JAMES HOUSTON TURNER WINS “BEST SCREENPLAY” AWARDS AT THE CONTENT2023 FILM FESTIVAL

Best known for his Aleksandr Talanov thriller novels, screenwriter and producer JAMES HOUSTON TURNER scooped a pair of “Best Screenplay” awards for his scripts – Square Pegs and Hell Creek – at the Content2023 Film Festival and Media Summit, near Ft. Worth, Texas. Turner arrived on the red carpet with his wife, Wendy, then attended a banquet prepared by Capernaum Studios, where two seasons of the hit television series, The Chosen, were filmed. Square Pegs, Turner’s first movie as a producer, was filmed near Savannah, Georgia in 2022, and was released in August, 2024. It concerns a rudderless pastor and [...]

2025-01-06T14:54:06+00:00October 4, 2023|
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SPY NOVELIST NOMINATED FOR THREE “BEST SCREENPLAY” AWARDS

LOS ANGELES - August 1, 2023 - Fiction author JAMES HOUSTON TURNER is best known for his Aleksandr Talanov series of novels about a former KGB colonel who became a spy for America. But that may soon be changing with three "Best Screenplay" nominations for scripts he wrote and submitted to the Content Film Festival and Media Summit, which will hold its prestigious 2023 awards ceremony at Capernaum Studios, in Texas. To read the entire Digital Journal article, click HERE. Other news sources include EntSun News, Georgia Chron, Cuisine Wire, Boston Chron, and sites as diverse as Bloomington Livestock, Doon [...]

2023-07-29T08:37:53+00:00July 29, 2023|
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JAMES FEATURED IN VOYAGE AUSTIN MAGAZINE

JAMES WAS FEATURED in the April edition of Voyage Austin magazine, where he talks about Talanov and his latest feature film projects. The entire article, with photos, can be viewed HERE.

2023-04-07T13:15:30+00:00April 7, 2023|
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JAMES HOUSTON TURNER PRODUCING HIS FIRST FEATURE FILM

AUSTIN, Texas: Bestselling author, James Houston Turner, known for his Aleksandr Talanov series of spy thrillers, has written and will help produce Square Pegs, a feature film family drama about a court battle between a pastor and his bartender daughter. Being the proverbial "square peg in a round hole" is a theme James Houston Turner explores in Square Pegs, a film script he's written that breaks stride with the spy novels he normally writes. The movie will begin filming in Georgia in early 2022. The story centers on a court battle between pastor Mac McCoy and his bartender daughter, Jodie. Their bone of [...]

2022-01-12T10:49:40+00:00January 12, 2022|
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DRAGON HEAD enrages Secretary of the Exterior

Leaked emails reveal an embarrassed and angry U.S. Secretary of the Exterior, Jasmine Minnette-Rice, railing against bestselling novelist, James Houston Turner, and his fictional spy hero, Aleksandr Talanov. "Aleksandr Talanov makes us look bad!" a boiling Minnette-Rice was overheard yelling. "Why the hell do you think my office, the Secretary of the Exterior, exists? To make us look good! And Talanov makes us look bad. How the hell can we look good if Turner exposes what things are really like in this town?" Undisclosed sources say the secretary was angered further by an anonymous photo of Turner’s book cover, which [...]

2025-01-06T14:47:30+00:00March 22, 2017|
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NOVEMBER ECHO HITS #1 BESTSELLER LIST

Days after its release, James Houston Turner's acclaimed novel, November Echo, soared to the #1 spot on Amazon's espionage thriller list. Turner says he wrote the book in response to requests from readers for more background stories on his signature hero, the intrepid KGB colonel, Aleksandr Talanov, who became a deep-cover spy for America during the Cold War. Says Turner, "What started out as a 7500 word short story quickly grew into a full-fledged novel as characters came to life in ways I hadn't expected. I love it when this happens but maintaining control is like trying to contain a wildfire. It's a [...]

2013-11-11T18:59:25+00:00November 11, 2013|
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