Page 29 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

October Whispersync Deal Roundup: Octavia Butler's Kindred, Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising, Jenni Fagan's The Panopticon, Tim Pratt's Heirs of Grace, James Blaylock's The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs, and more (UPDATED!)

Posted on 2014-10-02 at 14:22 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

October is here, and so a new crop of monthly e-book deals are live. While quite a lot of the September roundup remains live as well (outside of the specifically monthly price drops) here's what's new:

NOTE: Updated on Tuesday Oct 7 with a pile of new listings! And again on Oct 15!

Octavia Butler's Kindred ($2.09+$3.49) -- Narrated by Kim Staunton for Recorded Books, this is one of the all-time-great novels of any genre in my opinion, and a fantastic audiobook: "The first science-fiction written by a

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged james blaylock, kindred, octavia butler, susan cooper, the dark is rising, tim pratt

Release Week: Wolf in White Van, Afterworlds, Rooms, Horrorstör, and Terry Pratchett's A Slip of the Keyboard

Posted on 2014-10-01 at 20:33 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014: Whew! It's been a busy couple of weeks, and this release week roundup is more than a week late. But! I can't do my usual trick of combining two weeks into one roundup, because there's just too many great titles coming out here as summer turns to fall. This week: a full review of John Darnielle's affecting Wolf in White Van, along with picks from YA (Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds) and horror (Lauren Oliver's adult debut Rooms and Grady Hendrix's bizarre and aptly-published-by-Quirk

Posted in Release Week | Tagged afterworlds, bronson pinchot, grady hendrix, Heather Lind, horrorstor, john darnielle, lauren oliver, michael fenton-stevens, rooms, scott westerfeld, sheetal sheth, tai sammons, terry pratchett, wolf in white van

Release Week: Broken Monsters, My Real Children, The Rabbit Back Literature Society, and Jay Lake's Last Plane to Heaven

Posted on 2014-09-22 at 17:22 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

SEPTEMBER 10-16, 2014: One of the quietest weeks in overall numbers in a good while nonetheless has very, very much to recommend it, with US audio releases for the latest novels from Lauren Beukes and Jo Walton, an eagerly-awaited Finnish speculative fiction, and Jay Lake's posthumous final collection Last Plane to Heaven. Also out this week: John Shirley's historical fiction Wyatt in Wichita well ahead of the planned print/ebook release, Ken Follett's Century Trilogy concludes with Edge of Eternity, Kelly

Posted in Release Week | Tagged alison larkin, broken monsters, jay lake, jo walton, lauren beukes, my real children, pasi ilmari jaaskelainen, the rabbit back literature society

Release Week: Station Eleven, City of Stairs, Hieroglyph, Monstrous Affections, and Gregory Maguire's Egg and Spoon

Posted on 2014-09-16 at 13:31 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

SEPTEMBER 3-9, 2014: A highly-praised post-apocalyptic fiction, a secondary-world fantasy, an optimistic hard sf anthology, a young adult fantasy anthology, and an "all ages" fantasy lead a crowded week which also includes Daryl Gregory's "dark, degenerate, and sublime" We Are All Completely Fine, Karen Miller's The Falcon Throne, Angus Watson's Age of Iron, Siobhan Adcock's ghost story The Barter, Paula Guran's anthology Zombies: More Recent Dead, Benedict Cumberbatch reading William Golding's The Spire, a

Posted in Release Week | Tagged alma cuervo, city of stairs, daryl gregory, egg and spoon, emily st john mandel, gavin grant, gregory maguire, hieroglyph, kathryn cramer, kelly link, kirsten potter, michael page, monstrous affections, neal stephenson, robert jackson bennett, siobhan adcock, station eleven, the barter

September Whispersync Deal Roundup

Posted on 2014-09-12 at 14:45 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Out with the deals of August and in with the deals of September! As usual, the daily #WhispersyncDeal posts on Facebook/Twitter cover the more ephemeral deals, but here's some titles to check out all September long -- but first, some deals that either end today (Friday) or in a week:

Today (Friday) only, Open Road Media has set the ebook price for their edition of Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow to "free". This edition is Whispersync for Voice enabled with the fantastic Blackstone Audio

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged among others, amy mcfadden, annihilation, ben aaronovitch, carolyn mccormick, charlie n holmberg, dead with walking, emily durante, ernest cline, faith hunter, fortune's pawn, frederik pohl, gabrielle de cuir, gateway, harrowgate, jane yellowrock, jeff vandermeer, jo walton, john scalzi, kate maruyama, katherine kellgren, kavalier and clay, khristine hvam, kim harrison, kobna holdbrook-smith, macleod andrews, marguerite gavin, michael chabon, midnight riot, nick podehl, oliver wyman, paolo bacigalupi, pierre grimbert, rachel bach, ready player one, redshirts, richard kadrey, siddhartha mukherjee, skinwalker, stefan rudnicki, the drowned cities, the king in yellow, the paper magician, tyler dilts, wil wheaton

Release Week: Acceptance, The Bone Clocks, Maplecroft, Sleeping Late on Judgement Day, and Randall Munroe's "What If?"

