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 [...]
Michael over at The Mad Hatter's Review recently read and reviewed The Winds of Khalakovo. Here's a brief excerpt: Even amid all the Fantasy it is the characters who you'll remember the best. Each goes through torn loyalties all for believable reasons. The action surrounds Prince Nikandr Khalakovo for the most part as he is [...]
Is now live… Check it out here. I talk a bit about the first book and the road it took to publication. Will be old news for some, but probably not for most of Jim's audience… By the way, I first met Jim way back at Clarion in 2006. He lived nearby and was gracious [...]
Coming this September to a book store near you (assuming you live in Poland), Wichry Archipelagu, the Polish translation of The Winds of Khalakovo. And here, good friends, is the cover, a recontextualization (I love that word, btw, but I give credit to my editor, Ross Lockhart, for using it in the Night Shade post [...]
Here's a nice little review from the Sneaky Burrito. This, by the way, is my favorite part of the review: Female characters were decent; some men can't do female characters well at all, but Beaulieu seems to succeed. Honestly, there were a few times I forgot I was reading something written by a man. (Although [...]
A while back, I got news that Marek Pawalec, translator extraordinaire, had finished the Polish translation of The Winds of Khalakovo. He asked if I'd like to see the glossary he kept for the transliterations of various names and words. My fingers couldn't type fast enough. Of course I wanted to see them. I love [...]
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 [...]
Today, Beneath Ceaseless Skies released the second and final part of my Thousand and One Nights-style novelette, “From the Spices of Sanandira.” And don’t forget, Beneath Ceaseless Skies is holding a giveaway for two copies of The Winds of Khalakovo. All you need to do is comment on the story (details are at the end [...]
Remember that promotion that Night Shade set up for Barnes & Noble? The Free ebook download? Well, I just found out how many copies were downloaded. 77,229. Wow. I'm stunned. I knew from previous promotions that it was going to be in the tens of thousands, but 77k? I had no idea. That's pretty damn [...]
Elitist reviews just posted their thoughts on Winds. They had some very nice things to say, along with a couple of issues. Here's a short excerpt from the full review: One of the main elements of this novel that really had us nodding in appreciation was the setting. The use of an archipelago for the country/kingdom [...]
So here's the big news I mentioned yesterday. The Winds of Khalakovo is now available for all you Nook readers out there for free as part of a promotion with Barnes and Noble. You can go to the B&N page for Winds and download it to your Nook! This promotion runs through June 9th. Please [...]
Paul Weimer has posted his review of Winds at The Functional Nerds. Here are a few brief excerpts from Paul's full review: There is a lot here for epic fantasy fans to sink their teeth into. As I said in the opening to this review, Beaulieu has taken the opportunity to mine some unexplored veins for [...]
A few weeks back I taped an interview with Mike and Mike (that would be Stackpole and Mennenga) over at the Dragon Page, and it just went live. In the interview I talk about the Russian and Persian influences of The Winds of Khalakovo, and how those informed the development of character and cultural traits [...]
Hey everyone, I'm headed to the Tuesday Funk reading in Chicago next week, Tuesday, May 3rd. Tuesday Funk is a reading series that takes place on the first Tuesday of every month at the Hopleaf Bar in Chicago. Rather than repeat what the Funk site sayeth: Ah, spring! When birds begin to sing, brooks to [...]
Check it out: The Winds of Khalakovo has hit its first bestseller list! I even beat out a Pulitzer winner! Paperback fiction: The Winds of Khalakovo, by Bradley Beaulieu A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer winner The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese The Solitude of Prime [...]
I posted earlier about my book launch party at Boswell Books in Milwaukee this coming weekend. Well, Boswells has a blog site, and on it several employees post about the goings-on in the literary world. The buyer for Boswells, Jason, just posted a short but glowing review of Winds. Here's a small excerpt: [...] just [...]
Be there or be square! I tried to ping everyone on Facebook or directly via email, but for anyone I missed (sorry!), my book launch is this coming weekend at the Boswell Book Company in Milwaukee, WI. For a Google map of Boswell's, click here. There will be a signing and a reading at Boswell's [...]
Check out the following from Stephan over at The Ranting Dragon: All in all, The Winds of Khalakovo is an amazing first volume in what may become a series to challenge more established epic fantasy series like A Song of Ice and Fire and Malazan Book of the Fallen. However, at this stage, I dare not make such a lofty [...]
Stefan Fergus, also known as the Civilian Reader, has posted his review of The Winds of Khalakovo. It's a very positive review that digs into the politics of the world pretty heavily, which is kind of gratifying since that's something I like to hang my hat on. He also talk about the main systems of [...]
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