Goodreads asked Radhika R. Dhariwal:

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

Radhika R. Dhariwal I was taking my Great Dane to the vet in New Delhi because he had a toothpick stuck in this stomach. At a traffic light, I was looking out of the car window when I saw a little squirrel nibbling on a piece of bread. A crow swooped in and shooed him away, snatching the bread from him. But a moment later, a big dog came, swatted the squirrel and the crow away with his tail, picked the bread up with his mouth and trotted it off. I forgot about the scene for the rest of the day, but that night I was unable to sleep and the scene kept replaying in my head. Suddenly my three main characters were born--a squirrel, a dog and a crow--and the whole story just unfolded in a few minutes. I began working on The PetPost Secret (aka The Tale of a No-Name Squirrel) the next morning.

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