Tune in Tonight for “Ask Us Anything”

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—September 2, 2026

Tune in at 7pm ET tonight for this week’s episode!

On Wednesday, September 2nd at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel we are airing an “Ask Us Anything” episode where F&F’s Managing Director leads our hosts & founders — , , & in answering questions that were submitted by our community.

The Fab Four wanted to know what those of you out there might be wondering about. So we solicited your questions and we were amazed by the response! We received more than 50 questions! So, we recorded a casual, informal chat where we got to as many of them as possible. One thing is clear—we will definitely need to do this again to get to more of them! But for now, join us as we discuss all manner of things from writing process, reading habits, and recent favorite reads, to book touring, guest booking, and the relationships between our four hosts.

Watch the video broadcast as it airs on Wed 9/2 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 9/4.

Meanwhile, shop all of our guests’ & hosts’ books in our F&F Shop on Bookshop.org where all your discounted purchases support our show and indie bookstores nationwide!

Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus Q&A’s with our guest authors which include a writing tip, book recommendation, and information about their works-in-progress, plus other great material not covered on the show!

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Upcoming Events

Kristy is about to go on tour for Falling for Peachtree Bluff! See all of her upcoming tour dates HERE.

Meet Kristy on Tour

See Kristin’s upcoming events HERE.
See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.
See MKA’s upcoming events HERE.

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
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Mary Kay Andrews, Road Trip
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Ann Patchett, Whistler
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: John Searles, Single Girls
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kristin Harmel, Meet Me in Paris
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Jo Piazza, The Parisian Heist
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Christina Lauren, The Romance Revival
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Karin Slaughter, The Secrets We Hide
WATCH | LISTEN

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 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!

Order Now

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!

Shop Merch

F&F Official Book Club & 2025 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.

Stay in Touch!

Subscribe to our PODCAST.
Join our FACEBOOK group.
Follow us on INSTAGRAM.
Subscribe to our YOUTUBE channel.
Find details about everything F&F on our WEBSITE.
Shop our guests’ & hosts’ books in our shop on BOOKSHOP.
Join the F&F Official BOOK CLUB with Brenda & Lisa.

Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus content from our hosts and guests.

Subscribe now

Best-Of Re-Airing with Elin Hilderbrand

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—August 26, 2026

Tune in at 7pm ET tonight for this week’s episode!

On Wednesday, August 26th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel we will re-air one of our favorite episodes from the vault! Join us as Kristy, Kristin & Mary Kay talk to #1 NYT-bestselling novelist Elin Hilderbrand along with her daughter Shelby Cunningham, to discuss their 2025 bestselling co-written novel, The Academy, the deliciously scandalous story of one drama-filled year at a New England boarding school.

Now is the perfect time to re-air this episode as Elin & Shelby’s eagerly anticipated follow-up, The Thoroughbreds, is set to release on September 15th. Class will soon be back in session for senior year at Tiffin Academy promising loads of high-stakes drama, tension, and intrigue—and the big reveal of what was in Cinnamon’s email. Tune in for this fun chat with this dynamic mother-daughter author duo—now with a brand-new intro from Kristy Woodson Harvey—as we discuss Elin & Shelby’s fresh, buzzy take on boarding school life which took one of America’s most satisfying and popular storytellers in a thrilling new direction.

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 8/26 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 8/28.

Order The Academy and The Thoroughbreds on Bookshop.org! Shop all of our guests’ & hosts’ books in our F&F Shop on Bookshop.org!

Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus Q&A’s with our guest authors which include a writing tip, book recommendation, and information about their works-in-progress, plus other great material not covered on the show!

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Ask Us Anything—Next Week!

Next week we are running an “Ask Me Anything” episode with the Fab Four. What have you been dying to ask them? Here’s your chance to submit questions! It could be about the show, guests, processes, plans for the future, merch, Substack...or it could be specific to one of our hosts, their books, their craft, touring, etc.

Submit your questions via THIS FORM.

Deadline to submit is TODAY (Wed 8/26) by 5pm Eastern. We will record a Q&A session and air it next Wed 9/2 in place of a regular episode of the show.

Including your name is not required. You can submit anonymously. But if you include your name, we'll be sure to credit you on-air.

Please participate if anything jumps to mind.

Submit Your Questions

Upcoming Events

Kristy is about to go on tour for Falling for Peachtree Bluff! See all of her upcoming tour dates HERE.

Meet Kristy on Tour

See Kristin’s upcoming events HERE.
See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.
See MKA’s upcoming events HERE.

