I bet you thought this zombie was alive. NOPE. Chuck Testa.

Next week, I’ll be flying to YAllfest, where hopefully I can meet a ton of you more east-coast-living people, who I usually miss since I live all the way on the other side of the country.

YALLFEST is a book festival on November 12, 2011 in Charleston, South Carolina, USA. There’ll be over 28 authors, including: Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl, David Levithan, Melissa de la Cruz, Heather Brewer, Ellen Hopkins, Andrew Cremer, Beth Revis, Carrie Ryan, Isaac Marion, Sarah Rees Brennan, Kimberly Derting, Adele Griffin, Lisa Brown, Victoria Schwab,

(takes deep breath)

Michelle Hodkin, Kwame Alexander, Saundra Mitchell, Diana Peterfreund, Caitlin Kittredge, Pseudonymous Bosch, Katie Crouch, Holly Goldberg Sloan, Eliot Schrefer, Natalie Standiford, David Levithan, and Emperor of the Lone Islands Lord of Cair Paravel Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Lion… Kaleb Nation.

TL;DR? A LOT of authors will be there. Even some not on that list. This is DEFINITELY something you should go to!

If that’s not enough motivation, it will also be the first location where they are filming my TV show KALEB’S NATION. So if you’re looking for me, just find the film crew, and I’m probably doing something crazy close by.

See you there!

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One of my favorite parts of being an author is getting to meet and talk to kids and teens who enjoy reading. I love to travel around the country and encourage kids to read and write stories they enjoy. I have appeared at countless schools and school-related events to tell the story of how I became an author and show kids ways that they can enjoy creating their own stories. Since I started writing my first book “Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse” close to the age of most kids in attendance, I can speak directly to other young writers who might dream of being published one day. Every stop has plenty of Q&A about writing, publishing, and pretty much anything students come up with (Q&A is always the best part).

I am currently touring in the areas of PHOENIX, ARIZONA; LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA; and SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH during October 2010. I am also available for online appearances for classrooms via Skype until the end of October. If you would like me to speak at your school during my tour, please contact (or, if you’re a student, have your teacher contact) Paul Samuelson at paul.samuelson@sourcebooks.com.

Even though my tour schedule shows a few events in each city, I will also be stopping by to speak at many schools in the area. So even if you’re not a teacher but happen to be in a class with a particularly awesome teacher who likes books, you can let them know you want me to come to your school!

For more info on me, you can read my bio or watch this video about my story of becoming an author:

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Hey Nationeers, welcome to my newly redesigned website! We’re in outerrrrrrr spaccccceeeeeee!!!!!

Actually, you can’t see most of the changes to the site, since a lot of it is code cleanup. I added the Facebook button so you can post my blogs and videos to your Facebook pages just like the Retweet button does. I also fixed the pages so they load faster.

I’m a perfectionist, but strangely enough the previous design had been there in its main form for almost a year (this is a record for me, who redesigns my websites continually). The old design was much more writer-ly, but now that I’m focusing so much time on Youtube and social media, I need my site to reflect all my new stuff (and, some stuff that is still in the works). I thought blue would look nice, and then I added layers and layers of stuff, until it turned into this. I think it’s a weird Owl City / Web 2.0 / Social Media / Wow-Kaleb-Looks-Like-A-Kind-Alien-Invader-Let’s-Trust-Him-With-Our-Brains mix.

If The Alien From V Had A Website It Would Totally Look Like This

Tell me what you think in the comments (points down at comment box)

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Thank you, Turbotax community, for making tax time a bit more entertaining.

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Most of you have probably heard of my project TwilightGuy.com, in which I wrote detailed reviews from a guy’s perspective of the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer.  As I said when I first started that website, two very long years ago: “I do not read vampire romances, nor werewolf romances, nor hobbit romances, nor any other romances“. However, I lived through reading the entire Twilight Saga. And as such things go, it only follows that I must now experiment on the second item on my list of things I do not read: werewolves. Heaven help us if someone digs up a hobbit romance for me

I discovered Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater when it was given to me at a convention, but never opened it. I was told by Lauren of TheCrookedShelf.com to read it, though I never did, until many months later when I finally opened the book to see what the beginning was like. I knew full well that I didn’t have time to read anything nor get involved in another fandom: and yet I was sucked in before the second chapter ended. Thus, I relented, and decided I would read the rest, and blog my experience at SHIVERGUY.COM.

Shiver has been called the Twilight for werewolf lovers, so if you were a fan of Twilight and TwilightGuy.com, you’ll almost certainly enjoy reading along with me. I haven’t read the book, so I can’t honestly say if I’m a fan or not. But the opening was good enough for me to set up a new website… and that takes a lot

This website will be my video thoughts on reading the book, and possibly continuing on to the sequels. Unlike TwilightGuy.com, the reviews there will be done via videos posted once / twice a week with my thoughts on a few chapters at a time (as Maggie’s chapters run shorter and thus I can read a lot at one time).

I hope you enjoy following along with my journey through the world of werewolves!

To follow along as I read Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater, visit The Books page or your local bookstore to buy it.

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