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• Don’t forget that Carlos Hernandez is now OFFICIALLY a Marvel Comics writer!!
• Did you see the GIANT billboard for Ballad & Dagger in NYC?
• Read Riordan got Ren Santiago to write a blog post for them.
• We also got to meet Edison from Lords of Night by J.C. Cervantes, which comes out October 4.
• Happy birthday to Leah Jeffries (aka Annabeth), who turned 13 on September 25!
• We’ve decided on #SolangeloBook as the hashtag for The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure.
• Rick also wrote a September 28 blog post!
• We discuss the Sun and the Star cover reveal, as well as its artist, Khadijah Khatib.
• The US and UK release dates will both be May 2, 2023—it’s really not far away!
• Mark and Rick will be doing an IN-PERSON tour!
• Could there be more spinoff novels??
• We talk about Nico and Will’s fate and whether we have to be worried.
• Oh, maybe we should read the Sun and the Star synopsis, huh?
• Don’t forget to pre-order The Sun and the Star: A Nico di Angelo Adventure!

• We’re starting off with which existing board games we could theme to Percy Jackson.
• First up? Clue! What would we use as the different rooms in the mansion?
• Kristen’s also got some ideas for a Percy Jackson Monopoly game.
• How would you organize the gods? What would represent the railroads?
• Caoimhe also has some excellent suggestions for the games pieces.
• There are a lot of ways to adapt The Game of Life for the Percy Jackson world.
• A Guess Who game would actually be really fitting for the demigods.
• This may even entice non-Percy Jackson fans to pick it up!
• If there’s a Harry Potter version of a game, there can be a Percy Jackson version of the game.
• We come up with which gods would be on which special UNO cards.
• Apples to Apples is like a family-friendly version of Cards Against Humanity.
• Does Charging Rhinos always win in YOUR game?
• It’s bonus time! Karen thinks Forbidden Island/Forbidden Desert would make for a great Percy Jackson-themed game.
• And if you want to play a Percy Jackson game right now, you could make your own Dungeons and Dragons campaign.
• Let’s talk original games! Should we be giving these ideas away for free?
• Camp Half-Blood Chronicles balances social points and fighting experience to see who comes out on top at the end of the summer.
• Kristen explains all the dating games she and her sister used to play, and it blows Karen’s mind.
• You have to say QUEST! with all the enthusiasm you can muster.
• Kristen explains what it would take to Outwit the Oracle.
• Karen was a little overzealous and came up with one more original game called Underworld, and yes, it borrows some ideas from Hades.
• Yeah, we could really talk about this topic forever, but it’s time to move on!

• It’s that time of the week—let’s discuss Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian chapter 7.
• Okay, this part where Grover was in Central Park kind of came out of nowhere…
• Grover has matured a lot over the course of these books, and we love it.
• Two months is better than forever, but Grover’s been out for a WHILE.
• Morpheus is an interesting character, especially after having watched Netflix’s Sandman.
• Okay, Nico tricking Percy…is this a big deal or not?
• But why didn’t Nico just talk to Percy??
• We are definitely not a fan of Hades in this chapter.
• Mrs. O’Leary continues to be the MVP, though.
• What’s everything we learned about Nico’s mom and his childhood?
• It’s a much bigger conversation than we can have right now, but there’s a lot of (valid) criticisms about the depiction of Hades and his children.
• Hades’ plan seems ill-advised, to say the least.
• We FINALLY find out who the lawyer was that freed Nico and Bianca.
• Why couldn’t Hades just let Percy go in four years!?