New Codebearer Challenge is LIVE!!!

Fellow Codebearers, the next level of the online game is now active. It is called "The Chamber" and it takes the book codes to a whole new level.

Visit www.Codebearers.com today and try your hand at it now.

Giveaway?!?

GIVEAWAY!! A fellow blogger is giving away the first book in the Passages series by Paul McCusker, Darien's Rise. Contest ends July 30th. Click here to post and for rules for the contest.

Block Party on July 3rd

We had a great time at the block party tonight. Sold some books, got a tan, made some friends and even met a couple of budding and published authors who I look forward to chatting with again someday soon. Oh...one more thing...shortly after setting up our display Allan got stung right on the elbow by a rogue bee with a temper tantrum. It was a hit and run kind of thing...we never saw the bee again. This is why I am afraid of bees.

The event itself was somewhat of an eclectic collection of several events all rolled into one. Part classic car show, part church carnival, part 4th of July celebration and part vendor fair. Somehow on paper it doesn't sound like it could work, but...by golly it was a HIT!

The event was hosted and directed by the Tacoma Alliance Church and a friend of ours from Lighthouse Christian Books. It was sponsored by Home Depot and had quite a good sized crowd turn out. Of course, Free Hot Dogs and Hamburgers were an added bonus. There were bounce houses for the lil' ones and dunk tanks for the older. While I didn't get to leave our booth very often, my 4 year old pretty much summed everything up by saying the part that he liked best was "everything!" He had a blast.

The evening concluded with the inflating and launching of a red white and blue Hot Air Ballon (which was amazing to watch) and a stellar fireworks show put on by the Tacoma Rainers directly across the freeway from the event (which we unfortunatly couldn't stay to watch - the kids were far too tired by 10pm). Wow, what a night!

We may have even booked a few school visits for this next fall. (Which reminds me if you know of a teacher or librarian at an elementary or middle school in Washington State...have them give us a call.)

We'll definately plan on visiting this event next year.

The Miller Brother's are Going Nuts on the Radio!!!

Join us on the air, July 11th 2009, for our scheduled interview with Bongo Rod and the Coconut Hut Radio Show. All we can say is that the interview is entirely unscripted and "a little bit nutty". If you've ever wondered what the Miller Brother's favorite junk food is, or how Chris Miller sounds with his nose plugged you might want to tune in.

Visit www.coconuthutradioshow.com to listen live!

New Website Homepage Released

We released an updated homepage today on the www.Codebearers.com website. Included in the new homepage design is a sneak peek at some concept artwork from Book 2 in the Codebearers series (Hunter Brown and the Consuming Fire). More changes to come soon, but hope this gives you something to talk about as we build up to releasing new content around the next book.

To be clear...

That previous post was on April 1st! There will be no animated Code"bears" series. All in good fun! Have a blessed week everyone...and keep an eye out for some more Codebearer challenges coming your way in the next few weeks. The next phase of the challenges starts soon!

Codebearers books spawn new animated series!!!

We're thrilled to announce that after months of pitching the idea of an animated series based on the Codebearers books, we've finally landed a deal with a major network! Of course, as with all TV adaptations, a few minor modifcations were required to swing this deal, but we still think the heart of it stayed true. In the end it boiled down to droping an extra "er" at the end of Codebearer to make the deal. More details will be forthcoming, but for now, enjoy the sneak-peek at this exciting new animated series... and let us know what you think of it!