Percy Jackson Meets Carter Kane and other fun crossovers

[alanajoli]

I love good crossover fiction. I'm sure that's part of the reason I love The Avengers. (Also, Joss Whedon, I'm looking at you.) So I was really excited to see that Rick Riordan has announced he's doing a crossover short story featuring Percy Jackson and Carter Kane -- heroes from his two major mythology series. (Shannon Maughan's Publishers Weekly article with the announcement and full details is here.) It's planned as a short story, and it's currently only being published in the back of a paperback book (the hardcover of which I already own), but I have hopes that as the pub date approaches, we'll see an option to buy an e-version of the short for 99 c. Because I would totally spend that on a short story.


(Cute crossover art by SpiralNinja05 at Deviant Art, found by my Google Image search.)

I got to interview Rick back in 2006, when I was writing for Literature Community news, when the first two Percy Jackson books were out, and Rick had more adult novels published than YA titles. I look at that article and think how much his world must have changed in the past seven years.

Rick isn't the only writer doing crossovers. Ally Carter crossed over her two brilliant series -- The Gallagher Girls and the Heist Society books -- in Double Crossed, which, best of all, she gave away for free. I grabbed it the day it came out and read it on my computer, since the nook edition wasn't up yet, and it's delightful. If you haven't checked out either series, this isn't a bad entry point into the worlds -- and it should definitely get you intrigued about both series.

In other news, the Regaining Home Kickstarter hit 21% in the first 24 hours. Woo! I'm very hopeful that we'll make the goal -- and I even posted the first stretch goal, re-editing the first two books and publishing them in multiple e-book formats, this morning. Thanks to everyone who has already contributed or spread the word, and thanks to those of you who are planning to do so!

Comments

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

The Ally Carter crossover story made me ridiculously happy.

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

It was such a fun surprise! I only found out about it because I was looking up her website to recommend her books to a friend. :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You got to interview Rick Riordan? That's so cool! I must say, he seems like a really friendly, wonderful guy. I sent him a message back when the Healing Angel was reading and loving the Percy Jackson books, and he wrote back--what a gent!

And I used to love crossovers in stories--when characters from one would feature in the stories belonging to another set of characters. I remember Edward Eager had that in his books, and I feel like there were others that featured crossovers that I'm not recalling just now.

[alanajoli.livejournal.com]

I remember how baffling it was to discover Madeline L'Engle's crossover characters... :)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes, she's another! And hers were odd because some of her stories were near-futuristic, but then you'd get characters from her then-present in them.