Posts by: Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Whispersync Deals for December 8, 2025

Posted on 2025-12-08 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I know it has been a quiet year here on the blog itself, but I happened upon two old-school "Whispersync Deals" today while browsing around. (To refresh, a "Whispersync Deal" is a term I came up with some years ago for when a Kindle title goes on such a steep sale that the price for the Kindle title plus the "Whispersync" Audible add-on is well under the cost of a credit.)

First up, David Drake's Lord of the Isles, book one of his "Lord of the Isles" epic fantasy series, with the

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The Most Missing Audiobooks of January 2025

Posted on 2025-02-11 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The Orb of Cairado by Katherine Addison (Subterranean Press) -- "Set in the world of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominee The Goblin Emperor, The Orb of Cairado offers an unlikely hero in historian Ulcetha Zhorvena. Five years ago, Ulcetha was studying at the University of Cairado, working his way toward becoming a scholar first-class in the Department of History. Then a prize artifact disappeared and Ulcetha, deftly framed, was kicked out. Now he works for a crooked

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The Most Missing Audiobooks of 2024

Posted on 2025-01-13 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Another year has come and gone, bringing so many books and audiobooks that already, of course, one can't get to them all in a lifetime, let alone 12 months. Still, some of the titles I most anticipated -- or was most surprised by! -- last year did not come out in audio editions, and as I used to do years ago, I'm going to survey some of these for you, and hopefully some audio publishers (Podium? Tantor? Scribd?) will take notice.

First, yes, let's get it out of the way that the new Dungeon Crawler Carl

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The Audiobookaneer, January 2018: Frankenstein in Baghdad, Beneath the Sugar Sky, The Beautiful Ones, and more

Posted on 2018-02-10 at 21:15 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I've no idea if I'll keep this up, but it doesn't seem like too much to tiptoe back onto the blog with one small monthly feature. I'm still chugging along with weekly release picks over on reddit, but I haven't tried to go back and pick the "picks of the picks" for a month in a long, long time, and, hey, this gives me a chance to put in pretty pictures again! Anyway, here's the first in what I hope is a monthly column this year, of use especially to those really looking for one or two recommendations, and

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April 27th #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Madeline Ashby, Peter Watts, Jo Walton, Robert J. Sawyer, Steven Erikson, and more

Posted on 2017-04-27 at 14:16 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

While I'm putting the finishing touches on the full #WhispersyncDeal roundup of the Monthly Deals in Kindle Books, today's crop of Daily Deal eBooks with Audible Narration is too good to just share out one Tweet at a time. Feast your eyes and ears on:

Company Town by Madeline Ashby, read by Cecelia Kim for Audible for $2.99+$4.49 -- "They call it Company Town--a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd. Hwa is of

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March #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Kate Reading reading Marie Brennan, Simon Vance reading Brian Staveley and James Maxwell, and more

Posted on 2017-03-31 at 03:56 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I'm getting this roundup just, barely, under the wire, as the main roundup expires at midnight on March 31. So... without further adieu, here's what most catches my #WhispersyncDeal-attuned eyes and ears among the 218 eBooks with Audible Narration in the March Monthly Deals in Kindle Books:

A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan, read by Kate Reading for $2.99+$3.99 NOTE: it looks like the Audible add-on portion of this price changed to $12.99? or? I somehow had the wrong

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What ever happened to Sam's "Release Week" roundup posts? They're on reddit!

Posted on 2017-03-02 at 02:27 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

I've realized that I never made any kind of "formal" post or announcement here on the blog, when I moved the "Release Week" roundup posts from here to reddit's /r/audiobooks... So... Yeah... Sorry about that. I've been a moderator there for quite a long time now, and when push came to shove for that particular column, the formatting, linking, images, and such just became a bit too much to both write up here and then sanitize a bit for posting over there, and I just took to using the more or less "barebones"

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February #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Octavia Butler, Julie McElwain, Wesley Chu, Greg Bear, Rysa Walker, Veronica Rossi, Ben Fountain, and more

Posted on 2017-02-26 at 17:52 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

All right! February's Monthly Deals listings, of which 269 are eBooks with Audible Narration, aren't actually that long in terms of what I would call outstanding #WhispersyncDeal titles. But! A solid dozen are well worth checking out, starting with some time travel:

Kindred by Octavia Butler, read by Kim Staunton for $2.99+$3.49 -- "Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the

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January #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Aldous Huxley, Meg Elison, Jacqueline Carey, Alex Bledsoe, Clive Barker, and more

Posted on 2017-01-31 at 00:04 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

The first #WhispersyncDeal roundup of 2017 is here! As usual I'll run down my picks among this month's Whispersync-for-voice-enabled Monthly Deals in Kindle Books, also known now as eBooks with Audible Narration, of which there are 536 to scan through this month. Well, I'm going to keep calling them "Whispersync deals", and here's what most caught my eye and ear this month; don't wait too long as these deals expire on January 31:

Island by Aldous Huxley, read by Simon Vance for Tantor Audio for $1.99+$3

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December 25th #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Neil Gaiman, Harper Lee, Pax, The Nest, Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist, and more

Posted on 2016-12-26 at 02:50 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

In addition to the month-long December deals, Amazon.com has a pretty darned good lineup of Kindle Daily Deals today, including 26 Whispersync for Voice enabled titles. Here's a quick roundup of the best deals on the best titles:

American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman, read by either George Guidall (the original audiobook) or the matching 10th anniversary edition full cast production, for $2.95+$3.99 -- "First published in 2001, American Gods became an instant classic—an

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