Turn the Page Podcast

Lukasz Majcher, Soizick Jaffre, & Marco Kl. Nijenhuis dropped by to discuss SILENCE: DREAM/NIGHTMARE, the latest entry in a gorgeous queer comics anthology series that demonstrates the power and range of “silent” comics without text. Support their latest Kickstarter here!

Allison Pataki stopped by to share IT GIRL, a sweeping, sensational novel of America’s first “It Girl,” Evelyn Talbot, whose dramatic journey to center stage echoes through the decades.

Samantha Mills presents RABBIT TEST AND OTHER STORIES, a gorgeous and subversive collection of speculative stories that probe the borders of genre, society, and time.

Maria Dong shares AVIARY, a genre-bending speculative suspense novel about an undocumented woman in Seoul, Hee-Jin, who assumes her dead sister’s identity to escape to America, only to find herself trapped in a sinister art mentorship program with dark secrets rooted in Korean folklore.

After a decades-long stint in prison, former serial killer Carol is looking to kick back and relax in her new retirement home…until a fellow resident drops dead and Carol has to prove she actually didn’t do it this time….Fergus Craig shares I’M NOT THE ONLY MURDERER IN MY RETIREMENT HOME.

Michelle Maryk stopped by to chat about THE FOUND OBJECT SOCIETY, which explores a mysterious society offering its members the chance to relive the death of another person—and the self-destructive woman determined to uncover its secrets.

Sonora Taylor & Matthew Pritt share volume 7 of SPLIT SCREAM, the acclaimed New Weird Horror series of paired novelettes from Tenebrous Press, and their contributions, “Passing Glance,” and “Lash Egg.”

Nick Horrell shares his fascinating and moving documentary, FRANK WHITTLE: GENIUS IN THE FAMILY, which explores the life and career of the English engineer, inventor and RAF officer whose work on the turbojet engine changed the course of WW2.

Tamika Thompson brings us a story of a haunting that exists as much in the structure of the society where the characters live, as much as it is a literal haunting in a public housing community. THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS introduces us to Nona who so desperately wants to get her sons out of the public housing neighborhood that has kept them locked into a cycle of trauma and gun violence.

Della Leavitt chats about VIVIAN’S DECISION, an evocative work of historical fiction and all too relevant story of repeated history, female friendship, and the strength that it takes to make choices of one’s own.

Maria J. Morillo shares THE EX-PERIMENTO, a scintillating rom-com in which a woman enlists the help of her favorite musician to win her ex-boyfriend back.

Kelly Yang, best known for her middle grade fiction, explores the intersection of race, power, classism and female relationships in THE TAKE.

Emmanuel Laroche stopped by to talk about A TASTE OF MADAGASCAR: CULINARY RICHES OF THE RED ISLAND, which takes you on a rare sensory journey of the island’s flavors from the world-renowned vanilla beans to the endemic voatsiperifery wild pepper, and more.

Ruth McKell talks about the healing power of bees, nature, and kittens, as told in HONEY IN HER VEINS, a beautiful fantasy with dark edges that introduces us to Arthur and Eva, two former lovers who grapple with the ghosts of their pasts in more ways than one.

Justin Feinstein shares YOUR BEHAVIOR WILL BE MONITORED: a compulsively readable science fiction novel wrestling with vital questions of our time: sentience, purpose, life, death…and how to make a really good commercial. It’s an all too plausible near future in which emotionally intelligent AI go up against emotionally stunted humans.

Two rival authors are forced to confront a decade of love and heartbreak on the campus where it all started. Kara McDowell shares her scintillating romance debut, THE WRITE OFF!

John Chu shares THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE, the exhilarating debut science fiction novel about keeping the universe– and your family– together when it’s falling apart, channeling unhinged physics, generational trauma, and the comfort of really good dim sum.

Nicole Goux & Dave Baker drop by to discuss their delightful comic collaboration PUNK’N HEADS, a raucous and revealing new graphic novel about making music, making mistakes, facing your past, and choosing your future.