Goodreads asked D.G. Driver:

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

D.G. Driver Well, I kind of answered this question about Passing Notes for Rae Ann up above, so I'll direct this question to last year's release, Cry of the Sea. The original premise for that novel started back in 1999 when the 10-year anniversary of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill was all over the news. I began imagining what it would be like if a mermaid got caught up in an oil spill. I wrote an original draft of the novel in 2000, but the version that is published is a complete revision that I started in 2011.

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