Posts tagged: richard armitage

August #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence, Alex Bledsoe's Wisp of a Thing, Marko Kloos, Alan Cumming, Tim Powers, and much more

Posted on 2016-08-30 at 16:07 by Sam

August is almost over, which means it's #WhispersyncDeal roundup time! Before I get to the regular Monthly Deals in Kindle Books and 50 Kindle Book Deals for $2 Each listings, and the huge list of titles in Audible's "3 years of daily deals" sale, though, a completely separate deal headlines my picks this month:

Per Tor and Tor.com editor Marco Palmieri, Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence is moving from Tor Books to Tor.com Publishing, and the series-wide $4.99 sale continues through August. The bad news is

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Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged alan cumming, alan moore, alex bledsoe, jasper fforde, john malkovich, john scalzi, kevin j anderson, kurt vonnegut, luke daniels, marko kloos, max gladstone, oliver wyman, rachel aaron, richard armitage, robin miles, simon vance, stefan rudnicki, tananarive due, tim gerard reynolds, victor bevine, vikas adam, wil wheaton

Release Week: Monica Byrne's The Girl in the Road, Stephen Baker's The Boost, and Hartley and Hewson's Hamlet, read by Richard Armitage

Posted on 2014-05-22 at 18:29 by Sam

MAY 14-20, 2014: One of my most-anticipated titles of the year, let alone this month, is finally here, Monica Byrne's The Girl in the Road, along with Stephen Baker's all-too-near-future of brain hacking, The Boost, and a new audio-original novelization of Shakespeare's Hamlet from the same authors who brought us Macbeth -- another audio original -- in 2011. There's a long list of titles to check out in the ALSO OUT listings as well, including South African author Sarah Trotz's The Three and Australian

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Posted in Release Week | Tagged aj hartley, david doersch, david hewson, dioni collins, hamlet, monica byrne, nazneen contractor, richard armitage, stephen baker, the boost, the girl in the road

News: Richard Armitage to narrate "Hamlet: a novel" by A.J. Hartley and David Hewson

Posted on 2014-03-21 at 16:47 by Sam

Via AJHartley.net, some casting news from late February that I missed: "We are thrilled to announce that the Hamlet, a Novel, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed international bestseller Macbeth: A Novel, co-written by A.J. and David Hewson will be out on audio on May 20th, performed by the incomparable Richard Armitage. Armitage has a history of playing Shakespeare but is probably best known internationally for his portrayal of Thorin Oakenshield in the recent Hobbit movies, as well as Guy of

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Posted in news | Tagged aj hartley, hamlet, richard armitage