Paula Wynne

I used this image of how to draw a stone stairway up the side of a castle as my inspiration when creating my own stone stairway in my fictional dolmen tunnel on Sierra del Torcal in The Sacred Symb

Inside of the the rising sun shining into my fictional dolmen in The Luna Legacy, I used the full moon.

Winter solstice at Newgrange would be a spectacular sight!

Find out how I used an old dolmen as a setting in The Sacred Symbol and Elixa.

When I was planning the layout of my medieval abbey on top of Sierra del Torcal, I spotted this one and used it for inspiration for my setting.

Although I write fiction, historical mystery thrillers to be exact, this signature of the famed Christopher Columbus is not fiction.

Dunluce Castle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland was my inspiration for a vivid scene setting, yet I wanted it to be in Scotland on Columbus Island to fit into my 'Columbus' theme in The Sacred Symb

I imagine my medieval character walking up this path to the fort at the top of the mountain. The path is green yet rock and worn with time.

Waterfall castle in Poland ~ Most Unbelievable Places that really Exist

This abadoned and crumbling old mansion balancing on a mountaintop gave me inspiration when creating my fictional abbey setting on the top of Sierra del Torcal for The Torcal Trilogy suspense thril

An abandoned dentist equipment added a nice imagined touch to my scary hospital lab in The Grotto's Secret.

I love old typewriters and although I didn't have one in the Homerton Grange Lab, my imagination could go places with this image.

Although this abandoned hospital is in Beelitz Heilstaetten, Germany, in my mind Kelby is guided to the bottom of a rotting wooden stairway.

This image of an abandoned hospital will give anyone the creeps.

This abandoned hospital hallway gave me the idea to have Kelby trip over an old wheelchair and crashes to the dusty floor when she is pursued by the badd

This spooky image from photographer Alicia Rius and her experience of seeing them in a mirror gave me the idea to have my heroine frightened by a ghost ... err statue in The Grotto's Secret.

I liked looking at these underground city tunnels to feed my imagination with spooky places when I wrote the underground tunnel scenes in The Grotto's Secret.

This image by photographer Alicia Rius is totally creepy. I took this idea OTT and had the Homerton Lab in The Grotto's Secret full of weird bottles like this.

When I was writing the scenes in the spooky mansion, I found loads of fantastic images that inspired me to write a vivid setting for scaring the hell out of my character Kelby Wade in The Grotto's

I was looking for a study that my character Kely Wade comes across when searching through an abadoned mansion.

This long hallway from inspired me when I had heroine Kelby creeping into Homerton Lab to find out who was killing her family in The Grotto's Secret.

I was looking for inspiration for the spooky mansion in The Grotto's Secret so my character (Kelby Wade) can come upon lots of scary obstacles when she is following a trail of strange leads her dec

When looking for inspiration for the fictional abbey I was creating on top of Sierra del Torcal, I spotted this castle and fell in love with it.

These tools were used by scribes and writers in medieval times. In The Grotto's Secret my character uses these tools when she writes her mother's herb journal.

Medieval Costumes Paper Dolls, this is a great way to find out what they wore in the middle ages.

This cave-art in Nerja, gave me the idea for where my character in The Grotto's Secret could hide something valuable.

This lovely image of looking out from the inside of a cave or grotto gave me the idea for my character to hide things inside ... what does she hide?

A view to inspire a novel?

In the stunning view we have in our new Spanish home, far in the distance I can see this heart shaped mountain.

From the bean behind castor oil to the world's deadliest decorative shrub, you may be surprised to find out the incredibly lethal plants often hanging ar