Welcome, welcome, welcome to the Fantasy Fan Reeds podcast. We are thrilled to announce the newest

bookish podcast under the Fantasy Fan Girls Media Network. What you're about to hear is the first

little bit of this brand new podcast, Fantasy Fan Reads, which is hosted by the delightful Jess

of Lost Books of Jess. Each episode is all about celebrating the joys of reading through cozy coffee conversations,

author interviews, and so much more.

These first few episodes of Fantasy Fan Reads will be having little snippets posted on the Fantasy

Fan Girls feed, where you're listening to our beautiful voices right now.

If you want to listen to the full episode, you can do so over

on the Fantasy Fan Reads podcast feed. Link is in the show notes. Be sure to follow the Fantasy

Fan Read podcast feed. And hey, it's on YouTube too. New episodes drop every single Tuesday.

Give the podcast to follow on Instagram at Fantasy Fan Reads. So without further ado, and with all of your follow buttons hit, we hope you enjoy

this snippet of Fantasy Fan Reeds.

Hey there, how are you?

Welcome to the Fantasy Fan Reads podcast, where we gather as friends to chat about our shared love of all things reading.

I'm Jess, an avid lifelong reader and lover of cozy conversations.

So go ahead, grab yourself a cup of something wonderful, and come on in.

Today's episode is a super exciting one for me because I'm joined by Gretchen

Powell Fox, author of the Shattered Crown trilogy, including Smoke and Scar, Splintered Kingdom,

and the upcoming conclusion to the trilogy, Shadow and Sun, as well as the terrestrial duology.

How the heck are you doing today, Gretchen? I am amazing and all the better because I'm getting to chat

with you. Yay. I'm so excited. Gretchen, this is such a dream the better because I'm getting to chat with you.

Yay. I'm so excited. Gretchen, this is such a dream come true for me because, I mean, I know you know this, but you were my first arc or advanced reader copy that I'd ever read in my journey, like, on bookish social media. So like, smoke and scar will always have like a spot in my heart, I swear. Oh my gosh, it means so much to me.

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