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BRAN HAMBRIC: THE SPECTER KEY Preview Chapter 1

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Many years ago, when I finished the first draft of BRAN HAMBRIC: THE FARFIELD CURSE, I launched BranHambric.com and posted the first few chapters as a preview of my novel-in-progress. Now, nearly 10,000 downloads and a real publisher later, those preview chapters (in various degrees of editing) have crawled their way across the internet, and worked as a wonderful introduction for thousands of readers to the world of Bran Hambric.

I like the idea of letting readers preview a book before they buy it. If you were buying the book in a store, you’d be able to read as many chapters as you wanted. That’s why unlike most book previews, mine are usually a good chunk of the novel (the first one was the whole first 50 pages!). So I’ve decided to keep this tradition up with my next book.

In honor of June 17, Bran Hambric’s birthday, I’ve uploaded the first preview chapter of my upcoming sequel BRAN HAMBRIC: THE SPECTER KEY. This book is the second part in the Bran Hambric series. I will be uploading ONE preview chapter a month, leading up to 10/10/10 — the release date of the novel.

You can read the preview below or click here to download as a PDF.

In Teen Now Magazine

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Just got sent this from @KrisbianH on Twitter from UK magazine Teen Now.

It’s funny seeing both pictures in a real magazine. The one of me with the book was actually taken as a joke a few months before I even started TwilightGuy.com, and I just decided to use it on the site. It was taken with my tiny, cheap Kodak easy camera, and has been popping up in magazines all over the world for the past two years (it’s probably the cheapest photo to ever be in a real magazine!). And the other one on the left is my new author photo 😀

Arrested In Los Angeles!!! [Video]

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This happened down the street from my apartment. Luckily, being a good vlogger, I have a video camera at the ready 24/7.

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“Dying Breath” by Adrienne Frailey, Inspired by Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse!

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This is one of the most amazing things that a BranFan has made for my books. “Dying Breath” is a new song by Adrienne Frailey, which was inspired by my book Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse. Adrienne has made some songs for Bran Hambric before, but this time she’s gone totally pro with a real studio and seven new and original songs.

It sounds like something that might be on a Bran Hambric movie soundtrack. Adrienne continues to amaze me with her talent and the stuff she creates. She writes about “Dying Breath”…

This is a song inspired by the end of the prologue of “Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse” by Kaleb Nation, during the part where Emry has to quickly decide how to save Bran, who is at the time six-years-old. I imagined that if she’d had any time at all to sing a lullaby to her sleeping son, knowing she wouldn’t be returning to him, this is what she might sing.

Adrienne is even letting BranFans download the song for free AT THIS LINK.

There are seven more songs like this that were inspired by my book on her Youtube channel, so be sure to listen to the others! I have a clip in my video above, but to hear the full thing, watch her video:

More Awesome Nationeers!

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Drawing by @TwiArtist_17

Yay for Nationeers from around the world! It’s always fun to get stuff from awesome people 😀

I want to change my video background so I can hang all these Nationeer photos and drawings behind me in the videos. Then when people send me stuff they can see it in my vlogs!

More photos and cool Nationeer stuff is on the Fans page. If you got a Nationeer shirt or have a drawing, email a photo and I’ll post it!

My Vlog With John Green [Video]

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I was at the LA Times Festival Of Books today, and I finally met John Green! He’s from Vlogbrothers on Youtube and author of many books, including Looking For Alaska, one of my favorites.

I have more video coming, but since this is a two day event, I have to get more footage tomorrow before I can make the full video. It’ll be up on my channel at Youtube.com/KalebNation.

Chilla’s First Bath [Video]

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It’s Chilla’s first dust bath!

For more videos, be sure to subscribe at Youtube.com/KalebNation.

ADDED 4/13/10 – Chilla is today’s #1 Most Discussed and #1 Top Rated video on Youtube’s Pets & Animals category. Just throwing that out there 😉

The New Nation

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I realize a lot of you think Chilla is an April Fools prank. So here’s some proof — she’s real 😉

Say Hello To Chilla

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Say hello to the newest Nation: Chilla.

She’s only a few months old. She’s been bouncing around in her little house all day. Even now, 48 minutes after midnight. It’s a good thing I was convinced to put her house in some place other than my bedroom, or else I’d never sleep.

I got that macro lens for my camera I was talking about. Guess which chinchilla is about to be YouTube famous? 😀

“Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse” Deleted Scene 1

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When writing a book, I have the tendency to write too much book. My first novel had at least 20,000 words knocked off before it was published, and even then it probably could have been scaled back another 5,000. For BRAN HAMBRIC: THE SPECTER KEY, my editor chopped out 30,000 words right from the start: literally severing about 1/4 of my novel. I suppose writing too much is a far better issue than writing too little: except, of course, when you have to watch 30,000 of your little children meet their doom 😀

BRAN HAMBRIC: THE FARFIELD CURSE took nearly six years to write. The original story was finished in about six months, leaving the remainder to editing and rewriting — so much that little of the original wording was left in the final draft that was published, though the story and plot were closely the same. Commonly, there are certain scenes that are taken out of the book entirely, usually because they simply have no place. If the book can stand on its own without a scene, then there’s no point in that scene being there.

So for the BranFans, I’m posting a very old, barely edited excerpt from the original BRAN HAMBRIC: THE FARFIELD CURSE (then it was, THE FARFIELD PLOT). As you will see, this is an example of the type of thing that doesn’t belong in a book. It’s a scene I had fun writing when I was 14, but inevitably does nothing to further the plot.

I’ve prefaced this so you don’t take this as an example of my writing and go “Fah! What nonsense! I’m tossing this book in the trash compactor immediately!” or something similar. Also keep in mind if you haven’t read the book, you won’t understand this at all. Without further ado, you can download it here (PDF) or read below: