Goodreads asked Shane Harrison:

If you could travel to any fictional book world, where would you go and what would you do there?

Shane Harrison Great question; I could do a lot with that concept. That's the whole joy of reading, and writing; being in that particular book world. I am planning a trip to Edinburgh in September. I was there once before, a birthday treat by my divine M, back in the nineties. Always wanted to return and reading Ian Rankin's Rebus series gave me the extra impetus. Ian Rankin has been good enough to give me the outline of a feasible Rebus crawl and, all going well, I hope to attempt that in the Autumn. There are plenty of literary highlights in Edinburgh, and the city itself is a wonderful manifestation of Gothic fantasy. From the Confessions of a Justified Sinner to Harry Potter, there's a world of imaginings within Edinburgh. As a city you couldn't make it up, although I might try. Meanwhile, I am creating a Gothic Dublin in a work I've been attempting for the last couple of years. With foreign, and even local travel so curtailed, the best place to travel, the only place to travel, is inside my own head. This is often the case for a writer. As we know, Bram Stoker never actually visited Transylvania. For me, it is some consolation, and I am sure, like many, when the walls come down I will want to be somewhere, anywhere, else but here.

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