Turn The Page – Episode 150B – Samantha Downing


Samantha Downing’s newest thriller For Your Own Good takes us to a high school where the education takes a backseat to petty rivalries. And that’s not even the teenagers at work. Downing’s protagonist Teddy is a very creepy teacher — and not in the way you are thinking.

Turn The Page – Episode 150C – Charlie Gilmour


Charlie Gilmour shares his heartfelt memoir Featherhood, which explores how adopting an orphaned Magpie helped Charlie process the loss of his own father who walked out on him when he was still an infant. With some heart felt chatter and some musing about The Giving Tree, Evelyn and Jessikah had the privilege of connecting with Charlie from his home across the pond.

Turn The Page – Episode 149B – Grady Hendrix

After the police arrive. After the ambulance has long gone. What happens to a Final Girl when she is no longer a GIRL? Grady Hendrix, author of several horror novels joins Turn the Page once more to discuss The Final Girl Support Group — a novel that follows these “girls” when they have grown up and the past has seemingly come back to finish what it had started.

Turn The Page – Episode 149A – Don Saladino

Don Saladino grew up right here on Long Island and has moved mountains with his career as a personal trainer to the superheroes. Of course, by this we mean that Don has worked with actors such as Sebastian Stan, Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, and so many others to prepare them for film in popular film franchises such as Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Saladino spoke to us about everyday heroes and his very relatable attitude towards fitness and nutrition.

Turn The Page – Episode 148A – Fan Girl Jeanne (Middle Class Horror) Part 2

In part two of the Middle Class Horror Series, Fan Girl Jeanne discusses safe spaces as a construct within the mythos of the suburbs and how 1950’s archetypes of suburbia are parasitic upon the urban spaces they are designed to keep out. Some movies discussed are The Duel, The People Under the Stairs, and The Girl with All the Gifts.

Turn The Page – Episode 148B – Sara Flannery Murphy

Set in an alternate timeline, Girl One speculates that would have happened if in the mid 1970’s, 9 women participated in an experiment to reproduce through parthenogenesis resulting in 9 baby girls who have grown up with this legacy. Sara Flannery Murphy talks to us about this carefully crafted novel which mixes suspense and light SciFi.

Turn The Page – Episode 148C – T.J. Newman

Author T.J. Newman worked in the aviation industry as a flight attended until she published Falling, one of the hottest thrillers of this summer. Newman got to talk to us about the familial dynamics of a flight crew, popular action films such as Speed, and how we all hope her former ambition to work on Broadway comes full circle for “Falling! The Musical”. We’re just kidding. Well, MAYBE we are.

Turn The Page – Episode 147B – Jessica Chiarella

Jessica Chiarella author of “Lost Girls” joined us to talk about how her thriller utilizes the current boom in True Crime podcasts and the emotional impact of missing persons within the family of the victim. Faces on the Milk Carton did come up in conversation as did the appeal of characters who make very questionable choices.

Turn The Page – Episode 147A – A. Natasha Joukovsky’s

A modern classic set at the end of the Obama era, A. Natasha Joukovsky’s Portrait of a Mirror crosses two couples from the 1% in a comedy of errors. Joukovsky spoke to Turn the Page about the inspiration behind Wes, Diana, Vivien and Dale — and importantly Julian whose wit radiates throughout the narrative. We also got to discuss mythology, art, and the recursive qualities of everything!

Turn The Page – Episode 147C – Karen Dionne

Karen Dionne, author of The Marsh King’s Daughter and The Wicked Sister joined us once more to discuss the paperback release of her last book, the film adaptation of The Marsh King’s Daughter and to drop a few breadcrumbs about her upcoming novel!