Page 15 of posts by: Sam

News: Bronson Pinchot to narrate Jeff VanderMeer's Authority, Book 2 of The Southern Reach; and Xe Sands to narrate Wendy Webb's The Vanishing

Posted on 2014-03-11 at 15:47 by Sam

Two narrator castings to pass along this morning, the first is both the most recent and what I'll be listening to in the wee hours of May 6: Blackstone Audio has tapped Audie-Award winning narrator Bronson Pinchot to narrate Authority: The Southern Reach, Book 2 by Jeff VanderMeer, released fairly quickly on the heels of Annihilation, read by Carolyn McCormick, which was released in February. I've listened to many of Pinchot's audiobooks (from non-fiction like How to Build an Android: The True Story of

Posted in news | Tagged authority, bronson pinchot, jeff vandermeer, the vanishing, wendy webb, xe sands

Whispersync Daily Deal: Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Coraline, Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine, and more

Posted on 2014-03-09 at 21:22 by Sam

Sunday, March 9, 2014: The Kindle "Gold Box Deal of the Day" is a wide-ranging list of Books That Inspired Our Passion for Reading, all priced at $2.99 or less, and quite a few have Whispersync upgrades to the Audible editions -- though many are $10 or more, that still puts the overall audiobook package at less than a credit and (in most cases) less than the retail price.

First up, two from Neil Gaiman, starting with American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel for $1.99 Kindle and $12.99

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Release Week: Words of Radiance, Ghost Train to New Orleans, Tropic of Serpents, Half Bad, The King in Yellow read by Stefan Rudnicki, and Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways to Die in the West performed by Jonathan Frakes

Posted on 2014-03-06 at 21:33 by Sam

FEBRUARY 26-MARCH 4, 2014: And here I thought that last week was packed. This week saw almost 200 titles released on March 4 alone, with another 100 on March 3. My picks of this avalanche include an epic fantasy sequel from Brandon Sanderson, an urban fantasy sequel from Mur Lafferty, anthropological dragon memoir fantasy (yes, it exists, it's totally a genre, and yes, it's a sequel), and hey, more fantasy, the highly-anticipated debut Half Bad by Sally Green, and a classic 1895 novel-in-stories, performed

Posted in Release Week | Tagged brandon sanderson, ghost train to new orleans, half bad, jonathan frakes, kate reading, marie brennan, mur lafferty, sally green, seth macfarlane, stefan rudnicki, stormlight archive, the king in yellow, the shambling guides, words of radiance

Another massive Whispersync Deal roundup

Posted on 2014-03-06 at 09:08 by Sam

SFSignal has another massive list of 300 Kindle titles under $4, and while there's a lot of overlap with the last time I went through it a month ago, there's some new listings as well.

First up, some high-end titles that are inexpensive on Kindle and have a Whispersync upgrade of $10 or more:

• Dreams and Shadows: A Novel by C. Robert Cargill (Harper Voyager)
• Star Corps (The Legacy Trilogy, Book 1) by Ian Douglas (HarperCollins e-books)
• Stories: All-New Tales by Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio (William

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Whispersync Daily Deals: Arwen Elys Dayton's Resurrection and E.V. Anderson's The Many Lives of Lilith Lane

Posted on 2014-03-04 at 14:49 by Sam

Tuesday March 4, 2014: While the big audiobook news today for me is the long-awaited release of Mur Lafferty's Ghost Train to New Orleans, I did see two Kindle deals with deal-worthy Whispersync upgrade prices to mention. (OK, OK, the release of Brandon Sanderson's Words of Radiance is a pretty big deal, too! But on to the deals, more on the new audiobooks in the next "Release Week" roundup.)

Arwen Elys Dayton's Resurrection is $1.99 plus $1.99 for the Kate Rudd narration. "The Kinley built a ship capable

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged arwen elys dayton, brilliance-audio, dana vannis, ev anderson, kate rudd, resurrection, the many lives of lilith lane

Release Week: Influx, Moth and Spark, Honor's Knight, Servant of the Underworld, City of a Hundred Rows, Dan Simmons, and collections from Kim Stanley Robinson and Joe Haldeman

Posted on 2014-03-03 at 04:40 by Sam

FEBRUARY 19-25, 2014: Well. This has been a hard release week to put together for a few reasons, mostly the sheer number of interesting titles and the difficulty in limiting the space for "picks", but also I added about 100? or so more books into the "Coming Soon" listings, including the newly-announced The Peripheral by William Gibson, Margaret Killjoy's A Country of Ghosts (no audio news but man does that book look interesting), an imminently forthcoming Blackstone Audio production of The King in Yellow,

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Whispersync Daily Deal: Ransom Stephens' The God Patent and Rosa Montero's Tears in Rain

Posted on 2014-03-02 at 19:13 by Sam

Sunday, March 2, 2014: Another glimpse through the Kindle Daily Deals today shows me two books to pass along. The first is an actual "Daily" deal, The God Patent by Ransom Stephens, at $1.99 Kindle plus $0.99 upgrade to the Audible edition read by Luke Daniels for Brilliance Audio. "When electrical engineers Ryan McNear and Foster Reed coauthored two patents for company cash incentives, they thought it was all just a joke. One describes the soul as a software algorithm, and the other described the Big Bang

Posted in Uncategorized, Whispersync Deals | Tagged luke daniels, mary robinette kowal, ransom stephens, rosa montero, tears in rain, the god patent

Whispersync Daily Deal: Matthew Mather's The Atopia Chronicles

Posted on 2014-02-28 at 19:27 by Sam

Friday February 28, 2014: Matthew Mather's The Atopia Chronicles (Atopia series) is on sale today for $1.99 Kindle, with a $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition read by an absolutely stellar full cast of Luke Daniels, Nick Podehl, Angela Dawe, Tanya Eby, Amy McFadden, and Mikael Naramore for Brilliance Audio:

"What could be worse than letting billions die? In the near future, to escape the crush and clutter of a packed and polluted Earth, the world’s elite flock to Atopia, an

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged angela dawe, atopia chronicles, brilliance-audio, luke daniels, matthew mather, nick podehl

Whispersync Deal Roundup: Night Shade Books, the Baen Free Library, and The Shambling Guide to New York City

Posted on 2014-02-27 at 19:01 by Sam

Thursday, February 27, 2014: I didn't see a particular Kindle Daily Deal title to feature today, so I'll take the time to write up a few more "general" cases. First up, because I understand this to be a limited time offer (though my inquiries as to how long have not yet made it through the aether and spam filter and inbox queue yet, or, most likely, didn't look to be worth answering) is from Night Shade Books, which has put a pretty sizable crop of its titles on sale. (BUT WHERE IS MY JM McDERMOTT? MY KAMER

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged angry robot on brilliance audio, baen, david drake, david weber, honor harrington, jay posey, john lee, luke daniels, mark van name, mur lafferty, night shade books, the shambling guide to new york city, three, tom stechschulte

Whispersync Daily Deal: The Woman Who Married a Cloud: The Collected Short Stories of Jonathan Carroll

Posted on 2014-02-26 at 15:31 by Sam

Wednesday, February 26, 2014: Today's Kindle Daily Deal lineup includes The Woman Who Married a Cloud: The Collected Short Stories by Jonathan Carroll priced at $1.99, with a $1.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the 19-hour audiobook narrated by Robin Bloodworth and Suehyla El Attar for Audible. Carroll first came to my attention when Neil Gaiman selected a pair of his novels, The Land of Laughs and White Apples, for his Neil Gaiman Presents imprint. Here, it's the 600-page collection of his short fiction

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged audible, jonathan carroll, open road media, the woman who married a cloud