Page 37 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Whispersync Daily Deal: Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig, narrated by Emily Beresford

Posted on 2014-02-01 at 13:29 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Saturday, February 1, 2014: Today brings Chuck Wendig's Blackbirds to the Kindle Daily Deal list at $1.99, with a $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Emily Beresford for Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio. It's the first of his "Miriam Black" books (followed by Mockingbird and The Cormorant) and I've been looking for just this kind of excuse to pick up book one:

"Miriam Black knows when you will die. Still in her early twenties, she's foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged angry robot on brilliance audio, blackbirds, chuck wendig, emily beresford, miriam black

The Kitschies Finalists Announced

Posted on 2014-01-31 at 02:59 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Via SF Signal, the finalists for the 2013 Kitschies have been announced. The UK-based awards categories include the Golden Tentacle for best debut, the Red Tentacle for best novel, and the Inky Tentacle for best cover art, with the addition of some special mentions. The awards offer a fantastic and unique perspective on books, carving out a highly-curated sensibility of intelligent speculative fiction: "The Kitschies, presented by The Kraken Rum, reward the year's most progressive, intelligent and

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged a calculated life, a tale for the time being, ancillary justice, ann leckie, anne charnock, bleeding edge, mr penumbra's 24-hour bookstore, nexus, ramez naam, robin sloan, ruth ozeki, the kitschies, thomas pynchon

Release Week: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Secret of Magic, Red Rising, Hang Wire, Dominion, Love Star, The Crane Wife, Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis, and Janis Ian's Stars

Posted on 2014-01-29 at 21:44 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

JANUARY 22-28, 2014: Another huge week of releases, from the old and long missing (One Hundred Years of Solitude and Xenogenesis), to the new (The Secret of Magic, Red Rising, and Hang Wire), to alternate history and other bits around the edges, to a fantastic new multi-voice production of Janis Ian's Stars anthology. Also out this week is Lord of All Things translated from the prize-winning German edition, a highly anticipated YA sequel in Megan Shepherd's Her Dark Curiosity, the latest book in Jeaniene

Posted in Release Week | Tagged adam christopher, andri snaer magnason, christopher kipiniak, cj sansom, daniel weyman, deborah johnson, dominion, gabriel garcia marquez, hang wire, janis ian, john lee, lovestar, luke daniels, octavia butler, one hundred years of solitude, patrick ness, pierce brown, red rising, stars, the crane wife, the secret of magic, tim gerard reynolds, xenogenesis

Whispersync Daily Deal: Richard Ellis Preston's Romulus Buckle (Chronicles of the Pneumatic)

Posted on 2014-01-25 at 19:24 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Saturday, January 25, 2014: Both books in Richard Ellis Preston's Steampunk adventure series Chronicles of the Pneumatic are Kindle Daily Deals at $1.99 today, and both offer $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrades to their Audible editions, performed by Luke Daniels for Brilliance Audio.

Book one is Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders. "In a postapocalyptic world of endless snow, Captain Romulus Buckle and the stalwart crew of the Pneumatic Zeppelin must embark on a perilous mission to rescue their

Posted in Uncategorized, Whispersync Deals | Tagged luke daniels, richard ellis preston, romulus buckle

Whispersync Daily Deal: Celebromancy, Clive Barker's The Books of Blood, House of Bathory, and Cassandra Rose Clarke's The Assassin's Curse

Posted on 2014-01-24 at 15:12 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Friday, January 24, 2014: Four more deals to share today, starting with Celebromancy: Ree Reyes, Book 2 by Michael R. Underwood, narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal for Audible Frontiers, book two in the series after Geekomancy and on sale for $1.99 Kindle, offering a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition. "Things are looking up for urban fantasista Ree Reyes. She’s using her love of pop culture to fight monsters and protect her hometown as a Geekomancer, and now a real-live production

