Goodreads asked Doug Wilhelm:

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

Doug Wilhelm The idea for Treasure Town -- my newest book, coming out April 20 -- came from my nephew Henry when he was little. His mom, my sister Sarah-Lee Terrat, is a working artist who was fascinated with the things Henry would say and the questions he would ask when he was very young. (He's still a unique individual.) One evening she called me and said, "I was just giving Henry a bath, and he started talking about two gold prospectors, Yuke Johnson and Butt Luck." I wrote that down! And eventually I wrote, and Sarah-Lee illustrated, Treasure Town about three kids in a Florida beach town who are obsessed with searching for the legendary buried treasure of Jean Lafitte, King of the Pirates in the 19th century Gulf of Mexico. The kids team up with Yuke Johnson and Bug (I changed the first name) Luck, two would-be gold prospectors who meant to go to Alaska to dig for gold and get rich -- but they hopped a freight train going in the wrong direction, and when the story starts they tumble out at a crossing in Sandy Beach, Florida.

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