Page 22 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

November #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Margaret Atwood, Neal Stephenson, Becky Chambers, Joe Hill, Paul Tremblay, Amy Bartol, and more

Posted on 2016-11-25 at 08:36 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Before November runs out, take the take to take a break from Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping and pick up a little something for yourself for those long, dark winter nights. There are 510 Whispersync-enabled audiobooks in this month's Monthly Deals in Kindle Books listings, which is a very, very big number. Here's what most catches my eye and ear this month:

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, read by Claire Danes for Audible for $2.99+$3.99 "[A] novel of such power that the reader will be

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged amy a bartol, anne charnock, Becky Chambers, claire danes, cory doctorow, guillermo del toro, jeff vandermeer, joe hill, julie kagawa, katherine kellgren, luke daniels, margaret atwood, neal stephenson, paul tremblay, ron perlman, samuel r delany, vikas adam, wil wheaton

October #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Lian Hearn's Emperor of the Eight Islands, Jose Saramago's Blindness, Rysa Walker's CHRONOS Files, Seanan McGuire's Indexing, and more

Posted on 2016-10-31 at 04:05 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

It's a pretty lean month for the #WhispersyncDeal monthly roundup, making yet another "almost too late to be useful" post pretty ridiculous. When I finally started looking at the deals in the monthly $3.99 or Less and 50 Kindle Books for $2 Each listings between innings of the Cubs World Series games (yes I just typed that!) I almost decided to just go ahead and skip the month. While great, we've seen Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and Slaughter-House Five and Richard Matheson's I Am Legend before quite a few

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Review: The Dispatcher by John Scalzi, read by Zachary Quinto for Audible

Posted on 2016-10-11 at 14:44 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The Dispatcher by John Scalzi Read by Zachary Quinto for Audible

Free until November 2, The Dispatcher is an audio-exclusive short novella from John Scalzi, read by Zachary Quinto -- best known for his role as the Nimoy-approved Spock in the recent Star Trek reboot and the menacing, power-stealing serial killer, Sylar, in Heroes -- who "brings his well-earned sci-fi credentials and simmering intensity to this audio-exclusive novella from master storyteller John Scalzi."

The book starts just a bit heavy

Posted in reviews | Tagged audible, john scalzi, zachary quinto

September #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Octavia Butler, Jay Posey, Richard Matheson, R. A. MacAvoy, Jose Saramago, Carl Hiassen, Karen Lord, and more

Posted on 2016-09-30 at 17:47 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

In the latest crop of the monthly 3.99 or less Kindle titles, there's 174 Whispersync-enabled deals to check out, with no shortage of fantastic books and audiobooks from classic and current sf to epic fantasy to thrillers and more. When you add the monthly $2 or less listings with its own 52 Whispersync deals, there's certainly a lot to tempt you as September comes to a close. And! While you're at it, don't forget that Audible's $4.95 members-only "Win-Win" sale was extended through the end of the month as

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Audible's latest members-only "Win-Win" sale

Posted on 2016-09-25 at 17:57 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I had such plans for this month, to get the #WhispersyncDeal roundup out early, and then, well, more and more deals just kept needing to be added, and then this deal rolled out. So, before it's entirely too late instead of nearly, and before I get to the more "regularly scheduled" Whispersync deals, first up this month is my top 18 picks from a glance through Audible's Members-Only "Win-Win" sale, with over 200 titles for just $4.95 each. The sale ends September 26, 2016 at 11:59 PM PT (US) so as of this

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August #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence, Alex Bledsoe's Wisp of a Thing, Marko Kloos, Alan Cumming, Tim Powers, and much more

Posted on 2016-08-30 at 16:07 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

August is almost over, which means it's #WhispersyncDeal roundup time! Before I get to the regular Monthly Deals in Kindle Books and 50 Kindle Book Deals for $2 Each listings, and the huge list of titles in Audible's "3 years of daily deals" sale, though, a completely separate deal headlines my picks this month:

Per Tor and Tor.com editor Marco Palmieri, Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence is moving from Tor Books to Tor.com Publishing, and the series-wide $4.99 sale continues through August. The bad news is

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged alan cumming, alan moore, alex bledsoe, jasper fforde, john malkovich, john scalzi, kevin j anderson, kurt vonnegut, luke daniels, marko kloos, max gladstone, oliver wyman, rachel aaron, richard armitage, robin miles, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, tananarive due, tim gerard reynolds, victor bevine, vikas adam, wil wheaton

Wednesday's #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Connie Willis, Diana Gabaldon, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Matthew Reilly

Posted on 2016-08-10 at 20:20 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Bit too big of a day to link them all one at a time, so here's four great deals today to check out:

Blackout (All Clear Book 1) by Connie Willis, read by Katherine Kellgren for $1.99+$4.49 is the first half of the Hugo Award winning time-travel duology Blackout/All Clear: "Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her

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July #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Ken Liu, Kat Howard, Octavia Butler, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Matheson, Walter Mosley, Field of Dreams, Scott Westerfeld's Zeroes, and much more

Posted on 2016-07-29 at 22:59 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

July brought a refreshed list of Summer Reading Deals and 50 Kindle Books for $2 Each to the Kindle store, and there's over 700 titles in there, 387 of which are Whispersync for Voice enabled in the "Summer Reading Deals" alone. (There's another 46 in the $2 Kindle listings.) What's most worth checking out? There's a lot, even there, including a few titles from 2016 from Saga Press and Simon & Schuster Audio, classics, and more. Here you go, starting with those Saga/S&S titles that I can hardly believe can

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged brandon mull, kat howard, ken liu, octavia butler, scott westerfeld

Downpour's 100-title science fiction $5.95 audiobook sale: Ian McDonald's Luna: New Moon, Molly Tanzer's Vermilion, Cory Doctorow, Jeff VanderMeer, Ray Bradbury, and more:

Posted on 2016-07-25 at 02:39 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

In Downpour's 100-book $5.95 Sci-Fi sale there are dozens of highly-rated and recommended titles. Here's what most caught my eye, from a quartet of great titles from 2015, to Cory Doctorow, Jeff VanderMeer, Catherine Asaro, Walter Mosley, Jane Rogers, and Brenda Cooper, to classics from Ray Bradbury and Walter M. Miller. (If you really love classic sf there's plenty of Heinlein and Bova to peruse as well.)

Happy $5.95 deal-hunting! But don't wait too long, this sale ends July 31.

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June #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Umberto Eco, T. Kingfisher, Scott Meyer, Rysa Walker, Gwenda Bond, Steve McHugh, Dennis Lehane, Ian Fleming, and more

Posted on 2016-06-25 at 20:01 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Between this month's Summer Reading Deals in Kindle Books and 50 Kindle Book Deals for $2 Each listings there's quite a few (over 300!) Whispersync for Voice titles to check out. From comedic fantasy to YA time travel, Umberto Eco to new fiction in translation, there's something for everybody to check out:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco for $2.99+$3.99 is the legendary Eco's award-winning first novel, read by the marvelous Sean Barrett along with Nicholas Rowe and Neville Jason: "The year is 1327.

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged amy mcfadden, amy rubinate, aric davis, ayse kulin, dennis lehane, gwenda bond, ian fleming, james bond, jeff strand, kate rudd, luke daniels, mary robinette kowal, rysa walker, scott meyer, sean barrett, simon vance, t kingfisher, the name of the rose, umberto eco