Goodreads asked Bob Studholme:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Bob Studholme For me it's being able to create people and fit them into worlds. My first story, which is up here as: 'The Chronicles of Brendan Earle', but which I might be rewriting to put out again with a different beginning and the new title: 'Changed', is a made up magical world. It's also loosely based on Northumberland in terms of the scenery.
That being said, the geography of the place is flexible and the places I need to have are in the places they need to be to keep the story rolling.
One of its characters is a 12-year-old girl who was based on my daughter when she was about 8 or 9 (but very mature for her age).
My latest story, Private Universe, which I'm trying to get published, is set in Devon. But the location is based on Slane Castle in County Meath, Ireland. That's partly 'cos I've never been to Devon and have been to Slane, but also because I needed a place just like Slane, but couldn't use it as the actual location. The setting of the book is the First World War and it's essential that all of the men would be gone to the war. That is pretty easy to believe of anywhere in England, but might be harder for readers to believe of rural Ireland.
This works in the context of the story, but it would be a spoiler if I told you how.

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