Posts tagged: joe hill

November #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Margaret Atwood, Neal Stephenson, Becky Chambers, Joe Hill, Paul Tremblay, Amy Bartol, and more

Posted on 2016-11-25 at 08:36 by Sam

Before November runs out, take the take to take a break from Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping and pick up a little something for yourself for those long, dark winter nights. There are 510 Whispersync-enabled audiobooks in this month's Monthly Deals in Kindle Books listings, which is a very, very big number. Here's what most catches my eye and ear this month:

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, read by Claire Danes for Audible for $2.99+$3.99 "[A] novel of such power that the reader will be

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged amy a bartol, anne charnock, Becky Chambers, claire danes, cory doctorow, guillermo del toro, jeff vandermeer, joe hill, julie kagawa, katherine kellgren, luke daniels, margaret atwood, neal stephenson, paul tremblay, ron perlman, samuel r delany, vikas adam, wil wheaton

October #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Neal Stephenson's Anathem, Joe Hill's NOS4A2, Robin McKinley, Genevieve Valentine, Richard Kadrey, Christopher Golden, Umberto Eco, Alice Hoffman, and more

Posted on 2015-10-30 at 16:14 by Sam

There are hundreds of Whispersync deals this month, and now it's coming to a close here's what you are literally about to miss out on.

First up, from the monthly Kindle Books for $3.99 or Less listings, there are 161 (ONE HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE) which are Whispersync for Voice enabled, and quite a few that are indeed less than $3.99. Here's what most caught my eye, though be warned that it is still a very long list:

Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Author), Oliver Wyman (Narrator), Tavia Gilbert (Narrator), and

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged alexandra sokoloff, alice hoffman, anathem, christopher rice, genevieve valentine, joe hill, neal stephenson, nos4a2, richard kadrey, robin mckinley, umberto eco

The AudioBookaneers pick their favorite audiobooks of 2014

Posted on 2015-03-02 at 15:15 by Sam

Well, it's (past) that time of year again: time for Dave and I to look back on a year in listening. We laughed, we cried, we cheered, we jeered, we stayed up well into the night for these audiobooks. It seems like every year calls for a slight wrinkle in presentation, but this year it's a familiar one: our audiobooks of the year, runners up in both new audiobooks of new books and new audiobooks of previously published books, and our favorite "new to us" listens of the year. (And, mostly because it helps

Posted in The Arrrdies | Tagged adjoa andoh, afterparty, amber benson, andy weir, andy weird, ann leckie, anne charnock, area x, bd wong, ben h. winters, bronson pinchot, catherynne m valente, chang-rae lee, cherie priest, chris beckett, cibola burn, claire north, daniel abraham, dark eden, daryl gregory, donna tartt, drizzt, evie wyld, fred berman, gabrielle de cuir, haruki murakami, ironskin, j.k. rowling, james marsters, james sa corey, janis ian, jeff vandermeer, jo walton, joe hill, john darnielle, john scalzi, johnny b truant, jonathan lethem, josh cohen, junot diaz, kameron hurley, katherine addison, kristen bell, lev grossman, lewis shiner, lock in, macleod andrews, manly wade wellman, maplecroft, margaret atwood, mark bramhall, michael chabon, michel faber, monica byrne, motherless brooklyn, my real children, neil gaiman, nick harkaway, octavia butler, on such a full sea, one hundred years of solitude, peter berkrot, RA Salvatore, rc bray, richard kadrey, robert galbraith, robert glenister, rosalyn landor, ruth ozeki, sandman slim, sean platt, shirley jackson, six-gun snow white, stefan rudnicki, ted chiang, the beam, the book of strange new things, the brief wondrous life of oscar wao, the girl in the road, the goblin emperor, the goldfinch, the martian, the mirror empire, the silkworm, the yiddish policeman's union, therese anne fowler, tigerman, tina connolly, vampire empire, veronica mars, we have always lived in the castle, when women were warriors, wil wheaton, wolf in white van, xe sands

Audible's "Thrills and Chills" sale through October 31

Posted on 2014-10-29 at 14:04 by Sam

Just in time for Halloween, Audible is having a Thrills and Chills sale, with a goodly pile of audiobooks on sale for $6.95 through October 31. (Meanwhile, today's Daily Deal is The Amityville Horror for $2.95, so there's that, too.)

