I don’t know what kind soul was linking to the Amazon listing, but I’m told it went all the way past #5000, which is unheardof for an unknown, gnat-sized writer such as myself. Most of my friends tell me they started out in the 1 millions. This is entirely thanks to you devoted people who actually found it and started ordering before I even had the chance to pass it around! So thank you for kicking this off so perfectly — it gives me the confidence I really need as we get into the hard work of promoting it
If you’d like to pre-order, head on over to BranHambric.com/buy (Borders, B&N and others will be forthcoming as soon as they have it on their sites). As I said in the video, how can you possibly buy a book without sampling it first? So check out the preview chapters if you haven’t already. And, my sincere thanks to everyone who invests in my dreams early on
- April 20th, 2009 at
4:19 pm by --KALEB NATION-- -
I am away from my computer with all my files, and the internet here is super slow: but, I’ve been informed that PREORDERS FOR BRAN HAMBRIC: THE FARFIELD CURSE have officially OPENED A MONTH EARLY on Amazon.com! If my great usage of CAPS hasn’t yet convinced you, I will say this is super exciting and means that finally, my book is actually on sale:
Links on BN and Borders will be coming very soon, I’m told (as well as a better post, when I’m home). But for now, I’ve been cleared to tell everyone about the Amazon.com link! Enjoy
NOTE: I told people on my BlogTV show yesterday not to order the book until May 9, but my publishers told me today you can order it ANYTIME.
- April 18th, 2009 at
2:19 am by --KALEB NATION-- -
I am very pleased to present to you the cover for my debut novel BRAN HAMBRIC: THE FARFIELD CURSE, due in stores on 9-9-09.
What can I say? I got my dream illustrator, my dream color design and my dream layout. Everything in this cover is exactly as I hoped it would be, straight from the imagination of our glorious artist Brandon Dorman, with a whole lot of hard work from my publishers and agent to get it perfect.
Check out the entirely new website at BranHambric.com! Giving away of secrets: if you click on the tiny moon next to the links on the front page, there is a special section for Branfans . Here is a book trailer I worked on for while, which you might enjoy too:
It is quite hard to see the tiniest details of this cover when it is a small image on a website, so today (Saturday, April 18) I will be doing a LIVE BlogTV show on my channel. I don’t exactly know what time (I’ll post it on my Twitter when I do) but it is advisable to get there early. As my shows go, there can be anywhere from 300+ people crammed in, and while everyone can watch, only the first 150 can actually talk to me and ask questions. Hope to see you there!
- April 16th, 2009 at
12:29 am by --KALEB NATION-- -
Visit www.BranHambric.com to see it! There will be another piece tomorrow: and then, the final, full cover for BRAN HAMBRIC: THE FARFIELD CURSE on April 18. Tell me what you think so far in the comments
- April 13th, 2009 at
11:01 pm by --KALEB NATION-- -
Yesterday, I was cleaning up my computer and found an old song concept from months ago that I never finished. I had been having loads of trouble with a piano line in the song and had finally just given up. When I found it again, I realized the problem with the piano was that the piano just didn’t belong — I took it out, and suddenly the song came together.
A few hours of not-studying-psychology later, I might actually have another song to add to the Bran Hambric soundtrack (I promise I’ll release Astara soon, I’m almost done mastering it). If I decide it’s worth finishing, I’m thinking this new one will be for Shambles (he’s in the preview chapters if you’ve read them). Here’s a clip from the middle:
For this one I’m going for a very emotional, brooding sound that’s different from the rest of the soundtrack: this overall feeling of a mentally alone and tortured creature who can’t escape the voices that haunt him from within.
Speaking of the soundtrack, I’ve noticed that there are quite a number of people who want a Bran Hambric soundtrack on CD. A day ago, I posted on Twitter that I was considering it, and within 5 minutes I was inundated with replies from all over the world wanting to get it somehow. (In the midst of showing a spoof of the CD art, I might have inadvertently leaked what we might be using as the Bran Hambric logo…see what unexpected insider information you get from following my Twitter?).
My original idea for the soundtrack was to give the songs away with the book somehow, but it appears that at least with the first edition of THE FARFIELD CURSE, there will be no CD attached. Sometimes, for books that sell particularly well, there will be deluxe editions with extra material, which is the most likely point when a CD would actually come with the book; but as of now, the only way I will be able to get CD’s to the people who want them is to sell it really cheap from a Print On Demand service (most likely LuLu.com). Nothing is set in stone, but my thoughts on this plan are:
- A CD of the soundtrack with 9-10 songs available from BranHambricMusic.com for really cheap ($8 or $9),
- Half of the soundtrack available for free download, as before with Youtube,
- A code inside THE FARFIELD CURSE book that unlocks bonus songs and downloads that aren’t on the soundtrack.
Since Twitter isn’t really a good place to see a show of hands on who likes the idea and who doesn’t, please do comment on this below. Your feedback on this will really be the deciding factor on if a Bran Hambric CD actually does come into being, because at the moment I’m indecisive.
By the way, I’m testing out a new and improved commenting system on my blog. Now, you can reply directly to others comments, and see my replies to you all in one place! Hopefully you all enjoy it
