Page 31 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Release Week: Monica Byrne's The Girl in the Road, Stephen Baker's The Boost, and Hartley and Hewson's Hamlet, read by Richard Armitage

Posted on 2014-05-22 at 18:29 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

MAY 14-20, 2014: One of my most-anticipated titles of the year, let alone this month, is finally here, Monica Byrne's The Girl in the Road, along with Stephen Baker's all-too-near-future of brain hacking, The Boost, and a new audio-original novelization of Shakespeare's Hamlet from the same authors who brought us Macbeth -- another audio original -- in 2011. There's a long list of titles to check out in the ALSO OUT listings as well, including South African author Sarah Trotz's The Three and Australian

Posted in Release Week | Tagged aj hartley, david doersch, david hewson, dioni collins, hamlet, monica byrne, nazneen contractor, richard armitage, stephen baker, the boost, the girl in the road

Release Week: C. Robert Cargill's Queen of the Dark Things, Felix Gilman's The Revolutions, Josh Malerman's Bird Box, Norman Lock's The Boy in His Winter, and Dead Man's Hand edited by John Joseph Adams

Posted on 2014-05-14 at 17:56 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

MAY 7-13, 2014: A sequel I've been anticipating for the past year, a short stay on the "missing in audio" list for a book from one of my favorite authors, a post-apocalyptic horror, Huck Finn in the future, and a Weird West anthology headline a fairly quiet publishing week this week, at least compared to last week's haul, but by no means does that imply that there aren't more books worth checking out in the ALSO OUT listings as well. Those include (among others) Porochista Khakpour's The Last Illusion and

Posted in Release Week | Tagged bird box, c robert cargill, cassandra campbell, dead man's hand, felix gilman, grover gardner, john joseph adams, josh malerman, natalie ross, norman lock, phil gigante, ralph lister, the boy in his winter, the revolutions, vikas adam

Sam's Listening Report: April 2013

Posted on 2014-05-13 at 16:39 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Well, I've lapped myself in terms of getting out these so-called "monthly" listening reports, as these listens are all from a year (and counting) ago. But it was a fantastic month for me, with all four books showing up in my favorites of the year, spread across four genres: horror (The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates), heroic fantasy (No Return by Zachary Jernigan), literary speculative fiction (Life After Life by Kate Atkinson), and a hard-to-categorize novel of game development and friendship (You by Austin

Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged austin grossman, fenella woolgar, grover gardner, john fitzgibbon, joyce carol oates, kate atkinson, life after life, no return, the accursed, will collyer, you, zachary jernigan

Release Week: Jeff VanderMeer's Authority, Laline Paull's The Bees, Charlie Fletcher's The Oversight, Michael Cunningham's The Snow Queen, and Stefan Rudnicki reading Silverberg, Lansdale, and John Joseph Adams

Posted on 2014-05-12 at 17:59 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

APRIL 30-MAY 6, 2014: May is here, and the first release week brings with it a massive haul of audiobooks to kick off a month just packed with highly-anticipated titles. It was hard cutting to limit my PICKS to just seven audiobooks, so do check out this week's ALSO OUT listings which include Seanan McGuire's Sparrow Hill Road, Clive Barker's Sacrament, and Will Ludwigsen's collection In Search of And Others (just nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award), along with a long list of highly-anticipated series

Posted in Release Week | Tagged authority, bronson pinchot, charlie fletcher, claire danes, deadman's road, jeff vandermeer, joe r lansdale, john joseph adams, laline paull, michael cunningham, nightwings, orlagh cassidy, robert silverberg, simon prebble, stefan rudnicki, the bees, the oversight, the snow queen, wastelands

Top 10 most-anticipated books of May 2014

Posted on 2014-05-05 at 18:33 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Everyone has their own lists, but here's mine: what I'm most looking forward to this month, in chronological order of release, with audiobook information if I know about it:

MAY 6

Authority by Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals, May 6) -- "In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced the mysteries of Area X—a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. It was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had sold all around the world and

