Let them tell their own stories, and I would do whatever I could to help those books find a wide audience! Much better, I thought, to use my experience and my platform at Disney to put the spotlight on other great writers who are actually from those cultures and know the mythologies* better than I do. Over the years, I’ve gotten many questions from my fans about whether I might write about various world mythologies, but in most cases I knew I wasn’t the best person to write those books. Our goal is to publish great middle grade authors from underrepresented cultures and backgrounds, to let them tell their own stories inspired by the mythology and folklore of their own heritage. In other words, they will probably be some type of middle grade adventure, with lots of humor and action, and probably draw on myth or folklore in some way. All these will be books that my editor Stephanie Lurie and I feel will appeal to kids who like my books. We aim to publish about four books a year. Rick Riordan Presents is one small branch of the Disney-Hyperion Publishing family. Now all they have to do is retrieve the Flower of Immortality to save Manhattan from being wiped out by disease.What is the ‘Rick Riordan Presents’ Imprint? He's got Belet, the adopted daughter of Ishtar, the goddess of love and war, on his side, and a former hero named Gilgamesh, who has taken up gardening in Central Park. Turns out Sik is immortal but doesn't know it, and that's about to get him and the entire city into deep, deep trouble.
But all that is blown to smithereens when Nergal comes looking for him, thinking that Sik holds the secret to eternal life. Thirteen-year-old Sik wants a simple life going to school and helping at his parents' deli in the evenings. Characters from the Epic of Gilgamesh populate this high-stakes contemporary adventure in which all of Manhattan is threatened by the ancient god of plagues. Best-selling author Rick Riordan presents CITY OF THE PLAGUE GOD, an adventure based on ancient Mesopotamian mythology written by Sarwat Chadda, author of the Ash Mistry series.
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