Interesting Settings – Tracy Cooper-Posey

Ningaloo: Deadly, Beautiful, and Still Real

2 Comments / Interesting Settings, Romantic Suspense / December 7, 2025 / Australian culture, Australian outback, behind the scenes, Beta Readers, book inspiration, Ningaloo Nights, Ningaloo Reef, real settings in romance, Romantic Suspense, setting in fiction, survival in fiction, Tracy Cooper-Posey, travel inspiration, writing process, writing research / 4 minutes of reading

In Ningaloo Nights, the stunning Australian outback isn’t just a backdrop—it’s a character all on its own: beautiful, remote, and deadly if you don’t know what you’re doing. When beta readers questioned whether I’d exaggerated the dangers, I had to assure them—every survival detail in the book is true. Growing up around Ningaloo taught me that nature doesn’t pull punches. But oh, the beauty is worth every ounce of caution.

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Water, Arches, and Ancient Brilliance: The Underrated Fascination of Aqueducts

Historical Stuff, Interesting Settings / August 3, 2025 / ancient technology, aqueducts, archaeology, author life, Eagle Aqueduct, France travel, Historical Fiction, history, infrastructure, Nerja, Pont du Gard, Roman architecture, Roman Empire, Roman engineering, Spain travel, The Triumph of Felix, Tracy Cooper-Posey, Türkiye, writing inspiration / 4 minutes of reading

“Aqueducts are the perfect intersection of beauty and practicality. They’re not just pretty ruins—they were the arteries of ancient cities, still standing, still defying time.”

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Pampered Vampires and the Mile-High Club

Erotic Romances, Interesting Settings, Ménage à Trois, MMF Romance, Urban Fantasy, Vampires / January 8, 2019 / Arab Emirates Airline, Blood Knot, Blood Stone series, luxury travel, Singapore Airlines / 4 minutes of reading

This is one of the posts I lost, that I recently unearthed in a raw PHP coded archive. It first appeared on this blog in March 2011, just when I was launching my very first indie title, Blood Knot. This is some of the research I did for that novel. — t. We tend to

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The Snakes On This Island Kill Humans, Not Just Baby Iguanas.

Interesting Settings / August 26, 2018 / Brazil, Snake Island, snakes / 2 minutes of reading

Back in March I ran a post about the horrifying episode of Planet Earth II that ran on the BBC, showing recer snakes gobbling up baby iguanas as they rushed for the beach. I thought that one was bad enough. Since then, I have tripped across another island. This one is called Ilha da Queimada

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Western Australia Day

Interesting Settings, Just Slightly Off Topic / June 4, 2018 / Perth, Western Australia, Western Australia day / 1 minute of reading

Another anniversary date I didn’t want to omit acknowledging. Western Australia Day was called Foundation Day when I was a kid, and we always had special assemblies on the day. The name was changed to Western Australian day in the 1990s, after I left Australia, as the old name had come to be considered insensitive

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Now out in print! Super hot Romantic Suspense.

Erotic Romances, Interesting Settings, Romantic Suspense / March 17, 2018 / Blood Knot, Ningaloo Nights, Ningaloo Reef, print editions, Western Australia / 3 minutes of reading

As a rule, I prefer to do a general, normal post in between posts about my books, but lately, there’s just been way too much news to share. So, another announcement, today. Ningaloo Nights is a novella length romantic suspense set in Ningaloo, Western Australia. Generally, only Australians and travellers who have been to parts

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Coming to a scene near you, very soon.

2 Comments / Interesting Settings / March 13, 2018 / Bonn, California, cherry blossoms / 1 minute of reading

Image credits: Adas Meliauskas Depending on where you are in the world, we’re coming into Cherry Blossom season in a few weeks, which is generally around April in the northern hemisphere, but earlier in warmer climates. Cherry blossoms are associated strongly with Japan, but the trees grow everywhere. This astonishing cherry blossom canopy (above)

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