Turn The Page – Episode 268B – Max Brooks

Jessikah and Jenn were psyched to chat with the one and only Max Brooks!! Max stopped by to talk about his Minecraft trilogy, the first original novels in the Minecraft world, and its third volume that is out this week: THE VILLAGE.

Turn The Page – Episode 268D – Ashley Winstead

Ashley Winstead is back with a bonkers book that will keep the pages turning. Ashley chats with Jessikah about MIDNIGHT IS THE DARKEST HOUR, a heady thriller set against the swamps of Louisiana, that brings out the demons for Ruth and Ever, two childhood best friends with a dark secret.

Turn The Page – Episode 267C – Rob Renzetti

Jessikah and Jenn got to sit down with a children’s media icon– Rob Renzetti! His new middle-grade book, THE HORRIBLE BAG OF TERRIBLE THINGS is his first original novel– and the first in a trilogy! Learn more by listening in.

Turn The Page – Episode 266C – Shigeru Kayama

Jessikah and Jenn sat down with Jeffrey Angles, a scholar and translator of Japanese literature who is now publishing the first English translations of Godzilla and Godzilla Raids by Shigeru Kayama.

Turn The Page – Episode 266D – Jesse Q. Sutanto

Jesse Q. Sutanto stopped by to chat about her time in Oxford, toxic friendships, and how a silly tiff with her husband inspired I’M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET, a delicious psychological thriller centering around three young women and a toxic friendship from years past.

Turn The Page – Episode 265B – Lucy Clarke

Lucy Clarke chats about writing the dynamics of female friendships and putting them under pressure when in a brand new environment. The Hike is deftly escalating thriller that pits Liz and her friends against a murderer while hiking the mountains of Norway.

Turn The Page – Episode 264C – Rachel Harrison


Rachel Harrison brings us another fresh twist on horror with BLACK SHEEP, a book about Vesper, a young woman who left her religious home behind and the dark secret that has come to drag her back. It’s not what you think it is.

Turn The Page – Episode 263B – Raquel Vasquez Gilliland

WITCH OF WILD THINGS is a beautiful and melancholy story about magic, family, friendship, and romantic love. Author Raquel Vasquez Gilliland stopped by to talk about plant magic, anthropology, and second chances.

Turn The Page – Episode 263A – James Frankie Thomas

Jessikah and Jenn talked to James Frankie Thomas about IDLEWILD: a queer, trans, and early-Internet/post-9/11 twist on the Manhattan prep school novel about the complicated nature of intense teen friendships.

Turn The Page – Episode 263D – Shari Lapena

Bestselling author Shari Lapena chats about her sharp, exciting writing style as we discuss EVERYONE HERE IS LYING, an edge of your seat thriller about a missing little girl and the secrets of several families including her own.