Turn the Page Podcast

Just in time for Spooky Season! We got a chance to catch up with Jaimie and Jay from THE WICKED MAKERS, a cool DIY YouTube channel which brings amazing video game and animation animatronics to life using trial and error. J&J told us all about their origins and gave some encouragement to aspiring makers as to where to get started on making their own things.

Jack Jewers joined us from across the pond to chat about his historical fiction mystery, SEETHING LANE – all the while educating Jessikah about Samuel Pepys, a well known figure in English Stuart history who serves as the protagonist of Jewers’ books.

Author, translator, and Long Island native Lawrence Schimel stopped by the show to talk about his fascinating career and translating the french graphic novel THE ADVENTURES OF ODYSSEUS: A GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE ODYSSEY.

An elite, isolated Kenyan boarding school is terrorized by supernatural entities, grotesque maladies, and strange transformations in a chilling YA horror debut. Peace Mbengei presents WE RUN THE NIGHT!

Seth Fleisher discusses THE FARTHER SHORE, a sweeping novel about fathers and sons, memory and race, and the dangerous fictions that shape us—inspired by the true story of Eugene Marais, one of history’s most extraordinary and forgotten minds.

Meredith, a social worker and single mom, is stretched beyond thin but determined to protect her kids: not only her son, but those on her caseload too. When the stress of the job has her breaking her sobriety, the foundations of her life begin to tremble. Rachel León shares the riveting and beautiful HOW WE SEE THE GRAY.

Sharon Linnea, author of THE BARTENDER’S GUIDE TO MURDER series, joins us to chat about LESS THE HORROR THAN THE GRACE, her husband’s book, which she brought to light posthumously. Sharon talks to us about how folk-horror shines a light on the nastier parts of humanity as well as the cyclical nature of history and how mythology weaves its way through society when the old gods still have stories to...

A rising Hollywood star explores the road not taken with her first love in this tender second-chance romance. Becca Freeman shares BACK WHERE WE STARTED.

Robinette joins us to chat about THEIR VILE HEARTS, a character driven contemporary romantasy title which blends forbidden romance with fresh fae lore and unforgetable protagonists. And the villains? Well you’ll just have to read to find out.

Ava Glass joins us to chat about how her unique background led her to become the “Queen of UK Spy Fiction”, and how THE HIDING SEASON shows a very different side of spying through the eyes of Maya Landry, a woman whose life is already on the outs before she finds the dead body of someone very important at her job in a ski resort for billionaires.

Taylor Grothe shares LETHAL KISS, a sapphic horror/romance about rage, revenge, and belonging in the cut-throat world of academia. Survival, love, and TENURE are all on the line!

Blair Fell returns to the show to discuss THE TWO WILLS, a gorgeous queer historical romance inspired by Oscar Wilde’s literary theories regarding William Shakespeare’s sonnets. You can listen to a sample of the audiobook here !

When her adopted son disappears into the forests of Southern India, Usha defies her husband, leaves the life she was given, and goes to find him — alone. Chital Mehta shares the beautiful and moving HAVE YOU SEEN ROMIT?

Katie Rizzo shares THE TRIMESTERS OF GRIEF, a hybrid memoir and self-help guide that compares the physical and emotional experience of losing a child to opioid addiction with the stages of pregnancy.

Comics creator Matthew Dow Smith stopped by to share two beautiful series with new entries this year: the middle grade fantastical adventure AMELIA SHADOWS, and for young adults, the third volume of THE OCTOBER GIRL.

The only people who know are the people who have gone. Those people no longer have throats to tell us. Mathilda Zeller shares her propulsive Indigenous horror debut, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU IN THE DARK, which blends Alaskan Native folklore and supernatural thrills.

During the winter of 1950 in the small Cotswold village of Great Rollright, amateur sleuth Gemma Brown starts to suspect that the town’s best baker, Ursula Beurton, is a Soviet spy, tumbling her headlong into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse that ends with a decision that will lead her to THE UNDERCOVER BOOKSHOP and change her life forever. Katherine Reay returns to share her newest book!

Katie Jung brings us a perfectly sweet rom-com with a ghostly twist in YOU’RE THE ONE THAT I HAUNT.

The wolf Blacktail is faithful to his Forest God, but in these times, faith is not enough. His world is besieged by men. When his mate, a house dog, is killed, Blacktail rebels. Scott Hawkins discusses his phenomenal new novel BLACKTAIL.

As if Mackenzie Atwood’s wish to never see him again came true, Will Ashford is dead—and she plans on taking the reason she wanted him gone to her own grave. Local Syosset grad Kaitlin Reilly presents LOOK WHAT YOU DID.

For Penny Darling, love is best enjoyed between the pages of a book. After a very public failed engagement, she’d rather cozy up by the fire with a book boyfriend than a real one any day. Then Jake, her high school best friend, now a struggling author with inked forearms and wicked green eyes, returns. And he needs her help. Brittanée Nicole presents THE BONFIRE AND BLISS BOOKSTORE!

After fearing it all her life, a young woman embraces her ability to see ghosts after a murder occurs that appears dangerously linked to her past. Madison Tyler Nelson shares PORTRAIT OF A HAUNTING.

Pick a face, pick a fate. Nghi Vo returns to the show to discuss THE SCARLET BALL, an all-consuming tale of ballrooms and bloodshed set in the upper echelons of an evocative NYC fantasy setting.

The legendary Joanne Harris stopped by to talk about SLEEPERS IN THE SNOW, a hauntingly beautiful story about love, loss, and memory in which a newly divorced man moves into a house on the North York moors and comes face to face with the house’s past occupants through the diaries they left behind.

Jennifer Thorne joins us to chat about NEWBOURNE PARK, a book that leans heavily on horror tropes, but takes us on a joyride when Martha, a young 26 year old grieving her mother makes a poor choice that literally bites her back in ways she will have to adjust to – depending on the moon phase.