Goodreads asked Valerie Davisson:

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

Valerie Davisson Although I currently live in Southern California, I am from the Bay Area, where sea otters frolic in the ocean in and around boat docks and beaches. When I wrote SHATTERED: Logan Book 1, I included my favorite marine mammal in Logan McKenna's home town. I even named the local arts festival the Otter Festival.

I assumed sea otters were here, just lower in number due to over-hunting years ago. I assumed they lived somewhere vaguely off the coast here in kelp beds. The seals on the rocks just morphed into sea otters in my mind. I figured they were out there somewhere.

I was talking to a surfer friend of mine, and he told me he'd never seen a sea otter. They didn't come this far south anymore. Yikes!

So....I did a little (let's face it...a LOT) more research, and learned that these little guys have been missing, but are being spotted more often in Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach. People who know I'm looking into this send me pictures every time they spot one - I get all excited!

All of this set off a spark - it just felt natural to have one of the characters from SHATTERED get involved with helping to bring them back. Not everyone is in love with sea otters, though - money, greed, and ignorance all come out to play in Book 3....!

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