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Meet Gail Shalan, an award winning narrator, actor, writer, and puppeteer who will be narrating Katie Jung’s debut novel You’re The One That I Haunt at our October event!

Gail has narrated over 300 audiobooks including works penned by Ava Reid, Joyce Carol Oates, Ashley Herring Blake, Lisa Taddeo, Sarah J. Maas, Megan E. Freeman, Lena Dunham, Sarah Ruhl, Beth Kander, and Gloria Steinem.

She’s passionate about stories that help us interface with and grow our respect for the natural world beyond humanity, as well as stories that center on generational healing, human psychology, and mental health, that navigate the sticky spaces between childhood and adulthood, and stories that ask who am “I”? And who are “we”?

RSVP to our October event to witness Gail’s talents brought to Jung’s exciting new romance novel!

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Currently Reading &
Bookish Challenge ✨

The loveliest of Besties @Sarahboo15📚🌵⚾️🩵 sent me this one and I always think it’s fun to see what everyone has been reading, so here are mine!

•Just Finished•

I’m continuing my fun with
these magical sisters and
having a Wicked good time!

Book: Just A Little Wicked
Author: Lindsey Lovise
Series: Wicked Sisters, 2
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Format: 📱
Pages: 377
Pub: Lovise Books

•Now Starting•
Im doing my FIRST EVER
Morning Book Club
Buddy Read and oh my
gosh it’s the paranormal
book of my dreams so far!
My Best Friends Wedding
meets Just Like Heaven and
maybe even a touch
of Ghost!!! Sooo many of
my absolute favorite movies
all in one story! Yay! I’m so
so glad
@katesreadingpace
brought this book to my
attention and invited me
along on this journey! AND
I’m so glad to be reading
this with another of my
loveliest besties
@teathymeandtbrs !!!!

Book:
You’re The One That I Haunt
Author: @katiejungwrites
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Format: 🎧
Audio Length: 11hrs 1min
Narrator: Gail Shalan
@grshalan
Pub: @penguinaudio

Have you read either of these books and/or authors?!
What did you think?!?!
Let’s book chat!

Happy Reading!

I would love to see any of yours! Tag, Comment, Share Me so I can see!!

#bookishlife #challenge #currentreads #fallreads #paranormalromance

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🪱 💀 Review: Decomposition Book 💀🪱
By Sara Van Os

The RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The RECAP: Savannah, recovering from a terrible falling out with her best friend, retreats to her parents’ cabin upstate, where she stumbles upon a dead body on a walk in the forest. She reads the journal she finds alongside the body, and suddenly, the deceased seems very much alive…

The REVIEW: The more I read of this subgenre, the more I love weird girl horror! The slightly (ok, very) unhinged internal monologue of the main character plus the dark humor laced throughout was so entertaining. This story was excellent on audio - I couldn’t stop listening to the dual narration from @jessnahikian and @grshalan. The alternating POVs of the journal and Savannah’s voice made for perfect pacing. As a science nerd, the structure of the story aligning with the phases of decomposition was such a smart move. I loved how the two timelines started unraveling and then intertwined by the end!

The RECOMMENDATION: Calling all weird girl lit and horror fans — check this debut out stat!

I loved reading and discussing this one with @bookshelf_by_britt, buddy reading partner for life! And this was the September @thegrimbookclub pick, and it was such a fantastic discussion (hosted by Carissa of @the.grim.readers).

❓It’s Friday Eve! What are you looking forward to this weekend?

#decompositionbook

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Thank you so much @prhaudio and @berkleypub for the free ALC/ARC! ✨️🙌🏼

TOMORROW’S THE DAY! 🔪🖤

Now THIS was some WEIRD female rage lit, and honestly? GOOD FOR HER. 🤣👏🏼

A little peek into the horrors women have to deal with and maybeeee what we’d LIKE to do about it. 💀😂 Because sometimes being the bigger person is overrated, ok?!

And the AUDIOBOOK?! OH. MY. GOD.

@grshalan REALLY brought that female rage to the front of the class! The anger, the frustration, the absolute breaking point of it all?! YOU FELT IT IN YOUR BONES. The narration made that rage hit SO much harder.

The rage? The revenge? The absolute WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?! energy? 😂🖤 This was such a wild take on what happens when a woman finally stops keeping her fire tucked away to make everyone else comfortable.

They called her a nightmare, so she became one. And honestly? LET HER COOK. 🔥🔪

Haven Powers has spent years hiding the fiery, troublemaking girl she used to be. But after a disturbing encounter with her predatory boss leads to a nightmare that comes true, Haven returns to her hometown in Texas, where old wounds and suffocating expectations are waiting. This time, she’s done playing nice, and the people who made her feel like a nightmare might just find out what that really means. 👀

Out tomorrow so if you love your female rage with a side of weird, dark, and a little unhinged, this one needs to be on your radar! ✨️

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Thanks to @prhaudio for the gifted audio and to @berkleypub for the gifted e-ARC through @netgalley!

