Goodreads asked Robin Bielman:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Robin Bielman I love the beach and have wanted to write about a surfer for a while. I also love movies and actually did a short stint as a party planner, so the idea for Keeping Mr. Right Now came together pretty quickly. I also love writing about small towns and so I thought a film festival setting in a quaint beach town would be fun. My hero would be a hot surfer who lives and breathes the ocean and my heroine would be a girl who's a total fish out of water, but discovers she really likes her new surroundings.

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