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Join us Wednesday, May 8th, at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Mary Kay Andrews & Ron Block welcome the international No.1 bestselling author of psychological crime thrillers, Ruth Ware, to discuss her latest gripping beach read, ONE PERFECT COUPLE, a high-tension and ingenious thriller which follows five couples trapped on a storm-swept island as a killer stalks among them
Ruth’s thrillers (In a Dark, Dark Wood; The Woman in Cabin 10; The Lying Game; The Death of Mrs. Westaway; The Turn of the Key; One by One; The It Girl; and Zero Days) have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the Sunday Times and New York Times, and have sold more than six-million copies. Her books have been optioned for both film and TV, and she is published in more than 40 languages. Ruth joins us from her home on the coast of England to discuss ONE PERFECT COUPLE, her latest fast-paced, spellbinding thriller coming from Gallery Books on May 21.
Watch the video broadcast of this interview Wed 5/8 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 5/10.
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MARY KAY ANDREWS has been so thrilled and touched and all the emotions for the F&F faithful who turned out for her first few events on the book tour for Summers at The Saint. And she’s especially grateful for the F&F crew–including Meg, Ron and even AV Nerd Shaun who traveled all the way to Neptune Beach, Florida for our kickoff launch party. Now if she can just get that darn suitcase to close…
What MKA is reading and why she’s loving it: Our own Kristy Woodson Harvey’s A Happier Life. Kristy has done it again with this dual timeline novel about a young woman at a turning point in her life, the grandmother she never knew–and the house on Sunset Lane that binds them together.
KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY had the best time celebrating Mary Kay Andrew’s launch in beautiful Neptune Beach, Sea Island, and Savannah. It was so great to see so many readers out to celebrate our pal MKA! Kristy is hoping to see more of you in Lexington, North Carolina on May 13 with Joy Callaway, and she can’t believe that A HAPPIER LIFE releases in seven short weeks!
What Kristy is reading and why she’s loving it: SUMMERS AT THE SAINT by Mary Kay Andrews. Well, she is listening to it while on tour with MKA. It is such a different experience listening than reading and she is loving every minute!
KRISTIN HARMEL absolutely loved hanging out with MKA, Patti, Kristy, Meg, Ron and SHAUN (yes, Shaun!!!) in Neptune Beach, FL for the F&F launch of MKA’s fabulous SUMMERS AT THE SAINT on Sunday! She’s currently finishing revisions to her 2025 book and gearing up to leave for her paperback tour on Monday! The paperback of THE PARIS DAUGHTER is out this Tuesday!
What Kristin is reading and why she’s loving it: SUMMERS AT THE SAINT by Mary Kay Andrews: I’m listening to this completely engaging novel on audiobook and am loving it…. The cast of characters is so well-drawn, and the two mysteries at the center of the novel have me completely absorbed. I’m so eager to find out what happens next that I listened to it on 2x speed all the way home – and tonight, I’ll switch to the hardcover book (which finally arrived in today’s mail!). Pick this one up immediately!
PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY had the best time celebrating MKA’s launch, meeting Shaun IRL for the first time, and seeing her F&F family. She is rounding out the last of her 2025 novel before it goes to copy editing, and counting the days (4) until her son’s wedding. Did you see that Woman’s World chose Flora Lea as a Must-Read Historical Fiction? And she absolutely loved this fascinating conversation on BOOKSTORM PODCAST. Now she’s off to practice NOT crying for the mother-son dance. She’s also crossing her fingers that the little B’s do what flower girls are meant to do and not steal the show.
What Patti is reading and why she’s loving it: SUMMERS AT THE SAINT by Mary Kay Andrews. I love it because it is quintessential MKA in all the very best ways, because I watched her write it with love and dedication and because the pages fly as the plot lines untangle.
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Click HERE to see Mary Kay Andrews’s full book tour for the May 7th release of her new hardcover, Summers at the Saint.
Click HERE to see Kristin Harmel’s full book tour for the May 14th release of the trade paperback edition of The Paris Daughter
Click HERE to see Kristy Woodson Harvey’s full book tour for the June 25th release of her new hardcover, A Happier Life.
Friday, June 28, 7pm ET —Join all four founders and hosts of Friends & Fiction—along with Meg Walker & Ron Block—together in-person in St. Louis for a launch celebration and garden party for Kristy’s A Happier Life hosted by The Novel Neighbor at the St. Louis County Library Post Event Space, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd., Ladue, MO. Get tickets HERE.
Want to know what these F&F Live events are all about? Watch this video compilation! And then grab your tickets to meet up with us in St. Louis in June!
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On last week’s episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, Patti Callahan Henry & Kristin Harmel welcomed the New York Times and internationally bestselling author, Janet Skeslien Charles, to discuss her brilliant new novel, MISS MORGAN’S BOOK BRIGADE, based on the true story of Jessie Carson, the American librarian who changed the literary landscape of France. Order Janet’s book from the F&F Shop on Bookshop.org, where you’ll also find books by all our hosts and guests, all at a discount—and where all your purchases support our show and our beloved indie bookstores nationwide!
You can WATCH that episode on Facebook or YouTube, or LISTEN to it on our podcast.
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.
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Ruth Ware, One Perfect Couple
Watch: May 8 | Listen: May 10
F&F May Pick of the Month: Mary Kay Andrews, Summers at the Saint
Watch LIVE: May 15 | Listen: May 17
Steven Rowley, The Guncle Abroad
Watch: May 22 | Listen: May 24
Sunny Hostin, Summer on Highland Beach
Watch: May 29 | Listen: May 31
Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance
Watch: June 5 | Listen: June 7
Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood
Watch: June 12 | Listen: June 14
F&F June Pick of the Month: Kristy Woodson Harvey, A Happier Life
Watch LIVE: June 19 | Listen: June 21
Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark
Watch: June 26 | Listen: June 28
The Fab Four (along with Meg & Ron) are taking turns interviewing some additional authors in short video segments we are calling “Behind the Book.” Check out a few recent bonus interviews that we’ve run on the F&F YouTube channel!
WATCH Patti & MKA’s interview with Sheila Roberts about her newest THE BEST LIFE BOOK CLUB. "It started as a book club. It became a way to build a better life together." Sheila Roberts is a USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestselling author and fan-favorite with almost fifty books to her credit. Patti said this about the novel: "[With] a set of characters so vivid we want to be their best friends, and a story that keeps us turning the pages, The Best Life Book Club is your book club book of the year. . . . A novel of pure delight!”
WATCH Meg & Ron’s interview with Caroline Leavitt about her new novel Days of Wonder.
WATCH Patti’s interview with Kristy Cambron about her new historical novel, The British Booksellers.
WATCH MKA & Meg’s interview with Sara Paretsky, about her latest V.I. Warshawski novel, PAY DIRT.
WATCH MKA & Ron’s interview with Lian Dolan, about her new novel, The Marriage Sabbatical.
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. You can also order the F&F 2024 SUBSCRIPTION BOX exclusively through our friends at Oxford Exchange. You get the two first-edition autographed hardcover books (and the adorable pouch!) shown below, plus the option to add Patti’s & Kristin’s 2024 paperback editions of last year’s books. All details HERE!
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 more than 30k 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 with Zibby Owens about her novel, Blank. Mark your calendars for May 20th for their next author guest Brenda Novak when they’ll discuss her novel Tourist Season. With the help of Annissa Armstrong, the Book Club is also hosting the 2024 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 by an author who uses a pen name and, for May, it’s to read a book set in a place you’d like to visit.
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