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February #WhispersyncDeal roundup: Octavia E. Butler, Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter, Chuck Wendig, Rysa Walker, and more

Another month, another #WhispersyncDeal roundup. First up, from the Monthly Deals listings, there are 161 that are Whispersync for Voice enabled. Here’s what most caught my eye, a couple handfuls of science fiction and fantasy titles, one Finnish thriller, and a few YA novels:    … Continue reading

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September WhispersyncDeal roundup: Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild, Neal Stephenson’s Mongoliad, Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men, Sarah Prineas, Arthur C. Clarke, David Wong, Jasper Fforde, and more

Another roundup pushing up against the end-of-the-month wire, so let’s jump right in with the deals expiring at the end of the month. First up, a roundup of what most caught my eye of the 189 Whispersync-for-Voice-enabled titles in this month’s $3.99 … Continue reading

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March Whispersync Deal Roundup: Pierre Grimbert, Oz Reimagined, The Palace Job, Invisible Cities, Libba Bray, Anne McCaffrey, Diana Gabaldon, Harry Turtledove, Ursula K. Le Guin, and more

I was planning to hold off posting this until March 13, because I know of a nice set of books that will be going on sale, but I’ll have to settle for updating it after March 13 instead, due to some nice deals … Continue reading

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November 2014 Whispersync Roundup: Octavia Butler’s Dawn, Peter David’s Artful, Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan, and more

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 … Continue reading

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Release Week: Wolf in White Van, Afterworlds, Rooms, Horrorstör, and Terry Pratchett’s A Slip of the Keyboard

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 … Continue reading

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Release Week: Bears Discover Fire, The Quick, Rogues, The Fever, high-end sf sequels, and Luke Daniels, Luke Daniels, Luke Daniels

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 … Continue reading

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Release Week: Six-Gun Snow White, The River of Souls, The Dark Between the Stars, Prince of Fools, The Science of Discworld, and Mr. Mercedes

MAY 28-JUNE 3, 2014: June got off to a big start, with star-spanning sf (Kevin J. Anderson’s The Dark Between the Stars), epic fantasy (Mark Lawrence’s Prince of Fools), historical almost-supernatural thriller (Robert McCammon’s The River of Souls), a fairytale recast in the Wild West … Continue reading

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Top 25 most-anticipated books of June 2014

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 … Continue reading

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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

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 … Continue reading

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Release Week: Countdown City, This is How You Die, The Long War, and Helen & Troy’s Epic Road Quest

JULY 10-16, 2013: Well… yet another Release Week post coming nearly a week late. I could try to excuse this with time spent on a lot of additions to the “Coming Soon” listings, including Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam (September 3), James … Continue reading

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