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
- February 27th, 2009 at
7:43 pm by --KALEB NATION-- -
As you have perhaps noticed, my official website now has a new design and layout; shorter header, wider content, etc. The main new stuff is the front page, which I’m still working on a bit to get out some of the bizarre busyness, though I suppose it could also serve as a good comparison to my life at the moment. I can’t wait until summer break, and those glorious months of time to actually get caught up on things. My to-do list has been monstrous and disorganized lately, as displayed in this nifty little illustration:
Don’t ask me why summer causes my life to turn into something resembling modern art, but at least it’s more organized than the beastly thing to the left.
The redesign of the site is part of my new self-help program to get me to blog here more often than in recent months. Of course, to blog here something interesting and epic has to happen: after March 6, I have a feeling there’s going to be lots more of those types of things going on, since stuff will really get moving for the book. On March 14, I’m officially getting my author photos done by a professional, and I’ll be posting the results of that soon after as well!
FYI to all, I’ve got a live BlogTV show coming up this Saturday (Feb. 28) at 7PM CST on my channel. These shows are always loads of fun — they’re mostly centered around my TwilightGuy readers, which is why I haven’t announced them here, though as the slow transition goes into getting ready for the book, there will be loads of shows focusing on the release and news (perhaps one on the fateful and upcoming March 3, which will be exactly 6 years after I first started the book!).
Planning ahead for this Fall, I had an idea for a possible release party for The Farfield Curse as a live BlogTV show (one of those things I’ll be discussing at the publisher’s meeting in Chicago next week) which would mean anyone from any country could attend. Plus, having it online would mean I get to avoid the inevitable event of showing up at a bookstore with a table of my books, a smile, and a signing Sharpie; only to have no one but the store manager and my great-aunt Tootsie show up, my Sharpie go dry and unused, and my smile to slowly melt into a morbid frown, as I stare blankly ahead at what I suddenly envision as the long and tortuous future of the New Author In Town.
Not My Aunt Tootsie
Nightmarish happenings aside, I can confirm certain going-ons with The Farfield Curse, namely that I have received a number of pencil sketches from the illustrator, one of which will become the cover of the book in nary a few months (done in full color, of course, as our secret illustrator has won awards for I might add). Also, I have gotten word that pre-orders of the book could start as early as May/June. Exciting? MUCH.
Other exciting news: TwilightGuy.com just passed 3 million hits last week, around the same time my Youtube videos passed 2 million combined views. I love the word million, especially when referring to such things as web hits/views/copies sold, etc
And, if you haven’t seen Slumdog Millionaire yet, you should do it before something awful happens and you miss your chance. Honestly one of the best films I’ve ever seen.
- July 28th, 2008 at
12:05 am by --KALEB NATION-- -
I know that most of you have not read The Farfield Curse in its entirety yet (as it’s not out until 2009), and even those who have read parts probably do not know well enough about the characters to actually care who Emry Hambric is. I won’t attempt to explain it because I’d really have to write the whole book out for it to be understood, but hopefully my new song will help you imagine the feeling at the end of the first book:
The ending is a mixture of hope and a little sadness, a happy ending but tinged a little, and in a way I feel this song echoes how the first book concludes.
If you like my music or my other songs, I have two that you can download for free on a hidden page at BranHambric.com. I’ll have more news on the book soundtrack closer to the release in late 2009.
There is some about Emry in the prologue of the book (and a song for the Prologue as well, on the Music page) so I can also email preview chapters of The Farfield Curse if you want to get a better feel of who she is. Email me and I’ll try to get previews out as quick as I can.
This song is a first draft so opinions are welcome!
[note: email subscribers must visit the site to hear audio]
- April 5th, 2008 at
4:08 pm by --KALEB NATION-- -
If you are one of the many people who have read the first few chapters of The Farfield Curse in advance, you’ll enjoy this; and even if you haven’t (email me to remedy that), this new song will give you a taste of how I imagine the prologue. If you haven’t read it, think of a woman driving through the misty night, trying to escape with her child, while at the same time knowing inside she will not survive the person who is following her:
A bit darker than my other tracks, with synths this time and sharper violins. This is still the first draft so everything may not be mixed as it should.
Sometime a while back, I realized something very interesting about music and stories. I had just downloaded nearly half of the Pan’s Labyrinth movie soundtrack and was writing away to it, when I realized that I had just bought music to a movie I had not even seen before. Most of the soundtracks I had gotten before came from films I had enjoyed. This soundtrack, however, was so striking I could imagine any story I wanted to it.
I realized then that music and stories are intertwined enormously. Great stories always have great soundtracks. The two seem to accompany each other, both when writing a book and when reading it.
What started out as ‘seeing if I could do it’ has very rapidly turned into a new hobby. I just finished that one this morning and already I have another track I’m working on. I am literally having enormous amounts of fun with these just as entertainment for myself.
