Tune in at 7pm ET for TONIGHT’s episode!

Join us Wednesday, February 12th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Mary Kay Andrews and Kristy Woodson Harvey welcome author Christina Clancy to discuss The Snowbirds, her latest page-turning story of a couple who flee winter in the Midwest for Palm Springs, where they find their relationship at a crossroads.

Christina Clancy is the author of two previous novels, The Second Home and Shoulder Season, which have been featured on Good Morning America, CNN, and Travel & Leisure. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Sun magazine, and in various literary journals. A former college English professor with a PhD in creative writing, she splits her time between Madison, Wisconsin, and Palm Springs. Described as The Last Thing He Told Me meets Fleishman Is in Trouble, The Snowbirds has gotten raves from Annabel Monaghan (“emotionally wise and beautifully written”) and Fiona Davis (“an absolute treat”) and has been called “a riveting exploration of midlife yearning,” by People magazine.

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs Wed 2/12 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 2/14.

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Latest News from the Fab Four!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY had a beautiful week writing and then heading to Savannah for a few sessions of the Savannah Book Festival where she was able to hang out with our beloved Meg W and MKA, see some of our favorite F&F author guests like Scott Turow and Jean Hanff Korelitz, and listen to fascinating talks by Liz Moore and Sebastian Junger. Then Patti went on to Charleston to see her first hardcover of The Story She Left Behind at Buxton Books where she signed over 300 pre-orders! What a drop dead gorgeous weekend in South Carolina! Now back to Birmingham and preparing for book tour and so many INCREDIBLE events. And DO NOT FORGET that next week Patti starts her four weeks of LIVE FACEBOOK events every Tuesday until publication! Join us for live Q&A, stories behind the stories, and a new giveaway every single week. Join me HERE.

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is on pins and needles for the last game of her son’s basketball season, which will determine whether they walk away from the season undefeated conference champs! Send us good vibes! When her thoughts are not consumed by three-pointers and layups, she is feverishly working on her secret project for 2026 and cannot wait to tell you all about it. She is also hoping to announce her book tour for Beach House Rules any day now. In the meantime, she has lots of fun events coming up. Check out her website for more info!

KRISTIN HARMEL can’t decide whether her favorite part of the Super Bowl was watching author (and F&F fave) Lisa Scottoline post repeatedly about Flat Bradley (her cardboard cutout of Bradley Cooper, who hilariously makes an appearance on social media during every Philadelphia Eagles game), or watching the various Dunkin’ commercials celebrating (if that’s the right word!) Kristin’s birthplace of Boston. This week, she’s celebrating both her husband’s and her son’s birthdays (Happy birthday, Jason and Noah!) and continuing with physical therapy to get her broken leg back in shape! Meanwhile, Gallery Books is giving away 50 copies of Kristin’s upcoming novel The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau, so enter on Goodreads to win one now.

MARY KAY ANDREWS enjoyed five days of soaking up sunshine and book talks on Tybee Island and Savannah, where she and PCH and Meg Walker enjoyed the Savannah Book Festival. Thursday night Meg and MKA were inspired by Anna Quindlen’s opening talk, and loved getting to meet new friend Valerie Bauerlein, whose sensational true crime book is The Devil At His Elbow (about the Murdaugh murders trial). Friday Meg and MKA took a little thrift store jaunt with Jean Hanff Korelitz, who joined them for dinner that night. Saturday was wall-to-wall author talks, and Sunday was a day of beach walking on Tybee.

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Upcoming Events

Tuesday, February 18 at 7pm — Live virtual event hosted by Patti on her Facebook author page. Learn the backstory of her forthcoming novel The Story She Left Behind, ask her anything, and win prizes! She’ll be doing these every Tuesday evening for four straight weeks leading up to her March 18th pub date, with a new topic and a new prize drawing each week. Mark your calendars for this first one on Tues. 2/18! Details HERE.

