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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:

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Posted in Twilight, Videos
Tags: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Twilight, Video

Here’s something an awesome BranFan just uploaded to YouTube! Bella Rocks!, a Twilight-inspired band, has released a brand-new song — but this time, it is inspired by my own book, Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse:

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This is just another example of how wonderful the Twilight fandom has been to me, when barely over a year ago I was a complete outsider who knew nothing about the books! Words just cannot express how it feels to see someone so inspired by my writing that they create works of their own based on it. Even more so, as the book isn’t even OUT yet for another FOUR months, the song is based entirely on what happens in the first four preview chapters! Please go send some love Katie’s way and check out her awesome Twilight music.

Katie will be appearing at Summer School In Forks on June 25 – 28 (I will also be there to deliver my Keynote Address). Be sure to check out the event if you want to see her live!

QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS: What do you think of Katie’s song (if you’ve read the preview, do you think it fits well with the prologue?). Also, what should we call this genre of music: gnome rock? A Bran Band?

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Tags: Bella Rocks, Bran Hambric, Twilight

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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!

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Tags: movies, Twilight

As usual, I severely underestimated Twilight fans.

On my Youtube channel, I started a contest to win some of the Twilight movie cast autographs I got at the premiere, and teamed up with Twicon‘s people to give away a signed book. I expected about… 150 entries?

At this moment, it’s the #3 most discussed video on Youtube, for the second day in a row, with 16 other honors. It’s been viewed 20,000 times and commented 3,800+ times in just 24 hours.

Lesson learned: never underestimate Twilighters.

Other lesson learned: get more sleep, in case 18,000 people randomly decide to watch you.

Third lesson learned: only Hank Green can talk as fast as Hank Green without becoming partially unintelligible.

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Tags: Hank Green, Twilight, Videos

I realize it’s been quite a while since I’ve given a real update on my writing side of things, and people are probably wondering if

A) The book is still coming out and,

B) It’s still set for Fall 2009

(answers: A. Yes B. Yes).

There is this interesting thing in publishing where everything appears to the untrained eye to be going painstakingly slow, and yet in reality there are a couple hundred tiny gears turning in the Great Book Machine, each one pivotal in producing a book consisting of the most epic win possible. At the moment, there are few surviving photographs of this machine, though I suspect it looks similar to this:

The Great Book Machine

To my knowledge, this machine has gone through many versions and been remodeled multiple times over the past few decades, in keeping up with the latest trends (like those cool choppy-edged pages that became suddenly popular with Lemony Snicket books, or the single-photograph-over-black-background covers that are wild now thanks to Twilight). Just because I am under contract does not mean I know everything about this business. THE MACHINE IS NEWS TO ME. In fact, with further research, I discovered what I believe to be more photographs of early designs of the Great Book Machine, dating back as early as 1918:

The Great Book Machine - 1918 Version

Many people believe that the publishing business is made up entirely of editors who edit, designers who design and artists who art. NOW I AM NOT SO SURE. As I am in the midst of scheduling a trip to see my publishers and their epic offices sometime in the beginning of next year, I will report back on the current state of events regarding the machine AKA whether it exists and is hiding in some back office or this is just another salty lie making rounds in the writer circles.

Meanwhile, I’ve been writing on the sequel to The Farfield Curse, a.k.a. BOOK TWO: code named BRAN HAMBRIC: THREE SHINY KIWIS (go ahead and try to guess what title TSK is for, which is a hard acronym to guess, especially with me who likes MADE UP WORDS, and especially since your efforts will be in vain if I change it, which I doubt). There are a great number of advantages to writing book two before book one is out: namely, since I will be done in a good amount of time, the Great Book Machine can begin churning its process whilst people are still picking up the first book. Also, and maybe the best part of it, is I’m still a fresh and pure writer whose soul hasn’t yet been tarnished by bad reviews and hatemail that insist Bran be a headless horseman and Astara be renamed to Lamey Pinehouse. So, I’ll at least get some good footing before I start to doubt the worth of my very existence.

Cool stuffs going on though: I’m still working things out with the book soundtrack. I have two more songs that I’ve laid out the concepts for, though they need some work before I finish them up. Also, certain overly perceptive persons might have said things to me along the lines of,

Picture this in Elmer Fudd's voice and receive epic lulz

No, I actually changed the title to one of my songs. I won’t say which one it was, since part of the point is not to call attention to it in the hopes nobody notices (they will anyway). But as I was going down the songs and listening to the soundtrack as a whole (the songs I have now, and the ones I’m still working on) I realized that one of the songs really had been titled wrong. As I thought about it more, it seemed to fit with a different, yet similar, part of the story (this will probably happen again as I get closer to finishing all the songs). I’ll leave it up to you to find which one.

I should probably mention also that my blog TwilightGuy.com just passed over 2 million hits, and they’ve almost doubled the daily numbers since the movie premiere. If you’re a Twilight fan, keep an eye on my Youtube since I have some cool stuff I want to give away (real celebrity autographed things, nothing cheap or tawdry). Speaking of Youtube, I just passed 4,000 subscribers this week, which means I got my latest 1,000 in less than a month. And this week some cool person set up a fan page for me on Facebook, and some other cool person is already getting set with the Bran Hambric Lexicon. Fansites getting ready this far before the book is even out = good times.

So in essence, I’m still writing lots and things are moving right along. Also, I’m making a point to post here a bit more often now that the Twilight premiere has passed, especially since there’s only about 10 months until the book comes out, which means about 7 months until you can pre-order, and about 4 months until we have a cover (oh my).

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Tags: Book 2, Bran Hambric, Elmer Fudd, Twilight