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged authority, bronson pinchot, c robert cargill, dioni collins, elizabeth may, ellen datlow, fearful symmetries, jeff vandermeer, jo walton, laline paull, mary rickert, monica byrne, my real children, nazneen contractor, nick harkaway, orlagh cassidy, queen of the dark things, the bees, the falconer, the girl in the road, the man with the compound eyes, the memory garden, tigerman, vikas adam, wu ming-yi

Whispersync Daily Deal: Zachary Jernigan's No Return, read by John FitzGibbon

Posted on 2014-05-03 at 15:03 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Saturday, May 3, 2014: Remember two days ago in the monthly Whispersync roundup when I said that I wouldn't be doing daily deals with full write-ups on the blog? Well, I lied. Because sometimes there will be a title I think so highly of that I just have to write a bit more about it. Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Zachary Jernigan's No Return: A Novel of Jeroun, at $1.99, and there's a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, performed by John FitzGibbon for Audible Frontiers.

I was blown

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged john fitzgibbon, no return, zachary jernigan

Whispersync Deal Roundup for May 2014: Seanan McGuire's Indexing, Stant Litore's No Lasting Burial, Ania Ahlborn's The Shuddering, Peter Lerangis' Seven Wonders, and Christian Cantrell's Containment

Posted on 2014-05-01 at 18:38 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

In the interests of time (and blog clutter) I'm going to do most "daily" Whispersync Deal posts only on Facebook/Twitter. But! As it's May 1, there's a whole crop of monthly deals to scan through. Which I have. As far as I can tell, they're valid through May 31.

In the 20 Kindle Books for $2 Each listings I found a couple of good ones, starting with Seanan McGuire's Indexing, read by Mary Robinette Kowal, for $2 Kindle plus $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade. "For most people, the story of their lives is

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ania ahlborn, benjamin darcie, christian cantrell, containment, indexing, johnathan mcclain, kyle mills, mark russinovich, mary robinette kowal, mikael naramore, no lasting burial, peter lerangis, seanan mcguire, seven wonders, stant litore, the colossus rises, the immortalists, the shuddering, the zombie bible, william dufris

Release Week: Paul Cornell's London Falling, Mary Robinette Kowal's Valour and Vanity, and Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra

Posted on 2014-04-30 at 16:17 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

APRIL 23-29, 2014: Last week I warned that it would be a quiet week in terms of numbers, and that bore out, though two excellent titles make for two easy top recommendations this week, and Audible's production of no fewer than nine books by Carlos Fuentes make for quite a literary feast. There's ALSO a pile of books for young readers to check out including Christopher Healy's The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw and Tania Unsworth's The One Safe Place, as well as plenty more for adults including Jeremy

Posted in Release Week | Tagged Carlos Fuentes, london falling, mary robinette kowal, one safe place, paul cornell, rc bray, terra nostra, valour and vanity

Whispersync Daily Deals: Anne Charnock's A Calculated Life, the Z 2134 series by Sean Platt and David W. Wright, Ian Douglas' Deep Space, and Rysa Walker's Timebound

Posted on 2014-04-30 at 15:31 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Wednesday, April 30, 2014: I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but, just in time for it to be on sale for $1.99, Anne Charnock's A Calculated Life has become Whispersync for Voice enabled to the tune of a $2.99 upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Susan Duerden for Brilliance Audio. As I reported back in January, A Calculated Life was nominated for this year's Philip K. Dick Award, and it's long been on my "pick this up the second it's on sale!" list. (No, seriously, I have a bookmarks folder of a few

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged a calculated life, anne charnock, brilliance-audio, david w wright, deep space, ian douglas, kate rudd, rysa walker, sean platt, star carrier, susan duerden, timebound, z 2134

Whispersync Daily Deal: The Cloud Roads, Book 1 of The Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells

Posted on 2014-04-29 at 13:37 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Tuesday April 29, 2014: One Kindle Daily Deal title today of interest, The Cloud Roads (The Books of the Raksura) by Martha Wells, the first book in a trilogy. Originally published in March 2011 by Night Shade Books, it's on sale for $1.99 in Kindle with a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, performed by Christopher Kipiniak for Audible Frontiers, which was released later that year. At under $4 for a bit over 15 hours in (highly-recommended!) audio, it's a very good time to dip into

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged christopher kipiniak, martha wells, the cloud roads