Page 25 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Bookburners Listen-a-Long #3: Fair Weather by Margaret Dunlap

Posted on 2015-10-06 at 03:49 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Bookburners: Season One: Episode 3: Fair Weather by Margaret Dunlap read by Xe Sands for Serial Box

[Missed Episode 1? The pilot episode is still free, and at under 90 minutes each it’s a breeze to catch up!]

In some ways, Margaret Dunlap's "Fair Weather" is an echo of the winning formula that Brian Francis Slattery's "Anywhere But Here" established in the previous episode: Sal explores a bit of the Vatican, Sal meets some new team members, the team's "magic 8-ball" alerts them of a magical event, they

Posted in The Bookburners Listen-a-Long | Tagged margaret dunlap, serial box, xe sands

September WhispersyncDeal roundup: Octavia Butler's Bloodchild, Neal Stephenson's Mongoliad, Terry Pratchett's The Wee Free Men, Sarah Prineas, Arthur C. Clarke, David Wong, Jasper Fforde, and more

Posted on 2015-09-25 at 23:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Another roundup pushing up against the end-of-the-month wire, so let's jump right in with the deals expiring at the end of the month.

First up, a roundup of what most caught my eye of the 189 Whispersync-for-Voice-enabled titles in this month's $3.99 or Less listings, mostly in science fiction and fantasy but a few fiction, teen, children's, and mystery titles as well:

Bloodchild: And Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler (Author), Janina Edwards (Narrator) for $2.99+$3.49 -- This one's been in the

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged anne flosnik, arthur c clarke, bloodchild, brilliance, christina farley, david drake, david wong, ex-patriots, frank peretti, garard doyle, jasper fforde, jeff wheeler, john wyndham, luke daniels, marcus sakey, mark dawson, matthew quick, max allan collins, neal stpheneson, nick podehl, octavia butler, oliver wyman, peter clines, ray porter, salman rushdie, sarah prineas, stuart neville, ted dekker, terry pratchett, the day of the triffids, the magic thief, the wee free men, this book is full of spiders

Bookburners Listen-a-Long #2: Anywhere But Here by Brian Francis Slattery

Posted on 2015-09-25 at 14:25 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Bookburners: Season One: Episode 2: Anywhere But Here by Brian Francis Slattery read by Xe Sands for Serial Box

[Missed Episode 1? The pilot episode is still free, and at under 90 minutes each it's a breeze to catch up!]

Well, I'm again late late with the listen-a-long recap, as Episode 3 ("Fair Weather", by Margaret Dunlap) has been out since Tuesday. With Episode #2 we see Bookburners HQ at the Vatican ("Looks a little Satanic for around here, doesn’t it?"), meet a new team member, and ride along for

Posted in The Bookburners Listen-a-Long | Tagged brian francis slattery, serial box, xe sands

Audible's Win-Win Sale through September 20: N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season, Helene Wecker's The Golem and the Jinni, David Mitchell, Joe Abercrombie, and more

Posted on 2015-09-18 at 20:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Through 11:59 PM US Pacific Time, Audible's Member-Only "Win-Win" sale lists a fairly huge pile of audiobooks -- 234 titles! -- for $4.95 each. Here's what most caught my eye:

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Quick fiction #WhispersyncDeal roundup for Friday, September 18: Water for Elephants, The Transcriptionist, A Reliable Wife, and Jill McCorkle's Life After Life

Posted on 2015-09-18 at 19:15 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Rather than share/Tweet these four fantastic fiction deals one at a time, I figured I'd just quickly round them up here. Enjoy! But act fast, as these are only good through the wee hours after midnight tonight:

Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen (Author), David LeDoux (Narrator), John Randolph Jones (Narrator), for $1.99+$3.95 -- "Nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski reflects back on his wild and wondrous days with a circus. It's the Depression Era and Jacob, finding himself parentless and penniless

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged amy rowland, jill mccorkle, sara gruen, water for elephants, xe sands

Bookburners Listen-a-Long #1: Badge, Book, and Candle by Max Gladstone

Posted on 2015-09-16 at 16:41 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Bookburners is a just-launched episodic fiction project by new publisher Serial Box, the first of their season- and episode-based "shows" (for lack of a better term!) brought to us by all-star teams of writers in collaborative fashion. In Bookburners, "Magic is real, and hungry—trapped in ancient texts and artifacts, only a few who discover it survive to fight back. Detective Sal Brooks is a

Posted in The Bookburners Listen-a-Long | Tagged bookburners, max gladstone, serial box, xe sands

August WhispersyncDeal roundup: Ken Liu, Chuck Wendig, Joyce Carol Oates, Max Brooks, and more; read by Michael Kramer, Luke Daniels, Kate Rudd, Grover Gardner, Mary Robinette Kowal, and more!

Posted on 2015-08-27 at 17:33 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I keep getting later and later in the month with these... so this time, once more, with feeling, don't wait too long. The first two sections of deals all expire on August 31. Tick-tock.

First, a rough pass through the 156 Whispersync-enabled Monthly Deals for $3.99 or Less which, let me tell you, is a lot of titles. Here's what most caught my eye, and there are some really good ones:

The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty) by Ken Liu, read by Michael Kramer for Simon & Schuster Audio for $1.99+$3

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged arthur c clarke, chuck wendig, emily beresford, grover gardner, joyce carol oates, kate rudd, ken liu, luke daniels, mary robinette kowal, max brooks, michael crichton, michael kramer, Michael R Underwood

Downpour.com audiobook rental program review and offer

Posted on 2015-08-20 at 17:12 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I'd been meaning to check out Downpour.com's digital audiobook rental program for a while; there's a recent flurry of titles out that I really want to get to soon -- most recently Molly Tanzer's Vermillion and Aliette de Bodard's The House of Shattered Wings -- and there's only so much money in the audiobook slush fund for them. I've noticed the $5.95/$6.95 rental program for a while, but was never really quite that tempted. I like the idea of being able to go back and listen to a title again in a year or

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged downpour, simon vance

Locke Lamora meets Dostoevsky after the Apocalypse -- Review: Dancing with Bears

Posted on 2015-07-29 at 14:33 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

It's a shame there are so few reviews of this 2012 audiobook of this 2011 novel, as this really was pretty fantastic. It's like: Scott Lynch's Locke Lamora meets Dostoevsky in the post-apocalypse. And as always Rudnicki is great; in this one he gets to show off a range of Russian accents, cyber wolves, giants, genetically engineered bear-men and Neanderthals, and a fascinating, hilarious pair of con artists in

Posted in reviews | Tagged michael-swanwick, stefan rudnicki

July #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Scott Meyer's Off to Be the Wizard, John Scalzi's The Human Division, V.E. Schwab's Vicious, Chuck Wendig's Blackbirds, Richard Ellis Preston, Jason Sheehan, and more

Posted on 2015-07-27 at 19:10 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

When Amazon.com advertised "Kindle" deals in its Prime Day previews, I was admittedly excited. Maybe hundreds -- no, thousands, surely! -- of titles on discount? But, no, it was a few Kindle devices, not ebook titles. Alas. Still, that surely leaves not just me with a few extra bucks to spend on this month's #WhispersyncDeal listings, so here we go, starting with some choice picks from this month's 50 Kindle Books for $2 Each listings; and don't wait too long to take advantage as most of these deals only

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged chuck wendig, jason sheehan, john scalzi, luke daniels, melinda snodgrass, richard ellis preston, scott meyer, wil wheaton, william dufris