Archive for March, 2009
Colors [MUSIC]
- March 28th, 2009 at 7:43 am by --KALEB NATION-- -
[You can download this song for free. Click here to visit the download page.]
The idea for this song came to me suddenly while I was writing, and I had the entire thing arranged and recorded in about an hour. I left it on my computer for a month, then came back to it today, and didn’t change a single thing.
However, despite spending so little time on the song, the video took me nearly half a day to complete: mostly because I started out with a lame idea of showing my hands at the keyboard, doing each note and fading each one apart (this turned out horrible, after about 4 hours of filming, because basically all you’d see were these misty hands pressing the same keys over and over — LAME). With each beat in the song, there is a beat on the video, and I think it finally turned out right for this song.
[You can download this song for free. Click here to visit the download page.]
QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS: What do you think of the song?
Galleys for The Farfield Curse!
- March 27th, 2009 at 4:51 pm by --KALEB NATION-- -
The first printed copies of my book are finally here!
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- Assembly Line
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- The Stack
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- A Bound Galley
Before anyone comments that a plain white cover is very boring, I shall explain. This is not the actual book yet, but what are called bound galleys. As a cheat sheet:
ARC’s: Advance Reader Copies, sent to Special Peoples before a book comes out.
BOUND GALLEYS: an advance Advance Reader Copy, sent to Really Special People even longer before a book comes out.
WHODUNNIT: what a publisher says when a Bound Galley mysteriously goes missing, coincidentally just after the author receives them in the mail.
The bound galleys are basically just printings of the book, double-spaced, with a softcover wrapped around it and the title slapped on. Even the chapter titles are in a plain, tiny, boring font: much unlike how the finished book will appear!
This, however, marks the first ever edition of The Farfield Curse to be printed by Sourcebooks, albeit a very small and very unedited version. This also means that things are truly, finally starting to move faster in the preparations for the release. I can’t even begin to describe the huge stuff that my publishers are planning for this release, and it’s getting to be so exciting. I will say that April will be a very big month for everyone who has waited all this time, especially me.
April will also be a very big month for everyone who has waited to see the cover art. And that is all I shall say on that for now 
Posted in Bran Hambric, Writing
Tags: Bran Hambric, Sourcebooks
Where The Wild Things Are MOVIE
- March 26th, 2009 at 10:05 am by --KALEB NATION-- -
BEST. THING. EVER.
When this movie comes out, I have a feeling I will just sit in the theater for days, watching it over and over and over again. Seriously, I have waited since I was 2 years old to see this as a movie.
I just heard about this last week when I found this poster somewhere on the wild and glorious Internets, which brought me much joy:
Click to see in all its glorious huge epicness
According to the appropriately named WhereTheWildThingsAre.com, it’s coming out on October 16 of this year, which means this project has been kept a secret from me for quite some time. That gives me just enough time to find a Wild Things costume just like Max has in the poster, so I can wear it to the midnight release party
I totally have the best monster face
Question for the comments: Are you going see this movie? Otherwise, what’s your alibi for not going see it (ex: you are deathly allergic to all movies containing monsters and big fluffy suits )?
Posted in Quick Post
Tags: movies
On My Way To LA Again!
- March 19th, 2009 at 6:58 pm by --KALEB NATION-- -
I had such a fun time at the Twilight movie premiere back in November that I couldn’t resist flying back for the DVD release party! I will be at Borders Westwood in LA, California, on March 20 for the midnight release party. It’ll almost be like a mini reunion of all the cool promoters and fansite people I met last year, and I’ll be sure to bring back loads of photos and video from the trip!
I’ll also be Twittering any big happenings as fast as I can get them up (yes, technically I know it is called Tweeting, but the word Tweeting sounds slightly ridiculous*).
*as if informing the world via less-than-140-character updates about your life isn’t ridiculous enough.
By the way, there’s a short preview of a new song I’m working on in that video up there. Tell me what you think!
Posted in My Music, TwilightGuy, Videos
Tags: movies, Twilight
