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David Farland's Son - Medically Induced Coma
On Thursday Dave Wolverton / David Farland's teenage son was critically injured in a longboard accident. Ben and his family were life-flighted to Las Vegas where Ben has since been in a medically induced coma. He has had multiple emergency brain surgeries to attempt to control the swelling in his brain.
Below is his most recent Facebook update regarding his son's condition: Quote:
For those that don't know Dave Farland, he's a NYT best selling author of "The Runelords", a couple of "Star Wars" novels, multiple young-adult books and even a few self-published books like Nightingale and In the Company of Angels. Dave has been a mentor to a whole bunch of authors over the years, several who happen to be a great deal more famous than I (Eric Flint, Stephanie Meyer, Brandon Sanderson). He's regularly been a judge on the Writer's of the Future Contest, which has helped plenty of other aspiring authors break in, most recently, a guy by the name of Patrick Rothfuss won and went on to publish something called "The Name of the Wind." He's been a great friend and always willing to lend a helping hand. I respect the hell out of the man and have been privileged to have been able to learn from him. If anybody here would like to help, the best thing we can do at this moment is a book bomb campaign. Dave self published Million Dollar Outlines, which is probably one of the greatest "how-to" books I've read. It was one of his text books in the classes that he taught. He also self published a book called "Nightingale" which won a bunch of awards last year. Since Dave self-published those, he stands to recover the most royalties from their sales. He's also got plenty of other short stories and a bunch of other good stuff on his web-store. -kd Alexander Last edited by jaxx6166; 04-06-2013 at 01:28 PM. |
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04-06-2013, 05:32 PM | #2 |
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And from a tweet by KKRusch: Another way to help out - http://www.gofundme.com/BensRecovery
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I have donated this month's book budget and wish Ben a full and speedy recovery. My heart goes out to his family. |
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So by longboarding, do they mean skateboarding or snowboarding? Given the liability issues of both, I'm surprised they're still legal.
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04-07-2013, 11:41 AM | #5 |
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Snowboarding should be illegal? Really? What about skiing?
Longboarding is a form of skateboarding. Unfortunately, from the description of Ben's injuries it doesn't sound like he was wearing a helmet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longboarding |
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Maybe I'm too much of a wimp, but I would not get on one of those things without protective gear - no way! Anyway - I understand buying indie books will probably net more money for the Farlands. Just want to confirm that the following books were independently/self published. In Amazon I was a bit confused by the appearance of publisher names: Nightingale In the Company of Angels If purchasing both of those from Amazon gives him 70% as self-pubbed, I'm happy to purchase those. Also, I think I'll probably pick up this one as well: On My Way to Paradise Not self-pubbed, but looks like his first book caused quite a stir. I've never read this author before, but if I were to start it would be here. |
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I'm not sure if On My Way to Paradise has been republished by Dave digitally. Nightingale, In the Company of Angels, and several of his short stories are ones that he stands to make the most by way of royalties.
Myself and several of his past students are organizing a "Book Bomb" on April 10th to try and help Dave out as much as we can with social media and trying to generate sales. Hopefully we will have an affiliate site or something created to try and increase the money raised. Dave's son, Spencer, was able to create a donation website as well (which I did see linked up above through KKR, thank you pholy for getting that out to everyone. From what I understand, his son was riding a "longboard" skateboard down a hill without a helmet, his friend realized that the hill would be too steep and turned around to warn Ben, but by then it was too late. I want to thank everyone again for taking the time to read this or help out. Here's the newspaper article about the accident. And a follow up about the fundraising site. Last edited by jaxx6166; 04-08-2013 at 07:40 PM. Reason: links |
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Thanks jaxx6166. I'll settle for those three. I'll wait for the affiliate site to be set up so that extra revenue can be generated from the purchases. Will you post the affiliate site in this thread?
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Absolutely. As soon as I get the info passed along to me I won't hesitate to share it with you all.
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04-09-2013, 07:36 AM | #11 |
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Skateboarding. Not sure either activity should be illegal, but people -- especially uninsured people -- should wear protective gear.
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Protective gear should be wore regardless of insurance status.
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04-09-2013, 01:21 PM | #13 |
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Here are the affiliate links to Nightingale and Million Dollar Outlines
Here is the Facebook "Event" for the Book Bomb that is set to go off tomorrow. And finally, the actual webpage that was set up to help Ben Also, since those are Affiliate links, I believe anything purchased on Amazon through those links will generate a small amount back to the Wolverton family. |
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Thanks jaxx. I made all three purchases after clicking your Nightingale affiliate link, so hopefully all register as you've suggested.
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Thanks Caleb. =)
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