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Afternoon Reading: Neil Gaiman and Felicia Day help narrate an awesome new fantasy audiobook by Ellen Kushner(via @io9)

Posted on 2012-09-12 at 18:8 by Sam

Link: Afternoon Reading: Neil Gaiman and Felicia Day help narrate an awesome new fantasy audiobook by Ellen Kushner(via @io9)

ellenkushner:

victusinveritas:

“If you love clever, whimsical fantasy, you won’t want to miss the new audiobook version of Ellen Kushner’s novel The Privilege of the Sword. There’s nothing better than a Kushner novel on a long afternoon .”

Thank you!  I loved getting to read my own work for posterity - and having Neil & Felicia in it was a real thrill … along with exalted

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Posted in link | Tagged audiobooks, ellen kushner, felicia day, neil gaiman

PW's ListenUp points us to William Dufris's AudioComics Company

Posted on 2012-07-30 at 14:58 by Sam

Link: PW's ListenUp points us to William Dufris's AudioComics Company

The samples sound a bit like GraphicAudio in terms of full cast, sound effects, etc. The Batsons title seems oriented for kids, which is a nice change of pace and a more unique direction. I wasn’t overly thrilled with the packed-to-the-earwalls sample for Titanium Rain, but as it was a battle scene, it’s hard to get an overall feel for a more typical section of the narrative. Something to keep an eye on.

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Posted in link | Tagged audiocomics, publishing news

Audiobook Review: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker | The Guilded Earlobe

Posted on 2012-07-27 at 12:19 by Sam

Link: Audiobook Review: The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker | The Guilded Earlobe

Absolutely fascinating review of one of this year’s most anticipated “genre in the mainstream” titles.

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The Guilded Earlobe reviews The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

Posted on 2012-07-12 at 18:33 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe reviews The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter

“The Long Earth is a wonderful tale of exploration and discovery by two authors that blend their styles so seamlessly that it becomes something unexpected.”

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Posted in link | Tagged guilded earlobe, reviews, stephen baxter, terry pratchett, the long earth

Schedule of SYNC Downloads -- free audiobook downloads all summer

Posted on 2012-06-07 at 0:17 by Sam

Link: Schedule of SYNC Downloads -- free audiobook downloads all summer

The one I’m most looking forward to is for the week of August 2 – August 8, 2012: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor, Read by Khristine Hvam (Hachette Audio):

Now to just set myself a weekly reminder…

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The Guilded Earlobe's Top 10 Zombie Novels and Series (with audiobook notes)

Posted on 2012-05-25 at 14:8 by Sam

Link: The Guilded Earlobe's Top 10 Zombie Novels and Series (with audiobook notes)

Led by Mira Grant’s Newsflesh series (bumped up to #1 due to Bob’s very positive thoughts on the final, just-released Blackout) and including several other books and series available in audio (and some which are not). My own write-in, though as much, much less a zombie connoisseur is Boneshakerby Cherie Priest, read wonderfully by Kate Reading and Wil Wheaton. Anyway — go check out the list and add your own favorites.

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Dave Thompson to narrate Tim Pratt's Briarpatch

Posted on 2012-05-21 at 20:37 by Sam

Link: Dave Thompson to narrate Tim Pratt's Briarpatch

Quoth Dave: “I get to read the audiobook for Tim Pratt’s amazing fantasy novel Briarpatch! … I am so stoked beyond words about this, I don’t even know what else to say! I keep expecting people to email me that they’ve changed their minds. I love this book. I loved it immediately - as soon as I started reading it when it came out last year.”

This is absolutely awesome news all around: 1. An audiobook for Briarpatch 2. I get to make Dave interview himself

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Posted in link | Tagged acx, briarpatch, dave thompson, tim pratt

Audiobook release day: Osama by Lavie Tidhar

Posted on 2012-05-14 at 23:35 by Sam

Link: Audiobook release day: Osama by Lavie Tidhar

I don’t always do a release day post these days, usually saving things up for one week-in-recap. But sometimes an audiobook comes along off-Tuesday that I’m really excited about, and today has one such audiobook. Coming in at about 8.5 hours, Osama By Lavie Tidhar is Narrated by Jeff Harding for Audible Ltd [Audible UK link here]:

In a world without global terrorism Joe, a private detective, is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure

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Twenty-first stop on the DWJ blog tour -- The Functional Nerds!

Posted on 2012-05-10 at 20:11 by Sam

Link: Twenty-first stop on the DWJ blog tour -- The Functional Nerds!

dwj2012:

Stopping for a Spell, the audiobook

Samuel Montgomery-Blinn (who is also behind the very terrific Bull Spec) provides a comprehensive overview of DWJ audiobooks. You’d be surprised by some of the narrators!

“[Howl’s Moving Castle] is done so well, so earnestly, and so authentically that those with an ear for dialects might begin to wonder why Howl speaks with a ‘tapped r’ long before we find out what’s sewn across one of his shirts.”

Thanks for letting me play

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Over on The Functional Nerds blog, I invite you to Rediscover (or discover for the first time) the works of Diana Wynne Jones in audio

Posted on 2012-05-10 at 14:29 by Sam

Link: Over on The Functional Nerds blog, I invite you to Rediscover (or discover for the first time) the works of Diana Wynne Jones in audio

A big thanks both to Sharyn November’s Diana Wynn Jones 2012 Tumblr and to The Functional Nerds (whom I joined for a podcast on audiobooks late last year) giving me space to play along.

So: Go read the article!

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