In Case You Missed It

On our most recent new episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, the full F&F family gathered to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Author, the #1 New York Times bestseller Karin Slaughter to discuss The Secrets We Hide, the next thrilling mystery in her new North Falls series featuring Sheriff Emmy Clifton, which is our August 2026 Pick of the Month!

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
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Mary Kay Andrews, Road Trip
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Ann Patchett, Whistler
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: John Searles, Single Girls
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kristin Harmel, Meet Me in Paris
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Jo Piazza, The Parisian Heist
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Christina Lauren, The Romance Revival
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Karin Slaughter, The Secrets We Hide
WATCH | LISTEN

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

The NEW 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!

Order Now

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!

Shop Merch

F&F Official Book Club & 2025 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 August prompt is to read a book inspired by a childhood favorite and for September it’s to read a book that takes place over a week.

Stay in Touch!

Subscribe to our PODCAST.
Join our FACEBOOK group.
Follow us on INSTAGRAM.
Subscribe to our YOUTUBE channel.
Find details about everything F&F on our WEBSITE.
Shop our guests’ & hosts’ books in our shop on BOOKSHOP.
Join the F&F Official BOOK CLUB with Brenda & Lisa.

Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus content from our hosts and guests.

Subscribe now

Join us LIVE with Karin Slaughter TONIGHT

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—August 19, 2026

Tune in LIVE at 7pm ET tonight for this week’s episode!

Join us Wednesday, August 19th LIVE at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as the full F&F family gathers to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Author, the #1 New York Times bestseller Karin Slaughter to discuss The Secrets We Hide, the next thrilling mystery in her new North Falls series featuring Sheriff Emmy Clifton, which is our August 2026 Pick of the Month!

Karin is the #1 NYT-bestselling author of more than 25 novels, including the Edgar-nominated Cop Town and standalone novels Pretty Girls and False Witness. An international bestseller, Slaughter is published in 120 countries with more than 40-million copies sold across the globe. Pieces of Her, based on her novel, debuted at #1 worldwide on Netflix as an original series in 2022. Her bestselling Will Trent series is now a television and streaming sensation in its 4th season. Karin joins us to give an update on all her projects currently in development for film/TV, her work with Save the Libraries, and, of course, her pulse-pounding new thriller, The Secrets We Hide, about which Booklist said this in a starred review: “themes of motherhood, betrayal, and redemption are tied up in the final twist in Slaughter’s gripping portrait of a painfully human small town.”

Watch the LIVE video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 8/19 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 8/21.

Meanwhile, order Karin’s new book — along with all of our guests’ and hosts’ books — at a discount in our F&F Shop on Bookshop.org!

Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus Q&A’s with our guest authors which include a writing tip, book recommendation, and information about their works-in-progress, plus other great material not covered on the show!

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Latest News from the Fab Four!

KRISTIN HARMEL spent a quiet weekend with her family, celebrating the end of her son’s first week of 5th grade. She’s back at it this week, with book tour appearances in Margate City, NJ tomorrow night and Council Bluffs, Iowa on Monday night. She’s also back to work on her 2028 novel. She’s looking forward to welcoming Karin Slaughter to the show tonight; she has been devouring The Secrets We Hide, and Karin is always an awesome guest.

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY had the best day ever giving the convocation speech at her alma mater, UNC Chapel Hill. She is getting so excited about her Falling for Peachtree Bluff tour. Several of the events are close to selling out, so make sure to take a peek at her schedule!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY wrote a whole batch of letters to Indie bookstores to go out with her Heart of the Wild galleys! She is so thrilled that one of the many steps to publication is here. She spent much of her week in SC with a dear friend who had never been to Savannah and they did all the great tourist things including rewatching Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil and then taking a tour of the fascinating Mercer Williams house (where that crazy story takes place), visiting E. Shaver Books, gobbling Leopold Ice Cream in the 97 degree heat, and eating at the famous Mrs. Wilkes boarding house. Now Patti is home and so excited about diving back into her new work. DO NOT FORGET that you can NOW order the next F&F subscription box with Patti and Kristy’s newest novels and some amazing F&F swag! See all deets HERE.

MARY KAY ANDREWS returned home from an amazing five-day mountaintop writing retreat with her head finally, fully in the world of her new book. And then, because she wholeheartedly embraces chaos, decided to give her home office a glow-up. If you need her, she’ll be shredding old bank statements. (Please don’t need her.)

Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for an ongoing series of roundtable discussions and personal essays by the Fab Four about their careers, writing processes, and all things book and publishing related!

