Bill asked Rick Riordan:

You had mentioned that you will ot write another full-length series in the Camp Half Blood chronicles. Is this still true? Also you had mentioned in The Tower of Nero tour that you had 4 ideas about standalone books! I am guessing the one was about Nico as it was hinted in the 5th book of Trials of Apollo. Are the other three still on the play? Please don't end this series, it means so much to me! Thank you!

Rick Riordan I'm so glad you've enjoyed the books and want them to continue. Thank you! I try not to say "I will never do x, y, or z again," because I have no idea what will happen in the future. I always try to hedge my bets by saying "Right now, I don't have any plans to do x, y, or z." I wish I could tell you I had some grand master plan and know exactly what I will write in the future, but I don't. I'm working on a lot of projects right now that I never anticipated! What I do next really depends on what idea I find most exciting at the time. I try to avoid agreeing to write anything else in the PJO world unless I feel like it adds something new to that universe and offers me a chance to explore new stuff in new ways. That's where the Nico/Will books with Mark Oshiro came from. Is it possible there will be more books that happen in a similar way? Sure! But the future is as unknowable to me as it is to anyone else.

As an aside, my publisher seems to think I have the rest of my life figured out, too. They recently asked, "How many more books does Rick intend to write?" As if I knew exactly how long I had to live and had planned a bucket list for each year. I have not. All I can say is that as long as I enjoy writing and feel like I can still do it, I will continue to make books, because I love storytelling!

As another completely random aside, because I am ADHD, I have to add that my spellcheck above changed "working on a lot" to "working on a llama," and now I am sad I do not have a llama to work on!

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