{"id":27664,"date":"2023-10-16T05:59:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T12:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=27664"},"modified":"2023-10-16T05:59:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T12:59:40","slug":"inspiration-for-the-janey-mccallister-mystery-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/16\/inspiration-for-the-janey-mccallister-mystery-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration for the Janey McCallister Mystery series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-27665 size-full\" title=\"Inspiration for the Janey McCallister Mystery series\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102.png\" alt=\"Blog Image for Inspiration for the Janey McCallister Mystery series\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/102-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/103.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27666\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/103.png\" alt=\"Quote from Blog Image for Inspiration for the Janey McCallister Mystery series\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/103.png 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/103-80x80.png 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"episode__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Inspiration for the Janey McCallister Mystery series &#8211; How To Write the Future podcast, episode 67<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo space elevators really sparked my imagination and are one of the underpinnings or infrastructure of my world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In \u201cEpisode 67. Inspiration for the Janey McCallister Mystery series\u201d host Beth Barany, creativity coach, teacher, and science fiction and fantasy novelist, shares how she was inspired to start her sci-fi mystery series and gives insight into how to write your setting for science fiction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Platforms The podcast is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/67-inspiration-for-the-janey-mccallister-mystery-series\/id1641025914?i=1000631441787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8yMDEyMDYxLnJzcw\/episode\/QnV6enNwcm91dC0xMzczODUxNw?sa=X&amp;ved=0CAUQkfYCahcKEwjA1bLozfqBAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\/13738517-67-inspiration-for-the-janey-mccallister-mystery-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buzzsprout<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/6HHnK2c2ofYC0Cn8qJqrmt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/podcastaddict.com\/episode\/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F2012061%2F13738517-67-inspiration-for-the-janey-mccallister-mystery-series.mp3&amp;podcastId=4025186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcast Addict<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/ca590618-5630-4450-aa17-7e2f35359a76\/episodes\/6f56efc8-d213-4dd9-870d-b185244b01f5\/how-to-write-the-future-67-inspiration-for-the-janey-mccallister-mystery-series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WhUzDU46vkc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youtube<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WhUzDU46vkc?si=KWkX-e35AHWoo1vt\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"buzzsprout-large-player\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' charset='utf-8' src='https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061.js?container_id=buzzsprout-large-player&#038;player=large'><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><b>RESOURCES\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>The Space Elevator: Academic Challenge 2024<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/api.neonemails.com\/emails\/content\/TGT4AezGpyIIXGFHOa508MwQQew2PBd96VJmGmNqusc=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/api.neonemails.com\/emails\/content\/TGT4AezGpyIIXGFHOa508MwQQew2PBd96VJmGmNqusc=<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Free World Building Workbook for Fiction Writers:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/world-building-resources\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Sign up for the 30-minute Story Success Clinic here:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/story-success-clinic\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Janey McCallister space station investigator series:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/author.bethbarany.com\/janey-mccallister-mystery-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/author.bethbarany.com\/janey-mccallister-mystery-series\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT THE <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HOW TO WRITE THE FUTURE<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> PODCAST\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How To Write The Future<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> podcast is for science fiction and fantasy writers who want to write positive futures and successfully bring those stories out into the marketplace. Hosted by Beth Barany, science fiction novelist and creativity coach for writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tips for fiction writers! This podcast is for you if you have questions like:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I create a believable world for my science fiction story?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I figure out what&#8217;s not working if my story feels flat?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How do I make my story more interesting and alive?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This podcast is for readers too if you\u2019re at all curious about the future of humanity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transcript for Ep 67 &#8211; Inspiration for the Janey McCallister Mystery series\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey everyone. Beth Barany here. Welcome back. Or welcome to How To Write The Future podcast. I am here to support writers, science fiction and fantasy writers, who want to write positive, optimistic futures. Because I believe that when we vision what is possible, we help make it so. I myself am a novelist, a science fiction and fantasy novelist, writing teacher, and a coach, and a burgeoning filmmaker. Yes, that is true too. More on that in some other episode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So when I was casting about for a new project, about seven years ago. Is that right? Yeah, seven years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I was toying about going back to my contemporary set paranormal romances, with action, adventure, and suspense. Or start something completely new.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I had an idea that came directly from a dream where a woman was dressed, uh, like it for a cocktail party, and she was at an art gallery and this art gallery was on a space station and she was undercover looking for a thief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I woke up from this dream and I thought, wow, that would be a fun story. And actually, in my dream, there&#8217;s a confrontation between her and a guest at the art gallery showing who is dressed like James Bond. And, um, she&#8217;s all dressed up and they&#8217;re kind of flirting but she&#8217;s catching the clues that he&#8217;s probably the thief. And I thought, oh, this is really fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I had that kernel of an idea and I&#8217;m like, okay, I want my main character to be investigating something. And to be on a space station. And that&#8217;s what was the spark for my Janey McCallister mystery series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She&#8217;s a space station investigator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And as I was starting this whole series, about seven years ago, I realized, oh, I am really writing a police procedural. She&#8217;s a legitimate investigator. She works for somebody. I had to figure out what, and I eventually decided who she worked for. And in the four stories I&#8217;ve written, she&#8217;s hired on as an investigator to this hotel casino space station that is like a, a little city. And that&#8217;s her job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So she&#8217;s a legit investigator. And I realized when I was planning the story that I really needed to understand how mysteries were structured. And how do I make sure we know we&#8217;re in a science fiction world without, you know, doing long explainer scenes?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So I studied how to integrate setting and all the gadgetry we like in high-tech science fiction, but also some changes in worldview. Some shifts in how humanity is in the story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;ve said it only a hundred years in the future, so it&#8217;s not that far in the future. And I need to think about what are the things that are different from today&#8217;s world and what are the things that are the same. And then how do I signal to the reader right away, right away, that we are in a science fiction world?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you write a contemporary fiction, you don&#8217;t need to explain a lot of things because most readers will understand what those are. Setting doesn&#8217;t need to be explained in as much detail right away as in science fiction, for example.