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged AudioGO, cassandra rose clarke, Celebromancy, Chris Patton, clive barker, crossroad press, Dick Hill, Geekomancy, House of Bathory, Kathleen Gati, Linda Lafferty, mary robinette kowal, Michael R Underwood, peter berkrot, Ree Reyes, simon vance, Tania Rodrigues, The Assassin's Curse, The Books of Blood

Release Week: Unfettered, Bloodchild and Other Stories, The Unreal and the Real, Dirty Magic, Snowblind, The Séance, A.C. Crispin's StarBridge, and Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn

Posted on 2014-01-24 at 00:56 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

JANUARY 15-21, 2014: This week brings an absolute feast for lovers of short stories, with picks including the star-studded Unfettered anthology and two collections, Octavia Butler's Bloodchild and Other Stories and Ursula Le Guin's The Unreal and the Real. In the "also out" listings there's more high quality short fiction, including a volume of Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, H.P. Lovecraft's Eldritch Tales, and a standalone "Day by Day Armageddon" story by J.L. Bourne, among others. As far as

Posted in Release Week | Tagged ac crispin, bloodchild, christopher golden, dirty magic, jaye wells, jonathan lethem, motherless brooklyn, octavia butler, patrick rothfuss, peter berkrot, shawn speakman, snowblind, starbridge, terry brooks, the seance, unfettered, unreal and the real, ursula le guin

Whispersync Daily Deals: The Secret of the Water Knight, Cold Hearted Son of a Witch, and "Einstein Must Die!"

Posted on 2014-01-23 at 16:15 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Thursday, January 23, 2014: A small crop of Whispersync deals today, one from the Kindle Daily Deal list and two more from the "countdown deals" lists.

I'll start with the daily deal, which is a young reader audiobook coming in at just under 2.5 hours. The Secret of the Water Knight By Rusalka Reh, Narrated By Cris Dukehart for Brilliance Audio. $1.99 Kindle and a $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade:

"Ten-year-old Kat has a terrible fear of swimming. She’s tried everything, but to no avail: The feeling

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Whispersync Daily Deal: The Secret of Ji, Books 1 and 2, by Pierre Grimbert, translated by Matt Ross and Eric Lamb, narrated by Michael Page

Posted on 2014-01-21 at 14:29 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Tuesday, January 21, 2014: So. We've had quite a run of these "Whispersync Daily Deals" of late, yesterday's Zoo City following Sunday's The Golem and the Jinni. Today brings another fantastic pair of fantasy audiobooks, the first two books in The Secret of Ji series, read by the masterful Michael Page for Brilliance Audio. These come from the fantastic French mind of Pierre Grimbert, translated ably by Matt Ross and Eric Lamb for AmazonCrossing. Originally published in France to high acclaim (le prix Ozone

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged matt ross, michael page, pierre grimbert, secret of ji

Whispersync Daily Deal: Zoo City by Lauren Beukes, read by Justine Eyre

Posted on 2014-01-20 at 18:59 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Monday, January 20, 2014: It's almost hard to believe that for just $1.99 Kindle and a mere $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition that you can enjoy one of the more oustanding contemporary fantasy audiobooks of the last decade, Zoo City By Lauren Beukes, Narrated By Justine Eyre for Angry Robot on Brilliance Audio. The minimal description doesn't nearly do the book justice, but let's start there: "Zinzi December has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit, and a talent for finding

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged justine eyre, lauren beukes, zoo city

Whispersync Daily Deal: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Posted on 2014-01-19 at 16:39 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Sunday, January 19, 2014: I would call it one of the best debuts of the year; then one of the best audiobooks of the year; then, simply, one of the best books of the year: The Golem and the Jinni: A Novel By Helene Wecker, Narrated By George Guidall for HarperAudio, a Kindle Daily Deal today at $1.99 and offering $4.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition:

"Helene Wecker's dazzling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who appear mysteriously in 1899 New York. Chava is

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged george guidall, helene wecker, the golem and the jinni