Turn the Page Podcast

Michelle Brandon AKA Eliza Knight presents TRADWIFE, a juicy mystery thriller set in an exclusive enclave embracing traditional values and gender roles, a step back in time to an era of female submission and patriarchal leadership.

Sophie Mutiara Nova presents PHONING FAUST, a devilishly Sapphic Gen Z take on Goethe’s tragic play highlighting mental health, queer identity, & unrestricted internet access. Learn more here!

Ashley Bennett returns to discuss the latest LEVIATHAN FITNESS romance, MANTRAS & MINOTAURS! A single mom decides to take life—and love—by the horns as she falls for a hunky minotaur in this steamy monster romance.

Author Stephan and illustrator Cagno talk about A HAPPY IN YOUR HEART DAY, a children's book collaboration leveraged by Stephan's background in education and Cagno's background in art to bring their decade old vision to fruition.

Brie Benson has condemned herself to the hell that is office life, that is until she catches Luke, her uptight (but very attractive) boss exorcizing a demon from her coworker. Mackenzie Reed delivers a fun quippy romantic romp to hell and back in I HOPE THIS EMAIL FINDS YOU IN HELL.

Every family has its story, and this one's deadly. Two sisters. One secret. And a race against time to find the explosive truth. Hank Philippi Ryan returns to share MOTHER DAUGHTER SISTER STRANGER.

Across centuries, Lilith and Sybil are bound by blood and by danger. To save themselves, and each other, they must confront the silence that has stolen women's power for generations—and dare to claim their voices before it's too late. Madeline Martin returns to the show to discuss A TIME OF WITCHES!

Eisner and GLAAD award nominated creators Brandt & Stein's debut graphic novel WORST MAN is White Lotus meets Glass Onion. Welcome to Paradise, prepare for trouble.

Two high school rivals reunite when their favorite drama teacher goes missing. Author Bridget Morrisey joins us to chat about IN WHAT WORLD, a fun and heartfelt sapphic romance which brings Pricilla and Marlow together through exploring alternate universes where their paths went quite differently.

Divorced, Beheaded and Died. Divorced Beheaded, Survived! Everyone knows the tragic fates of Henry Tudor's wives – but what if they all came together in a secret sisterhood to bring him down? Jillian Laine's book HENRY TUDOR MUST DIE, does just that!  

Sarah Adler shares WILD GOOD CHASE!

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Everyone's favorite vampire odd couple is back for another bloody good time in this new supernatural mystery from the authors of Dead & Breakfast– Kat Hillis and Rosiee Thor return to the show to discuss SUMMER COVEN!

Talya Jankovits stopped by to talk about THE VERY UNREMARKABLE LIFE OF MRS. ETTY BLOOM, in which a profoundly flawed Hasidic woman learns that there is beauty in even the most mundane of lives.

A tantalizing pact between an ordinary woman and the silver-tongued son of the Devil is all that stands between Britain—and all hell breaking loose. Megan Frampton presents DEMONS AND DIPLOMACY!

Jeremy Szal stops by to discuss THE COMMON SAGA, a dark military space opera series featuring Vakov Fukasawa, a former bio-soldier caught in an intergalactic war.

We welcome back Christopher Golden to chat about CARRY ME TO YOUR GRAVE, a thrilling horror novel about a man trying to lay his mother to rest while the demons of the past hunt them down. Literally.

Shelly Jay Shore shares the delightful and moving LOVE ME LIKE A ROCK SONG, an LGBTQ+ paranormal romance which follows a jilted singer-songwriter on a road trip who picks up a golem.

MOTHERHEAD is an achingly human book of poetry that dissects the public glorification of motherhood and shines a light on the struggles not often discussed.

Jennifer Michelle Herrera returns to the show to chat about SIREN SAYS, her intricately woven tale about Raven Wynn, a young woman living in NYC who is living with the trauma of her mother's death via her own plant magic. Raven's world is upended when her estranged Aunt Delilah returns to the scene to pull back the curtain on the mysterious past of the Wynn women.

A.P. Thayer shares TAPEWORM, a riveting body horror debut that follows a group of friends confronting aging, identity, and desire during a terrifying infestation in an isolated California desert town named Superstition.

In honor of Comic Con, we have a duo of special interviews with folks in the animation industry! From animation to the writer's room of Supernatural, Meghan Fitzmartin has worked in professional fandom spaces for years! Now she brings us to the heart of fandom in a personal sense with MARY SUE, a graphic novel about Cassie, a young fan fiction writer who finds solace in fandom, and with her OC, who comes to interfere in Cassie's personal life at her High School.

In honor of Comic Con, we have a duo of special interviews with folks in the animation industry! Rob Renzetti (Jessikah and Jenn) Rob Renzetti returns to the show to talk about THE ART OF GRAVITY FALLS, a gorgeous collection of art and interviews that brings fans deeper into the creation of one of the most beloved animated series of all time. Rob shared some behind the scenes anecdotes about his collaboration with Alex Hirsch, and his own hopes for future animators whose lives have been touched by the love that went into the show.

Heather Marshall shares LIBERTY STREET, which tells the story of one journalist's harrowing journey into an infamous real-life 1960s women's prison—and the detective who uncovers her story decades later.

Delilah is dead– and yet the dead speak! Isabelle Spotts joins us to chat about SAINT DELILAH a supernatural suspense thriller about a young woman who must solve her own murder from beyond the grave, lest she become a vengeful spirit herself.

