I just passed 10,000 followers on my Twitter, and to celebrate I’m doing a live show tonight (July 18) at
Watch the video for info! Thanks to all my loyal followers at Twitter.com/KalebNation
I’m a huge Owl City fan (as is obvious from a ton of my recent videos!). His new album called Ocean Eyes is easily one of my favorites, and it’s great for almost anything: exercising, going outside, trying to fall asleep, etc. It’s a good bit of happy music that’s somehow not too sweet, even for someone like me who usually likes Anberlin and Shiny Toy Guns (my other two favorite bands!). This week only, you can actually download his new song “Fireflies” for free from iTunes (hear a preview of it in my video above).
Unlike must artists who would get that sickening, cotton-candy sound, Owl City can somehow even write an entire song about going to the dentist and actually make it fun to listen to. My favorite song from the new album (not including The Saltwater Room which was previously released) is If My Heart Was A House:
Buy IF MY HEART WAS A HOUSE on iTunes.
even though it is very hard to pick between that and Vanilla Twilight. You can hear most of the Owl City songs on his Myspace too.
It isn’t exactly the New York Times bestseller list (yet!), but my publisher’s recent decision to push back the e-book release of Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse has been causing a lot of buzz this week. The Wall Street Journal was the first to report:
In an interview, Sourcebooks’ chief executive said it will delay by at least half a year the e-book version of “Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse,” a young-readers title in the vein of Harry Potter that goes on sale Sept. 9. While the book is a debut novel, the author, Kaleb Nation, has a following with his Twilightguy.com blog.
Sourcebooks is issuing 75,000 copies of “Bran Hambric,” a sizable print run in this economy, and has arranged a substantial marketing campaign and book tour for Mr. Nation. (read more…)
This turned into more than a dozen big blogs getting in on the discussion. Now this evening, an article in the New York Times reported it as well:
Sourcebooks, an independent publisher, is releasing “Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse,” a novel aimed at children, in September in hardcover. It will hold back the e-book until six months later. (read more…)
For those of you not in the publishing biz, this basically means that Sourcebooks will not release an e-book or Kindle edition until about 6 months after the bookstores get it on 9/9/09 (only 56 days left!). At the same time, the hardcover goes for about $12 in most online stores, as opposed to the usual $20 or so for others, so all of you who have pre-ordered or who are waiting won’t notice the difference.
Thanks to the articles, there was a huge pre-order’s spike this morning for Bran Hambric. As if all that good stuff isn’t enough, Borders recently posted an interview they did with me at Book Expo America — this came the same day as the news that Borders is giving the book front-of-store placement (all you people waiting instead of pre-ordering, this means it’ll be VERY easy to find at Borders!). I talk about gnomes and writing and some creatures in the books (including winx, one of my own creations that you’ll find in The Farfield Curse). Click below to watch it:
And for anyone who didn’t catch it, the Wall Street Journal gave out a little bit of information that I haven’t mentioned before — that Sourcebooks is planning a book tour! I’ll have updates on that as soon as I know all the details 
For the comments: any suggestions of where I should go on that tour? (note: I don’t really get to pick, but it’ll be great to know where people are!).
Posted in Bran Hambric
Tags: Bran Hambric, New York Times, Wall Street Journal
One of the biggest and funniest media circuses I’ve ever seen . I’ve gotten literally hundreds of emails about it to my Twilight site, TwilightGuy.com.
Here’s the original article that I show in my video. Click the image to see its laughable-ness up CLOSE:
Posted in Twilight, Videos
Tags: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Twilight, Video
Much to the annoyance of my local post office, I only get to check my PO Box about twice a month because it’s so far away from where I actually live! Because of this, my mail gets VERY piled up (this is part of the reason I don’t reply for months!) and I have to carry it all home and dump it on my bed to sort through it. Example:
My favorite part about coming home from the Post Office is when I finally get to open all the packages and check out all the awesome stuff people have made for me and Bran Hambric. I think everyone has finally caught on how much I love gnomes. Who would have thought that in the 80′s there would actually be a Star Trek comic book with GNOMES:
I’ve uploaded the rest of the photos and some of the cool stuff (including a gnome pillow!) to the Fans page. Thanks to everyone who wrote all those great letters
Posted in Bran Hambric
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