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Upcoming Events

See Kristin’s remaining Meet Me in Paris tour dates HERE.

See Kristy’s upcoming events HERE.

See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.

See MKA’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, Kristy Woodson Harvey & Kristin Harmel welcomed NYT-bestselling author duo Christina Lauren to discuss their brand-new instant NYT-bestseller The Romance Revival, in which a fateful accident erases a troubled marriage from memory and a scientific breakthrough gives love one extraordinary do-over.

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
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Mary Kay Andrews, Road Trip
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Ann Patchett, Whistler
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: John Searles, Single Girls
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kristin Harmel, Meet Me in Paris
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Jo Piazza, The Parisian Heist
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Christina Lauren, The Romance Revival
WATCH | LISTEN

Karin Slaughter, The Secrets We Hide
Watch LIVE: August 19 | Listen: August 21

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

F&F 2026 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange

The 2026 FRIENDS AND FICTION Subscription Box is available for purchase now, exclusively from our friends at Oxford Exchange.

This subscription includes three separate shipments:
1. MAY 2026: A hardcover, signed, first edition of Kristy Woodson Harvey’s forthcoming book SUMMER STATE OF MIND!
2. JUNE 2026: A hardcover, signed, first edition of ROAD TRIP by Mary Kay Andrews!
3. AUGUST 2026: A hardcover, signed, first edition of MEET ME IN PARIS by Kristin Harmel!

Get your subscription NOW from Oxford Exchange!

Order Now

F&F Merch Store

We have a Friends & Fiction merch store with t-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs and a book bag on Bonfire. We also have other items like wine tumblers, reading journals, and our original white v-neck logo tees available through Oxford Exchange.

We’ve added TWO NEW COLORS for our fan favorite name list tee-shirts. We now have them in a heathery hunter green and a kelly green—both of which match perfectly with the three new Fab Four books out in May, June & July! Get yours now and dress to match the books when you come out to Kristy, MKA & Kristin’s tour events!

Order New Green Tees

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 August prompt is to read a book inspired by a childhood favorite and for September it’s to read a book that takes place over a week.

Stay in Touch!

Subscribe to our PODCAST.
Join our FACEBOOK group.
Follow us on INSTAGRAM.
Subscribe to our YOUTUBE channel.
Find details about everything F&F on our WEBSITE.
Shop our guests’ & hosts’ books in our shop on BOOKSHOP.
Join the F&F Official BOOK CLUB with Brenda & Lisa.

Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus content from our hosts and guests.

Subscribe now

Meet Christina Lauren TONIGHT

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—August 12, 2026

Tune in at 7pm ET tonight for this week’s episode!

Join us on Wednesday, August 12th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Kristy Woodson Harvey & Kristin Harmel welcome New York Times bestselling author duo Christina Lauren to discuss their brand-new instant NYT-bestseller The Romance Revival, in which a fateful accident erases a troubled marriage from memory and a scientific breakthrough gives love one extraordinary do-over.

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of longtime writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York Times, USA Today, and #1 internationally bestselling authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series plus more than 20 other novels including The Unhoneymooners and The Paradise Problem. They join us to discuss The Romance Revival, their delightful new twist on second-chance romance which Ali Hazelwood calls, “unexpected, ridiculously charming, and romantic enough to short-circuit my last brain cell.”

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 8/12 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 8/14.

Meanwhile, order Christina Lauren’s new book — along with all of our guests’ and hosts’ books — at a discount in our F&F Shop on Bookshop.org!

Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus Q&A’s with our guest authors which include a writing tip, book recommendation, and information about their works-in-progress, plus other great material not covered on the show!

Subscribe now

Latest News from the Fab Four!

KRISTIN HARMEL is still reeling from (and so grateful for) landing at #6 on the New York Times Bestseller List last week with MEET ME IN PARIS. Huge thanks to the F&F community (and especially to Meg, Ron, Patti, Kristy, and Mary Kay) for all the incredible support. After returning from a whirlwind book tour, she took the weekend off with her husband and son for—you guessed it—a brief Disney stay (two days and one night at Disney’s Polynesian Resort), where they relaxed by the pool and enjoyed the Magic Kingdom fireworks. She was also thrilled to see MEET ME IN PARIS on the Today Show on Saturday, courtesy of Friends & Fiction fave John Searles, whose new book, SINGLE GIRLS, was Kristin’s poolside read over the weekend. It’s so good!

