The Day Has Come: Bran Hambric Will Be Published
March 14th, 2008 by --KALEB NATION--
So the news is out and it’s my turn to make the announcement I’ve been dreaming of for years. I just got word that my debut novel, BRAN HAMBRIC: THE FARFIELD CURSE, is to be published by Sourcebooks Jabberwocky.
That picture is from my journal in 2003, when I was 14: the very night I had the idea that would become this book. I had no clue.
It is impossible to explain to someone who doesn’t write books how amazing it feels to receive the call you have been anticipating for most of your life. That call came last Thursday, March 6, when I was in Rhetoric class and my phone started to buzz. I picked it up and saw my agent’s name on the caller ID, and it was at that moment I knew I was really, finally, going to be an author. I barely finished the last five minutes of class, dashing out and across campus, playing his voicemail nine times on the way. I made it into the building for the next class and called him back, and he had a deal.
Of course afterwards I couldn’t shut up about it. I did have a wonderful excuse for being ten minutes late to my next class, and after everyone started clapping I just barely made it through my speech (my assignment was to talk about web design) and I can’t honestly remember one word I said. People next to me at my next class somehow overheard my whispered phone call to my mom and started congratulating me as well. And when I got home, my roommate and I ordered pizza to celebrate.
There are so many stories behind the writing of this book and it would be impossible to tell them all: back when I used to punch drafts out on a monochrome Palm Pilot while watching my baby brother taking a nap; when I had the revelation of a 
character’s backstory and had to write it out on a Whole Food’s grocery bag; when I talked to the security guard at that publishing house who told me that he hoped he’d get to guard my books one day. This is truly just the beginning of what will be the culmination of dreams I have held since before I can remember. I never could have possibly imagined five years ago when I had the first idea that anything like this could have come about: never in a million years would I have thought that one day, the words I wrote through all of my teenage years would one day fall into the hands of people who would enter into my world: this strange world I made and thought was so crazy and yet just had to write about because I loved it so much.
I can’t begin to imagine what my life will be like in another year when it’s out, or another three years or six. To actually step foot on what has been your lifetime ambition is mind-altering, and once you’re there you’ve got to set a whole new list of goals. More than anything, I wanted a radio show and to be an author. It looks as if I’ve gotten both.
I do not know exactly how much I can say here until I have the official press release from my publishers, but I do know that the book is currently set for a late 2009 or early 2010 release. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky is one of the nation’s largest independent publishers with many bestselling titles under their belt and sales upwards of $50 million. They are very innovative in their approach at publishing and I have complete confidence that they will be a wonderful home for my series.
We’ve got a long road ahead of us to make this happen: this is just the beginning, the first book, the start of it all. Things can only get better!
Posted in About Me, Bran Hambric, Writing
March 14th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Whoa. This is huge. Congratulations to you! You are quite inspiring and I can’t wait to read the first book (signed by the author, right?) in your series.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Congratulations!
March 14th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Congratulations, Kaleb! That’s awesome!
March 14th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Yay, Kaleb! Definitely stop by my blog for an interview when the book comes out.
March 14th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
I demand 3 hour movie versions.
March 14th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
This is awesomely terrific and fantastic!!!
Congratulations! ^_^ I demand an autograph copy with dedication when the book comes out..just send me the bill. ^_^
Congratz again!!! ^_^
March 14th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Yay!! Congratulations.
Enjoy every minute - you deserve it!
Kaza Kingsley
March 15th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Thank you everyone!
March 15th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
(A bit belated) Congratulations, Kaleb! This is spectacular. We are really excited for you…
March 15th, 2008 at 10:07 pm
Congratulations! Again!
March 15th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Thanks so much everyone!
March 16th, 2008 at 2:53 am
I’m overwhelmed with happiness for you, Kaleb. Good job, and i can’t wait to buy a copy or four or fifty!
March 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Awesome news, Kaleb. I am very proud of you and enjoy keeping up through your blog.
March 17th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Kaleb, a late but very sincere congrats, dude. This is just awesome, and I can’t wait to follow along. Boo yah!
March 17th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Thanks James, Brendan and Mrs. Tracy! I’m overwhelmed with all of you coming here. Things are going wonderfully.
March 24th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
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March 24th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Thanks Sam!
March 24th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
This is incredible news! Congratulations and enjoy every moment.
March 24th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Congratulations! That is amazingly exciting.
March 27th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
wow! i just checked my e-mail and read the part u sent me. wow. it was so awesome! can not wait till it comes out. on a scale of one to ten, a definate ten!
April 6th, 2008 at 1:11 am
I’m a little late to the party, but congrats on the sale!
April 12th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
I’m overjoyed. Thanks so much for commenting!
April 16th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Oh, this is gonna be SO cool! i can’t wait!
April 20th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
Amazing job!! I know how exciting it is to actually write a book, but then know that it WILL be published!! I wish you good luck with your book. I can’t wait to read it when it comes out!
Sara
April 21st, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I wish you all the luck I can with getting sleep for the next few months. =] I’m looking forward to getting your book! Personally, I am just a year older than you were when you got your Idea. I got my own when I was twelve, and I’ve been waiting on my writing skills to catch up to my Idea ever since. This year, my skills finally caught up, and I’ve been writing nonstop. I plan on publishing (hopefully) before I graduate high school. It’ll be the WEIRDEST thing ever to see my book in our library. I have faith in you for your other books, and I’m extremely excited about getting your book when it comes out! Hopefully when mine comes out, you’ll be able to read it. =]
~Stephanie
April 21st, 2008 at 8:43 pm
That is soo awesome. Its great to know you can start writing a book at fourteen ad actually end up getting published. Im working on a book right now, started it about six months ago. Im fourteen. Haha. I hope I get as lucky as you and end up getting published. It would be so flippin awesome.
