Show notes
Finding Fantasy Reads is a podcast for ravenous readers who are eager to find their next favorite character, series, or world by sampling clean short stories from a variety of fantasy authors. Listen to this brief introduction to the podcast and your host, Karyne Norton. She’s on a mission to share the most amazing fantasy short stories out there and to help you discover your next favorite author.
Starting June 6th, you can expect a new fantasy short story from a different author every single week. The stories will be limited to clean fantasy, so you can enjoy them without worrying about any language, spice, or graphic violence. They’ll be narrated by Karyne Norton and her brother, Paeter Frandsen, host of Christian Geek Central. Karyne’s goal is to explore all sorts of sub-genres within the larger fantasy genre, so get ready to embark on a variety of adventures with her.
Full Transcript
Karyne (00:00:07) – Hi everyone. This is Karyne Norton, host and sometimes narrator of this brand new podcast Finding Fantasy Reads, where I find amazing fantasy short stories to share with you so you can then find your next favorite author.
This episode is just a quick overview of what you can expect to hear each time you listen to finding fantasy reads. I wanted to start this podcast because I wanted someone to weed through the hundreds of fantasy authors and handpick the good ones for me, and then because I’m super lazy, I also wanted someone to spoon feed me short stories so I could sample the author’s style for myself before reading their full-length novels. When I realized no one was going to do that for me, I decided to turn around and do that for everyone else. So if you’re a fantasy reader who’s always on the lookout for new books, worlds, and Series to consume, this podcast is here to make that search a little bit easier.
Every week, you’ll get to hear a new fantasy short story. I’ll also tell you a little bit about the author, but mostly I’ll just dive right into reading the story because that’s what you came for. At the end, I’ll be sure to share how you can find more of their stories if you like what you heard. I hope to keep the episodes between 30 and 60 minutes, but fantasy authors can be long-winded, so don’t hold me to that. In fact, the very first episode will go a little over an hour, but I promise it will be worth it. And speaking of the first episode, keep an eye out for it on June 6th, which is when the podcast will officially launch with three full episodes with stories from three of my very favorite authors.
I will be limiting the stories to clean fantasy because I want to keep the non-explicit rating for the podcast, and because I have four kids and at least two of them are going to want to listen to this. Because clean can be defined in number of ways, I’ll try to give you a simple comparison for how I’m defining it for the podcast. Language will stay in the G range, romance or spice might creep up to the PG range, and violence might get up to PG-13. My goal is to explore all sorts of sub-genres within the larger fantasy genre so we can all experiment together and hopefully find some stories we wouldn’t have normally read otherwise. For now, I’ll be narrating all the stories told from a female perspective, and you can expect to hear my brother, Paeter Fransen, host of the Christian Geek Central Podcast, narrating the stories told from a male perspective.
As I said before, I’m Karyne Norton. I’m a reader like you, but I’m also an author of epic fantasy. My first book won’t be released until later this year, but I promise at some point I’ll be sharing one of my own short stories on the podcast. If you want to make sure you don’t miss an episode, the best thing you can do is to subscribe to the podcast. Depending on what phone you have, you’ll want to open the podcasting app of your choice and search for Finding Fantasy Reads. Then click on “follow” or “subscribe” or whatever button looks like the one that might get you the notifications you’re looking for. You can also head to findingfantasyreads.com and click on the links there or sign up for email updates if that’s more your thing. You’ll also find information there about our monthly giveaways, which is something I am super excited about. It will include books and prizes donated by that month’s featured authors, and I’ve made it as easy as possible for you to enter. If you have any questions, they’re probably answered on findingfantasyreads.com, but there’s also a contact form there so you can reach out to me. Thanks so much for checking out Finding Fantasy Reads. I expect that we’re both about to discover a ton of amazing news stories and authors.
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Your Host: Karyne Norton
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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