Here's what most caught my eye in a scan through of the 158 titles:

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged christopher buehlman, glen duncan, guillermo del toro, joe hill, lauren beukes, marisha pessl, robert jackson bennett, stephen king

Whispersync Monthly Deals for June 2014: Ben Winters, Joyce Carol Oates, Joe Hill, Marcus Sakey, Elmore Leonard, and more (updated June 5!)

Posted on 2014-06-02 at 18:23 by Sam

June is here, and along with it another crop of monthly Kindle deals, including quite a few fantastic titles with inexpensive Whispersync for Voice upgrades to the Audible editions. Here are the eight titles which most caught my eye:

Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II (Last Policeman Trilogy) by Ben H. Winters, read by Peter Berkrot for Brilliance Audio, for $3.99 Kindle plus $3.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrade to the Audible edition -- "There are just 77 days to go before a deadly asteroid

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged ania ahlborn, ben h. winters, brilliance, countdown city, daniel radcliffe, dave donovan, elmore leonard, grover gardner, horns, joe hill, joyce carol oates, kate mulgrew, luke daniels, marcus sakey, nos4a2, peter berkrot, raylan, seed, the accursed, the gift, timothy olyphant

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: Joe Hill, Guillermo del Toro, Joyce Carol Oates, Clive Barker, Neal Stephenson, and more

Posted on 2013-12-29 at 15:23 by Sam

Sunday, December 29 has quite a few Kindle Daily Deals on offer with Whispersync for Voice upgrades to Audible editions, among them books by Joe Hill, Guillermo del Toro, Joyce Carol Oates, Clive Barker, and Neal Stephenson.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Daily Deal is The Mongoliad Series by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, Mark Teppo, and Joseph Brassey among other co-authors, with each of the 4 books available for $1.99 in Kindle and with $0.99 Whispersync for Voice upgrades to the tour-de-force-of-accents

Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged guillermo del toro, joe hill, joyce carol oates, neal stephenson, nos4a2, the accursed, the mongoliad, the strain

Review: NOS4A2

Posted on 2013-06-04 at 05:48 by Dave

NOS4A2 by Joe Hill, Read by Kate Mulgrew Length: 19 hours, 42 minutes.

Joe Hill's latest novel might be his most epic horror story yet (Locke & Key excluded) - it's crammed full with a murderous automobile, a punk-rock librarian, a haunting and monstrous villains, and flawed heroes that are utterly human and sympathetic. It's both a coming of age story/loss of innocence story, and a tale of failed parents searching for redemption. I finished listening to it a few weeks back, and it's 20 pretty incredible

Posted in reviews | Tagged joe hill, kate mulgrew, nos4a2

Release Week: Joe Hill's NOS4A2, Wesley Chu's The Lives of Tao, Allen Steele's Apollo's Outcasts, and Ballard's The Drought

Posted on 2013-05-01 at 14:54 by Sam

APRIL 24-30, 2013: April goes out with a howl and a bang, with more than a quartet of excellent titles, ranging from concurrent new horror and humorous sf releases, to one of last year's most "missing in audio" young adult sf titles, to one of sf's classic stories of climate change. Next week is another huge crop of high-interest titles as publishers start ramping up for summer reading and listening, so you'd better get started!

PICKS OF THE WEEK:

From the author of the novels Heart-Shaped Box and Horns a

Posted in Release Week | Tagged allen steele, joe hill, wesley chu

All Hallow's Listen Part 2: Dave reviews Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury

Posted on 2012-10-19 at 14:00 by Dave

Shadow Show: All-New Stories in Celebration of Ray Bradbury edited by Sam Weller and Mort Castle Stories by: 26 writers including Neil Gaiman, Joe Hill, Audrey Niffenegger, Margaret Atwood, Alice Hoffman, Robert McCammon, and more Narrated by: George Takei, Edward Hermann, Kate Mulgrew, F. Murray Abraham, Neil Gaiman, Peter Appel, and James Urbaniak for Harper Audio Length: 14 hours, 11 minutes

Review by Dave Thompson

For me, Ray Bradbury’s name is more synonymous with October and Halloween than any

Posted in All Hallow's Listen, regular, reviews | Tagged all hallows listen, dave thompson, george takei, joe hill, kate mulgrew, neil gaiman, ray bradbury, reviews, shadow show