BONUS | An Interview with Stephanie Lurie, Editorial Director of Rick Riordan Presents
The Newest Olympian
Mike Schubert
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
October was going to be a month where we took off a week since it's a 5-monday month, but Percy Jackson and the Chalice of the Gods just came out, so here is a very special interview episode in celebration! Stephanie Lurie, Rick's longtime editor, joins to answer loads of questions from Mike and give details about the production process of these books! Topics include: Rick’s requests, Yay Neil, what editor’s do, Riordan Wiki, Kane Chronicles, Half Boy Half God ALL HERO, Tristan Strong, Main Character and the Noun of Noun, timelines, Aru Shah, trust, extended universe of nice people, Matt Christopher, translation changes, dam, home feedback, speech tags, formatting, touring, pineap-owl, and more!
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• Creator, Host, Producer, Social Media, Web Design: Mike Schubert
• Editor: Sherry Guo
• Music: Bettina Campomanes and Brandon Grugle
• Art: Jessica E. Boyd
— About The Show —
Has the Percy Jackson series been slept on by society? Join Mike Schubert as he journeys through the Riordanverse for the first time with the help of longtime PJO fans to cover the plot, take stabs at what happens next, and nerd out over the Greek mythology throughout. Whether you're looking for an excuse to finally read these books, or want to re-read an old favorite with a digital book club, grab your blue chocolate chip cookies and listen along. New episodes release on Mondays wherever you get your podcasts!
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| 0:30.1 | Does this mean you're a demigod? |
| 0:32.1 | Oh, I don't know. I mean, it feels presumptuous, right? To be like, yeah. |
| 1:11.4 | Thank you. I don't know. I mean, it feels presum. I'm the titular Newst Olympian. I'm a 31-year-old man who never read the Percy Jackson books as a kid, but I'm reading them now for the very first time as an adult, |
| 1:17.2 | and I am going through the series to see if this is a book series that we've all been sleeping on as a society. And I am here joined by a very special guest, who I think might answer yes, or at least |
| 1:22.7 | would believe that they should be the biggest phenomenon in the world, which we're working to make |
| 1:26.7 | that a possibility. But I'm very excited to be joined by Stephanie Lurie, the editorial director of Rick |
| 1:32.5 | Ryarden presents. Stephanie, how's it going? Hi, and absolutely my answer is yes. Fantastic. |
| 1:40.1 | Yes, at the time this episode releases, I will have finished all of the main five books. And even before I finished them, I was at the point where I was thinking, yeah, I think the answer to the question is, yes, everyone should be reading these. And it should be the biggest thing in the world. As we currently record this, I am on the last chapter of the fifth book. So really only four pages or so |
| 2:02.2 | left. So I'm basically there. You want to make them last? Or are you ready? |
| 2:08.6 | Thankfully, and thanks to your help in this area, there are many other books for me to cover. |
| 2:13.4 | But it would be funny if I really was trying to milk this, as some people accuse me of doing, which is false. |
| 2:19.2 | But it would be funny if I was like, this next episode is about page 200. |
| 2:24.3 | Fine five only. |
| 2:27.4 | Yeah, we're getting real deep. |
| 2:28.9 | It's not just one chapter per episode. |
| 2:30.5 | It's going to be a page. |
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