The Infamous Chronicles Season 2 Premier

The Infamous Chronicles Season 2 Premier

Check out the world premier of The Infamous Chronicles podcast season 2. Voted BEST NEW INDY PODCAST OF 2013, the show comes roaring back with new material and a new co-host.

BEHOLD – TIC Episode 8 Is Available Now!

The Infamous Chronicles Season 1: Episode 8 is available now! Coming in to rave reviews and being held as “the funniest shit TIC has ever put out,” episode 8 dives into loyalty in the work place, more soda references, and the reveal that the show is now heard worldwide.

Interview with groundbreaking indpendent authro Jeremy P Elder

Some of us here at Infamousworks and the Infamous Chronicles get to see author Jeremy P Elder on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. The idea was batted around several times to sit him and actually get a full disclosure interview with him and that challenge landed in my lap. About a week ago while editing TIC podcast I wrote out the questions I wanted answers to and asked Jeremy what he’d think of an interview. The next night he was at my house with a bottle of wine.

TIC: So Jeremy, Topics Too is right around the corner, are you getting nervous?

JPE: laughs Well yeah wouldn’t you be!

TIC: That’s why I’m not a writer. It’s been five years since your last book and you have been doing almost all of the marketing for your new novel thru your own channels, how well do you think you have the target audience prepared for your new book?

JPE: Wow, what a great question. Well the wishful answer would be pretty damn well. But we dont live in a perfect world and when the book launches it will be on all of us at Infamousworks because I was adamant about not letting anyone else get a piece of this pie and ruin my work like the fiasco that was the first book.I think that right now, the podcast that we do is opening marketing floodgates I could have never imagined.

TIC: The podcast is now in over 15 different countries around the world and has over 2000 plays. Did you expect it would come to this?

JPE: Not in my wildest dreams honestly. When my friend, The Maestro, came over one night he was showing me and talking to me about his Martian Landscape radio show he did and how he is currently putting it out in podcast format. I loved the concept right out the gate and thought “I could do that!” I invited him to guest host with me and he swung for the bleachers from the first episode. Now when we started he only had between 20-30 plays for his own podcast and we blew past 100 plays in less than a week after he appeared on TIC. Its been a wild ride for all of us because the underlying theme of the show is my literature and art of other friends of mine but its blasted out at people in this hilarious no holds barred format that really works to the benefit of the book.

TIC: So what is next after Topics Too does launch and whats left of the podcast then?

JPE: Well Topics Too evolved so much from the original story that it’s hard to even say they are connected and that’s the great part is the way that they are connected will catch readers off guard. After Topics Too I continue this universe in a second spin-off trilogy Friends with Topics. Each of the three books will chronicle the lives of the characters in Topics Too before during and after that book and set the stage for the final book in the original Topics Trilogy. Its really great because I have laid out this very intricate road map and have such a clear picture of where I want everything to go that it is going to be a lot of fun to write these stories.

 

 

EPISODE SIX HAS LAUNCHED AND THE PODCAST GETS 1600 LISTENS!

A huge and exciting day today with the launch of our sixth successful episode. A good friend of mine, actor Allen Regimbal guest stars on this weeks episode and the reviews just back up what we all really wanted…this episode is hilarious. Whenever you get Allen, Oggy and I in a room together hilarity is sure to ensue. We go into all sorts of wild stuff like native americas, super heroes, what to do in south dakota besides masturbate, and what its really like experience the culture shock that is Los Angeles. In addition to that, we woke to overwhelming news. The Infamous Chronicles podcast has now passed 1600 total listens for the season so far and has over 300 downloads. We are currently sititng int he top 20 literature podcasts on the internet and couldnt be more excited. The final exciting news is that Allen that is featured on this weeks episode is in fact whom the character of Reggie Scott is based on in my upcoming novel, Topics Too, due out April 27th 2013.

Topics Too Kickstarter campaign to self-publish the new books

Topics Too Kickstarter campaign to self-publish the new books

Help us self publish the new book and support our kickstarter campaign. We set the funding low to keep it reasonable and I would love to protect the creative integrity of the book by self publishing. There are tons of great prizes and rewards for everyone who comes over and shows some love. When I published my first book in 2008 it was bastardized by the publishers and editors to make it more “marketable”. Help me publish this amazing new book in its true form

The First Secret is Found!

The First Secret is Found!

With the launch of the brand new jeremypelder.com site this week fans quickly realized that it wasn’t just another website, it was an adventure. Hidden inside are over 25 confirmed secret pages, prizes, jokes, pictures, unpublished stories, secret podcasts and so much more. There are awesome prizes for the first to find them all. 

TIC Blog sits down with author Jeremy P Elder to discuss Second Star rumors and upcoming Topics novels

 

JEREMY P ELDER GIVES UPDATE TO HIS 2013 PLANS!

