Turn The Page – Episode 426F – The Wicked Makers

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 426E – Jack Jewers

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 426D – Lawrence Schimel

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 426C – Peace Mbengei

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!

Turn The Page – Episode 426B – Seth Fleisher

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 426A – Rachel León

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 425F – Sharon Linnea

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 write.

Turn The Page – Episode 425D – Melody Robinette

Robinette joins us to chat about THESE 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.

Turn The Page – Episode 425C – Ava Glass

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.