Bella Street Romance Goes Retro

Please welcome guest host YA Sci-Fi author Pippa Jay as she talks about world-building and her latest book GETHYON! World Building – Future Fashion World Building – Future Fashion I'm not one to follow fashions, and never have been. As a teenager I set my mind on bucking any trend, and now as a busy mum of three I just don’t have time. Comfort and practicality are my two main requisites when it comes to what I wear!  But for my characters, it’s a different story. While I might not spend a whole paragraph on their latest outfit, what they wear and how they dress is a small but important part of the world building. It helps define the society. Are they technologically advanced? Wealthy or poor? Is it a significant part of their culture, or something that depends purely on their age group? Do they wear little because there’s no social stigma, because the amount of flesh they show is either a statement or lack of concern, or because they’ve perfected c...

Please help me welcome Chicago Center for Literature and Photography author Mark Brand . The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography is an organization founded by Jason Pettus, a Chicago writer and photographer. The organization started as a small online publishing venture but now publishes several original titles a year in print and electronic form. The really cool thing about CCLaP is that all of their books are handmade and bound by the staff.  Mark is a sci-fi writer based in Chicago. Besides being a really cool dude, he is also a really good writer. CCLaP usually doesn't do sci-fi novels, but " Life After Sleep " is a book that would be enjoyable by even non-sci-fi buffs (and sympathetic parents of small children). The future Mark creates is interesting and definitely foreseeable.  Talk about the story behind the Life After Sleep . What made you write this novel? At the time the idea came to me, I was working in the medi...