📗 ARC Review— What a Nightmare by Rebekah Faubion, read by Gail Shalan

✨ Star rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ out of 5

⏰ Pub Date: October 13, 2026

📚 Read this book if you like: southern gothic, queer stories, revenge, generational trauma, abuse, violence, dreams that become reality, “good for her” horror, small town secrets

🌶️Spice: none

➡️ Swipe for synopsis

📖/🎧 Review: Haven Powers fled her overbearing and controlling family nine years ago. Since then she’s been on the move, hiding in a series of cities, working dead-end jobs. But now they’ve found her and are demanding she come home to say goodbye to her dying father. So Haven finds herself back in Friendship, Texas, the picture perfect small town, run by the Powers family. As her parents and brothers try to squeeze her back into her role as dutiful daughter, the trauma that Haven has blocked from her memories begins to reappear. And as she faces her past, her anger and pain morph into something dangerous. Her nightmares are about to become reality and wreak havoc on everyone who has hurt her.

This is a dark story. It’s full of violence. It makes you question who the real monsters are—Haven or those that drove her to violence. The setting, a shiny, picture-perfect town that centers church and family while perpetrating evil against the innocent, really captured my imagination. Having grown up in religious circles, I felt that juxtaposition. Haven is a main character you root for, and her wrongs feel justified. The fantastical horror elements lend a creepy vibe to the book as well. I think this book is perfect for spooky season!

The book is single POV, and the single audio narrator did a great job with the different characters’ voices and accents. Sound quality was excellent even at 2x.

Rebekah Faubion • What a Nightmare • Berkley Publishing • Audiobook Review • Penguin Random House Audio • Southern Gothic • Horror • ALC • Bookstagram

📍 Challenge Prompts Met: #fallintoarcs a book on my ARC shelf

🤔 QOTD: How was your weekend?

🏷 #reading180in2026 📚 (227/275)
#PRHAudioPartner

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September & October
Friends, pups, carbs 💕

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A quick reminder that the Dragonships series is also fun to listen to with the whole family on a car ride! Sharing the link to Void Dragons audiobook in my stories. Joshua Quinn does a brilliant job in this one capturing Lunar. Truly phenomenal work. Gail Shalan is once again perfect in her Proctor chapters. And if you’d like goosebumps up and down both arms, check out Raphael Corkhill’s reading of that prologue. He took it to a level beyond what I imagined. Thanks to the team at Simon Audio for making it happen ♥️

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Thank you, Barbara Landry! A big shout out to @grshalan @thetruthsohelpmegood @sourcebooks.audio @sourcebooks @arielkcurry

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Recording the audiobook for TELL ME ABOUT JOY was a team effort.

My publisher, Sourcebooks, has the process down to a science. Their crew arranged for Iva Nasr and me to record at Earshot Audiopost in downtown Indianapolis, and the award-winning actor Gail Shalan recorded the majority of my memoir at a studio in NYC.

The process was super fun — especially since Gail did the heavy lifting!

Green apples were definitely needed to cleanse the palate and reduce the smack!

p.s. The TELL ME ABOUT JOY audiobook also comes with a special bonus: my chicken veggie soup recipe!

#audiobook #tellmeaboutjoy #memoir

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‼️CLOSED‼️ Spotify listeners, I’m giving away TEN (10!) codes for a free audiobook download of THE SURVIVORS GUILD! 🥳

THE SURVIVORS GUILD is about an American heiress and a Lebanese immigrant who survive the Titanic shipwreck together and form a charitable committee to help survivors and find the next-of-kin for a baby boy who is entrusted to their care following the tragedy. The narration from Saskia Maarleveld and Gail Shalan is not to be missed and has gotten rave reviews from listeners 🎧

TO ENTER:
✨You MUST have a Spotify account
✨Follow @gabriellasaab_
✨Tell me an audiobook and/or a narrator you loved recently and tag a friend! One friend per comment, as many comments as you want (you don’t have to include a recommendation each time, but I won’t be mad if you do!)

BONUS ENTRIES:
✨Follow my amazing narrators @saskiaaudio and @grshalan and let me know!
✨Repost or share to your stories
✨Sign up for my newsletter and let me know (link in bio)

Ends Friday 10/9, winner drawn shortly after.

That’s it! US only, 18+, not affiliated with Instagram. Good luck! 🚢🗽

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Q3 with beautiful friends and my close personal friend Hilary Duff ♥️♥️
Also I play competitive shuffleboarding now

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🎧 Favorite Audiobooks September 2026 🎧

The audiobooks I’ve been loving this month;
💜 Tempest by @victoriaaveyard narrated by @fionaspeaks and @shaneeastreads
A @harperaudio production

💜 Problematic Summer Romance by @alihazelwood narrated by @ericanthonynolan and Elizabeth Lamont
A @penguinaudio production

💜 The Sweetest Fiend by @ravenkennedybooks narrated by @isabellereadsromance and @seanmastersaudio
A @harperaudio production

💜 Winterveil by @avasreid narrated by @curtisvova @evakaminskyaudiobooks @grshalan and @thisemmalove
A @harperaudio production

#audiobookrecs #audiobookrecommendations #bestaudiobooks #bookcommunity #audiobookstagram

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