Posts tagged: ben h. winters

Today's #WhispersyncDeal Roundup: Richard Phillips, Ben H. Winters, Water for Elephants, Amy Tan, and more

Posted on 2015-05-23 at 15:2 by Sam

Saturday, May 23: While the May #WhispersyncDeal roundup lists some ongoing deals (some of which expire tomorrow, some at the end of the month, and some which will just keep going as long as publishers keep offering these crazy upgrade prices) today brought a pile of one-day-only titles via the Gold Box Deal of the Day, including horror, YA fantasy, literary fiction, a 19th century ghost story, and more, starting with a pair of scifi titles from the "regular" daily deal list and moving right into those

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Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged amy tan, ben h. winters, carrie anne noble, david devries, david ledoux, kate rudd, macleod andrews, megan chance, richard phillips, sara gruen, water for elephants

The AudioBookaneers pick their favorite audiobooks of 2014

Posted on 2015-03-02 at 15:15 by Sam

Well, it's (past) that time of year again: time for Dave and I to look back on a year in listening. We laughed, we cried, we cheered, we jeered, we stayed up well into the night for these audiobooks. It seems like every year calls for a slight wrinkle in presentation, but this year it's a familiar one: our audiobooks of the year, runners up in both new audiobooks of new books and new audiobooks of previously published books, and our favorite "new to us" listens of the year. (And, mostly because it helps

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Posted in The Arrrdies | Tagged adjoa andoh, afterparty, amber benson, andy weir, andy weird, ann leckie, anne charnock, area x, bd wong, ben h. winters, bronson pinchot, catherynne m valente, chang-rae lee, cherie priest, chris beckett, cibola burn, claire north, daniel abraham, dark eden, daryl gregory, donna tartt, drizzt, evie wyld, fred berman, gabrielle de cuir, haruki murakami, ironskin, j.k. rowling, james marsters, james sa corey, janis ian, jeff vandermeer, jo walton, joe hill, john darnielle, john scalzi, johnny b truant, jonathan lethem, josh cohen, junot diaz, kameron hurley, katherine addison, kristen bell, lev grossman, lewis shiner, lock in, macleod andrews, manly wade wellman, maplecroft, margaret atwood, mark bramhall, michael chabon, michel faber, monica byrne, motherless brooklyn, my real children, neil gaiman, nick harkaway, octavia butler, on such a full sea, one hundred years of solitude, peter berkrot, RA Salvatore, rc bray, richard kadrey, robert galbraith, robert glenister, rosalyn landor, ruth ozeki, sandman slim, sean platt, shirley jackson, six-gun snow white, stefan rudnicki, ted chiang, the beam, the book of strange new things, the brief wondrous life of oscar wao, the girl in the road, the goblin emperor, the goldfinch, the martian, the mirror empire, the silkworm, the yiddish policeman's union, therese anne fowler, tigerman, tina connolly, vampire empire, veronica mars, we have always lived in the castle, when women were warriors, wil wheaton, wolf in white van, xe sands

Release Week(s): World of Trouble, Land of Love and Drowning, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Half a King, The Outsorcerer's Apprentice, Blightborn, and Kaiju Rising

Posted on 2014-08-01 at 14:55 by Sam

JULY 9-29, 2014: Covering three weeks worth of releases in mid-to-late July, with picks including a terrific ending to Ben H. Winters' The Last Policeman trilogy, new standalone epic fantasy, magical realism, near-future sf, comedic high fantasy, CornPunk, and a Kickstarter-funded anthology of megamonster invasion. Beyond the picks, there are more trilogies concluded (Hannu Rajaniemi's Jean le Flambeur, Deborah Harkness' All Souls Trilogy), more next books in a series (Melissa Scott and Jo Graham's Order of

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged ben h. winters, blightborn, brilliance-audio, chuck wendig, cornpunk, half a king, hannu rajaniemi, joe abercrombie, kaiju rising, land of love and drowning, nick podehl, peter berkrot, ray sawyer, the last policeman, the outsorcerer's apprentice, thomas sweterlitsch, tiphanie yanique, tom holt, tomorrow and tomorrow, world of trouble

Whispersync Monthly Deals for June 2014: Ben Winters, Joyce Carol Oates, Joe Hill, Marcus Sakey, Elmore Leonard, and more (updated June 5!)

Posted on 2014-06-02 at 18:23 by Sam

June is here, and along with it another crop of monthly Kindle deals, including quite a few fantastic titles with inexpensive Whispersync for Voice upgrades to the Audible editions. Here are the eight titles which most caught my eye:

Countdown City: The Last Policeman, Book 2 | [Ben H. Winters] The Accursed | [Joyce Carol Oates]

Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II (Last Policeman Trilogy) by Ben H. Winters, read by Peter Berkrot for Brilliance Audio, for $3.99 Kindle plus $3.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition -- "There are just 77 days to go before a deadly asteroid

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Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ania ahlborn, ben h. winters, brilliance, countdown city, daniel radcliffe, dave donovan, elmore leonard, grover gardner, horns, joe hill, joyce carol oates, kate mulgrew, luke daniels, marcus sakey, nos4a2, peter berkrot, raylan, seed, the accursed, the gift, timothy olyphant

Whispersync Deal Roundup: Patrick Rothfuss, Jonathan Maberry, Ben H. Winters, Gail Z. Martin, and more

Posted on 2014-03-21 at 20:30 by Sam

Friday, March 21, 2014: Well, since my last big roundup (based on SFSignal's excellent monthly peek into discount Kindle listings) a new crop of titles to check out has gone on sale in a slightly roundabout way. Let's follow the chain:

  • Barnes & Noble launched a Nook First in Series promotion, placing a whole bunch of "first in a series" ebooks on sale
  • Amazon.com's price matching brings the Kindle price down to match
  • Some of those titles have pretty nice Whispersync upgrade prices to the Audible edition
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Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ben h. winters, corey jackson, gail z martin, jonathan maberry, kate elliott, myke cole, nick podehl, patrick rothfuss, peter berkrot, tim gerard reynolds

2013 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees Announced

Posted on 2014-01-16 at 15:8 by Sam

Via Locus Online, the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees have been announced [with DRM-free audiobook editions linked where available]:

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged a calculated life, ancillary justice, ann leckie, anne charnock, ben h. winters, cassandra rose clarke, countdown city, ian whates, jack skillingstead, kate rudd, peter berkrot, philip k dick award, solaris rising, susan duerden, toh enjoe

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 3:43 by Sam

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

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged a. lee martinez, ben h. winters, machine of death, stephen baxter, terry pratchett, the long earth