Recent blog posts in the category Infinimata Press: Projects:
How everything from 'The Stars My Destination' to 'Streets Of Fire' (and even 'Justice League', in a negative way!) fed into the making of my new novel.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2020/08/12 08:00
In the time leading up to the release of my new novel
Fall Of The Hammer, I'll be making a series of posts to serve as an extended introduction to the book — its origins, its influences, its themes, its setting and characters. Enjoy.
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See all entries in this series here.)
In my previous installment in this series, I talked about the major influences on my forthcoming novel The Fall Of The Hammer. Here, I'm going to talk about the way those influences came together to form a story.
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Behind The Scenes: FOTH
The Fall Of The Hammer
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storytelling
A rundown of some of the other stories and films that influenced 'Hammer''s growth and direction.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2020/08/10 08:00
In the time leading up to the release of my new novel
Fall Of The Hammer, I'll be making a series of posts to serve as an extended introduction to the book — its origins, its influences, its themes, its setting and characters. Enjoy.
(
See all entries in this series here.)
Back in Part Two of this series, I talked about the bare idea behind Fall Of The Hammer, and the general outlines of the story it inspired. Here, I'm going to dive into some of the other media that influenced how Hammer took shape and direction.
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Behind The Scenes: FOTH
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The alterna-past setting and backstory for my new novel, 'Fall Of The Hammer'.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2020/08/01 17:00
In the time leading up to the release of my new novel
Fall Of The Hammer, I'll be making a series of posts to serve as an extended introduction to the book — its origins, its influences, its themes, its setting and characters. Enjoy.
(
See all entries in this series here.)
Back in Part One of this series, I talked about how I scraped my new novel's ideas from a couple of long-dead ones. The ideas themselves mutated drastically once I had them together under a new roof.
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How my new novel 'Fall Of The Hammer' started from a project I'd abandoned over twenty-five years ago.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2020/07/27 17:00
In the time leading up to the release of my new novel
Fall Of The Hammer, I'll be making a series of posts to serve as an extended introduction to the book — its origins, its influences, its themes, its setting and characters. Enjoy.
(
See all entries in this series here.)
Once upon a time, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the screech of dial-up networking was a common sound, I hatched an idea for a novel called (drumroll, please) The Fall Of The Hammer. The core idea: At some undefined time in history, the world shattered into a mosaic of times and places, each interpenetrating with the other to some degree. Against this backdrop, there was a ... uh ...
You see the problem. I had a setting, but no story. But I tried to write one anyway, and got about sixty thousand words in before hitting a brick wall and giving up.
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Behind The Scenes: FOTH
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Some progress notes in re the latest novel, Fall Of The Hammer.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2020/06/24 17:00
Some progress notes in re the latest novel, Fall Of The Hammer:
- I have readers checking out the book now and giving me positive and useful feedback.
- I still have to finish up the outer design. This will be the first book published under my newly renamed imprint.
- Before that happens, I'll be revamping this website to feature the new imprint name. I have the steps for that mapped out and ready to go as soon as I have an afternoon or so free to do it.
- I'm hoping to have the new site launched by July 1 or so, and the new book to follow in the weeks after that.
- Wheels are already turning on the next book, tentatively titled Unmortal. No ETA on that one yet, though. "Maybe next year" is the closest I can give you. But it'll be worth the wait.
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The Fall Of The Hammer
future projects
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On new work in progress.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2020/06/12 17:00
When one door closes, the saying goes, another elephant-sized hole gets blown clean out of the wall next to it. Or something.
This week I turned copies of The Fall Of The Hammer over to my readers, took a deep breath, and opened a new, blank wiki. Because over the course of the last few weeks, as I was yanking commas and restoring clauses in Hammer, a new idea hath cometh forth-eth.
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Unmortal
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If I was a filmmaker, my latest book would be at what could be the "answer print" phase. Done, but not quite *done*.
By Serdar Yegulalp on 2020/05/10 17:00
Sitting on the desktop next to the window where I type this is the first PDF distilled from the recently completed fifth draft of The Fall Of The Hammer, my new novel. If I was a filmmaker, this is what I'd call the "answer print" phase: the first version of the film delivered to the studio with sound and picture fully synced and with color correction, but still pending final changes like editing for pacing.
It's always a strange feeling to have in front of you a file that you could in theory just sign off on and deliver as-is to your readers. Very few, if any, story changes remain to be made. I've gone as far as I can go as I am right now with that part of it; the rest would be pending feedback from my hand-picked crew of test readers, or some eleventh-hour-and-fifty-ninth-minute revelation on my part. But I know there's still some work left to be done. I've waited this long to finish it, I can wait a little longer.
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