The Winds of Khalakovo recently hit Pat’s Fantasy Hotlists’s Top 10 Specfic Books for 2011. Pat wasn’t quite finished up with the review at the time, but it has now been posted to his site. The verdict? Highly recommended. Here’s a brief excerpt from the review: Truth be told, Bradley P. Beaulieu’s debut wasn’t on [...]
Today, there is a rather large smile on my face. The Winds of Khalakovo just made Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist’s Speculative Fiction Top 10 for 2011. Winds joins books by two of my heroes: C.S. Friedman and George R.R. Martin. And I’m certainly pleased (more than pleased. Way, way pleased…) to be among such august company [...]
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 [...]
In a day apparently filled with reviews, there comes another. Phil over at A Fantasy Reader has just posted his review of The Winds of Khalakovo. Phil has an interesting grading style that I’ve not seen before, which gives the reader a decent idea of how well (or not) various aspects of the book worked, [...]
That’s Justin Landon’s take on The Winds of Khalakovo, which he recently reviewed in detail on his site: Staffer’s Musings. It’s one of the more in-depth reviews I’ve seen of Winds, particularly as it relates to the themes of the book. Justin is clearly well read, particularly in Russian literature, which is in some ways [...]
Aidan Moher invited me over to A Dribble of Ink for another guest blog. This was one I promised months ago but didn’t get to until now. Why did I take so long? Read it and see.
I’m headed to WFC in the morning, and I thought I’d post my schedule. I have only three things: Friday 2pm – Night Shade Booth – Autograph Signing Friday 4pm – Pacific 6/7 – Reading from The Straits of Galahesh, the second book in The Lays of Anuskaya Friday 8pm – Ballroom – Mass autograph [...]
Risingshadow gave Winds a whirl recently and just posted their review. My mood this morning? Well pleased. Here’s a brief excerpt from the review: Without a doubt one of the best fantasy debuts of 2011 (I can hardly wait to read the second installment of this series). It’s truly amazing how many excellent fantasy books [...]
The Qwillery is having a debut author challenge this year, and they graciously invited me over to participate. The interview I did with them just went live. Here’s a brief excerpt from the interview: TQ: Without giving anything away, what is/are your favorite scene(s) in The Winds of Khalakovo? Bradley: I’ll give the fan favorite and [...]
Cool news, everyone! Pat over at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist is running a giveaway for two copies of The Winds of Khalakovo! Check out the announcement for the details. Please spread the news, and good luck for those who enter!
A few months back, Night Shade pinged me about an opportunity to get on Suvudu’s Booked, a feature where they ask authors to share their favorite books with their readers. I sent in my post and more or less forgot about it. Well, it finally came out today. It’s pretty neat to be on Suvudu, [...]
Happy Birthday to Wichry Archipelagu, the Polish translation of The Winds of Khalakovo (my first translation ever!), which was released today. Through the wonder of the Chrome web browser and its translation abilities, I’m able to read translated Polish sites. A few reviews have already come out, and it looks like the book is receiving some [...]
A while back, John DeNardo from SF Signal kindly invited me to do a guest post. I’d done a few of these things, and I like to ruminate on them a bit so that I’m actually saying something when I, you know, stop by someone else’s house and talk for a bit. Lately I’ve tended [...]
Pat graciously offered to host an excerpt of The Winds of Khalakovo on his popular website, Pat's Fantasy Hotlist. This is an exclusive. It's chapters 16 and 17 of the book, the two that follow the fifteen-chapter sampler that's been up on Night Shade's site, Goodreads, and here on my own web site for a while [...]
I know I said I wasn't going to talk about this much, but I find this fascinating, so I'm going to share. Remember a few weeks back, when I talked about a spike in sales? It was a 50% jump in one week. Well, since then, sales have jumped another 50% from those already spiked figures. [...]
Thus reads the title of the latest review of Winds from Adventures Fantastic. The review, which you can read in its entirety here, starts thusly: If there is any justice in this world whatsoever, this book will be short-listed on next year's Hugo ballot. Erm. Wow. That's incredibly gratifying to read. Every writer dreams about [...]
Recently, Fantasy Book Critic's Robert Thompson pinged me, as well as Courtney Schafer, Teresa Frohock, and Stina Leicht, about a group interview. He'd read a dozen or so debuts this year and a full four of them were from Night Shade, and he thought it would be a cool idea to conduct a joint interview with [...]
September 20th (missed my birthday by a week) is the release date for Wichry Archipelagu, the Polish release of The Winds of Khalakovo. I'm really excited for the release. I can't wait for my contributor copies as well. That's going to be so cool to hold my first translation in my hands. If you click [...]
Barry over at Blogging for a Good Book recently read The Winds of Khalakovo based on a recommendation from (I think) another of the bloggers at the same site. It's kind of sweet to hear that not only did someone like you're book, but that they picked it up based on the recommendation of someone [...]
I won't talk often about sales figures, mostly because the data that I get from Bookscan is rather fuzzy, but I thought it interesting that last week, sales of The Winds of Khalakovo jumped 50%. Now, the copies sold weren't Pat Rothfuss numbers, so these kinds of things will happen, and yet I find it odd, [...]
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