On Saturday, April 18, 2009, Kaleb Nation's first novel entitled Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse, opened for presales on amazon.com. It started off in the top 100,000 in sales (which, according to Kaleb, is extremely good considering he is a new author, the amazon website doesn't even have the cover art up yet, and for it just being put up THAT day). He told us at that day's blogtv that he didn't want us to order the book until one specific day in May (the month the book was originally supposed to open for presales) so that his ranking would get really high. But, apparently, some didn't listen; because in a matter of 3 days Kaleb's book went from being ranked over 100,000 to being just above 14,000! He posted a blog on twilightguy.com, on April 21, 2009, that if he got under 1,000 before 10pm CST time that he would do a blogtv. Well, we listened! In a matter of 45 minutes, we got Kaleb's book from the 12,000 that he was at right after he posted the blog, all the way up to around 685. So, of course he went live.
This is when I started to have the second best day of my life:
When he first started the blogtv he asked who could see him. I immediately said, "I can see you!" He then said, "MrsJasperHale, can see me," along with a few other names (but who cares about them anyway lol ^_^). Later in the show he went to go check his @replies on twitter. I thought that this would be a good time to ask him if he had sent out my cover art proof yet. He read the twitter; he was all no, MrsJasperHale it's still sitting here but I am sending it out tomorrow (today). I twittered him back saying thanks and asking how long it should take. He, again, answered my twitter! He said that it should be here in about a week (so about a week from today I will be one very happy girl!!). I decided to be the polite person that I am and twitter him once again saying thanks and also saying that I was going to preorder two copies of his book, one to read and one for him to sign (if you think that's bad my friend Nora, who is on my collab channel on youtube, told him that her principal ordered 140 copies!! and a lot of teachers were ordering 20-40 copies for their classes). He read the twitter and laughed (he has such an adorable laugh lol) and said thanks for preodering my book, MrsJasperHale.
I pretty much fangirled right then, I had already gotten around 5 or 6 shout outs from the god that is Kaleb Nation! So, yet again, I twittered him, this time saying that he had just made my life and that I had gotten about 5 or 6 shout outs and was basically going to die from the happiness. He again laughed and was all well here comes number 7! I am pretty sure that I did actually die...and it took pretty much all the will power that I don't have to not scream at the top of my lungs much as I did when I won the cover art proof (my parents and my sisters were all sleeping and I don't think they would've liked it much ^_^).
Also, today, I did go and preoder Kaleb's book (I only ordered one today but plan to order the other soon). I also preodered the Twilight Saga Official Guide that is scheduled to come out just 21 days after Kaleb's book! And, I offically have bought all of the Twilight books! I ordered the box set of all four books in hardcover. Those should be here, according to the amazon tracker, by April 27th. So, I am super pumped about that!
Oh and, since today is Wednesday, American Idol is on. Last week they saved Matt (yay!! So happy even though I can't wait to see him again, I would rather see him on tv!!), so this week TWO people had to go home. Luckily, Matt was safe again, and wasn't even in the bottom! Lil Rounds and Anoop Desai went home (oh darn...). Next week, the theme is Jazz week! Matt will pretty much kill at it, since that's a lot of what he sings at Monaco Bay (where he works). I am really looking forward to that...although I don't think that he will make it past the top 4, I am so excited to know someone on Idol! It's really cool even though it does make me kinda bias...And, even though I don't think that he will win, I have a feeling that he will get a record deal out of it...someone will pick him up. He is way too good to just let slip by. So, basically I know someone famous! Yay me lol...
I am not sure if I will post tomorrow or not it really just depends on how lazy (or not lazy) I feel...lol
Friday, April 24, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
I am completely freaking out right now!!!!
Today was a day of serious epic proportions...I won a signed picture of Kaleb Nation's book, Bran Hambric!! I am so totally excited right now, I seriously feel like I am either going to throw up or die...maybe even both...
Last night around 3 am EST, Kaleb's book cover was released to the pubic, and it is AMAZING!!! The link once again is www.branhambric.com. The new website and the new book trailer was also released last night. Today, since it was the day that all the Bran Hambric stuff was released he decided to have a blogtv and give away some crazy cool stuff. He did the blogtv at Melanie Payne's house (from M Squared www.youtube.com/user/ravenclawLDS89) with, obviously, Melanie. At all of his blogtv's he does twitter contests, which is exactly how it sounds, a contest via twitter. Also, during his blogtv's he gives away phone calls. So, first, Kaleb gave away a phone call to someone who's user name I cannot remember. He talked to that girl for about 5 minutes, which is how long his calls last.