Monday, March 17, 2025 at 6pm — F&F Live in-person event to celebrate the launch of Patti’s The Story She Left Behind at the Atlanta History Center. Save the date! GET TICKETS.

View Patti’s full 20205 book tour for The Story She Left Behind HERE.

Want to know what these F&F Live events are all about? Watch this video compilation!

In Case You Missed It

On last week’s episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, Patti Callahan Henry & Ron Block welcomed New York Times bestselling author Victoria Christopher Murray to discuss her gripping new historical novel, Harlem Rhapsody, about Jessie Redmon Fauset, the powerhouse civil rights activist and literary sensation who ignited the Harlem Renaissance.

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: Fiona Davis, The Stolen Queen
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Already aired: Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Already aired: F&F January Pick of the Month: Tara Dorabji, Call Her Freedom
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Already aired: Scott Turow, Presumed Guilty
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Already aired: Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Already aired: Victoria Christopher Murray, Harlem Rhapsody
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Christina Clancy, The Snowbirds
Watch: February 12 | Listen: February 14

F&F February Pick of the Month: Pam Jenoff, Last Twilight in Paris
WATCH LIVE: February 19 | Listen: February 21

C.J. Box, Battle Mountain
Watch: February 26 | Listen: February 28

Colleen Oakley, Jane and Dan at the End of the World
Watch: March 5 | Listen: March 7

F&F March Pick of the Month: Patti Callahan Henry, The Story She Left Behind
WATCH LIVE: March 12 | Listen: March 14

Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express
Watch: March 19 | Listen: March 21

Emilia Hart, The Sirens
Watch: March 26 | Listen: March 28

F&F 2025 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange

The 2025 FRIENDS AND FICTION Subscription Box is available for purchase now, exclusively from our friends at Oxford Exchange.

This subscription includes three separate shipments:
1. MARCH 18th: A hardcover, signed, first edition of Patti Callahan Henry’s forthcoming book THE STORY SHE LEFT BEHIND with an exclusive Friends & Fiction friendship bracelet and car magnet
2. MAY 27th: A hardcover, signed, first edition of BEACH HOUSE RULES by Kristy Woodson Harvey!
3. JUNE 17th: A hardcover, signed, first edition of THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU by Kristin Harmel!

*Optional add-on: A paperback, signed, first edition of SUMMERS AT THE SAINT by Mary Kay Andrews (coming in paperback June 3)!

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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.

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 35,000 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 Lauren Connolly about her novel, PS: I HATE YOU.Mark your calendars for February 24th for their next author guest, Jennifer Moorman, when they’ll discuss her novel, THE VANISHING OF JOSEPHINE REYNOLDS. The Book Club is also hosting the 2025 F&F Reading Challenge. Join them for a different category prompt each month to read outside your comfort zone. The February prompt is to read a romance novel by a BIPOC author and for March it’s to read a science fiction or fantasy book.

Stay in Touch!

Subscribe to our PODCAST.
Join our FACEBOOK group.
Follow us on INSTAGRAM.
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Find details about everything F&F on our WEBSITE.
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Tune in at 7pm ET for TONIGHT’s episode!

Join us Wednesday, January 29th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Kristy Woodson Harvey & Mary Kay Andrews welcome neuroscientist turned New York Times bestselling author Lisa Genova to discuss her breathless, riveting new novel, More or Less Maddy, about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval found in a traditionally “normal” life for a career in stand-up comedy.

Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of Still Alice, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, Inside the O'Briens, and Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting. Still Alice was adapted into an Oscar-winning film starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, and Kristen Stewart. Lisa graduated valedictorian from Bates College with a degree in biopsychology and holds a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University. Her TED talks on Alzheimer's disease and memory have been viewed over eleven million times. She joins us to discuss More or Less Maddy, which Booklist calls, “a visceral, harrowing, and undeniably powerful read,” and Publishers Weekly dubs “a remarkable achievement.”

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs Wed 1/29 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 1/31.

