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Guard The Books [How I Became An Author]

--KALEB NATION-- — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 09:48:27 +0000

I’ve been writing stories since I was nine years old. My first dozen or so tales starred a particularly familiar character named King Kaleb, who had a penchant for explosions and was friendly to aliens. My parents would dutifully print these out, draft after draft, and let me pile them in my room. But by [...]

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The Search And Destroy List [Ideas On Revising A Book]

--KALEB NATION-- — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 02:49:49 +0000

Writing a book can cause an effect similar to self-hypnosis. After hours of clicking keys with my brain in another world and my mind blocking out all natural surroundings, I tend to fall into a type of trance. Suddenly, the words being typed aren’t even intelligently thought-out paragraphs, but just what spills out as my [...]

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A Translation Of Twilight Hate

--KALEB NATION-- — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:01:32 +0000

This was on the Amazon.com page for THE SHORT SECOND LIFE OF BREE TANNER: AN ECLIPSE NOVELLA, the new Twilight book by Stephenie Meyer: As if the first one wasn’t bad enough… This is the most ridiculous “vampire” series ever. The only thing Meyers’ vampires have in common with traditional vampires is the blood drinking [...]

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RE: The Amazing Shrinking Women…Roles [From Squeetus.com]

--KALEB NATION-- — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:21:14 +0000

Shannon Hale, a well-known author of ten novels, posted an interesting article on her blog earlier today which brings up some points that have long been debated regarding the disappearance (or actually, lack of appearance) of strong female leads and characters in books and film. Shannon notes in her post: Here are a few of [...]

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Copyediting! and Stuff

--KALEB NATION-- — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:25:34 +0000

Today I returned from school to find that my publishers have finally completed the copyedits for Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse! In publishing, a copyeditor reads a manuscript even deeper than a normal editor does, checking for everything from consistency mistakes to style errors all the way to the gritty commas and exclamation points (of [...]

Off To Chicago!

--KALEB NATION-- — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:23:06 +0000

I leave today for Chicago, to meet my publishers for two days of marketing and book talk! We’ve been planning for this trip for the past year, and now that the release of the book is getting so close, we’ll finally get to meet in person and talk over publicity plans, as well as cool [...]

3-3-09: Six Years After The Idea

--KALEB NATION-- — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:05:33 +0000

Today is the third day of the third month: and exactly six years ago, I had an idea that changed my life. The photos above represent bits and pieces of those six years — from the first idea, to plotting the story, to the various titles, to the deal — and my first early steps [...]