In December of 2012 it was finally announced when fans can expect a new novel by groundbreaking author Jeremy P Elder. Then last week on his podcast, The Infamous Chronicles, Jeremy announced an official release date for his newest novel (finally titled) Topics Too: The Sequel. We can expect that book, which is a sequel to his controversial 2008 best selling independent novel The Topics of Heroes, on April 27th 2013. The Infamous Chronicles Blog sat down with the author this morning to commit his plans for 2013. Here is our interview:

 

TICB: Good morning Jeremy. So after all this time and your commitment to The Infamous Chronicles viral campaign, why now did you finally decide it was time to do an interview?

 

JPE: Well, you kinda decided that for me didnt you. (laughs) Listen you guys work so hard  for me on the podcast, blogs and website and you have been hounding me about all of the ‘unanswered questions’ the fans have for whats coming from myself and the Infamousworks team so I wanted to help clarify some of that

 

TICB: Okay well let’s start with a big one; why such a long wait between the first novel and your new one?

 

JPE: I would love to tell you that there was a lengthy planning process, or that research was done or whatever other clever thing I could say to make it sound justified for the wait but the honest to God truth is that I had just horrible writers block. It wasn’t just Topics that I was stuck on it was writing in general. In the five years between the first and second book I only wrote one short story, and that is still unfinished. I was dead stuck. Finally my daughter was born and I had so much late night time that I was up with her or waiting just in case she would wake up that my nerves were so fried I just had to write to get my frustration out. I started with writing my daughter emails and then it became short stories then the light just came on for where I wanted to take the Topics series and it was a BIG light.

 

TICB: And is it true that it only took you a week to write the whole book?

 

JPE: I was so fixated on it I had the entire first draft done in a week. It might have even been less to be honest. It was crazy, this thing that had me stuck for five years was finally just done. I outsourced one chapter to a dear friend to help out with but besides that it was done. I finished it and turned in the untitled draft to my publisher and editor and the ball finally got rolling.

 

TICB: So what can fans expect different about this book and with where the series is going?

 

JPE:  Well it’s a little strange to explain but although this is probably the fastest I have ever written a completed story from start to finish, it is hands down the best thing I have ever written. It is so much deeper and invested than the previous novel. I became so passionately attached to the characters in the story that an entire new universe began working in my head for these people within the Topics stories and when I sent  the draft out for test readings the feeling was unnannimous. The fist story had harsh, critical praise but this, I had only positive constructive feedback and I was finally very proud of something that I was going to publish.  

 

TICB: Tell us about this ‘universe’ that you have in mind for your Topics series.

 

JPE: Well Topics was a stand alone story that evolved into an opportunity to write a sequel. It wasn’t until about a year after it was published that I started thinking, well what do these guys become? Since then I have created a very detailed and intricate timeline of the series with Topics of Heroes being Braile’s prologue to his life which picks up in Topics Too and will ultimately be finalized in the third book. However, in that you have these other rich characters that exist and who’s lives don’t revolve around Braile but deserve just as much of attention so the roadmap was laid out that they will begin their own quadrilogy which starts this Winter with the character of Agi’s stand-alone story called The Toics of Agi. The story will take place between The Topics of Heroes, Topics Too and set up for the third book. In Spring of 2014 I will publish Topics of Reeve which will tell the story of Reeve Colyn’s and her non profit to rescue teenage suicide survivors and will take place about a year or two before Topics Too and during part of Topics of Agi. In Winter of 2014 you will get Topics of Reggie which is the story of Reggie and his journey to hollywood to become an actor, how he failed that and moved back to South Dakota to try and restart his life. This story will take place just before Topics Too and after it, also leading into the final book. In 2015 you will get the last stand-alone story which will tell the tale of our antogonist after the events of Topics of Heroes and what led to his hatred for Braile and the events that occur during Topics Too. Then the final book in the series will be called The Last Topics and nicely wrap up everyone’s stories.

 

TICB: Wow that seems like a lot.

 

JPE: Because all of the characters in these stories are based on real people that I know so well they are generally easier for me to write and get excited about and I owe it to their commitment and support to flesh out this universe and give something for everyone. 

 

TICB: And what’s with the mysterious Second Star announcement?

 

JPE: Ah yes, well Second Star is a very personal project for me. It will be the largest thing I have ever taken on and it will be a huge achievement once it is complete. The website is launched and all I can say on it at this time is that I will change Peter Pan forever.

 

TICB: Bold statement.

 

JPE: Well it would’nt be me if it wasn’t (laughing)

 

 

And that was our brief interview with the author, who quickly closed the Second Star questions and did not really shine any new light on the mysterious announcement. Huge announcement for the Topics universe though. 

 

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Second Star website launched

A very basic and very ambiguous website has launched at secondstarseries.com. The site is a landing page for the mysterious new infamousworks novel announced this week with a Winter 2013 release date. Stay tunes for more details

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Podcast Update

There will be no podcast this week due to bandwidth issues on our hosting site but we we will be back strong next Sunday. Sorry for the inconvenience