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Latest News from the Fab Four!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY is on vacation, escaping the cold for a few days, with a stack of books that she’ll never finish, but she is going to try! She’s finished her book club kit for the website and can’t wait to unveil it for all of you soon! Her BOOK TOUR is wrapped up and she hopes to see some of you on the road!

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY had the best time enjoying the snow with her family! It was the most snow she has ever seen in Beaufort. Also, the first time they have gotten any in seven years! So exciting! She revealed the cover of the paperback edition of A Happier Life yesterday and can’t wait for you guys to check it out if you haven’t yet! Hint: there is a cute furry friend on the cover!

KRISTIN HARMEL is still stuck in bed with a broken leg–and to cap things off, she also came down with the flu this weekend! But she’s finally on the mend and is working hard on her next book (and on physical therapy for her leg!) while she recuperates!

MARY KAY ANDREWS enjoyed being snowbound in Atlanta last week because it allowed her to work on her next book—and binge-read Joseph Finder’s terrific new spy thriller The Oligarch’s Daughter. MKA will be in conversation with Joe and the irrepressible Karin Slaughter on Saturday at FoxTale Bookshoppe. Go here for details. Event is free, but the bookstore is expecting an SRO crowd, so maybe get there early to claim your place.

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Upcoming Events

Saturday, February 1, 2025 at 1pm — MKA together with Karin Slaughter in-person interviewing Joe Finder about his new book The Oligarch's Daughter at FoxTale Book Shoppe in Woodstock, GA. Details HERE.

Tuesday, February 18 at 7pm — Live virtual event hosted by Patti on her Facebook author page. Learn the backstory of her forthcoming novel The Story She Left Behind, ask her anything, and win prizes! She’ll be doing these every Tuesday evening for four straight weeks leading up to her March 18th pub date, with a new topic and a new prize drawing each week. Mark your calendars for this first one on Tues. 2/18! Details HERE.

Monday, March 17, 2025 at 6pm — F&F Live in-person event to celebrate the launch of Patti’s The Story She Left Behind at the Atlanta History Center. Save the date! GET TICKETS.

View Patti’s full 2025 book tour for The Story She Left Behind HERE.

Want to know what these F&F Live events are all about? Watch this video compilation!

In Case You Missed It

On last week’s episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, Mary Kay Andrews & Ron Block welcomed #1 New York Times bestselling master of the legal thriller, Scott Turow, to discuss his riveting new courtroom drama, Presumed Guilty, which sees the return of Rusty Sabich from Presumed Innocent, the phenomenon that redefined the genre.

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: Fiona Davis, The Stolen Queen
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Already aired: Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Already aired: F&F January Pick of the Month: Tara Dorabji, Call Her Freedom
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Already aired: Scott Turow, Presumed Guilty
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy
Watch: January 29 | Listen: January 31

Victoria Christopher Murray, Harlem Rhapsody
Watch: February 5 | Listen: February 7

Christina Clancy, The Snowbirds
Watch: February 12 | Listen: February 14

F&F February Pick of the Month: Pam Jenoff, Last Twilight in Paris
WATCH LIVE: February 19 | Listen: February 21

C.J. Box, Battle Mountain
Watch: February 26 | Listen: February 28

Colleen Oakley, Jane and Dan at the End of the World
Watch: March 5 | Listen: March 7

F&F March Pick of the Month: Patti Callahan Henry, The Story She Left Behind
WATCH LIVE: March 12 | Listen: March 14

Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express
Watch: March 19 | Listen: March 21

Emilia Hart, The Sirens
Watch: March 26 | Listen: March 28

F&F 2025 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange

The 2025 FRIENDS AND FICTION Subscription Box is available for purchase now, exclusively from our friends at Oxford Exchange.

This subscription includes three separate shipments:
1. MARCH 18th: A hardcover, signed, first edition of Patti Callahan Henry’s forthcoming book THE STORY SHE LEFT BEHIND with an exclusive Friends & Fiction friendship bracelet and car magnet!
2. MAY 27th: A hardcover, signed, first edition of BEACH HOUSE RULES by Kristy Woodson Harvey!
3. JUNE 17th: A hardcover, signed, first edition of THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU by Kristin Harmel!

