Page 12 of posts by: Sam

Release Week: Jeff VanderMeer's Authority, Laline Paull's The Bees, Charlie Fletcher's The Oversight, Michael Cunningham's The Snow Queen, and Stefan Rudnicki reading Silverberg, Lansdale, and John Joseph Adams

Posted on 2014-05-12 at 17:59 by Sam

APRIL 30-MAY 6, 2014: May is here, and the first release week brings with it a massive haul of audiobooks to kick off a month just packed with highly-anticipated titles. It was hard cutting to limit my PICKS to just seven audiobooks, so do check out this week's ALSO OUT listings which include Seanan McGuire's Sparrow Hill Road, Clive Barker's Sacrament, and Will Ludwigsen's collection In Search of And Others (just nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award), along with a long list of highly-anticipated series

Posted in Release Week | Tagged authority, bronson pinchot, charlie fletcher, claire danes, deadman's road, jeff vandermeer, joe r lansdale, john joseph adams, laline paull, michael cunningham, nightwings, orlagh cassidy, robert silverberg, simon prebble, stefan rudnicki, the bees, the oversight, the snow queen, wastelands

Top 10 most-anticipated books of May 2014

Posted on 2014-05-05 at 18:33 by Sam

Everyone has their own lists, but here's mine: what I'm most looking forward to this month, in chronological order of release, with audiobook information if I know about it:

MAY 6

Authority by Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals, May 6) -- "In Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer introduced the mysteries of Area X—a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. It was the first volume of a projected trilogy; well in advance of publication, translation rights had sold all around the world and

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged authority, bronson pinchot, c robert cargill, dioni collins, elizabeth may, ellen datlow, fearful symmetries, jeff vandermeer, jo walton, laline paull, mary rickert, monica byrne, my real children, nazneen contractor, nick harkaway, orlagh cassidy, queen of the dark things, the bees, the falconer, the girl in the road, the man with the compound eyes, the memory garden, tigerman, vikas adam, wu ming-yi

Whispersync Daily Deal: Zachary Jernigan's No Return, read by John FitzGibbon

Posted on 2014-05-03 at 15:03 by Sam

Saturday, May 3, 2014: Remember two days ago in the monthly Whispersync roundup when I said that I wouldn't be doing daily deals with full write-ups on the blog? Well, I lied. Because sometimes there will be a title I think so highly of that I just have to write a bit more about it. Today's Kindle Daily Deal is Zachary Jernigan's No Return: A Novel of Jeroun, at $1.99, and there's a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, performed by John FitzGibbon for Audible Frontiers.

I was blown

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged john fitzgibbon, no return, zachary jernigan

Whispersync Deal Roundup for May 2014: Seanan McGuire's Indexing, Stant Litore's No Lasting Burial, Ania Ahlborn's The Shuddering, Peter Lerangis' Seven Wonders, and Christian Cantrell's Containment

Posted on 2014-05-01 at 18:38 by Sam

In the interests of time (and blog clutter) I'm going to do most "daily" Whispersync Deal posts only on Facebook/Twitter. But! As it's May 1, there's a whole crop of monthly deals to scan through. Which I have. As far as I can tell, they're valid through May 31.

In the 20 Kindle Books for $2 Each listings I found a couple of good ones, starting with Seanan McGuire's Indexing, read by Mary Robinette Kowal, for $2 Kindle plus $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade. "For most people, the story of their lives is

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ania ahlborn, benjamin darcie, christian cantrell, containment, indexing, johnathan mcclain, kyle mills, mark russinovich, mary robinette kowal, mikael naramore, no lasting burial, peter lerangis, seanan mcguire, seven wonders, stant litore, the colossus rises, the immortalists, the shuddering, the zombie bible, william dufris

Release Week: Paul Cornell's London Falling, Mary Robinette Kowal's Valour and Vanity, and Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra

Posted on 2014-04-30 at 16:17 by Sam

APRIL 23-29, 2014: Last week I warned that it would be a quiet week in terms of numbers, and that bore out, though two excellent titles make for two easy top recommendations this week, and Audible's production of no fewer than nine books by Carlos Fuentes make for quite a literary feast. There's ALSO a pile of books for young readers to check out including Christopher Healy's The Hero's Guide to Being an Outlaw and Tania Unsworth's The One Safe Place, as well as plenty more for adults including Jeremy

