Goodreads asked Janice S.C. Petrie:

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

Janice S.C. Petrie My most recent book, due to be released on March 1, 2016, is called "Something's Tugging on My Claw!" Many people asked me to write a book about lobsters, and I would always tell them that it's been done. That's until a lobster fisherman from Gloucester MA gave me the gift of a handsome, cyan blue lobster. He knew the lobster was somewhat weak and would need special care for a while. The lobster fisherman wanted the blue lobster to be taken to schools so that thousands of students would have the opportunity to meet and learn about him.

I took care of "George" (named by a group of children at an Augusta, Maine Barnes & Noble Storytime) for two months, and didn't take him anywhere during that time to allow him to gain his strength. While I was sitting on my deck on a warm September morning, discussing with my husband why I wasn't going to write a story about a lobster, a story idea came to me. Three days later, I'd written the prose to a brand new book that is an exciting blue lobster adventure, including factual information about lobsters wrapped into the tale. A year later, the illustrations are complete, and the book is at my printer in Wisconsin, where I know they're doing a great job bringing my project to fruition.

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