*Optional add-on: A paperback, signed, first edition of SUMMERS AT THE SAINT by Mary Kay Andrews (coming in paperback June 3)!

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.

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 35,000 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 Lauren Connolly about her novel, PS: I HATE YOU.Mark your calendars for February 24th for their next author guest, Jennifer Moorman, when they’ll discuss her novel, THE VANISHING OF JOSEPHINE REYNOLDS. The Book Club is also hosting the 2025 F&F Reading Challenge. Join them for a different category prompt each month to read outside your comfort zone. The February prompt is to read a romance novel by a BIPOC author and for March it’s to read a science fiction or fantasy book.

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.

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Tune in at 7pm ET for TONIGHT’s episode!

Join us Wednesday, January 22nd at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Mary Kay Andrews & Ron Block welcome #1 New York Times bestselling master of the legal thriller, Scott Turow, to discuss his riveting new courtroom drama, Presumed Guilty, which sees the return of Rusty Sabich from Presumed Innocent, the phenomenon that redefined the genre.

A writer and former practicing lawyer, Scott Turow is the author of 13 bestselling works of fiction, including Presumed Innocent and Suspect. Scott has also published two nonfiction books, including the perennial bestseller, One L, about his experience as a Harvard Law student. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages, sold more than 30-million copies worldwide, and have been adapted into movies and television projects. Recently, Presumed Innocent was the basis for Apple TV+’s most-watched drama series ever, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Scott joins us to discuss his new novel, Presumed Guilty, in which Rusty returns to court one last time to defend his fiancé’s son and to find out whether the system to which he has devoted his life can ever provide true justice for those who are presumed guilty.

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs Wed 1/22 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 1/24.

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Shop all of our guests’ & hosts’ books in our F&F Shop on Bookshop.org!

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Latest News from the Fab Four!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY had the best time at Wild Dunes with Kwame Alexander, Mary Alice, and her old friend, the poet Marjory Wentorth for the Readers Weekend. So good to see so many of the F&F family and book club. She is back to writing and prepping for the release of The Story She Left Behind in eight weeks!

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is waiting for edits back on her 2026 manuscript and is working on—in the words of Mary Kay Andrews—a secret project! And, believe it or not, Beaufort is expecting lots of snow this week! It only happens once every seven years or so, so she is so excited. She just finished an early copy of Nicola Harrison’s The Island Club, and totally loved it. It’s not out until 2026, but it’s definitely a must-read! Next up, this really cool author named Kristin Harmel sent her an advance copy of The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau, and she is so excited!

KRISTIN HARMEL was so sad to miss hanging out with Patti, Mary Alice Monroe, Brenda, Lisa, the book club, and the many Friends & Fiction members who attended Mary Alice’s annual Wild Dunes Author Weekend! She’s still stuck at home with a broken leg; she won’t be weight-bearing for at least another six weeks. While she’s laid up, she’s trying to catch up on books she has promised to blurb, and she’s working on her next novel each day (and counting down the days to the release of The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau this June!).

MARY KAY ANDREWS has been watching old movies (O Brother Where Art Thou—forgot how fabulously funny George Clooney was in that) cooking up a storm with all this winter weather hitting Atlanta; chicken noodle soup, slow cooker creamy basil tomato soup, tortellini . . . and yes, trying to get back in the writing groove.

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!

Upcoming Events

Tuesday, February 18 at 7pm — Live virtual event hosted by Patti on her Facebook author page. Learn the backstory of her forthcoming novel The Story She Left Behind, ask her anything, and win prizes! She’ll be doing these every Tuesday evening for four straight weeks leading up to her March 18th pub date, with a new topic and a new prize drawing each week. Mark your calendars for this first one on Tues. 2/18! Details HERE.