Posted in Release Week | Tagged Carlos Fuentes, london falling, mary robinette kowal, one safe place, paul cornell, rc bray, terra nostra, valour and vanity

Whispersync Daily Deals: Anne Charnock's A Calculated Life, the Z 2134 series by Sean Platt and David W. Wright, Ian Douglas' Deep Space, and Rysa Walker's Timebound

Posted on 2014-04-30 at 15:31 by Sam

Wednesday, April 30, 2014: I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but, just in time for it to be on sale for $1.99, Anne Charnock's A Calculated Life has become Whispersync for Voice enabled to the tune of a $2.99 upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Susan Duerden for Brilliance Audio. As I reported back in January, A Calculated Life was nominated for this year's Philip K. Dick Award, and it's long been on my "pick this up the second it's on sale!" list. (No, seriously, I have a bookmarks folder of a few

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged a calculated life, anne charnock, brilliance-audio, david w wright, deep space, ian douglas, kate rudd, rysa walker, sean platt, star carrier, susan duerden, timebound, z 2134

Whispersync Daily Deal: The Cloud Roads, Book 1 of The Books of the Raksura by Martha Wells

Posted on 2014-04-29 at 13:37 by Sam

Tuesday April 29, 2014: One Kindle Daily Deal title today of interest, The Cloud Roads (The Books of the Raksura) by Martha Wells, the first book in a trilogy. Originally published in March 2011 by Night Shade Books, it's on sale for $1.99 in Kindle with a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, performed by Christopher Kipiniak for Audible Frontiers, which was released later that year. At under $4 for a bit over 15 hours in (highly-recommended!) audio, it's a very good time to dip into

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged christopher kipiniak, martha wells, the cloud roads

Whispersync Daily Deal: The Lives (and Deaths) of Tao, The Curiosity, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope, The Stockholm Octavo, and Flight Behavior

Posted on 2014-04-26 at 14:58 by Sam

Saturday, April 26, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deals listings with excellent Whispersync for Voice deals include recently-announced John W. Campbell for Best New Writer nominee Wesley Chu's The Lives of Tao and The Deaths of Tao, along with a huge list of "book club" fiction mostly from 2012 and 2013 in a special Gold Box Deal of the Day: Book Club Favorites call-out, including "genre in the mainstream" novels The Curiosity, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope, and The Stockholm Octavo, along with some

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged barbara kingsolver, flight behavior, george guidall, karen engelmann, michael naramore, rhonda riley, simon vance, stephen p kiernan, the enchanted life of adam hope, the lives of tao, the stockholm octavo, wesley chu

Whispersync Daily Deal: R.L. Stine's Zombie Town

Posted on 2014-04-25 at 14:13 by Sam

Friday, April 25, 2014: Friday's Kindle Daily Deal list includes one title of interest with an inexpensive Whispersync upgrade: R.L Stine's Zombie Town, read by George Kareman and Tara Carrozza for Brilliance Audio. On sale for $1.99 Kindle with a $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition. A short (44 minute) spook for kids, from the master of children's scares: "This used to be such a nice, quiet town. But that was before all the zombies. When twelve-year-old Mike and his friend, Karen, go

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged george kareman, rl stine, tara carrozza, zombie town

Release Week: Afterparty, The Serpent of Venice, The Forever Watch, The Deaths of Tao, and Ursula K. Le Guin's Outer Space, Inner Lands

Posted on 2014-04-24 at 18:02 by Sam

APRIL 16-22, 2014: Another quiet week in terms of sheer numbers, with an even quieter week ahead before an absolute audio avalanche to begin May. But! Fear not, there are still several choice audiobooks to check out this week, from near-future thrillers, to historical fantasy comedies, to... well, we'll get there. The ALSO OUT listings have some gems as well: the two concluding volumes of Maurice Broadduss' Knights of Breton Court, Ian McDonald's Empire Dreams, Richard Bowes' Minions of the Moon, David

Posted in Release Week | Tagged afterparty, christopher moore, daryl gregory, david ramirez, dina-pearlman, euan morton, michael naramore, tandy cronyn, tavia gilbert, the deaths of tao, the forever watch, the serpent of venice, the unreal and the real, ursula k le guin, wesley chu