show notes
Today’s episode features Impnight by Rabia Gale, which is a mashup of Ghostbusters and Pride & Prejudice in a fantastic gaslamp fantasy. Impnight is narrated by Paeter Frandsen and Karyne Norton.
Important Links:
The Author: Rabia Gale’s website, where you can get Impnight for free
The Narrator: Paeter Frandsen’s website
The Narrator: Karyne Norton’s website
Paeter’s Youtube channel – Karyne will be joining his livestream on Saturday, November 4th from 1-3pm PST
Paeter’s fundraising page, where you can donate to his charity livestream where he’s raising money for St. Jude’s Children Hospital for cancer research
full transcript
Karyne (00:00:07) – Hi fantasy readers. This is Karyne Norton, your fellow book binger, and you are listening to the Finding Fantasy Reads podcast where you can test out a new fantasy story every single week to find your next favorite author.
In honor of today’s episode landing on Halloween, I wanted to pick something that felt Halloween-ish. Today’s story leans a little into the romance, but I couldn’t pass it up because of its Ghostbuster vibes. In fact, I would say this story’s setting is the perfect mashup of Ghostbusters and Pride and Prejudice. And I never thought I’d say those two things in the same sentence, let alone with the word perfect.
The story is written by Rabia Gale, who creates strange worlds in peril and the flawed heroes who save them. She is passionate about faith and duty and redemption and identity, and she loves the alchemical zing of putting ideas together in fun ways. Dragons in space, mecha and magic, runes and the regency era, which is probably how she came up with something I’m labeling Ghostbusters meets Pride and Prejudice.
Rabia grew up in Pakistan but currently lives in Virginia, where she homeschools her children, gardens with haphazard enthusiasm, and participates in far too many book clubs. Today you get both Paeter and me narrating. Stick around to the end or check out today’s show notes to see where you can find more from Rabia as well as how to enter this month’s giveaway.
For now, please enjoy Impnight by Rabia Gale.
Paeter and Karyne (00:01:39) – Impnight is read by Karyne Norton and Paeter Frandsen. Due to copyright, the full transcript of the story cannot be included here. Please go to rabiagale.com to get your free ebook copy of the short story.
Karyne (00:36:03) – I hope you enjoyed listening to Impnight by Rabia Gale, narrated by Paeter Fransen of Christian Geek Central and Karyne Norton. If you want to read more by Rabia, go to rabiagale.com to find more of her books. You’ll especially want to check out Ghostlight, which continues the story you heard on today’s episode with the same world and characters. I’ll have a direct link for it in the show notes.
This month’s giveaway includes a signed paperback copy of Rabia’s book Ghostlight. So if you wanna a chance to win, go to findingfantasyreads.com/giveaway to enter.
If you enjoyed listening to Paeter narrate the story, you might also enjoy listening to his podcast, Christian Geek Central, where he discusses movies, video games, and all things enjoyed by self proclaimed geeks from a Christian worldview. This Saturday, he is doing a charity livestream event, which means he is livestreaming himself playing video games for 24 hours in order to raise money for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, which is constantly helping kids fight cancer. The livestream event gets a little crazy, especially if you catch him playing in the wee hours of the morning, but it’s also fun enough that I usually stop by for a couple hours. This year, I’ll be there hanging out around 1pm to 3pm Pacific Time, so if you happen to tune in at that time, you’ll get to learn a little bit more about the two narrators behind the podcast, probably more than you want to know.
I will have the links I mentioned in the show notes along with links to his YouTube channel, where you can watch the livestream, and his Patreon page, where you can donate for the St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
Thank you all for listening, and happy reading.
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Featured Author
Rabia Gale creates strange worlds in peril and the flawed heroes who save them. She is passionate about faith and duty, redemption and identity. She loves the alchemical zing of putting ideas together in fun ways: dragons in space, mecha and magic, runes and the Regency era. Her work ranges freely across the entire fantasy spectrum.
Rabia was born and grew up in Karachi, Pakistan. She moved from that hot and rambunctious city to considerably colder rural New England and learned to love fall and maple syrup. She currently resides in Virginia, where she homeschools her children, gardens with haphazard enthusiasm, and participates in far too many book clubs.
Her writing influences include the works of Diana Wynne Jones, Joan Aiken, and Rosemary Sutcliff, as well as Studio Ghibli movies, 80’s cartoons, and anime.
Here’s where you can get your free copy of today’s short story: Impnight.
Narrators
A fan of comic books, sci-fi, and fantasy since childhood, Paeter Frandsen is the owner and chief content creator of Christian Geek Central. He lives in Mesa, AZ with his wife and two sons.
Karyne Norton hasn’t found the key to time travel, immortality, or infinite lives, so she’s taking a break from nursing and photography to focus on raising four human beings while writing epic fantasy.
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