Page 39 of posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Release Week(s): Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors, Samit Basu's Turbulence, Kathleen Tierney's Blood Oranges, Ian McDonald's Planesrunner, and Richard Bowes' Dust Devil on a Quiet Street

Posted on 2014-01-01 at 17:13 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

DECEMBER 18-31, 2013: The last two weeks of 2013 bring two adult novels off the "most missing" list including the Kickstarter-funded and Janis Ian-narrated book one of Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors, and two fantastic YA novels as well as works from Mazarkis Williams, Matthew Hughes, Greg Egan, Andy Remic, Martha Wells, Manly Wade Wellman, James Marshall, Steve Perry, Anderson Prunty, and Poul Anderson, among others, and another great audiobook for early teens, Moonkind by Sarah Prineas

Posted in Release Week | Tagged ian mcdonald, janis ian, ramom takarim, samit basu, turbulence, when women were warriors

Whispersync Daily Deal: Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

Posted on 2014-01-01 at 13:14 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Happy New Year! January 1 brings a $1.99 Kindle Daily Deal for the first novel for teens from the best-selling author of Mistborn and co-author of the concluding novels of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, Brandon Sanderson, starting a new superhero series The Reckoners: Steelheart. For $3.99 more, add to the Audible edition narrated by Macleod Andrews (Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim, Steven Gould's Jumper).

"Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged brandon sanderson, macleod andrews, steelheart, the reckoners

Whispersync Daily Deal: Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak series

Posted on 2013-12-31 at 15:33 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Tuesday, December 31's crop of Kindle Daily Deals includes Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak series, with each of the 12 books available at $1.99 Kindle and books 1, 2, and 5 Whispersync enabled to the tune of $1.99 upgrades to the Ralph Lister-narrated Audible editions. The series is in audiobook through book 7, so perhaps it's a matter of processing before books 3, 4, 6, and 7 are enabled, and a matter of time before the rest are available in audio. In the meantime, the series starts with Cirque du Freak: A

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged cirque du freak, darren shan, ralph lister

Jeff VanderMeer's forthcoming "Annihilation: a novel" to be narrated by Carolyn McCormick

Posted on 2013-12-30 at 22:51 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I've been refreshing Blackstone Audio's site every week or so for months now, looking for news on the narrator and release date confirmation. And lo and behold on their new Blackstone Library website is an even shinier new listing for Annihilation, the first novel in Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy.

And the narrator is listed as Carolyn McCormick, whose work on The Hunger Games audiobooks I absolutely adored. This is a big-time casting for a big-time novel, and I'm very excited to see what

Posted in news | Tagged annihilation, carolyn mccormick, jeff vandermeer, southern reach trilogy

Whispersync Daily Deal: Joe Hill, Guillermo del Toro, Joyce Carol Oates, Clive Barker, Neal Stephenson, and more

Posted on 2013-12-29 at 15:23 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Sunday, December 29 has quite a few Kindle Daily Deals on offer with Whispersync for Voice upgrades to Audible editions, among them books by Joe Hill, Guillermo del Toro, Joyce Carol Oates, Clive Barker, and Neal Stephenson.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Daily Deal is The Mongoliad Series by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, and Joseph Brassey among other co-authors, with each of the 4 books available for $1.99 in Kindle and with $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrades to the tour-de-force-of-accents

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged guillermo del toro, joe hill, joyce carol oates, neal stephenson, nos4a2, the accursed, the mongoliad, the strain

Whispersync Daily Deal: Brilliance by Marcus Sakey, Into the Black by Evan Currie, and five books by Raymond Feist

Posted on 2013-12-26 at 17:35 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Wednesday, December 26 brings a few Kindle Daily Deals with inexpensive Whispersync upgrades to consider, starting with Marcus Sakey's Brilliance, on sale for $1.99 on Kindle and $0.99 more via Whispersync for the Audible edition narrated by Luke Daniels. "In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They’re called

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged brilliance, evan currie, marcus sakey, raymond feist

Whispersync Daily Deal: Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season

Posted on 2013-12-25 at 16:02 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Wednesday, December 25 brings Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season as a Kindle Daily Deal for $1.99, which along with a $1.99 upgrade via Whispersync for Voice brings you the excellent Audible edition narrated by Alana Kerr.

Kerr perfectly brings a subtle Irish flavor to Shannon's protagonist, 19-year-old dreamwalker Paige Mahoney in London of 2059. "The year is 2059. Nineteen-year-old Paige Mahoney is working in the criminal underworld of Scion London, based at Seven Dials, employed by a man named Jaxon

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged samantha shannon, the bone season

Sam's Listening Report: March 2013

Posted on 2013-12-24 at 14:25 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

So. Since I let these "monthly" reports get so completely out of hand -- note that the February report was just posted in mid-November -- I'm changing the format up a lot. I'm going to just run down what I listened to and maybe, maybe one quick comment; that way actual reviews don't have to be held up while I write a month's worth at a time. So, with that in mind, here's what I listened to in March:

NOTES:

The City of Devi by Manil Suri, read by Vikas Adam and Priya Ayyar for Blackstone Audio (review

Posted in Sam's Monthly Listening Report | Tagged bitterwood, c robert cargill, dave thompson, dimension of miracles, dreams and shadows, fade to black, francis knight, james maxey, john hodgman, manil suri, neil gaiman presents, paul thornley, priya ayyar, robert sheckley, the city of devi, vikas adam

Whispersync Daily Deal: Death with Interruptions by José Saramago

Posted on 2013-12-20 at 15:03 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Bright and early today so plenty of notice to check out Death with Interruptions by Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago (Blindness), translated by Margaret Jull Costa, available for $1.99 today on Kindle; and through a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition narrated by Paul Baymer.

"Nobel Prize-winner José Saramago's brilliant new novel poses the question -- what happens when the grim reaper decides there will be no more death? On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This of

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged jose saramago

Whispersync Daily Deal: Shaman by Kim Stanley Robinson

Posted on 2013-12-20 at 00:28 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I knew it, I just knew I should have checked earlier in the day, but, well, I was stinking busy. Still, it's not too late to snap up one of the best books and audiobooks of the year. Shaman: a novel of the Ice Age by Kim Stanley Robinson is today's sf/f Kindle Daily Deal at $2.99, and offers a $4.99 Whispersync upgrade to the absolutely masterful Graeme Malcolm narration at Audible.

I bought this DRM-free on its release day from Hachette Audio via Downpour, but for those shopping at Audible this is a no

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged kim stanley robinson, shaman