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PodCastle turns 300!

Posted on 2014-02-26 at 14:55 by Sam

PodCastle has published its 300th fiction podcast! The 300th episode is E. Lily Yu's Ilse, Who Saw Clearly, read by Wilson Fowlie. Congrats to Dave and the whole PodCastle team:

PS: This also happens to be the 500th post on The AudioBookaneers. Happy coincidences, everyone!

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Whispersync Daily Deal: Kill City Blues by Richard Kadrey

Posted on 2014-02-23 at 13:36 by Sam

Sunday, February 23, 2014: Hot on the heels of being announced as a finalist for the 2014 Audie Awards, Richard Kadrey's latest Sandman Slim novel, Kill City Blues: A Sandman Slim Novel, is a Kindle Daily Deal today at $1.99. As the Kindle edition offers a $3.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by MacLeod Andrew for Harper Audio, it's quite a discount:

"Another day, another apocalypse. James Stark, aka Sandman Slim, has managed to get out of Hell, renounce his title as the new

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged kill city blues, macleod andrews, richard kadrey, sandman slim

Release Week: Alice Hoffman's The Museum of Extraordinary Things and David Weber's Like a Mighty Army, Broken Homes and The New Watch, Metro 2034 and Z 2135, and more

Posted on 2014-02-20 at 18:19 by Sam

FEBRUARY 12-18, 2013: A packed week this week, both in terms of releases and news. New audiobooks range from magical realism (Alice Hoffman's The Museum of Extraordinary Things) to space sf (David Weber's Like a Mighty Army) to dystopian sf (Metro 2034 and Z 2135) to the London-set urban fantasy of Ben Aaronovitch and the Russia-set urban fantasy of Sergei Lukyanenko, to backlist audiobooks from Tricia Sullivan and H. Beam Piper, and plenty more including sf from Ian Whates and Joel Shepherd, Arthurian

Posted in Release Week | Tagged alice hoffman, ben aaronovitch, david weber, kobna holdbrook-smith, oliver wyman, peter grant, safehold, sergei lukyanenko, the museum of extraordinary things, tricia sullivan

Whispersync Daily Deal: E.G. Foley's The Gryphon Chronicles

Posted on 2014-02-20 at 15:07 by Sam

Thursday, February 20, 2014: Today's crop of Kindle Daily Deal titles includes the first two books in E.G. Foley's middle grade The Gryphon Chronicles series, The Lost Heir (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 1) and Jake & The Giant (The Gryphon Chronicles, Book 2), each priced at $1.99. The first book is Whispersync for Voice enabled with a $1.99 upgrade offer to the Audible edition, narrated by Jamie du Pont MacKenzie. "Jake is a scrappy orphaned pickpocket living by his wits on the streets of Victorian London.

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The 2014 Audie Award finalists have been announced

Posted on 2014-02-19 at 15:33 by Sam

Via Booklist Online, the 2014 Audies Finalists have been announced. My first thoughts are 1. that I'm thrilled to see Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman named as a finalist in the Science Fiction category. And 2, I can't recall a previous year with such a broad base of audio publishers. The big 5/6 and Amazon's imprints, along with independents both big (Recorded Books, Blackstone, Tantor, and GraphicAudio) and small: Podium (who continues to produce an extremely high quality of well-curated and well-cast

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged alex bledsoe, andy weir, audies, brandon sanderson, bronson pinchot, clockwork angels, doctor sleep, ellen kushner, ever after, george guidall, green space, helene wecker, joe hill, john hodgman, kate mulgrew, kevin j anderson, kim harrison, kim stanley robinson, macleod andrews, maddaddam, margaret atwood, max brooks, metatropolis, miachael page, michael kramer, neil gaiman, neil gaiman presents, neil peart, nos4a2, ocean at the end of the lane, podium, richard kadrey, rip-off, robert sheckley, scott lynch, shaman, stefan rudnicki, stephen king, the martian, will patton, world war z

Whispersync Daily Deal: Altered Destiny by Shawna Thomas and Osiris by E.J. Swift

Posted on 2014-02-17 at 17:17 by Sam

Monday, February 17, 2014: Today's crop of Kindle Daily Deal (and other sale) titles include two of interest here. First up, Altered Destiny by Shawna Thomas, priced at $0.99 on Kindle with a $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Uma Incrocci for Carina Press. Nominally, Carina is a romance-first electronic imprint of Harlequin, and they've also put out some stellar sf titles in their own right such as J.L. Hilton's Stellarnet Rebel (The Stellarnet Series) (itself a perpetually

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged carina-press, ej swift, jl-hilton, osiris, shawna thomas, uma icrocci

Whispersync Daily Deal: The Dead Run by Adam Mansbach

Posted on 2014-02-15 at 16:20 by Sam

Saturday, February 15, 2014: Today's crop of Kindle Daily Deal titles includes the "Go the F*ck to Sleep" author Adam Mansbach's 2013 adult supernatural suspense novel The Dead Run: A Novel for $1.99, a title which offers a $3.95 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, read by Erik Bergmann for Harper Audio:

"Adam Mansbach, the acclaimed #1 New York Times best-selling author of Go the F**k to Sleep and Rage Is Back, turns to a new tale of suspense, horror, and supernatural action in The

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Coming to Town, post-visit edition: Deborah Johnson for The Secret of Magic

Posted on 2014-02-14 at 18:13 by Sam

Q: I enjoyed hearing you read your own author’s note for the (really fantastically well done) audiobook edition. Were you involved with or have you listened to Peter Francis James‘ narration? A: I loved Peter Francis James’s voice from the first moment I heard it on the spec. I knew he was the one to read the audio and was thrilled when he was chosen. This is a little aside: I read the author’s note and when I was working on this the director told me that Peter Francis’s grandfather, like mine, had served

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Release Week: Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others, Glen Duncan's By Blood We Live, Iain Banks' Matter, and Octavia Butler's Patternmaster and Imago

Posted on 2014-02-14 at 05:19 by Sam

FEBRUARY 5-11, 2014: While much more quiet in terms of quantity -- in particular in concurrent new releases, as apparently every publisher had the same "FEBRUARY 4 OR BUST" idea this year -- there's some absolutely exquisite quality in this week's audiobooks haul, led by Ted Chiang's 2002 collection Stories of Your Life and Others, along with backlist titles from Iain Banks and Octavia Butler, and the only week delayed conclusion in audio for Glen Duncan's Last Werewolf trilogy, By Blood We Live. Highlights

Posted in Release Week | Tagged by blood we live, glen duncan, hugh howey, iain m banks, imago, matter, octavia butler, patternist, stories of your life and others, ted chiang, the last werewolf, xenogenesis

Armchair Audies 2014!

Posted on 2014-02-14 at 01:20 by Sam

Eagerly awaiting the Armchair Audies just about as much as I'm eagerly awaiting the Audie Awards finalists lists themselves:

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