Turn The Page – Episode 414F – Sophie Chen Keller

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 414D – Cynthia Gomez

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 414C – Rollie Pemberton

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 413F – Sarah Flocken

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.

 

Turn The Page – Episode 413C – Shannon Morgan

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 413A – Natalie Moss

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 412F – Jessica M. Goldstein

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 412D – Kate Eberle

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.

Turn The Page – Episode 412A – Seth Voorhees

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).

Turn The Page – Episode 411E – Laura Sims

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.