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Release Week: The Darwin Elevator, Kill City Blues, Nexus, Frostarc, Antidote Man, and Jay Lake's City Imperishable
Posted on 2013-08-05 at 18:01 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
JULY 24-30, 2013: July comes to a close with: another in a long line of strong 2013 debuts, narrated by one of the best in the business; the latest Sandman Slim; a well-received late 2012 sf novel of near-future nano-drugs; an early 2013 self-published sf novel which first came to my attention for its striking cover art and is now here as well-produced self-published audiobook; an audio original; and the two novels in Jay Lake's City Imperishable series. And! Plenty more to pick from this week as well
Posted in Release Week | Tagged antidote man, jamie sutliff, jason m hough, jay lake, luke daniels, nexus, ramez naam, richard kadrey, sandman slim, simon vance
Kickstarter for Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors, read by Janis Ian for Dog Ear Audio
Posted on 2013-07-25 at 03:02 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
I've recently found out about a Kickstarter campaign for an audiobook edition of When Women Were Warriors and I am very excited to both be a backer and to share the project with my fellow audiobibliophiles:
Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors is a trilogy, and book one, The Warrior's Path, won the 2010 EPIC Ebook Award for Fiction. (And happens to be free as of this writing, on Kobo, Nook, Kindle, and likely other places.)
Janis Ian is an acclaimed singer, songwriter, musician, columnist, and
Read more...Posted in news | Tagged catherine m. wilson, janis ian, kickstarter, when women were warriors
Release Week: American Elsewhere, The Teleportation Accident, and Carniepunk
Posted on 2013-07-24 at 18:15 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
JULY 17-23, 2013: I was set to write up a fairly quiet -- with the principal exception of the colorful-looking anthology Carniepunk -- release week, when Recorded Books unexpectedly dropped one of my most-anticipated titles of the year, Robert Jackson Bennett's American Elsewhere. It's months later than the print publication but still well ahead of the previously expected audio release. And! When digging through the non-sf/f catalogs, as I tend to do each release week just to make sure I'm not missing out
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged american elsewhere, carniepunk, robert jackson bennett, the teleportation accident
Release Week: Countdown City, This is How You Die, The Long War, and Helen & Troy's Epic Road Quest
Posted on 2013-07-23 at 03:43 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
JULY 10-16, 2013: Well... yet another Release Week post coming nearly a week late. I could try to excuse this with time spent on a lot of additions to the "Coming Soon" listings, including Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam (September 3), James Gunn's Transcendental (August 27), Mur Lafferty's Ghost Train to New Orleans (March 4, 2014) and, well, too many to list up here. But! Honestly I've had it mostly ready since mid last week, and just couldn't find the time to finish it up. On the plus side, it allowed time
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged a. lee martinez, ben h. winters, machine of death, stephen baxter, terry pratchett, the long earth
News: Blackstone Audio to release two Lewis Shiner audiobooks later this year
Posted on 2013-07-16 at 15:04 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
I'm very pleased to report that later this year, Blackstone Audio will release two audiobooks by Lewis Shiner, the author of the World Fantasy Award-winning (and my favorite new audiobook of 2011) Glimpses.
First up, to be released November 15, is Slam, Shiner's 1990 novel of a paroled tax evader, anarchist skateboarders, and, well, 23 cats. Called "An unqualified delight." by Publishers Weekly and re-released in 2011 by Subterranean Press in the series of "Definitive Editions" of Shiner's works:
Posted in news | Tagged blackstone audio, lewis shiner, stefan rudnicki
Release Week: The Curiosity, Burton and Swinburne, The Flames of Shadam Khoreh, and David Tallerman's Crown Thief
Posted on 2013-07-15 at 18:18 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
JULY 3-9, 2013: Whew. Another nearly week late Release Week roundup. What gives? Have I forsaken all that is audio? No, just busy. My picks this week include two concurrent new releases, one from the "genre in the mainstream" side of the fence and the other the latest in Mark Hodder's series of "Burton and Swinburne" Steampunk adventures, along with two audiobooks which belatedly continue fantasy series. Also see the "also out this week" listings, particularly the return of the Fiction River original
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The Orbital Drop, Whispersync for Voice, and SFSignal's impressive ebook deals list
Posted on 2013-07-10 at 02:42 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
I've posted fairly frequently about Whispersync for Voice deals, and one sure source for finding new ones is following Orbit Books' The Orbital Drop ebook deals, which each month "drops" the price on one or more ebooks in Orbit's catalog -- this month the titles include T.C. McCarthy's Germline and Mira Grant's Feed. Another pretty good source is watching for sequels or new follow-on books in a series, and checking to see if maybe the publisher has dropped the price on book one to try to tempt people to
Read more...Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged brandon sanderson, germline, legion, oliver wyman, whispersync
Release Week: Hannu Rajaniemi's The Fractal Prince, Django Wexler's The Thousand Names, Anthony Ryan's Blood Song, Melissa Marr's The Arrivals, Matt Haig's The Humans, and Stephen Graham Jones' Zombie Bake-Off
Posted on 2013-07-09 at 03:32 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
JUNE 26-JULY 2, 2013: July is off and running with a first release week to jump-start your summer listening plans. From hard-to-the-point-of-being-nearly-incomprehensible sf (Hannu Rajaniemi's The Fractal Prince) to a more The Hunger Games esque (with aliens!) book (Melissa Marr's The Arrivals) to first books in new epic fantasy series (Django Wexler's The Thousand Names and Anthony Ryan's Blood Song) to the latest in quite a string of literary authorial takes on sf (Matt Haig's The Humans), to... well, a
Posted in Release Week | Tagged anthony ryan, django wexler, hannu rajaniemi, scott brick, stephen graham jones
Release Week: Niven and Harrington's The Goliath Stone, Christopher Priest's The Adjacent, Madeline Ashby's iD, Paul S. Kemp's A Discourse in Steel, Calvino's Invisible Cities, and Ballard's The Drowned World
Posted on 2013-06-26 at 15:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
JUNE 19-25, 2013: June goes out with quite a bang -- limiting the picks to even the four pairs below still leaves titles of interest in the "also out this week" listings, such as a literary historical fantasy from Andrew Sean Greer and Jeff Noon's follow-on to Vurt; it's also another big week for self-published releases with David D. Levine, M.R. Mathias and Hugh Howey all publishing well-produced audiobooks of their works.
PICKS OF THE WEEK:
I'll start the pairings with two top-flight concurrent new
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged christopher priest, italo calvino, jg ballard, john lee, kevin hearne, larry niven, luke daniels, madeline ashby, melissa scott, paul s. kemp
Guest Post on BookLifeNow: Want to Read More? Think About Audiobooks
Posted on 2013-06-25 at 16:19 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn
I'm very happy to have contributed a guest post on the topic of audiobooks to BookLifeNow, the website "expansion kit" to Jeff VanderMeer's book Booklife. Entitled "Want to Read More? Think About Audiobooks" it's addressed to writers who know they need to be reading more to help feed their creative feedback loop, but can't make time to sit down and read. I hope you enjoy!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged booklifenow
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