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With Savannah\u2019s dark beauty and penchant for the paranormal, it seems only fitting that Nicholas Sparks<\/a> would choose to release his twenty-fifth heart-tugger, \u201cRemain: A Supernatural Love Story<\/a>,\u201d here with the Savannah Book Festival<\/a> on Oct. 14, at Trustees Theater.<\/p>\n What makes this haunting new novel especially ideal for Savannah in October, however, is Sparks wrote \u201cRemain\u201d in collaboration with the master of the eerie and atmospheric, acclaimed director M. Night Shyamalan<\/a>. Although Sparks has collaborated with his brother, Micah Sparks, on a memoir, and 11 of his novels have been adapted for the screen, \u201cRemain\u201d is his first creative partnership with a film director from the story\u2019s inception.<\/p>\n \u201cThis whole project was a little bit different than anything I\u2019ve ever done, but it was a lot of fun,\u201d said Sparks during a recent phone interview with the Savannah Morning News. \u201cNight and I conceived the story together, went over the details, came up with the elements\u2014the plot, the characters, the whole bit\u2026 And it was just the two of us decided to tell the story we came up with in two different mediums.\u201d<\/p>\n On Tour: <\/strong>Crawl through the Green-Meldrim House with some of Savannah’s most noteworthy writers<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n On Film: <\/strong>Indie moody vampire film makes Georgia debut at Cinema Savannah screening on Oct. 3<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nSparks and Shyamalan: Fans and now collaborators<\/h2>\n