Wednesday, February 3, 2010

I'll have a Wish I Knew Wednesday next week. Hmmm, I'm glad Tess is doing one. Go check it out. It's a good one today. Tess Hilmo

Today I wanted to talk about first-time author Kaleb Nation, author of the just released MG novel, Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse. This book is the first in a series that Kaleb is writing. This guy is amazing success story. He's on a live tour, touring schools and signing his book at bookstores across the nation. Between 35-40 people show up at the bookstores and three hundred kids at every school.

He wrote the book when he was FOURTEEN. Got an agent and was published by the time he was TWENTY. YIKES!!!!

He started his own radio show from his bedroom. He would record the show on his computer and he would have a microphone hanging in the closet, because the closet was more sound-proof. And he'd record the show every week. Then put it online to a password-protected website. And all these radio stations would sign up and download it. He had twenty-five stations all over the country including international and satellite, FM, AM, every type of radio would play his show on their stations. At this time he was writing his book.

This kid is amazing and knows the importance of marketing on the internet. I'll give you a link to his blog and you can go and read about Kaleb. I have learned some things from him. Sheesh. Anyway, please read about how the blog TwilightGuy.com got started. This guy is truly amazing. Here's the link:Kalebnation Happy writing. (^_^)

25 comments:

  1. he really is like a king of marketing, isn't he. It's nice to see someone so young so motivated.

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  2. Tricia, he is definitely king of marketing. We can all learn from him, eh? (^_^)

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  3. Wow--that is so impressive! I'll check him out!

    BTW, you can still enter the contest--it runs until the 10th!

    Here's the link to the post:

    http://thebookshelfmuse.blogspot.com/2010/01/mystery-followers-contest.html

    Good luck!

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  4. Good gracious! What's this kid going to be like when he's 30?

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  5. thanks for the link! And, what an amazing kid! Very inspiring :D

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  6. Wow- I'm impressed! At fourteen I was light years away from chasing my dreams. So sad.

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  7. Angela, I'm coming over right now. WOO-HOO =)

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  8. Amy, I was wondering that myself. Pretty cool guy, isn't he? =)

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  9. Tess, amazing is right. Inspiring, uhhuh. =)

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  10. Tamika, but you did find your dreams to chase. That's what is important. =)

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  11. Wow, amazing is right. Thanks for mentioning this guy. I'm going to check out his story right now.

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  12. Very cool story! Thanks for the link!

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  13. Hey Linda! Check it out. This guy is very interesting. Bright young man indeed. =)

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  14. I've read about what he's done. It really is an amazing amazing story. :)

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  15. He is amazing! Oh, and congrats on your win over at Shelli's. Lucky you!

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  16. Thanks for posting this, Robyn. The book is on my wish list, but I didn't know this story. :-)

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  17. Elana, super cool story, I agree. =)

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  18. Shannon, the book is on my wish list too. I have a lot of books on my wish list come to think of it. Sigh =)

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  19. Wow--great post. I didn't know that about that kid!!

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    Hope you are having a great weekend!

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