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is gearing up for maybe her biggest honor ever: She is giving the Convocation speech to 5,900 incoming students at her alma mater, UNC Chapel Hill, this weekend! In the Dean Smith Center AKA the Dean Dome where all the basketball magic takes place. She is so excited! Speaking of excitement… The FALLING FOR PEACHTREE BLUFF tour is only a month away! Have you made plans to come see Kristy on tour? Check out her full dates here! And… she loved pulling out the 6 from Will and a friend’s 6/7 costume from a few years ago to celebrate Kristin’s #6! Woo hoo!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY has enjoyed being home and settled back into her work! She LOVED celebrating with Kristin when Meet Me in Paris hit number six. She’s preparing some amazing things for all of you for Heart of the Wild out in April, interviewing for her next secret project, and recovering from the long haul travel across the ocean to her daughter and family.

MARY KAY ANDREWS ran away from home to the North Georgia mountains for an impromptu five-day writing retreat. She enjoyed listening to the rushing river just outside the porch of the amazing lodge. She spotted red shouldered hawks soaring in the breeze and nearly tame deer grazing along the tree-line. But mostly she was encouraged at realizing she actually does remember how to write a novel. And she is still celebrating Kristin’s instant #6 NYT bestseller, Meet Me in Paris!

Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for an ongoing series of roundtable discussions and personal essays by the Fab Four about their careers, writing processes, and all things book and publishing related!

Subscribe now

Upcoming Events

See Kristin’s remaining Meet Me in Paris tour dates HERE.

See Kristy’s upcoming events HERE.

See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.

See MKA’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, Kristin Harmel & Ron Block welcomed bestselling author, podcast creator, and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza to discuss her new novel, The Parisian Heist, a propulsive dual-timeline mystery drenched in art-world intrigue and brimming with family secrets, betrayal, and the intoxicating lure of power.

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
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Mary Kay Andrews, Road Trip
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Ann Patchett, Whistler
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: John Searles, Single Girls
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kristin Harmel, Meet Me in Paris
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Jo Piazza, The Parisian Heist
WATCH | LISTEN

Christina Lauren, The Romance Revival
Watch: August 12 | Listen: August 14

Karin Slaughter, The Secrets We Hide
Watch LIVE: August 19 | Listen: August 21

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

F&F 2026 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange

The 2026 FRIENDS AND FICTION Subscription Box is available for purchase now, exclusively from our friends at Oxford Exchange.

This subscription includes three separate shipments:
1. MAY 2026: A hardcover, signed, first edition of Kristy Woodson Harvey’s forthcoming book SUMMER STATE OF MIND!
2. JUNE 2026: A hardcover, signed, first edition of ROAD TRIP by Mary Kay Andrews!
3. AUGUST 2026: A hardcover, signed, first edition of MEET ME IN PARIS by Kristin Harmel!

Get your subscription NOW from Oxford Exchange!

Order Now

F&F Merch Store

We have a Friends & Fiction merch store with t-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs and a book bag on Bonfire. We also have other items like wine tumblers, reading journals, and our original white v-neck logo tees available through Oxford Exchange.

We’ve added TWO NEW COLORS for our fan favorite name list tee-shirts. We now have them in a heathery hunter green and a kelly green—both of which match perfectly with the three new Fab Four books out in May, June & July! Get yours now and dress to match the books when you come out to Kristy, MKA & Kristin’s tour events!

Order New Green Tees

F&F Official Book Club & 2025 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 Mary Kay Andrews about her new novel, Road Trip. Mark your calendars for August 17th for their next author guest, Kristin Harmel, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Meet Me In Paris. 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 April prompt is to read a book recommended by a favorite librarian and for May it’s to read a book about a female detective.

Stay in Touch!

Subscribe to our PODCAST.
Join our FACEBOOK group.
Follow us on INSTAGRAM.
Subscribe to our YOUTUBE channel.
Find details about everything F&F on our WEBSITE.
Shop our guests’ & hosts’ books in our shop on BOOKSHOP.
Join the F&F Official BOOK CLUB with Brenda & Lisa.

Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus content from our hosts and guests.

Subscribe now

Meet Jo Piazza TONIGHT

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—August 5, 2026

Tune in at 7pm ET tonight for this week’s episode!

Join us on Wednesday, August 5th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Kristin Harmel & Ron Block welcome bestselling author, podcast creator, and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza to discuss her new novel, The Parisian Heist, a propulsive dual-timeline mystery drenched in art-world intrigue and brimming with family secrets, betrayal, and the intoxicating lure of power.

