Page 34 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Whispersync Daily Deal: SEAL Team 13, Torrent, and Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins

Posted on 2014-03-16 at 13:55 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Sunday, March 16, 2014: Today's haul includes scifi, YA time travel, and one of 2012's best audiobooks.

First up, the scifi. Evan Currie's SEAL Team 13, $1.99 Kindle and $0.99 Whispersync upgrade to the Audible edition read by Todd Haberkorn for Brilliance Audio. "It's been ten years since a mysterious, horrific incident in the South China Sea annihilated a US Navy destroyer and its Navy SEAL team. Only one man survived. Now, the US Navy is determined to put a stop to the new, frightening incidents taking

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged evan currie, lisa t bergren, todd haberkorn

Release Week: Helen Oyeyemi's "Boy, Snow, Bird" and Maureen F. McHugh's After the Apocalypse: Stories

Posted on 2014-03-15 at 04:03 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

MARCH 5-11, 2014: Some highly anticipated audiobooks arrived this week, led by Helen Oyeyemi's new novel Boy, Snow, Bird and Maureen F. McHugh's 2011 collection After the Apocalypse: Stories. Also out this week are Michael Rowe's Wild Fell, a trio of Ian McDonald's backlist including 1993 BSFA finalist The Broken Land, high-end epic fantasy in the form of Miles Cameron's The Fell Sword, R.A. Salvatore's Night of the Hunter, and Simon R. Green's Once in a Blue Moon, sf in the form of Hugh Howey's Sand, horro

Posted in Release Week | Tagged after the apocalypse, boy snow bird, helen oyeyemi, maureen f mchugh

Whispersync Daily Deal: Scott Nicholson's The Red Church

Posted on 2014-03-12 at 19:20 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Wednesday, March 12, 2014: Scott Nicholson's Stoker Award finalist The Red Church is on sale for $0.99 in its Kindle edition, and offers a $2.99 Whispersync upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Aaron Tucker for Perfect Voices:

"For 13-year-old Ronnie Day, life is full of problems: Mom and Dad have separated, his brother Tim is a constant pest, Melanie Ward either loves him or hates him, and Jesus Christ won’t stay in his heart. Plus he has to walk past the red church every day, where the Bell Monster

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged scott nicholson

News: Bronson Pinchot to narrate Jeff VanderMeer's Authority, Book 2 of The Southern Reach; and Xe Sands to narrate Wendy Webb's The Vanishing

Posted on 2014-03-11 at 15:47 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Two narrator castings to pass along this morning, the first is both the most recent and what I'll be listening to in the wee hours of May 6: Blackstone Audio has tapped Audie-Award winning narrator Bronson Pinchot to narrate Authority: The Southern Reach, Book 2 by Jeff VanderMeer, released fairly quickly on the heels of Annihilation, read by Carolyn McCormick, which was released in February. I've listened to many of Pinchot's audiobooks (from non-fiction like How to Build an Android: The True Story of

Posted in news | Tagged authority, bronson pinchot, jeff vandermeer, the vanishing, wendy webb, xe sands

Whispersync Daily Deal: Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Coraline, Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, and more

Posted on 2014-03-09 at 21:22 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Sunday, March 9, 2014: The Kindle "Gold Box Deal of the Day" is a wide-ranging list of Books That Inspired Our Passion for Reading, all priced at $2.99 or less, and quite a few have Whispersync upgrades to the Audible editions -- though many are $10 or more, that still puts the overall audiobook package at less than a credit and (in most cases) less than the retail price.

First up, two from Neil Gaiman, starting with American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel for $1.99 Kindle and $12.99

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Release Week: Words of Radiance, Ghost Train to New Orleans, Tropic of Serpents, Half Bad, The King in Yellow read by Stefan Rudnicki, and Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West performed by Jonathan Frakes

Posted on 2014-03-06 at 21:33 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

FEBRUARY 26-MARCH 4, 2014: And here I thought that last week was packed. This week saw almost 200 titles released on March 4 alone, with another 100 on March 3. My picks of this avalanche include an epic fantasy sequel from Brandon Sanderson, an urban fantasy sequel from Mur Lafferty, anthropological dragon memoir fantasy (yes, it exists, it's totally a genre, and yes, it's a sequel), and hey, more fantasy, the highly-anticipated debut Half Bad by Sally Green, and a classic 1895 novel-in-stories, performed

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, ghost train to new orleans, half bad, jonathan frakes, kate reading, marie brennan, mur lafferty, sally green, seth macfarlane, stefan rudnicki, stormlight archive, the king in yellow, the shambling guides, words of radiance

Another massive Whispersync Deal roundup

Posted on 2014-03-06 at 09:08 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

SFSignal has another massive list of 300 Kindle titles under $4, and while there's a lot of overlap with the last time I went through it a month ago, there's some new listings as well.

First up, some high-end titles that are inexpensive on Kindle and have a Whispersync upgrade of $10 or more:

• Dreams and Shadows: A Novel by C. Robert Cargill (Harper Voyager)
• Star Corps (The Legacy Trilogy, Book 1) by Ian Douglas (HarperCollins e-books)
• Stories: All-New Tales by Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio (William

Posted in Whispersync Deals

Whispersync Daily Deals: Arwen Elys Dayton's Resurrection and E.V. Anderson's The Many Lives of Lilith Lane

Posted on 2014-03-04 at 14:49 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Tuesday March 4, 2014: While the big audiobook news today for me is the long-awaited release of Mur Lafferty's Ghost Train to New Orleans, I did see two Kindle deals with deal-worthy Whispersync upgrade prices to mention. (OK, OK, the release of Brandon Sanderson's Words of Radiance is a pretty big deal, too! But on to the deals, more on the new audiobooks in the next "Release Week" roundup.)

Arwen Elys Dayton's Resurrection is $1.99 plus $1.99 for the Kate Rudd narration. "The Kinley built a ship capable

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged arwen elys dayton, brilliance-audio, dana vannis, ev anderson, kate rudd, resurrection, the many lives of lilith lane

Release Week: Influx, Moth and Spark, Honor's Knight, Servant of the Underworld, City of a Hundred Rows, Dan Simmons, and collections from Kim Stanley Robinson and Joe Haldeman

Posted on 2014-03-03 at 04:40 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

FEBRUARY 19-25, 2014: Well. This has been a hard release week to put together for a few reasons, mostly the sheer number of interesting titles and the difficulty in limiting the space for "picks", but also I added about 100? or so more books into the "Coming Soon" listings, including the newly-announced The Peripheral by William Gibson, Margaret Killjoy's A Country of Ghosts (no audio news but man does that book look interesting), an imminently forthcoming Blackstone Audio production of The King in Yellow,

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Whispersync Daily Deal: Ransom Stephens' The God Patent and Rosa Montero's Tears in Rain

Posted on 2014-03-02 at 19:13 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Sunday, March 2, 2014: Another glimpse through the Kindle Daily Deals today shows me two books to pass along. The first is an actual "Daily" deal, The God Patent by Ransom Stephens, at $1.99 Kindle plus $0.99 upgrade to the Audible edition read by Luke Daniels for Brilliance Audio. "When electrical engineers Ryan McNear and Foster Reed coauthored two patents for company cash incentives, they thought it was all just a joke. One describes the soul as a software algorithm, and the other described the Big Bang

Posted in Uncategorized, Whispersync Deals | Tagged luke daniels, mary robinette kowal, ransom stephens, rosa montero, tears in rain, the god patent