Page 35 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Whispersync Daily Deal: Matthew Mather's The Atopia Chronicles

Posted on 2014-02-28 at 19:27 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Friday February 28, 2014: Matthew Mather's The Atopia Chronicles (Atopia series) is on sale today for $1.99 Kindle, with a $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition read by an absolutely stellar full cast of Luke Daniels, Nick Podehl, Angela Dawe, Tanya Eby, Amy McFadden, and Mikael Naramore for Brilliance Audio:

"What could be worse than letting billions die? In the near future, to escape the crush and clutter of a packed and polluted Earth, the world’s elite flock to Atopia, an

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged angela dawe, atopia chronicles, brilliance-audio, luke daniels, matthew mather, nick podehl

Whispersync Deal Roundup: Night Shade Books, the Baen Free Library, and The Shambling Guide to New York City

Posted on 2014-02-27 at 19:01 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Thursday, February 27, 2014: I didn't see a particular Kindle Daily Deal title to feature today, so I'll take the time to write up a few more "general" cases. First up, because I understand this to be a limited time offer (though my inquiries as to how long have not yet made it through the aether and spam filter and inbox queue yet, or, most likely, didn't look to be worth answering) is from Night Shade Books, which has put a pretty sizable crop of its titles on sale. (BUT WHERE IS MY JM McDERMOTT? MY KAMER

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged angry robot on brilliance audio, baen, david drake, david weber, honor harrington, jay posey, john lee, luke daniels, mark van name, mur lafferty, night shade books, the shambling guide to new york city, three, tom stechschulte

Whispersync Daily Deal: The Woman Who Married a Cloud: The Collected Short Stories of Jonathan Carroll

Posted on 2014-02-26 at 15:31 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Wednesday, February 26, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal lineup includes The Woman Who Married a Cloud: The Collected Short Stories by Jonathan Carroll priced at $1.99, with a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the 19-hour audiobook narrated by Robin Bloodworth and Suehyla El Attar for Audible. Carroll first came to my attention when Neil Gaiman selected a pair of his novels, The Land of Laughs and White Apples, for his Neil Gaiman Presents imprint. Here, it's the 600-page collection of his short fiction

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged audible, jonathan carroll, open road media, the woman who married a cloud

PodCastle turns 300!

Posted on 2014-02-26 at 14:55 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PodCastle has published its 300th fiction podcast! The 300th episode is E. Lily Yu's Ilse, Who Saw Clearly, read by Wilson Fowlie. Congrats to Dave and the whole PodCastle team:

PS: This also happens to be the 500th post on The AudioBookaneers. Happy coincidences, everyone!

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Whispersync Daily Deal: Kill City Blues by Richard Kadrey

Posted on 2014-02-23 at 13:36 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Sunday, February 23, 2014: Hot on the heels of being announced as a finalist for the 2014 Audie Awards, Richard Kadrey's latest Sandman Slim novel, Kill City Blues: A Sandman Slim Novel, is a Kindle Daily Deal today at $1.99. As the Kindle edition offers a $3.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by MacLeod Andrew for Harper Audio, it's quite a discount:

"Another day, another apocalypse. James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to get out of Hell, renounce his title as the new

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged kill city blues, macleod andrews, richard kadrey, sandman slim

Release Week: Alice Hoffman's The Museum of Extraordinary Things and David Weber's Like a Mighty Army, Broken Homes and The New Watch, Metro 2034 and Z 2135, and more

Posted on 2014-02-20 at 18:19 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

FEBRUARY 12-18, 2013: A packed week this week, both in terms of releases and news. New audiobooks range from magical realism (Alice Hoffman's The Museum of Extraordinary Things) to space sf (David Weber's Like a Mighty Army) to dystopian sf (Metro 2034 and Z 2135) to the London-set urban fantasy of Ben Aaronovitch and the Russia-set urban fantasy of Sergei Lukyanenko, to backlist audiobooks from Tricia Sullivan and H. Beam Piper, and plenty more including sf from Ian Whates and Joel Shepherd, Arthurian

Posted in Release Week | Tagged alice hoffman, ben aaronovitch, david weber, kobna holdbrook-smith, oliver wyman, peter grant, safehold, sergei lukyanenko, the museum of extraordinary things, tricia sullivan

Whispersync Daily Deal: E.G. Foley's The Gryphon Chronicles

Posted on 2014-02-20 at 15:07 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Thursday, February 20, 2014: Today's crop of Kindle Daily Deal titles includes the first two books in E.G. Foley's middle grade The Gryphon Chronicles series, The Lost Heir (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 1) and Jake & The Giant (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 2), each priced at $1.99. The first book is Whispersync for Voice enabled with a $1.99 upgrade offer to the Audible edition, narrated by Jamie du Pont MacKenzie. "Jake is a scrappy orphaned pickpocket living by his wits on the streets of Victorian London.

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged eg foley, Jamie du Pont MacKenzie, the gryphon chronicles

The 2014 Audie Award finalists have been announced

Posted on 2014-02-19 at 15:33 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Via Booklist Online, the 2014 Audies Finalists have been announced. My first thoughts are 1. that I'm thrilled to see Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman named as a finalist in the Science Fiction category. And 2, I can't recall a previous year with such a broad base of audio publishers. The big 5/6 and Amazon's imprints, along with independents both big (Recorded Books, Blackstone, Tantor, and GraphicAudio) and small: Podium (who continues to produce an extremely high quality of well-curated and well-cast

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alex bledsoe, andy weir, audies, brandon sanderson, bronson pinchot, clockwork angels, doctor sleep, ellen kushner, ever after, george guidall, green space, helene wecker, joe hill, john hodgman, kate mulgrew, kevin j anderson, kim harrison, kim stanley robinson, macleod andrews, maddaddam, margaret atwood, max brooks, metatropolis, miachael page, michael kramer, neil gaiman, neil gaiman presents, neil peart, nos4a2, ocean at the end of the lane, podium, richard kadrey, rip-off, robert sheckley, scott lynch, shaman, stefan rudnicki, stephen king, the martian, will patton, world war z

Whispersync Daily Deal: Altered Destiny by Shawna Thomas and Osiris by E.J. Swift

Posted on 2014-02-17 at 17:17 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Monday, February 17, 2014: Today's crop of Kindle Daily Deal (and other sale) titles include two of interest here. First up, Altered Destiny by Shawna Thomas, priced at $0.99 on Kindle with a $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Uma Incrocci for Carina Press. Nominally, Carina is a romance-first electronic imprint of Harlequin, and they've also put out some stellar sf titles in their own right such as J.L. Hilton's Stellarnet Rebel (The Stellarnet Series) (itself a perpetually

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged carina-press, ej swift, jl-hilton, osiris, shawna thomas, uma icrocci

Whispersync Daily Deal: The Dead Run by Adam Mansbach

Posted on 2014-02-15 at 16:20 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Saturday, February 15, 2014: Today's crop of Kindle Daily Deal titles includes the "Go the F*ck to Sleep" author Adam Mansbach's 2013 adult supernatural suspense novel The Dead Run: A Novel for $1.99, a title which offers a $3.95 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Erik Bergmann for Harper Audio:

"Adam Mansbach, the acclaimed #1 New York Times best-selling author of Go the F**k to Sleep and Rage Is Back, turns to a new tale of suspense, horror, and supernatural action in The

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged adam mansbach, erik bergmann, the dead run