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That&#8217;s one of the best clues to indicate that you&#8217;re in a new setting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of my favorite TV shows&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>One of my favorite TV shows was\u2026\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m spacing on the name- bounty hunters and space &#8211; Kill Joys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They weren&#8217;t investigators, they were bounty hunters and they had to go and find their bounty. So similar idea to mysteries. Your characters are on the hunt. And I loved what they were doing with the societies and the tensions in the societies there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then the greater sort of science fiction world. So that was one of my inspirations I would say indirectly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I just enjoy thinking about how things could be in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, it&#8217;s not all utopian. It&#8217;s not all horrible. It&#8217;s not dystopian. Somewhere in the middle. And it&#8217;s incrementally better in many ways than today&#8217;s world. And, and yet still problems exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those are some of the things that inspired me to create Janey McCallister and, and the futuristic world that I created.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Space Elevators!\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another thing that has really inspired me, especially once I got the idea for my space station investigator story was the space elevator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so I want to share a little bit with you about the space elevator, what a space elevator is or what it is conceived to be, and a really interesting academic challenge for 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So basically a space elevator is &#8211; imagine you could take an elevator from the surface of the earth up to the weightlessness of space, say where the International Space Station is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wouldn&#8217;t that be amazing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Except it is really hard to build.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And one of the things I learned in my research is that you need a very durable, lightweight material to build it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so in my story, I&#8217;ve decided that it is graphene because that&#8217;s one of the metals that we think could help us build a space elevator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But there&#8217;s thought of technical challenges in building a space elevator. So through my research, I found the International Space Elevator Consortium. And they are running an academic challenge in 2024, in conjunction with the National Space Society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They&#8217;re conducting a student academic challenge on the concept of space elevators, and first prize is 2000 US dollars. And there will also be awarding a total of 7,000 US dollars. So this contest is open to individual students or teams of up to four students and anywhere worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So a little bit more about what is a space elevator. So imagine a lift system that can raise 170,000 metric tons to space every year. That&#8217;s the equivalent of 8,500 or 8,500 Falcon Heavy launches. And it has no atmospheric pollution. It&#8217;s essentially a green road to space. It&#8217;s incredible. We could save a lot on materials and, uh, we wouldn&#8217;t pollute and it could be a very safe environmentally friendly, easy routine way to get up to the edge of space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then once we&#8217;re in the weightlessness of space, what could we do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We could launch from there, we could build up there, we could bring robots up to create factories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So space elevators really sparked my imagination and our, one of the underpinnings or infrastructure of my world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now if you read the first four books in the Janey McCallister mystery series you will see I mention a space elevator. It&#8217;s in the background it&#8217;s part of the story but I researched it through the space elevator consortium. And then just let my imagination go wild.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Space Stations!\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There&#8217;s one other element I want to share about what inspires me to write my current sci-fi mystery series and that is space stations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My series is focused for the most part on space stations. And this really intrigues me. I think I was inspired by Star Trek and also by Elizabeth Moon&#8217;s science fiction series. She has two different series that exist I think in two similar far, future worlds where some of the time characters are on space stations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I was also inspired by a dream I had, like, I&#8217;ve already mentioned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I wrote a book that is still in pieces in the back drawer somewhere but might get revived one day that I call <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">April&#8217;s Folly.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And in that story, I have my present-day main character go to the future with, um, the love interest and they go to the space station and they have an adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I just thought space stations were such a great place to look down upon Earth and have some perspective and have some distance and be able to meditate and be able to just gain a new perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So those are some of the things that I&#8217;m attracted to with the idea of a space station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so I built a whole world in my futuristic story where there&#8217;s more than a dozen space stations around Planet Earth. there&#8217;s a few around the moon. In my story, there&#8217;s science stations out by the outer gas giants like Saturn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They just take my imagination and so, I like dreaming up different kinds of space stations, the ones that might be like a family hotel or one that might be a military training base. Or one that might be actually like a meditation temple. Or another one that is a transit station, like a big airport, and a lot more. So I&#8217;m playing with some of these ideas. In my next book and book five, which will be published I don&#8217;t know when exactly. You&#8217;ll find out when I know.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All right, everyone. That&#8217;s it for this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you would like to find out more about my science fiction and fantasy, especially about my space station investigator series,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go to author.BethBarany.com and there you will find all about my fiction. It could also go to any of the online vendors and search my name, Beth Barany that&#8217;s B A R A N Y.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And check out my fiction for some rip-roaring adventures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, rip-roaring adventures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Write long and prosper!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loved this episode? Leave us a review and rating here: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/2012061<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ABOUT BETH BARANY\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BETH-BARANY_2023_300px_01-e1692481023683.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27411 size-full\" title=\"Image of Beth Barany\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/BETH-BARANY_2023_300px_01-e1692481023683.png\" alt=\"Image of Beth Barany\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beth Barany teaches science fiction and fantasy novelists how to write, edit, and publish their books as a coach, teacher, consultant, and developmental editor. She\u2019s an award-winning fantasy and science fiction novelist and runs the podcast, \u201cHow To Write The Future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about Beth Barany at these sites:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/author.bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/\u00a0 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bethbarany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coaching site<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/baranyschooloffiction.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">School of Fiction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.writersfunzone.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writer\u2019s Fun Zone 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