Monday, March 17, 2025 at 6pm — F&F Live in-person event to celebrate the launch of Patti’s The Story She Left Behind at the Atlanta History Center. Save the date! GET TICKETS.

View Patti’s full 20205 book tour for The Story She Left Behind HERE.

Want to know what these F&F Live events are all about? Watch this video compilation!

In Case You Missed It

On last week’s episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, the Fab Four gathered live to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Author, debut novelist Tara Dorabji, to discuss F&F’s January 2025 Pick of the Month, Call Her Freedom, a sweeping family saga following one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation.

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: Fiona Davis, The Stolen Queen
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Already aired: Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Already aired: F&F January Pick of the Month: Tara Dorabji, Call Her Freedom
WATCH now! | LISTEN now!

Scott Turow, Presumed Guilty
Watch: January 22 | Listen: January 24

Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy
Watch: January 29 | Listen: January 31

Victoria Christopher Murray, Harlem Rhapsody
Watch: February 5 | Listen: February 7

Christina Clancy, The Snowbirds
Watch: February 12 | Listen: February 14

F&F February Pick of the Month: Pam Jenoff, Last Twilight in Paris
WATCH LIVE: February 19 | Listen: February 21

C.J. Box, Battle Mountain
Watch: February 26 | Listen: February 28

Colleen Oakley, Jane and Dan at the End of the World
Watch: March 5 | Listen: March 7

F&F March Pick of the Month: Patti Callahan Henry, The Story She Left Behind
WATCH LIVE: March 12 | Listen: March 14

Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express
Watch: March 19 | Listen: March 21

Emilia Hart, The Sirens
Watch: March 26 | Listen: March 28

F&F 2025 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange

The 2025 FRIENDS AND FICTION Subscription Box is available for purchase now, exclusively from our friends at Oxford Exchange.

This subscription includes three separate shipments:
1. MARCH 18th: A hardcover, signed, first edition of Patti Callahan Henry’s forthcoming book THE STORY SHE LEFT BEHIND with an exclusive Friends & Fiction friendship bracelet and car magnet
2. MAY 27th: A hardcover, signed, first edition of BEACH HOUSE RULES by Kristy Woodson Harvey!
3. JUNE 17th: A hardcover, signed, first edition of THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU by Kristin Harmel!

*Optional add-on: A paperback, signed, first edition of SUMMERS AT THE SAINT by Mary Kay Andrews (coming in paperback June 3)!

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.

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 35,000 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 Debbie Macomber about her novel, A CHRISTMAS DUET. Mark your calendars for January 27th for their next author guest, Lauren Connolly, when they’ll discuss her novel, PS: I HATE YOU. The Book Club is also hosting the 2025 F&F Reading Challenge. Join them for a different category prompt each month to read outside your comfort zone. The January prompt is to read a book with a title that begins with a P, B, or J, and for February it’s to read a romance novel by a BIPOC author.

Stay in Touch!

Subscribe to our PODCAST.
Join our FACEBOOK group.
Follow us on INSTAGRAM.
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Tune in LIVE at 7pm ET for TONIGHT’s episode!

Join us Wednesday, January 15th LIVE at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as the Fab Four gather to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Author, debut novelist Tara Dorabji, to discuss our January 2025 Pick of the Month, Call Her Freedom, a sweeping family saga following one woman’s struggle to protect her culture and her family amidst the backdrop of a military occupation.

Tara Dorabji is the daughter of Parsi-Indian and German-Italian migrants. Her documentary film series on human rights defenders in Kashmir won awards at over a dozen film festivals throughout Asia and the US. Her writing has been featured in publications such as Al Jazeera, The Chicago Quarterly, Huizache, and in the acclaimed anthologies: Good Girls Marry Doctors and All the Women in My Family Sing. She joins us from her home in Northern California to discuss her debut novel, Call Her Freedom, which was chosen as the winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us First Novel Contest for underrepresented writers.

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs LIVE Wed 1/15 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 1/17.

