The latest review of Winds goes to Battle Hymns. Overall, a very nice review. The setting here is a unique one. The place names and character names give The Winds of Khalakovo a distinct Russian feel, and the windswept archipelago geography is pretty cool too. I gotta give Beaulieu credit, he definitely found his story a unique [...]
In a special two-episode series over at Speculate!, Greg and I take a step back from our usual blend of reader response and writer analysis to look at the state of the speculative fiction field more generally, enlisting friend and fellow speculative fiction author and editor Paul Genesse to broaden the discussion. In Part 1, we focus [...]
We've added a new feature to Speculate this year. A "State of the Business" podcast, which we'll do a few times a year with selected guests. I was really looking forward to this talk, because I like chatting about where this ship is headed, and our guest, editor and author, Paul Genesse, didn't disappoint. Our [...]
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 [...]
Looking for a bit of listening for the weekend? Then I have just the thing for you. Head on over to Speculate, where Greg and I recently sat down with Wheel of Time author, Brandon Sanderson. This is one of our longer interviews, but when you have someone who can talk so easily and interestingly [...]
In the latest episode of Speculate, Greg and I dive deeper into writing technique, using Mark Hodder’s The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack, as the inspiration. As I mentioned in my previous note about our interview with Mark Hodder, this was a really fun triptych, largely because Mark’s book turned out to be such fun [...]
The wonderful folks over at BookSpotCentral had me by to talk about Strata, my dystopian sci-fi thriller set on the surface of the sun. Here’s a brief excerpt from the post: For the writing itself, we started out with Google docs. Steve largely wrote the first draft of the frame story, Poulson’s story, and I [...]
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 [...]
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.
Now live on Speculate is our 29th episode (wow, 29 episodes already!), where Greg and I hash over writing technique based on our read of Night Shade’s recent The Book of Cthulhu anthology. This was a fun episode to tape, as Greg and I got to digest not just the stories that we read, but [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
At WorldCon in Reno (still twitching from the lights and bings and pops on the casino floors), Greg Wilson and I sat down to talk with Patrick Rothfuss about the writing life, language, and poetic magic. I tried to leg wrestle Greg for this one too (see note on our previous epic match over our [...]
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. [...]
Several weeks back at Gen Con in Indianapolis, Greg Wilson and I interviewed several of the Writers Symposium authors and editors for Speculate. This was one of the more fun parts of the convention for me, because, well, it's fun talking shop. While we were there, Greg managed to snag an interview with Ed Greenwood, [...]
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, [...]
Over at Grasping for the Wind, I talk about the perceptions of characters and how, as writers, we can use them to our advantage to create tension and mystery, and to give the story a verisimilitude that would otherwise be missing. I've recently been reading The Wise Man's Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss, and I used [...]
I've been rather remiss in not posting my thoughts about the Wellspring Writing Workshop that I organized and ran with ten lovely writers in Lake Geneva this past June. I did post a fair bit about it before the workshop, though, including a podcast with Greg Wilson over at our podcast site, Speculate. Plus, I knew [...]
I'll be heading down to Indianapolis tomorrow for four fun-filled days with all my gamer geeks—peeps! I meant peeps! Ahem… In any case, here's my schedule for the convention if you happen to be around: Thursday 10am — Selling Short Fiction: Selling short fiction can be a long road, especially in a marketplace with dwindling print anthologies and [...]
I got to talking with Aidan Moher over at A Dribble of Ink a while back, and he kindly invited me to do a couple guest posts on his blog. The first of them is up now. Writing the second novel, strangely enough, is the same subject over at the Night Bazaar. I try not [...]
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