Then, Melanie, decided that she wanted to give away a phone call too. At first we all wanted her to call Jackie aka TwilightGurle, who is very high up on Kaleb's friends list because she reminds him of his little sister (www.youtube.com/user/TwilightGurle). But, she ended up doing a twitter contest too. So, as I were entering I heard them saying that they had the person who won and I went back to the tab that blogtv was set up in. Melanie then announced the winner who happened to be my friend Rachael. I private messaged her and told her congrats and how jealous I was of her because she was going to talk to Melanie! They talked for about 20 minutes and after they were done talking she and I talked about how cool it was.
Melanie, at the beginning of the show, when Kaleb announced that he was giving away the very first signed picture of the cover of Bran Hambric, announced that she was giving away a poster of Hannah Montana on one side and Zac Effron on the other. Oh, and it was signed by both Melanie and Kaleb, so it was a lot cooler than it was before. I, of course, entered for it not for the pictures on the poster but for the signatures. I didn't win though because I am just not that lucky...I wasn't expecting to win. A girl named Alaetra won (pretty name but I was kinda jealous).
Then it was the moment that everyone in the room was waiting for, the Bran Hambric cover! In order to win, we had to type into twitter @kalebnation Bran Hambric...I entered about 2 or 3 times and that normally isn't enough to win, I didn't hear them say that they had a winner so I was still entering. I, then, heard Melanie say, "Can I announce the winner?" I am assuming that Kaleb nodded his head or something of that nature since I didn't hear him reply. Melanie, then, started to say MrsJasperHale.
I was sitting in the living room watching tv at the same time with my parents. When I heard her say my name I screamed at the top of my lungs. My parents looked at me like I was completely insane and asked me, "Did you win something?" I started to explain to them what I had won but since they have no idea who Kaleb is, they didn't understand why I was freaking out. I did the whole fanning myself thing with my hand, I was shaking uncontrolably, I couldn't type, and I, most certainly, couldn't think. Kaleb, then sent me a direct message asking for my address so that he could send out the picture. I had to send him an @reply because since my brain was going on the fritz couldn't remember how to send a stupid direct message. I felt completely stupid because as soon as he started to tell me through blogtv, my brain miracuously started to work again...all the time I was doing this I couldn't stop saying, "Oh my god. Oh my god, Oh my god," over and over again.
I still can't believe that I won...and I know that it won't fully set in until I am able to hold the proof in my hands. I can't wait until it comes in the mail; but, I keep thinking that I told him the wrong address, so, about every 5 minutes I check the direct message that I sent him. I am pretty sure that it's right...it looks right anyway. Lol. I am so incredibly happy that I won because I never win anything.
So, this is my BEDA day 18...DFTBA and please comment. I like comments they make me happy! =)
Last night around 3 am EST, Kaleb's book cover was released to the pubic, and it is AMAZING!!! The link once again is www.branhambric.com. The new website and the new book trailer was also released last night. Today, since it was the day that all the Bran Hambric stuff was released he decided to have a blogtv and give away some crazy cool stuff. He did the blogtv at Melanie Payne's house (from M Squared www.youtube.com/user/ravenclawLDS89) with, obviously, Melanie. At all of his blogtv's he does twitter contests, which is exactly how it sounds, a contest via twitter. Also, during his blogtv's he gives away phone calls. So, first, Kaleb gave away a phone call to someone who's user name I cannot remember. He talked to that girl for about 5 minutes, which is how long his calls last.
Then, Melanie, decided that she wanted to give away a phone call too. At first we all wanted her to call Jackie aka TwilightGurle, who is very high up on Kaleb's friends list because she reminds him of his little sister (www.youtube.com/user/TwilightGurle). But, she ended up doing a twitter contest too. So, as I were entering I heard them saying that they had the person who won and I went back to the tab that blogtv was set up in. Melanie then announced the winner who happened to be my friend Rachael. I private messaged her and told her congrats and how jealous I was of her because she was going to talk to Melanie! They talked for about 20 minutes and after they were done talking she and I talked about how cool it was.