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Latest News from the Fab Four!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY enjoyed one of Alabama’s rare snow days, although she was super sad it meant missing her in-conversation event with Fiona Davis in person. She is so looking forward to the Wild Dunes Reader’s Weekend this coming weekend, with F&F’s co-founder Mary Alice Monroe. Did you know there will be an F&F Official Book Club meet-up during the weekend? Meanwhile, she announced her four-part LIVE video series and hopes to see some of you there for prizes and fun!

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is so excited (despite the below zero temps! Yikes!) to be heading to Colorado to ski with her son this week! And… she got her first advance copy of BEACH HOUSE RULES! Hooray! She is gearing up for lots of fun events in the next few months–including, of course, the BEACH HOUSE RULES tour—which she will be announcing soon. First up, she’ll be in her hometown of Salisbury, NC at Catawba College for the Brady Author’s Symposium. Getting to be the person standing on the stage where she has been in the audience for so many years feels wild. Come see her on February 25 at 11 am. Tickets are available now!

KRISTIN HARMEL came home from the hospital last Wednesday night and is on the mend, doing physical therapy at home to regain some range of motion in her knee as her broken leg heals. She is discouraged to have started the year off this way but is so grateful for the support from so many of you; once again, you’ve made her feel supported in a time of need. Now if only she’d stop having times of need! She is broken-hearted to miss the Wild Dunes Reader’s Weekend with Patti and Mary Alice this weekend.

MARY KAY ANDREWS enjoyed a week of extremes–a rare snow day in Atlanta, followed by a fun family day watching the grandkids sledding and having snowball fights followed by a big family dinner, and then a quick trip on Tuesday to sunny Fort Myers, Florida for a speaking engagement. She’s been binge reading books by upcoming F&F guests Scott Turow, (Presumed Guilty) and Christina Clancy (The Snowbirds.) And writing. Always writing.

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Upcoming Events

Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 11am – Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 2pm — Patti with Kwame Alexander at the 20th Annual Wild Dunes Author Event & Weekend hosted by Mary Alice Monroe. Info & tickets HERE.

Tuesday, February 18 at 7pm — Live virtual event hosted by Patti on her Facebook author page. Learn the backstory of her forthcoming novel The Story She Left Behind, ask her anything, and win prizes! She’ll be doing these every Tuesday evening for four straight weeks leading up to her March 18th pub date, with a new topic and a new prize drawing each week. Mark your calendars for this first one on Tues. 2/18! Details HERE.

Monday, March 17, 2025 at 6pm — F&F LIVE! in-person event with Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel & Kristy Woodson Harvey all joining Patti to celebrate the launch of her new novel, The Story She Left Behind, at the Atlanta History Center. GET TICKETS.

View Patti’s full 20205 book tour for The Story She Left Behind HERE.

Want to know what these F&F Live events are all about? Watch this video compilation!

In Case You Missed It

On last week’s episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, Patti Callahan Henry & Kristy Woodson Harvey welcomed Emmy-winning journalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author Kate Fagan to discuss her electric, voice-driven debut novel, The Three Lives Of Cate Kay (the newly announced Reese’s Book Club pick for January!), about an elusive bestselling author who decides to finally confess her true identity after years of hiding from her past.

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: Fiona Davis, The Stolen Queen
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Already aired: Kate Fagan, The Three Lives of Cate Kay
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F&F January Pick of the Month: Tara Dorabji, Call Her Freedom
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Scott Turow, Presumed Guilty
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Lisa Genova, More or Less Maddy
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Victoria Christopher Murray, Harlem Rhapsody
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Christina Clancy, The Snowbirds
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F&F February Pick of the Month: Pam Jenoff, Last Twilight in Paris
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C.J. Box, Battle Mountain
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Colleen Oakley, Jane and Dan at the End of the World
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F&F March Pick of the Month: Patti Callahan Henry, The Story She Left Behind
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Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express
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Emilia Hart, The Sirens
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F&F 2025 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange

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F&F Official Book Club & 2025 Reading Challenge

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