Posts tagged: scott westerfeld
July #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Ken Liu, Kat Howard, Octavia Butler, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Matheson, Walter Mosley, Field of Dreams, Scott Westerfeld's Zeroes, and much more
Posted on 2016-07-29 at 22:59 by Sam
July brought a refreshed list of Summer Reading Deals and 50 Kindle Books for $2 Each to the Kindle store, and there's over 700 titles in there, 387 of which are Whispersync for Voice enabled in the "Summer Reading Deals" alone. (There's another 46 in the $2 Kindle listings.) What's most worth checking out? There's a lot, even there, including a few titles from 2016 from Saga Press and Simon & Schuster Audio, classics, and more. Here you go, starting with those Saga/S&S titles that I can hardly believe can
Read more...Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged brandon mull, kat howard, ken liu, octavia butler, scott westerfeld
November 2014 Whispersync Roundup: Octavia Butler's Dawn, Peter David's Artful, Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan, and more
Posted on 2014-11-13 at 06:55 by Sam
Now that we're about halfway through November, it's past time to round up this month's Whispersync (and other) deals. First up, the usual gold source for new Whispersync deals, the Kindle monthly deals. 12 books to send up this time:
Dawn (The Xenogenesis Trilogy Book 1) By , Narrated By for $1.99+$3.49 -- "In a world devastated by nuclear war with humanity on the edge of extinction, aliens finally make contact. They rescue those humans they can, keeping
Read more...Posted in Whispersync Deals | Tagged alan cumming, discworld, humble bundle, james langton, john scalzi, luke daniels, macus sakey, octavia butler, patrick ness, paul antony jones, peter david, robert krose, robert mccammon, scholastic audio, scott westerfeld, terry pratchett, the hunger games
Release Week: Wolf in White Van, Afterworlds, Rooms, Horrorstör, and Terry Pratchett's A Slip of the Keyboard
Posted on 2014-10-01 at 20:33 by Sam
SEPTEMBER 17-23, 2014: Whew! It's been a busy couple of weeks, and this release week roundup is more than a week late. But! I can't do my usual trick of combining two weeks into one roundup, because there's just too many great titles coming out here as summer turns to fall. This week: a full review of John Darnielle's affecting Wolf in White Van, along with picks from YA (Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds) and horror (Lauren Oliver's adult debut Rooms and Grady Hendrix's bizarre and aptly-published-by-Quirk
Read more...Posted in Release Week | Tagged afterworlds, bronson pinchot, grady hendrix, Heather Lind, horrorstor, john darnielle, lauren oliver, michael fenton-stevens, rooms, scott westerfeld, sheetal sheth, tai sammons, terry pratchett, wolf in white van
Audible's "Begin at the Beginning" sale, including Tad Williams, Richard Kadrey, Mira Grant, Paolo Bacigalupi, and more
Posted on 2014-02-11 at 18:37 by Sam
Running through February 19, Audible.com's Begin at the Beginning sale on first books in a series includes 206 books all priced at $4.95. Now, 206 titles is a pretty long list. Here's what caught my eye, with covers and "PICK:" notations for the ones I really recommend, which include Scott Westerfeld's Leviathan, Gene Wolfe's Shadow of the Torturer, Mira Grant's Feed, Richard Kadrey's Sandman Slim, Paolo Bacigalupi's Shipbreaker, Tad Williams' The Dirty Streets of Heaven, and Michael J. Sullivan's The Crown
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