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June #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Umberto Eco, T. Kingfisher, Scott Meyer, Rysa Walker, Gwenda Bond, Steve McHugh, Dennis Lehane, Ian Fleming, and more
Posted on 2016-06-25 at 20:01 by Sam
Between this month's Summer Reading Deals in Kindle Books and 50 Kindle Book Deals for $2 Each listings there's quite a few (over 300!) Whispersync for Voice titles to check out. From comedic fantasy to YA time travel, Umberto Eco to new fiction in translation, there's something for everybody to check out:
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco for $2.99+$3.99 is the legendary Eco's award-winning first novel, read by the marvelous Sean Barrett along with Nicholas Rowe and Neville Jason: "The year is 1327.
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November #WhispersyncDeal roundup: A Calculated Life, Off to Be the Wizard, The Broken Sword, I Am Princess X, Ella Enchanted, and more, and! a glance through Audible's "Treat Yourself" sale, and! Downpour.com's Black Friday sale (UPDATED)
Posted on 2015-11-27 at 05:31 by Sam
As promised, you've got more than 48 hours this time! But there's a lot to look over, as among the 299 Whispersync for Voice-enabled Monthly Deals in Kindle Books
First, though, the usual
Read more...Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged anne charnock, bronson pinchot, cherie priest, downpour.com, jennifer marie brissett, john scalzi, luke daniels, marko kloos, mary robinette kowal, oliver wyman, poul anderson, redshirts, samuel r delany, scott meyer, skyboat media, stefan rudnicki, susan duerden, the broken sword, wil wheaton, wild-cards
July #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Scott Meyer's Off to Be the Wizard, John Scalzi's The Human Division, V.E. Schwab's Vicious, Chuck Wendig's Blackbirds, Richard Ellis Preston, Jason Sheehan, and more
Posted on 2015-07-27 at 19:10 by Sam
When Amazon.com advertised "Kindle" deals in its Prime Day previews, I was admittedly excited. Maybe hundreds -- no, thousands, surely! -- of titles on discount? But, no, it was a few Kindle devices, not ebook titles. Alas. Still, that surely leaves not just me with a few extra bucks to spend on this month's #WhispersyncDeal listings, so here we go, starting with some choice picks from this month's 50 Kindle Books for $2 Each
Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged chuck wendig, jason sheehan, john scalzi, luke daniels, melinda snodgrass, richard ellis preston, scott meyer, wil wheaton, william dufris
August Whispersync Deal Roundup
Posted on 2014-08-16 at 03:46 by Sam
While I've continued the daily #WhispersyncDeal posts on Facebook/Twitter, with another month has come another set of month-long Whispersync deals, both in Amazon's monthly Kindle deal listings and beyond. First those "official" deals, starting with sci-fi and fantasy:
Carniepunk for $1.99+$3.99 -- "Come one, come all! The Carniepunk Midway promises you every thrill and chill a traveling carnival can provide. But fear not! Urban fantasy's biggest stars are here to guide you through this strange and
Read more...Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged anathem, canada, carniepunk, charming, chuck wendig, claire dewitt, cyberstorm, elliott james, fuzzy nation, john scalzi, luke daniels, matthew mather, neal stephenson, patrick dewitt, podium publishing, ray chase, richard ford, rick riordan, sara gran, scott meyer, stant litore, the sisters brothers, tom taylorson, wil wheaton
Release Week: Bears Discover Fire, The Quick, Rogues, The Fever, high-end sf sequels, and Luke Daniels, Luke Daniels, Luke Daniels
Posted on 2014-06-21 at 13:35 by Sam
JUNE 11-17, 2014: There is an absolute avalanche of outstanding audio this week, comprised mostly of audiobooks we've been anticipating for a good while now, but led by a breathtaking surprise: Terry Bisson's 1993 collection Bears Discover Fire and Other Stories. There's high-end sf (Cibola Burn, The Long Mars, On the Steel Breeze), there's historically-set fantasy (The Quick), there's comedic fantasy (Spell or High Water) and urban fantasy (Shattered, Half-Off Ragnarok) and an sf/thriller hyrbid (A Better
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged a better world, adjoa andoh, alastair reynolds, bears discover fire, cherie priest, cibola burn, erik davies, gardner dozois, george rr martin, gillian flynn, james sa corey, janis ian, joe abercrombie, joe barrett, kevin hearne, kirby heyborne, lauren owen, luke daniels, marcus sakey, megan abbott, michael fenton-stevens, neil gaiman, on the steel breeze, patrick rothfuss, rogues, roy dotrice, scott meyer, shattered, simon slater, skyboat media, spell or high water, stefan rudnicki, stephen baxter, terry bisson, terry pratchett, the fever, the iron druid chronicles, the long mars, the quick
Top 25 most-anticipated books of June 2014
Posted on 2014-06-05 at 18:40 by Sam
Everyone has their own lists, but here’s ours: what we're most looking forward to this month, in chronological order of release, with audiobook information if we know about it. (I tried holding the list to 10 as I managed for last month's preview, but after a second pass cutting as much as I was close to happy with, I was still in the 30s. Trimming further to 25 was hard enough!)
JUNE 3
Searchers After Horror edited by S.T. Joshi (Fedogan and Bremer, June 1) — The first of two anthologies on my list this
Read more...Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged adjoa andoh, alastair reynolds, am dellamonica, antonia hodgson, california bones, catherynne m valente, child of a hidden sea, cibola burn, deadly curiosities, dogsland, eli horowitz, emily bauer, emmi itaranta, erik davies, finty williams, gail z martin, gardner dozois, genevieve valentine, george rr martin, greg van eekhout, hillary huber, incrypted, iron druid chronicles, j.k. rowling, james morrow, james robert herndon, james sa corey, jm mcdermott, john lee, julia whelan, kate rudd, katherine addison, katherine harbour, kevin hearne, kevin j anderson, kieran shea, koko takes a holiday, lauren owen, luke daniels, mammals, mark boyett, mark smylie, memory of water, michael fenton-stevens, michael page, mr carey, mr mercedes, octavia e butler, on the steel breeze, ray porter, rayla 2212, robert galbraith, rogues, scott meyer, seanan mcguire, searchers after horror, shattered, simon slater, six-gun snow white, spell or high water, spoken freely, st joshi, stephen baxter, stephen briggs, stephen king, terry pratchett, the barrow, the dark between the stars, the devil in the marshalsea, the expanse, the girl with all the gifts, the girls at the kingfisher club, the goblin emperor, the long mars, the madonna and the starship, the quick, the science of discworld, the silent history, the silkworm, thorn jack, unexpected stories, we leave together, will patton, ytasha womack
Release Week: Lavie Tidhar, Terry Pratchett's Raising Steam, Scott Meyer's Off to Be the Wizard, and Cory Doctorow's Homeland read by Wil Wheaton
Posted on 2014-03-19 at 15:39 by Sam
MARCH 12-18, 2014: A jam-packed week straddes the Ides of March, bringing a fantastic haul of audiobooks led by two short novels from Lavie Tidhar, the latest steam-powered Discworld novel from Terry Pratchett, and Scott Meyer's Off to Be the Wizard read by Luke Daniels. Update: Also out now and available exclusively as part of the current Humble eBook Bundle, Cory Doctorow's Homeland, bestselling sequel to Little Brother, is read by Wil Wheaton -- at Skyboat Media no less, directed by Gabrielle de Cuir who
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