Melanie, at the beginning of the show, when Kaleb announced that he was giving away the very first signed picture of the cover of Bran Hambric, announced that she was giving away a poster of Hannah Montana on one side and Zac Effron on the other. Oh, and it was signed by both Melanie and Kaleb, so it was a lot cooler than it was before. I, of course, entered for it not for the pictures on the poster but for the signatures. I didn't win though because I am just not that lucky...I wasn't expecting to win. A girl named Alaetra won (pretty name but I was kinda jealous).
Then it was the moment that everyone in the room was waiting for, the Bran Hambric cover! In order to win, we had to type into twitter @kalebnation Bran Hambric...I entered about 2 or 3 times and that normally isn't enough to win, I didn't hear them say that they had a winner so I was still entering. I, then, heard Melanie say, "Can I announce the winner?" I am assuming that Kaleb nodded his head or something of that nature since I didn't hear him reply. Melanie, then, started to say MrsJasperHale.
I was sitting in the living room watching tv at the same time with my parents. When I heard her say my name I screamed at the top of my lungs. My parents looked at me like I was completely insane and asked me, "Did you win something?" I started to explain to them what I had won but since they have no idea who Kaleb is, they didn't understand why I was freaking out. I did the whole fanning myself thing with my hand, I was shaking uncontrolably, I couldn't type, and I, most certainly, couldn't think. Kaleb, then sent me a direct message asking for my address so that he could send out the picture. I had to send him an @reply because since my brain was going on the fritz couldn't remember how to send a stupid direct message. I felt completely stupid because as soon as he started to tell me through blogtv, my brain miracuously started to work again...all the time I was doing this I couldn't stop saying, "Oh my god. Oh my god, Oh my god," over and over again.
I still can't believe that I won...and I know that it won't fully set in until I am able to hold the proof in my hands. I can't wait until it comes in the mail; but, I keep thinking that I told him the wrong address, so, about every 5 minutes I check the direct message that I sent him. I am pretty sure that it's right...it looks right anyway. Lol. I am so incredibly happy that I won because I never win anything.
So, this is my BEDA day 18...DFTBA and please comment. I like comments they make me happy! =)
What? I'm actually posting a BEDA? NO WAY! lol
Okay, so I haven't posted a BEDA blog in about a week...go me! Basically, I am very lazy and although it may not seem very hard to post a measley blog once a day, I am just not that creative. So, this will count for every day that I haven't posted...
The last time I posted I was talking about how I entered the Ellen Degeneres biggest Twilighter contest. And, talking about the Twilight collage that I made. Even though you really can't see the pictures and quotes very well, there's a picture of it. It took me forever since everytime I thought I had enough pictures for it I kept coming up with more blank spots. But, I finally got it done at 3 am, and I think that it turned out pretty well!
So, today Maureen Johnson announced the BEDA buddies on her ning. I now actually have incentive to post a blog. Before it kind of seemed like a waste of time to post a blog because no one ever read them, but now I have people that will be reading them! Yay! Hi, to my BEDA buddies (Courtney, Geri, and Evie, I hope I got all of your names right...let me know if I didn't lol I'm not good with names).
Today, well, technically yesterday, I closed the auditions for my collab channel! I am so happy because that means no more watching auditions and everyone I have picked I won't have to change again! I am super excited to announce the members and to start the channel. It's going to be so much fun. I am pretty sure that the channel is going to be called PunchingWerewolves7 but not 100% sure yet. I will post it in a blog when I know for sure.
I think that's really all that happened since my last post besides camping out in Kaleb Nation's blogtv room for tomorrow night's blogtv! Those are always fun. And, the cover art for his book has been released...well, the majority of it has, he should be posting the rest of it anytime now! If you would care to check it out, go to http://www.branhambric.com/. There are also preview chapters that you can read. If you don't know who Kaleb is, he has a blog called Twilight Guy (http://www.twilightguy.com/) and he decided one year ago (April 16th, 2008) that he wanted to read the Twilight Saga to find out why so many people pretty much worships them. He goes through and reads each chapter of the books and then posts a blog about that chapter. He is currently on chapter 4 of Breaking Dawn, so he's almost done! It's going to be kind of sad once he finishes, even though I have only been reading his blogs since January and a lot of people have been reading it since last April.
