What was your inspiration for The Last Song?
I hadn’t written a younger love story since A Walk to Remember and, as I was kicking around ideas for my next book, I received a phone call from Jennifer Gipgot, a producer associated with Disney (and the sister of Adam Shankman, who’d directed A Walk to Remember).  She said that Miley Cyrus loved A Walk to Remember, and that she wanted to do something in the same vein.  After meeting with Jennifer, Adam, and the Cyrus family a few weeks later, I had some ideas about writing a coming of age story where the two lead characters would be forced to spend time together, but I also wanted to include a story that adults could relate to.  And somehow, I came up with the idea of sea turtles, so I agreed to write both the screenplay and the book for The Last Song. 

Will there be a teaching series?
An educational edition was published under the Novel Learning SeriesTM banner.  More information can be found out by visiting the Novel Learning Series section of this site.

Will you write a sequel?
There are no plans at this time for a sequel.