Jo Piazza is the internationally bestselling author of thirteen books, including Everyone Is Lying to You, The Sicilian Inheritance, and the Good Morning America Book Club pick We Are Not Like Them co-written with Christine Pride. She’s also the host of the critically acclaimed Under the Influence podcast. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She joins us to discuss her new suspense novel, The Parisian Heist, about an all-female art heist at Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, the legacy of Vincent van Gogh, and two daring women generations apart who refuse to be written out of history no matter the cost. Kristin Harmel calls the book “absolutely riveting and delicious,” Fiona Davis says it “has everything I’ve ever wanted in a novel,” and Kate Quinn says it’s “twisty, satisfying, and atmospheric.”

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 8/5 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 8/7.

Meanwhile, order Jo’s new book — along with all of our guests’ and hosts’ books — at a discount in our F&F Shop on Bookshop.org!

Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus Q&A’s with our guest authors which include a writing tip, book recommendation, and information about their works-in-progress, plus other great material not covered on the show!

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Latest News from the Fab Four!

KRISTIN HARMEL had an epic first week of book tour for MEET ME IN PARIS and was absolutely thrilled to see so many Friends & Fiction members on the road. She’ll be live in Orlando tonight with Writer’s Block Bookstore, then she’s taking a few days off, because her son, Noah, starts 5th grade next Tuesday! There are more stops to come on the MEET ME IN PARIS tour later this month… but for now, Kristin wants to thank all of you who bought the book, checked it out from the library, posted about it, recommended it to a friend, or came out to one of her events. It truly means so much.

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is so excited because the FALLING FOR PEACHTREE BLUFF tour is soooo soon! Have you checked out her tour dates? Seeing YOU is the very best part! She is savoring every single second of her favorite season and looking so forward to a brand new launch. If she isn’t coming to a town near you, save the date to hang out with her virtually on Talk Shop Live on August 31 at 7 pm, and, of course, right here on Friends & Fiction on September 9!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY has spent the week diving back into her work and life after being gone for weeks. She is wrestling a new work to the mats and preparing so many fun add ons for Heart of the Wild. She loved watching Kristin’s EPIC first week on the road. Did you know that Patti and Kristy have teamed up for a new Friends & Fiction Subscription Box? Also Patti sent out a new substack this week with her favorite reads, music and watches.

MARY KAY ANDREWS accompanied granddaughter Molly on two college visits last week. She’s wondering where the time went since she held that tiny baby in her arms just seventeen short years ago! Now she’s back home wrestling with the plot for her next novel.

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Upcoming Events

Kristin is touring now for Meet Me in Paris. See her full tour HERE.

See MKA’s remaining Road Trip tour dates HERE.

See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.

See Kristy’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, Kristy Woodson Harvey & Kristin Harmel chatted with three of their Gallery Books pub house sisters all with new contemporary summer romance novels out — Natalie Messier with her debut, Every Version of You, Kyleigh Leddy with her debut, Worse Than Strangers, and USA Today bestselling author Chloe Liese with Happy Ending.

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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Jo Piazza, The Parisian Heist
Watch: August 5 | Listen: August 7

Christina Lauren, The Romance Revival
Watch: August 12 | Listen: August 14

Karin Slaughter, The Secrets We Hide
Watch LIVE: August 19 | Listen: August 21

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

F&F 2026 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange

The 2026 FRIENDS AND FICTION Subscription Box is available for purchase now, exclusively from our friends at Oxford Exchange.

This subscription includes three separate shipments:
1. MAY 2026: A hardcover, signed, first edition of Kristy Woodson Harvey’s forthcoming book SUMMER STATE OF MIND!
2. JUNE 2026: A hardcover, signed, first edition of ROAD TRIP by Mary Kay Andrews!
3. AUGUST 2026: A hardcover, signed, first edition of MEET ME IN PARIS by Kristin Harmel!

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F&F Merch Store

We have a Friends & Fiction merch store with t-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs and a book bag on Bonfire. We also have other items like wine tumblers, reading journals, and our original white v-neck logo tees available through Oxford Exchange.

We’ve added TWO NEW COLORS for our fan favorite name list tee-shirts. We now have them in a heathery hunter green and a kelly green—both of which match perfectly with the three new Fab Four books out in May, June & July! Get yours now and dress to match the books when you come out to Kristy, MKA & Kristin’s tour events!

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F&F Official Book Club & 2025 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 Mary Kay Andrews about her new novel, Road Trip. Mark your calendars for August 17th for their next author guest, Kristin Harmel, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Meet Me In Paris. 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 April prompt is to read a book recommended by a favorite librarian and for May it’s to read a book about a female detective.

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