I like to use real places as a basis of many of the places you have read about in my stories, but I then mould them into what I need them to be in order to fit into the story. The towns are pretty simple to create, the more detailed places are the ones that I love to be able to see when I am reading. Places like the bay in A Handful of Secrets, and the clearing in the forest in Part of the Pack are places that I spent time understanding in my own head before I even attempted to put them down on paper. The bay which Luna uses is based on one of my favourite places to go, and a part of me actually struggled to make the necessary changes to it in order for it to fit the story line of the book.