Clay McCleod Chapman returns to Turn the Page to chat about DEVIL INSIDE – his new novel, which is a love story told in a terrifying vein, as only Clay could write it!

A burned-out detective trapped in a cold case finds a curious lead—the severed head of an android who cries for help in the voice of his dead wife. Michael Bettendorf shares MIDWESTERN CHROME, a set of cyber-noir stories set in Nebraska.

Olivie Blake shares DREAMLAND, a tantalizing story of power, seduction, and the omens you’ll ignore when everything you’ve dreamed of feels just within reach.

When Song loses her son River in the Beijing Train Station, she never gives up hope that they will be reuinited. River, a musical prodigy, never doubts that his mother is still out there looking for him. Chen Keller honors us to discuss this very special book that will grab you by your heart from the very first page. Readers will not have to wonder why LITTLE WONDER was picked by Jenna Bush and Oprah as one to read.

Karen E. Bender shares THE WORDS OF DR. L, which collects her gorgeous and thoughtful speculative stories of parents and children, together and apart, surviving near-future dystopias that feel all-too-possible—and realities that can be even stranger.

Cynthia Gomez discusses MUÑECA, a vivid, surreal Gothic about a queer, Latine, working class witch who sets out to rescue a bespelled heiress and loses control of her powers and her heart in the process.

How do musical artists make waves in an algorithm based world? How do we relate to music when it seems that the industry is set on making the product disposible? Rollie Pemberton AKA Cadence Weapon joins us to talk about his new musical memoir, WAYS OF LISTENING: Building a Deeper Relationship with Music in the Streaming Era, which is as much a study of how we engage with art as it is about his own journey.

A ghostwriter in 1965 Scotland plunges into danger as she unravels the dark secrets of a powerful family in a thrilling novel of romance and mystery. Rhys Bowen returns to discuss THE CASTLE IN THE GLEN!

Tilly & Susan Bridges stopped by to chat about JUST ANOTHER SUMMER, a beautiful and joyful graphic novel about two teen celebrities who find connection to themselves and others after being sent to a farm when a scandal threatens their careers.

A dangerous spell gone wrong forces the passionate professor of incantations to share tight quarters with her magical college's leading—and most brooding—alchemist. Kaye chats with Leslie René about MAGGIE AND ARTHUR'S MAGIC MOMENT!

Ann Ward has just graduated college and is ready to work! Unfortuately, she is the class of 2009 – and the economy is in the tank. With an eviction on the horizon and her televangelist father looking to hook her back into his flock, Ann stumbles into a yoga studio, complete with crystal healing sessions, that may be a cult.  

Comics creator amd filmmaker Patrick Horvath dropped by to discuss BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES and its sequel RITE OF SPRING, graphic novels breathtaking and hair-raising in equal measure that follow a serial killer in a small Vermont town in the 1980s and 1990s.

Philippa Perry presents SHRINK SOLVES MURDER, a mystery that blurs the boundaries between cozy and disquieting, following Patricia Phillips, a 62-year-old psychotherapist who investigates the suspicious death of her 3:00 PM client.

Morgan brings us a (modernish) moody folk horror about an artist in self exile, an island locked in time by the church that controls it, and a series of murders that might or might not be connected to demonic forces.

Lucy Ashe returns to the show to discuss THE MODEL PATIENT, a taut psychological exploration of obsession, betrayal and the dangerous relationship between a patient and therapist in 1960s London. 

Natalie Moss brings us deep into the bush of a South African Safari and even deeper into a maze of family secrets. THE NIGHT HUNTER is a fast paced psychological thriller about two sisters who must navigate their friends through the wild life preserve that had once been their backyard, all while mourning their enigmatic mother who has left them her life secrets in death.

What if time travel was as easy as a train ride to another state? Jessica M. Goldstein asks just this in RETRO, a fun and thought provoking novel about an out of work actress named Ash who gets a job as a travel agent for a time travel vacation company.

Kathy Anderson shares VAMOOSE, a collection of fast-paced short stories celebrating queer women who take center stage as the stars of their own lives.

Eberle delivers a fun read in IF BOOKS COULD KILL, a book about Roxie, a Rom Com reader who wants nothing more than to be a protagonist in her favorite author's next book. And she gets her wish! But it isn't exactly what she'd expected.

Nina Chayka discusses her gorgeous and thoughtful collection SEAGULLS, a stellar debut weaving a tale of survival through the interconnected stories of those affected by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Emma Mills spills the beans on her juicy adult mystery debut RACHEL WEST AND THE FALLEN STARLET, which follows a gossip rag copyeditor as she tries to solve the murder of a former child star turned tabloid favorite.

Seth Voorhees joins us to talk about how his career and his home in the Black Hills of South Dakota has shaped him as a writer of dark fiction. He also clears up any rumors of relation to an iconic horror figure with the same last name (no real relation).

A twisty tale of a 1960's housewife whose talent for photography is both a blessing and a curse, when her past trauma comes back to haunt her in the background of her beloved photographs.

Playing in the sandbox of old literary characters, author Arvind Ethan David brings back mystery the solving duo of Bunny and Raffles – reimagined in a way that flips the script on the Holmesean mystery challenging the colonialism that exists in the orginal texts. Serious themes aside, THE GREAT GAME is a blast to read.

Jared Sarnie shares the debut graphic novel THE MACHINE IS BROKEN, which is available for pre-order here! Content note for mental health topics.

Katherine sat down with USA Today Bestselling author Rebecca Thorne to talk about the brand new cozy sci-fi romance series and its first entry, MOSS'D IN SPACE.