Last year, The Winds of Khalakovo nabbed the Debut of the Year from Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist. Pat pinged me shortly after and asked if an ARC for The Straits of Galahesh was available. I said of course an ARC was available and promptly arranged for one to be sent with Night Shade’s publicist. Truth is, though, [...]
Keith over at Adventures Fantastic recently read and reviewed The Straits of Galahesh. Keith had read The Winds of Khalakovo last year and was really impressed by it. Here’s that review. Well, he apparently likes Straits as well. Here’s the kicker: If you read The Winds of Khalakovo, then you will want to read The Straits of [...]
The latest review for The Straits of Galahesh comes from Stefan Raets over at Tor.com. I have to say, I always love it when my work gets compared to other writers (in a favorable way, of course). In this case, it’s Robin Hobb with her Seven Duchies/Rain Wilds series and Steven Erikson’s Malazan Book of [...]
Wow. It's been an entire year since The Winds of Khalakovo was released. It's strange, it feels like the year has been comprised of two separate wholes that have somehow coexisted even though they're traveling at different speeds through timespace. One part, the part that's been traveling at normal speed, is the day job, the [...]
The Straits of Galahesh Giveaway continues, and the response so far has been great! There's still another week to go to win one of the great prizes: a Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet (winner's choice), a Kindle Touch or Nook Simple Touch (winner's choice), a rare signed ARC of The Straits of Galahesh, and sets [...]
Far Beyond Reality, the relatively new review site from Stefan Raets, has a brand new review of The Winds of Khalakovo. The review, which you can read in its entirety here, is quite complementary. Here's my favorite part: The Winds of Khalakovo is a debut that merits your attention. The way Bradley Beaulieu focuses on the [...]
Although the release of Straits is still a few weeks out, I now have in my hot little electronic paws a PDF teaser for The Straits of Galahesh. It contains the prologue and the first eleven chapters, plus a short synopsis of The Winds of Khalakovo. Download The Straits of Galahesh Teaser Here I [...]
And the winner (if there's an award for such things) goes to Paul Weimer and the Functional Nerds. Here's a brief excerpt from the review: The author’s writing continues to improve. Now that I know what to expect from the writer, the changes and point of view changes were like beats that came easily and [...]
I'm very excited to announce a giveaway in promotion of The Straits of Galahesh, which is now less than a month from release. In order to help spread the word, I, along with Night Shade Books, am running a contest with a top prize of a Kindle Fire and a second prize of a Kindle Touch, [...]
Today is a very exciting day. I'm finally ready to unveil the interactive map project I've been working on these past few weeks. You can click the map below to go to the page, which you can also find under the Lays of Anuskaya menu on the menu bar above. Within the map, you'll also [...]
I’d had notes for how the windships and magic worked in my book for a while. See that ship to the right of this text? I, um, recognize that it might take the reader a bit of time to orient themselves. And, well, I probably should have collected it together to put into The Winds of [...]
For The Winds of Khalakovo, I was lucky enough that the artist, Adam Paquette, shared with me some of the thumbnail sketches and early incarnations of the artwork for the final cover. I documented that in this post. Todd Lockwood, the artist for the cover for The Straits of Galahesh, was also nice enough to [...]
Do you love maps? If you’re like me, you do. I just got the two new ones that are being included in my second novel, The Straits of Galahesh. Here they are, one for Galahesh, which (as you might have guessed from the title) figures prominently into the novel, and one for Vostroma, the Duchy [...]
This is probably something I should have added to The Winds of Khalakovo, but better late than never, right? I’ve added a glossary page for The Lays of Anuskaya. While it generally applies to the entire series, it’s really specific to The Straits of Galahesh. You’d think it wouldn’t matter, but there are people in [...]
The ARCs for The Straits of Galahesh arrived a few days ago. This is not the how the final book will look, but it’s pretty close. Pretty snazzy, huh? I’m going to be saving one for next year’s Worldbuilders drive. The other, I’ll probably have a giveaway for in a few weeks, so stay tuned! [...]
The final cover design has been completed for The Straits of Galahesh. The artist is Todd Lockwood, and the cover designer, who’s done a ton of great covers for Night Shade, is Claudia Noble. I really like how this turned out. The artwork is great and hits a number of cool touchpoints from the books, [...]
There’s a lot brewing behind the scenes for the second book in my series. Lots of production stuff. Copy edits. Cover design. Packaging. And so on. But interest has been starting to brew from various reviewers. Justin over at Staffer’s Musings, however, is the first one to list The Straits of Galahesh on a “books [...]
Last week, Justin Landon over at A Staffer’s Musings, reviewed The Winds of Khalakovo, and shortly after, he asked if I’d like to do an interview with him. I said sure. My blog title is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but the questions were definitely challenging. We talked about the themes in Winds and where they came [...]
For those who order stuff from Amazon, their U.S. site now has The Straits of Galahesh listed for pre-order. Yay! Nothing on B&N yet, but I’ll post again when I see it there and on other sites.
I found out in August that Todd Lockwood was going to be the new cover artist for The Straits of Galahesh, the second book in my Lays of Anuskaya series. Let me tell you, it’s been hard to keep things under wraps for so long. I’ve been fortunate to be able to provide a bit [...]
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