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Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—September 9, 2026
Tune in LIVE at 7pm ET tonight for this week’s episode!
Join us Wednesday, September 9th LIVE at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as the full F&F family gathers to celebrate this month’s F&F Featured Author, our very own Kristy Woodson Harvey, to discuss our September 2026 Pick of the Month, Falling for Peachtree Bluff, the fifth installment in Kristy’s fan-favorite series that reunites the Murphy crew just in time for pumpkin spice season.
Kristy is the New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of fourteen novels, including Summer State of Mind, Beach House Rules, A Happier Life, and The Wedding Veil. Many of her novels are in various stages of option or development for film and television. Around here she is most adored for her role as one of F&F’s co-founders and co-hosts. Readers have flocked to Kristy’s beloved Peachtree Bluff series for a reason: it’s a cozy coastal town where family secrets refuse to be washed away by the tide and close-knit community is everything. We agree with Susan Mallery who says, “Peachtree Bluff is my happy place!” Go there with us on our next LIVE show right after Labor Day as we welcome Fall the best way we know how—with a brand-new book perfect for the season and all the fun, laughs, and warm-hearted insights you’ve come to expect from our live launch episodes!
Watch the LIVE video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 9/9 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 9/11.
Meanwhile, order Kristy’s new book — along with all our guests’ and hosts’ books — at a discount in our F&F Shop on Bookshop.org where your purchases support our show and indie bookstores nationwide!
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Latest News from the Fab Four!
KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is so thrilled to be celebrating the release of FALLING FOR PEACHTREE BLUFF on September 15—and early with all of you tonight! Hooray! Don’t forget to visit her on tour. She will be in Chapel Hill, NC on September 11, Salisbury, NC on September 13, Mount Pleasant, NC on September 14, and in Greenville, SC & Atlanta, GA on launch day, September 15. The tour goes on all the way through November, so check out all her tour dates here! She is so grateful to all of you who have already pre-ordered the book and has loved seeing your pre-order freebies posted online. She can’t wait to hear what you think about the next installment of the Peachtree Bluff series!
PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY is so thrilled to celebrate Kristy’s launch this week for Falling for Peachtree Bluff. Last night she was in Nashville for Ariel Lawhon’s launch of The Pirate Queen and she can’t think of a more perfect week for books. She had a quiet Labor Day weekend at home reading and writing. She wrote a new Substack about a fundraiser where she talked about exactly what she doesn’t like to talk about. She hopes to see you tonight for the shenanigans of Peachtree Bluff.
MARY KAY ANDREWS had a whirlwind week of events in North Carolina and Rhode Island before heading down to Tybee Island with a house full of teenagers for Labor Day weekend. She can’t wait to kick off fall tonight by celebrating Kristy’s new novel Falling for Peachtree Bluff. And then, because summer isn’t quite over yet, she has two events this week. Thursday she’ll be in conversation with Elizabeth Wellington Rollins in Decatur, GA. for her debut novel The Three Graces of Pearl Street. Check here for tickets. Saturday, she’ll be back down at Tybee Island at Seaside Sisters 11 am-2pm to sign ROAD TRIP and allllll her backlist. Can’t get there? Call ahead to order signed and personalized books. They ship!
KRISTIN HARMEL can’t WAIT to officially fall into fall tonight when F&F celebrates Kristy’s Falling for Peachtree Bluff, which Kristin read over the summer and absolutely adored. It’s the perfect combination of family drama and fall vibes, so prepare to curl up with your pumpkin spice latte and treat yourself to your new favorite read of the autumn season.
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Upcoming Events
See Kristy’s full tour for Falling for Peachtree Bluff HERE.
See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.
See MKA’s upcoming events HERE.
See Kristin’s upcoming events HERE.
Want to know what our F&F Live events are all about? Watch this video compilation!
In Case You Missed It
On our most recent new episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, we aired an “Ask Us Anything” segment where F&F’s Managing Director Meg Walker led our hosts & founders — Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey & Patti Callahan Henry — in answering questions that were submitted by our community.
You can WATCH that episode on Facebook or YouTube, or LISTEN to it on our podcast.
Coming Up on The Friends & Fiction Show
All shows can be watched on Facebook & YouTube each Wednesday evening at 7pm ET, and listened to on our podcast each Friday, all year long.
Already aired: Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club
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Already aired: Mary Kay Andrews, Road Trip
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Already aired: Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time
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Already aired: Ann Patchett, Whistler
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Already aired: Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
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Already aired: Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
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Already aired: John Searles, Single Girls
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Already aired: Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
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Already aired: Kristin Harmel, Meet Me in Paris
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Already aired: Jo Piazza, The Parisian Heist
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Already aired: Christina Lauren, The Romance Revival
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Already aired: Karin Slaughter, The Secrets We Hide
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Kristy Woodson Harvey, Falling for Peachtree Bluff
Watch LIVE: September 9 | Listen: September 11
Chloe Benjamin, Under Story
Watch: September 16 | Listen: September 18
Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen
Watch: September 23 | Listen: September 25
Stay tuned for the reveal (coming soon!) of our Fall 2026 (Oct–Dec) guest line-up!
The NEW F&F 2026-27 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange
Have you heard about the NEW 2026-27 F&F Subscription Box? It features Kristy’s Falling For Peachtree Bluff, out 9/15, and Patti’s Heart of the Wild, out in April 2027. You’ll also receive an adorable Friends & Fiction keychain and Friends & Fiction bookplates, so all the books you lend out are sure to make their way back to you! Those goodies are available ONLY in this subscription box. So, visit Oxford Exchange to get yours while supplies last!
F&F Merch Store
We have a Friends & Fiction merch store with t-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs and a book bag on Bonfire. We recently added a couple new colors for our fan favorite name list tee-shirts—a heathery hunter green and a kelly green—both of which match perfectly with the three new Fab Four books that were just released in May, June & July of this year! Get yours now!
F&F Official Book Club & 2026 Reading Challenge
Join Brenda Gardner & Lisa Harrison for monthly book club picks and live online author chats on the Facebook page for the F&F Official Book Club with Brenda & Lisa, where they’ve amassed nearly 40,000 of their own members. You can also follow the Book Club on Instagram and subscribe to their YouTube channel where you can catch past discussions, including their most recent chat with Kristin Harmel about her new novel, Meet Me In Paris. Mark your calendars for September 28th for their next author guests, Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt, when they’ll discuss their new novel, How to Fake a Southern Gentleman. The Book Club is also hosting the 2026 F&F Reading Challenge. Join them for a different category prompt each month to read outside your comfort zone. The September prompt is to read a book that takes place over a week and for October it’s to read a southern gothic novel.
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