He also does super amazing contests on Twilight Guy, blogtv, twitter, and youtube. One contest that is going on right now is he recently recieved, from Stephenie, signed copies of the box set of books. Each book is signed, the box that they come in, and the post cards that also come with it. He also recieved from Christian Serratos (aka Angela Weber in the Twilight movie) about a hundred signed photos of herself for future contests!
Well, that's pretty much all, maybe I will actually try to be better at posting, if not every day, then at least every other day...
As always, DFTBA, and much love!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Randomness....
I know I haven't been very good at this whole BEDA thing but I really have no time to do anything...
Well, since I am already typing this might as well turn it in to a BEDA post! So, today I didn't do much besides actually start AND finish my Twilight collage! I spent about 12 or more hours working on it. It looks amazing though! I also entered Ellen Degeneres' contest to find the biggest Twilighter. I took a picture of me with my twilight book and my Edward shirt in front of the poster.
I also finally got my hair dyed purple! And it looks amazing! I absolutely love it!
That's about it for today...maybe a more interesting one tomorrow...
DFTBA!
Well, since I am already typing this might as well turn it in to a BEDA post! So, today I didn't do much besides actually start AND finish my Twilight collage! I spent about 12 or more hours working on it. It looks amazing though! I also entered Ellen Degeneres' contest to find the biggest Twilighter. I took a picture of me with my twilight book and my Edward shirt in front of the poster.
I also finally got my hair dyed purple! And it looks amazing! I absolutely love it!
That's about it for today...maybe a more interesting one tomorrow...
DFTBA!
Friday, April 10, 2009
BEDA: Days 8,9,10
Sorry that I didn't post an actual blog for Day 8 and 9 but I didn't have anything to write about. I am a very boring person so not much goes on in my life. Yesterday was my little sister's birthday and so we went to Red Lobster for dinner, which was amazing! I also got my hair dye so my mom is going to do my hair tomorrow most likely. I'm really excited because I will finally have some random colour in my hair! Today I got accepted into the Eternal Original's role play group on myspace. I am really excited about that since it is pretty much the second coolest Twilight RP group on myspace! Well, that is basically it for today. Later yall! DFTBA!
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
BEDA: Day 7: American Idol
With today being Tuesday, if you live in America and know anything about anything you would know that Tuesday means American Idol! This season I actually know someone on Idol! Matt Giraud is a long time family friend. He is also my 8 month old baby sister's godfather. It is so amazing to know someone on Idol because we get to go out to Wild Bull (the sister bar to where Matt works, Monaco Bay) every Tuesday. At the watch party, we get to play American Idol bingo, which is simply having a piece of paper with different quotes that the jugdes are known for saying; so, it's extremely easy. Tonight we got a very special prize that might have a chance to win...Kelly Clarkson tickets!!! I really hope I win because I want to see her in concert so bad! I absolutely love her. I even got Tiffany and Alyssa to enter for it so if they won then they could give my the tickets sonce niether of them care for Kelly. I have a pretty good chance of winning; I entered myself, my sister, my parents, and Tiff and Lyss. So, I really hope that one of us is chosen. That's pretty much all for today. DFTBA
BEDA: Day 6: Sorry I'm late -_-
It is now 2 am on April 7th meaning that this blog is officially LATE! Really sorry about this but I was just having an extremely bad day and if you follow me on twitter than you already know this whole story. I am not going to go into any details because it's not really important and I have just given up on caring about it any more. The jist of it is that my dad is a jerk and I hate him. So, there you go. I don't really have much to talk about in this blog but then again what else is new. If you have any suggestions and/or requests let me know in the comments. I know that I keep promising a Twilight party blog but I haven't had time to do it just yet. Most likely tomorrow or Thursday since I will be at school pretty much all day. Wednesday may be another late blog day since I probably won't be online at all which really sucks because all of my friends are online and I need to talk to them all so I don't go insane. The reason I will be gone on Wednesday is because I will be home all day and really do not need to give yet another reason for my dad to chew my head off and bitch. That's pretty much all for today kids! DFTBA!
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