April 21st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
I’m working on a book too. I’ve been writing it for two years now, and i’m thirteen. It would be amazing to finish it before i graduate, even if I don’t manage to get it published. Good Luck!
PS Finally, a guy who will read Twilight and admit it!
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:01 am
Congrats!! Im so happy for you and i can’t wait to read your book. Then i can i can force my friends to read it, like i always do. Good luck!
April 27th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Wow Kaleb, I’ve only just started checking out your blog and already you’re an inspiration to me. I hope my co-author and I will be able to take our project as far as you’ve taken yours.
Best of luck and tons of love!
April 28th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
hey good luck with your book, i’ll be sure to check it out.
May 8th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Neat-o and congrats!
I guess getting a book published is a good reason for giving up procrastination…. I suppose I’d better get to that. Good job! Sounds like a good read (especially if you write your book as well as your blogs).
May 9th, 2008 at 6:33 am
I promise to recommend your novels to our book club in school. See, I think they’ll turn out to be awesome, judging from your belly-aching, spot-on Twilight Guy blogs. More power! Can’t wait to meet your Hambric!
May 18th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Hey Kaleb!
For those of us young would-be authors interested in writing and publishing, can you share any tricks of the trade/inside advice on how you did it? Thanks for setting an encouraging example!
~Lily
May 21st, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Ahhh yes, finally, the triumphant moment falls upon you.
I hope all is well and the literary genius flows with all the bounty and viscosity of the land.
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Dear Kaleb, I am a friend of your Aunt Teri and she has told me of you and your family for many years. I feel like I know you and am so proud of all you have accomplished. You must be so excited! Did you know the book Twilight that takes place in Forks is based on a nearby city of Forks? I think parts of the up-coming movie were filmed there. Congratulations and keep up the great work. Joan Clancy
June 11th, 2008 at 12:01 am
Hi, I don’t go to your site that often. But I just had to say that I can’t wait for your book to come out!
June 12th, 2008 at 6:34 am
I go to twilightguy all the time, but I’ve never been to this site until now. I can’t wait till your book comes out, Kaleb. And congratulations, a couple of months late.
June 12th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Ahh congratulations on the book
!!
I know this was posted months ago, but I just had to post and say congratulations. I just love that you have spent so many years working on this, and you get the happy ending of it getting published. (I have a story I have been working on for the past 6 years, and one day hope to have the same results as you, so I hope one day I can relate to your story
)
June 21st, 2008 at 5:25 pm
WOO-HOO! Congrats author! I know that doesn’t rhyme but… still. I can’t wait to read it and I know it will be like a #1 best seller! When you get like a book signing in southern california and you see like this asian girl jumping up and down screaming, that will probably be me. LOL
June 26th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Wow… that’s like Leopold Bloom from ‘The Producers’.
Except that you are an author/radio host not a Broadway producer.
But anyway, he was the first person who came into my head when I read this. I will buy your book.
July 3rd, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Wow!!! I cant wait till its done. i think it will be great!
July 5th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Hope your book goes well! X3
July 15th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
kaleb you are an amazing person and a wonderful role model
July 24th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
So, funny story. I was online this afternoon on agentquery.com, looking for literary agents to whom I might send my own manuscript someday soon, and I saw your name on the testimonials. Up until then I had just known you as “The Twilight Guy.” It was a little bit of a slap in the face, because as I was daydreaming I was wondering, “Would an agent take an 18-year-old girl seriously if I sent them my novel?” And lo and behold, here you are, a guy my age who is about to be an author!
I’m incredibly excited for you, more so because I understand EXACTLY how elating it must be to realize that you are fulfilling your life’s dream. I can’t wait to read the Farfield Curse, and maybe someday in the near future our books will be on shelves together. (*knocks on wood*)
Congratulations once again.
~Kristin
August 5th, 2008 at 1:55 am
wow, that was a nice story and i hope everything goes well with this book, i can’t wait to read it
Maybe it will be better than the Twilight series!
Congratulations
August 5th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Can you say. Book Signing
August 10th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Congrats, Kaleb! I absolutely cannot wait for Bran Hambric! I really think that you are going to be one of the best up-coming authors of our generation!
August 14th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
OMG, CAN’T WAIT!
You’re gonna be the next stephenie meyer.
August 23rd, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Dude, I just stumbled onto your site today and already I like the concept of your book. I will definately order it when it is out, and good luck!
October 30th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Congrats Kaleb!!!!! I love reading both of your blogs and I can’t wait to read your book! It sounds amazing!!!!!
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
Hey, I just read your blog on the Twilight books and I was interested on the fact that you’re releasing a book, I can’t wait to read it, will it be available on amazon?
November 29th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
I came across the information about this book completely by accident and can’t say how interested I am, Your success story is a real inspiration n.n I’ll have to work hard so I can have one too
November 30th, 2008 at 6:23 am
I very much love summer
Someone very much loves winter
I Wish to know whom more
For what you love winter?
For what you love summer? Let’s argue
December 2nd, 2008 at 6:23 pm
hey kaleb
just so you know, i’ll be at borders at midnight the night before your book comes out. if they let me in, that is, lol. can’t wait to read it!
josh
December 31st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
whoops, i’m late to comment, but i have to say I’m definitely going to buy your book. It seems really interesting. I can’t wait =]
congrats on getting it published!