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Release Week: Shovel Ready, The Emperor's Blades, Alex Bledsoe's Eddie LaCrosse, Shawn Speakman's The Dark Thorn, Gateways, and Clive Barker's The Books of Blood

Posted on 2014-01-15 at 20:23 by Sam

JANUARY 8-14, 2014: This week the name of the game is "fantasy", though near-future noir (Shovel Ready), the latest Peter Clines (Ex-Purgatory, read by Jay Snyder), classic sf from Asimov (read by Scott Brick) and Vonda McIntyre (read by Gayle Hendrix), and most singularly the Frederik Pohl tribute anthology Gateways (read by the voice of Pohl's Gateway, Oliver Wyman) do make for a more diverse range of offerings. But the lion's share of my picks this week? There are swords, there are blades, there are

Posted in Release Week | Tagged alex bledsoe, books of blood, clive barker, eddie lacrosse, gateways, oliver wyman, shawn speakman, shovel ready, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, the emperor's blades

Whispersync Daily Deal: The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Posted on 2014-01-12 at 01:22 by Sam

Staurday January 11, 2014: Sorry this one's a little late again; I've been busy at illogiCon this weekend and couldn't find the time for even one of these little posts. Anyway: The Maze Runner: Maze Runner, Book 1 By James Dashner is on sale for $1.99 as one of today's Kindle Daily Deals, and offers a $3.95 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition, Narrated By Mark Deakins for Listening Library. The book begins Dashner's Maze Runner series:

"When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged james dashner, the maze runner

Release Week: Chang-rae Lee's On Such a Full Sea, Joe Haldeman's Work Done for Hire, a collection by Ben Marcus, and more

Posted on 2014-01-09 at 18:29 by Sam

JANUARY 1-7, 2014: 2014 gets off to a cracking start with a literary dystopia from Pulitzer Prize finalist Chang-rae Lee, a new standalone novel from Joe Haldeman, a collection by Ben Marcus (Leaving the Sea), and! Jane Yellowrock is back in the latest installment of Faith Hunter's series. In the "also out" listings: Alma Katsu's The Taker trilogy concludes, we get the entirety of R.A. Salvatore's Paths of Darkness trilogy in his Legend of Drizzt oeuvre, and plenty more including a pair of new audiobooks of

Posted in Release Week | Tagged bd wong, ben marcus, chang-rae lee, chris sorensen, joe haldeman, work done for hire

Re-Pressed: Bob’s Audiobook Report: January Week 1

Posted on 2014-01-08 at 02:23 by Sam

Over on The Guilded Earlobe, my go-to audiobook reviewer Bob Reiss lays out his plans for a little more irregular, a little more personal and rambly updates. I'm down with that. The first of those is Bob’s Audiobook Report: January Week 1 in which I also see something I'm very, very much looking forward to: "I have selected and have been working on my Top 20 Audiobooks of 2013 post." Oh yeah. OH YEAH. Bring it.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged the guilded earlobe

Whispersync Daily Deal: Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach

Posted on 2014-01-05 at 14:45 by Sam

As I'm working off and on to finish up my "regrets" list of audiobooks I missed this year, Sunday, January 5th brings Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach onto the Kindle Daily Deal list at $1.99. There's a $1.99 Whispersync upgrade to the Audible edition, narrated by Emily Durante, making it far too tempting a Whispersync Daily Deal to pass up. The book starts a new series for Bach, a new pseudonym for fantasy author Rachel Aaron (The Legend of Eli Monpress), the Paradox Series, with books 2 and 3 coming in rapid

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged emily durante, fortune's pawn, rachel bach

Whispersync Daily Deals: Ramez Naam's Nexus and Crux, and Stephen Kiernan's The Curiosity

Posted on 2014-01-05 at 00:49 by Sam

Sorry once again for the late notice, busy day. Saturday January 4 brings a pair of Ramez Naam novels and Stephen Kiernan's The Curiosity (among others) to the Kindle Daily Deal list, and each offers a Whispersync upgrade to the audible edition.

Nexus, Narrated By Luke Daniels, and Crux, Narrated By Mikael Naramore, are the first two books in Ramez Naam's "Nexus" post-human sf series. "In the near future, the nano-drug Nexus can link mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ramez naam, stephen kiernan

Whispersync Daily Deal: Christian Cantrell's Kingmaker, Chris Roberson's Further, Dana Cameron's Seven Kinds of Hell, John le Carre's The Constant Gardener, and more

Posted on 2014-01-03 at 19:59 by Sam

Well, the first Friday of 2014 does not disappoint in terms of Kindle Daily Deal titles with Whispersync for Voice upgrades. SF, urban fantasy, a John le Carre novel of international intrigue, historical fiction, a moving novel about mental disability, and more.

Seven Kinds of Hell: Fangborn, Book 1 By Dana Cameron, Narrated By Kate Rudd, is on sale for $1.99 Kindle and $0.99 Whispersync upgrade to the Audible edition. "Archaeologist Zoe Miller has been running from a haunting secret her whole life. But

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged chris roberson, christian cantrell, dana cameron, john allyn, john le Carre, kate reading, kate rudd, Narrated By Jeff Crawford, rachel simon

Release Week(s): Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors, Samit Basu's Turbulence, Kathleen Tierney's Blood Oranges, Ian McDonald's Planesrunner, and Richard Bowes' Dust Devil on a Quiet Street

Posted on 2014-01-01 at 17:13 by Sam

DECEMBER 18-31, 2013: The last two weeks of 2013 bring two adult novels off the "most missing" list including the Kickstarter-funded and Janis Ian-narrated book one of Catherine M. Wilson's When Women Were Warriors, and two fantastic YA novels as well as works from Mazarkis Williams, Matthew Hughes, Greg Egan, Andy Remic, Martha Wells, Manly Wade Wellman, James Marshall, Steve Perry, Anderson Prunty, and Poul Anderson, among others, and another great audiobook for early teens, Moonkind by Sarah Prineas

Posted in Release Week | Tagged ian mcdonald, janis ian, ramom takarim, samit basu, turbulence, when women were warriors

Whispersync Daily Deal: Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

Posted on 2014-01-01 at 13:14 by Sam

Happy New Year! January 1 brings a $1.99 Kindle Daily Deal for the first novel for teens from the best-selling author of Mistborn and co-author of the concluding novels of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time, Brandon Sanderson, starting a new superhero series The Reckoners: Steelheart. For $3.99 more, add to the Audible edition narrated by Macleod Andrews (Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim, Steven Gould's Jumper).

"Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged brandon sanderson, macleod andrews, steelheart, the reckoners

Whispersync Daily Deal: Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak series

Posted on 2013-12-31 at 15:33 by Sam

Tuesday, December 31's crop of Kindle Daily Deals includes Darren Shan's Cirque Du Freak series, with each of the 12 books available at $1.99 Kindle and books 1, 2, and 5 Whispersync enabled to the tune of $1.99 upgrades to the Ralph Lister-narrated Audible editions. The series is in audiobook through book 7, so perhaps it's a matter of processing before books 3, 4, 6, and 7 are enabled, and a matter of time before the rest are available in audio. In the meantime, the series starts with Cirque du Freak: A

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged cirque du freak, darren shan, ralph lister