Lifer by Beck Nicholas Blog Tour @chapterxchapter @BeckNicholas @month9books

Title: LIFERPublication date: December 16, 2014Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.Author: Beck Nicholas
Asher is a Lifer, a slave aboard the spaceship Pelican. A member of the lowest rung of society, she must serve the ship’s Officials and Astronauts as punishment for her grandparents’ crimes back on Earth. The one thing that made life bearable was her illicit relationship with Samuai, a Fishie boy, but he died alongside her brother in a freak training accident.
Still grieving for the loss of her loved ones, Asher is summoned to the upper levels to wait on Lady, the head Official’s wife and Samuai’s mother. It is the perfect opportunity to gather intel for the Lifer’s brewing rebellion. There’s just one problem—the last girl who went to the upper levels never came back.
On the other side of the universe, an alien attack has left Earth in shambles and a group called The Company has taken control. Blank wakes up in a pond completely naked and with no memory, not even his real name. So when a hot girl named Megs invites him to a black-market gaming warehouse where winning means information, he doesn’t think twice about playing. But sometimes the past is better left buried.

As Asher and Blank’s worlds collide, the truth comes out—everyone has been lied to. Bourne Identity meets Under the Never Sky in this intergalactic tale of love and deception from debut novelist Beck Nicholas.
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Thanks for having me here to talk about the world of Lifer.The first and most important part of creating the Lifer world was creating the characters and telling their story. Yes it takes place in a world changed from this one but I didn’t want to spend time creating details for the sake of details. I wanted to tell these characters’ stories.There are two distinct settings for Lifer because of the two entwined stories. One takes place on a post-apocalyptic earth and the other on a generation starship.
For the earth setting I needed a place to transform by the Upheaval (a catastrophic even that happened well before Lifer begins). While I didn’t want to name the city I needed a base to keep it consistent in my head. I researched the land and climate and flora and fauna and then wrecked them and tried to work out what might happen.  I knew there was new technology following the Upheaval and a new order created by those left behind. I spent considerable time working out who would have power and what they might do with it and why. The development of the Q weapon came from my own research at university on selectively breaking a particular chemical/molecular bond.
In order to create the spaceship where Asher is serving her sentence I read a lot about generational ships. Without giving anything away, there were a couple of unique factors I needed to take into account when designing the ship and I didn’t want to get too technical (because this isn’t my area of expertise).There were many pages of sketches to determine the layout and be able to follow the characters as they moved throughout the ship. I’m a terrible drawer so these will never see the light of day but they helped me see the inside of the ship.I had to consider how the two classes of people would interact and what could be in place to stop the servants from rebelling – or at least to foil their attempts. These made for flow on effects in the way the characters from the different classes acted and their own traditions/expectations. I really enjoyed creating the world of Lifer and so far my readers have enjoyed reading about it.
Thank you for having me.
I always wanted to write.  I’ve worked as a lab assistant, a pizza delivery driver and a high school teacher but I always pursued my first dream of creating stories. Now, I live with my family near Adelaide, halfway between the city and the sea, and am lucky to spend my days (and nights) writing young adult fiction.

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