Radish Writers Novels & Stories

Raquel's POV Where do writers get their inspiration? This is the most common question I have been asked for years. I am Raquel Peterson, one of the bestselling authors of romance novels. I am not in a relationship with anyone so people are puzzled where I get my inspirations. I had my first book published when I was twenty and since then I have twelve more books published. I may have found what the readers love and I was able to create a fantasy that they all fall for. My books weren’t merely on paper but were made into movies and TV series.

"But we're not getting any less brave, either." --- Spring comes early. The garden wakes. Fig discovers the joy of rolling in mud. Celeste discovers the joy of hosing him off. "You're creating a monster," I say. "I'm creating character." "That's the same thing." --- The residency in Portugal fills for the spring session. Writers from four continents, all of them working on projects about memory, about home, about the places we leave and the places that leave us. Celeste hosts a reading in the garden. The writers share their work. A woman from Ghana reads a poem about her grandmother's hands. A man from Chile reads an essay about exile and return. A nonbinary writer from the United States rea