a hero? Some people say it’s that he feels inferior to others and that's why he always compares himself to them, and I can totally see that, but I’d love to hear your take. Also, do you think we might see him again in a future book?
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