Check this out…
Yeah. It looks like Audible Frontiers and Brilliance Audio are teaming up!
HERE‘s the official Brilliance listing. Have a listen |MP3|.
Posted by Jesse Willis
Month: April 2009
Barnes & Noble: Try 9 FREE Short Stories
Here’s a “FREE” deal (for Mac and PC users) that, despite some convoluted wrangling with OverDrive, is still worth it…
HERE is the offer. From the notes:
“This offer may be redeemed once per customer and entitles customer to free copies of eligible Audiobook MP3 titles at bn.com or its mirror sites. Offer ends May 16, 2009 at 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time”
It also says:
“Please Note:you must have a valid credit card on file with bn.com or enter one during checkout in order to obtain the free eligible Audiobook MP3 titles, even if these free items are the only items in your order. However, your credit card will not be charged for the free Audiobook MP3 titles.”
But, payment methods of PayPal or “telephone order” are also offered as options. Be also aware you must also enter a USA shipping address (even though these are digital downloads). After the checkout process you’ll also need to install OverDrive’s “Media Console” software in order to download the files. That’s annoying, but more annoying is the 2,000 word essay on which rights you are giving up to use the stupid software. After that you’ll get an email linking you to a B&N download page, where you can one-click a download for each story – which in turn will allow you to two-click your actual MP3 downloads. Then after the actual download of the actual MP3 a search of your hard drive for the title of the story will reveal where the files were hidden on your computer.
So like I said, the offer WAS WORTH IT, at least for me. It took about 25 minutes all told to get the two stories that interested me. For that time invested I’ve got myself a novel, Blackstone Audio’s The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (read by the incomparable Grover Gardner), and a Harper Audio short story called Best New Horror by Joe Hill (read by David Ledoux). It’s a cool horror tale from the collection called 20th Century Ghosts. The other 7 titles may be good too, I’m not sure its worth the wrangling and searching – I couldn’t tell who wrote some of them, or what they were about. So, if you do give this offer a shot please let me know if you find something else worthwhile in the 9 freebies. I’ll delete OverDrive’s “media console” within the next couple of days. I’ll give you 48 hours to convince me to use it again.
[via SFsignal]
Posted by Jesse Willis
Recent Arrivals from Blackstone Audio
Starmind
By Spider and Jeanne Robinson; Read by Spider Robinson
7 CDs – 8 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781433247811
Starmind is Book 3 in the Stardance Trilogy. Blackstone Audio also has the first two books: Stardance and Starseed.
It is 2064, and Earth is enjoying an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity due to the Starmind, a universal overmind engineered by benevolent aliens. Art in all its forms flourishes, and composer Rand Porter has been offered the job of a lifetime: as a shaper of visual effects and music for the world’s most famous zero-gravity dance company in High Orbit. But his beloved novelist wife, Rhea Paixao, has her roots sunk deep in the Earth in her beloved Cape Cod. And as they wrestle with their private dilemma, bizarre things — small miracles — are beginning to occur everywhere on Earth and throughout the entire Solar System. The human race and its evolutionary successors, the space-dwelling Stardancers, find themselves approaching the terrifying cusp of their shared destiny, an appointment made for them a million years ago, a make-or-break point beyond which nothing, anywhere, can ever be the same again.
White Witch, Black Curse
By Kim Harrison; Read by Marguerite Gavin
15 CDs – 18.5 hours – [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: Blackstone Audio
Published: 2009
ISBN: 9781433270314
Kim Harrison returns with sexy, supernatural adventures of Rachel Morgan, the seventh book of the Hollows series.
Some wounds take time to heal, and some scars never fade. Rachel Morgan, kick-ass witch and bounty hunter, has taken her fair share of hits and has broken lines she swore she would never cross. When her lover was murdered, it left a deeper wound than Rachel ever imagined, and now she won’t rest until his death is solved—and avenged, whatever the cost. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and when an apex predator moves to the top of the Inderlander food chain, Rachel’s past comes back to haunt her—literally.
Posted by Scott D. Danielson
The Agony Column Interviews Jeremy Lassen
The Agony Column interviews Jeremy Lassen (Night Shade Books) |MP3|
You can subscribe to the feed at this URL:
http://bookotron.com/agony/indexes/tac_podcast.xml
Posted by Charles Tan
A FREDERIK POHL HuffDuffer Feed
Besides being an excellent blogger (at 90 years old), FREDERIK POHL is also an absolutely amazing SF writer. I’ve added a new HuffDuffer feed to his AUTHOR PAGE.
Be sure to have a listen, at the very least, to the first item in the feed (SPIDER ROBINSON‘s amazing reading of Day Million and We Purchased People! They’ll blow you away.
|PODCAST FEED| – iTunes 1-Click |SUBSCRIBE|
Posted by Jesse Willis
BBC4: ElvenQuest
There’s an upcoming six part comedic Fantasy radio drama starting on BBC Radio 4 next week. So get ready to tune your radios, queue up your BBC iPlayer or turn on your Radio Downloader subscription to catch it starting on Wednesday 29th April.
ElvenQuest
By Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto; Performed by a full cast
Six (1/2 hour) Parts – Approx. 3 Hours [RADIO DRAMA]
Broadcaster: BBC Radio 4
Broadcast: Begins Wednesday 29th April @ 18:30-19:00
“Fantasy writer Sam has been coerced into joining a band of intrepid heroes as they battle the dread forces of evil in search of the legendary Sword Of Asnagar. Comedy set in Lower Earth by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto”.
The creative team, writers Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto, previously co-created the 2005 UK/Canada cartoon called Bromwell High and more recently co-wrote the “Cinderella” episode of Fairy Tales.
[Thanks Roy!]
Posted by Jesse Willis