Posted on 2014-09-09 at 03:49 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

AUGUST 27-SEPTEMBER 2, 2014: September is here, and so are 5 of my most-anticipated audiobooks of the entire year: Jeff VanderMeer's Acceptance concludes his Southern Reach trilogy, David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks is the Cloud Atlas author's first new novel in four years, Cherie Priest's Maplecroft gives us Lizzie Borden and her axe, we find out what happens to an angel on the run after Sleeping Late on Judgement Day, and Wil Wheaton narrates an audiobook adaptation of Randall Munroe's What If? Also out

Posted in Release Week | Tagged bobby dollar, bronson pinchot, cherie priest, david mitchell, jeff vandermeer, maplecroft, randall munroe, tad williams, the bone clocks, the southern reach, what if, wil wheaton, xe sands, xkcd

Release Week: John Scalzi's Lock In, Peter Watts' Echopraxia, Richard Kadrey's The Getaway God, and Brent Weeks' The Broken Eye

Posted on 2014-09-02 at 02:46 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

AUGUST 20-26, 2014: August goes out with quite a bang, with a near-future sf thriller, medium-future space sf, urban fantasy, and epic fantasy releases among the biggest of the year, ahead of what is set to be quite a September to remember. Also out this week: an English translation of Daniel Kehlman's tragicomic novel F, Lisa Shearin's Southern-fried, NYC-set urban fantasy The Grendel Affair, Simon R. Green's Voices from Beyond, David Drake's "Northworld" trilogy, Janet Morris and Chris Morris' The Sacred

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged amber benson, brent weeks, david drake, echopraxia, john scalzi, lisa shearin, lock in, macleod andrews, northworld, peter watts, richard kadrey, sandman slim, simon vance, the broken eye, the getaway god, the grendel affair, wil wheaton

Release Week(s): Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, Graham Joyce's The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit, Robin Hobb's Fool's Assassin, Charles Gannon's Fire With Fire, Ekaterina Sedia's Heart of Iron, John Shirley's Everything is Broken, Jacob Cooper's Circle of Reign, and just a ridiculous all-star cast reads R.A. Salvatore's Drizzt stories (for free)

Posted on 2014-08-26 at 03:17 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

AUGUST 6-19, 2014: Another two-weeks-worth of roundup here, with new books from Murakami, Joyce, and Hobb, backlist Sedia, Shirley, and Gannon, and highly notable epic fantasy audio from the completely unexpected to the completely unprecedented. Yup. And there's a long list of "also out this week" titles of note including (at least) Sean Platt and David Wright's Yesterday's Gone from Podium Publishing, Melissa Scott and Lisa Barnett's Point of Dreams, J.G. Ballard's The Drought, The Atrocity Exhibition, and

Posted in Release Week, Uncategorized | Tagged al yankovic, bruce locke, charles e gannon, cirlce of reign, colorless tsukuru tazaki, david duchovny, dreamscape media, ekaterina sedia, elliot hill, everything is broken, felicia day, fire with fire, fool's assassin, gildart jackson, graham joyce, haruki murakami, heart of iron, ice-t, jacob cooper, john shirley, kevin pariseau, michael chiklis, michael kramer, prime books, RA Salvatore, robin hobb, sean astin, the ghost in the electric blue suit, the legend of drizzt, wil wheaton

August Whispersync Deal Roundup

Posted on 2014-08-16 at 03:46 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

While I've continued the daily #WhispersyncDeal posts on Facebook/Twitter, with another month has come another set of month-long Whispersync deals, both in Amazon's monthly Kindle deal listings and beyond. First those "official" deals, starting with sci-fi and fantasy:

Carniepunk for $1.99+$3.99 -- "Come one, come all! The Carniepunk Midway promises you every thrill and chill a traveling carnival can provide. But fear not! Urban fantasy's biggest stars are here to guide you through this strange and

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged anathem, canada, carniepunk, charming, chuck wendig, claire dewitt, cyberstorm, elliott james, fuzzy nation, john scalzi, luke daniels, matthew mather, neal stephenson, patrick dewitt, podium publishing, ray chase, richard ford, rick riordan, sara gran, scott meyer, stant litore, the sisters brothers, tom taylorson, wil wheaton

Release Week: The Magician's Land, Frostborn, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, The Spirit and the Skull, The Widow's House, and Laird Barron's Occultation and Other Stories

Posted on 2014-08-11 at 14:31 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

JULY 30-AUGUST 5, 2014: Trilogies conclude and trilogies begin, and still another expands, along with two intriguing standalone novels to kick off August: Lev Grossman's The Magician's Land, Lou Anders' Frostborn, David Shafer's Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, J.M. Hayes' The Spirit and the Skull, and Daniel Abraham's The Widow's House. It's a busy week, with other audiobooks out including Carol Berg's Dust and Light, Steven Erikson's Reaper's Gale (in Brilliance Audio's ongoing productions of his Malazan Book of

Posted in Release Week | Tagged bernard setaro clark, daniel abraham, david shafer, fabio tassone, frostborn, JM Hayes, laird barron, lev grossman, lou anders, mark bramhall, occultation and other stories, the dagger and the coin, the magician's land, The Spirit and the Skull, the widow's house, thrones and bones, whiskey tango foxtrot