Join Kristy, Patti & Mary Kay as they sit down with USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award winning author Susan M. Boyer to chat about her Liz Talbot Lowcountry Mystery series (now 10 titles strong!) and her wildly popular Lowcountry Book Club group on Facebook. https://www.susanmboyer.com/
Meet Vanessa Riley, author of regency romance and the brand new historical novel ISLAND QUEEN which was just optioned for film by the team behind Bridgerton. Vanessa discusses her extensive research into the life and times of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, who was a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies. https://vanessariley.com/
New York Times bestselling author Paula McLain joins the show to discuss her new novel WHEN THE STARS GO DARK, her writing career, and influences. http://paulamclain.com/
The Fab Five celebrate the launch of Kristin Harmel’s The Forest of Vanishing Stars by putting on a short, stirring, and emotional Broadway-style mini-musical (with a gravitas that honors the subject matter) written and composed by the uber-talented Kristin Harmel. Special musical guests include Broadway actress Christina Sivrich Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Stephen Kellogg, and F&F’s behind-the-scenes A/V whiz Shaun Hettinger, composer of TV theme songs and the lead singer of the band MEMORYY. Later in the episode, the authors are joined by bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips along with Brenda & Lisa of the The F&F Official Book Club who each present an original cocktail recipe inspired by Kristin’s book.
The Fab Five welcome two guests—Colleen Oakley and Kristan Higgins. Colleen Oakley is the USA Today bestselling author of four novels which have twice been longlisted for the Southern Book Prize, have been translated into 21 languages, and optioned for film. Her latest is this summer’s hot sensationTHE INVISIBLE HUSBAND OF FRICK ISLAND. Kristan Higgins is the New York Times bestselling author of 19 novels, which have been translated into more than two dozen languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. Her latest novel PACK UP THE MOON was released on June 8th and was met with the rare trifecta of starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus and Library Journal. https://colleenoakley.com/ https://www.kristanhiggins.com/
The Fab Five welcomes Victoria Christopher Murray co-authored The Personal Librarian with Marie Benedict. Coming June 29th, this is the remarkable story of J. P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle da Costa Greene, the Black American woman who was forced to hide her true identity and pass as white to leave a lasting legacy that enriched our nation. Victoria Christopher Murray is one of the country’s top African American contemporary authors with more than one million books in print. She has written more than twenty novels, including the Seven Deadly Sins series. Hear all about their collaboration and writing and research process. https://victoriachristophermurray.com/
Friends and Fiction Sunday Bonus behind the scenes with Ann Garvin, founder of Tall Poppies and bestselling author of I THOUGHT YOU SAID THIS WOULD WORK. A fascinating, warm and witting conversation you do not want to miss.
#1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 50 novels, Susan Wiggs, sits down with the Fab Five to discuss her latest novel, just released in paperback, The Lost and Found Book Shop. The crew discuss the influences on their writing career, how life experience, failures, and sense of place inform their writing, and the books that shaped them. https://www.susanwiggs.com/
Mary Bly joins the Fab Five to discuss her long, successful career writing regency romances under the pseudonym Eloisa James while living somewhat of a double life as a Shakespeare professor and English Dept chair at Fordham University. We hear about how she made the decision to write contemporary fiction (LIZZIE & DANTE, out now) under her real name just this year for the first time and how her love of Italy and the classics infuses all of her writing. https://www.eloisajames.com/ She’s joined by Sonali Dev who writes clever, deeply layered, and heartwarming Bollywood-style romantic comedies in the Jane Austen tradition (INCENSE AND SENSIBILITY, coming July 6th). Sonali discusses giving readers a glimpse into the Indian American experience through her work, and the importance of revisiting and retelling classics like Austen. https://sonalidev.com/
The Fab Five welcome their friend Nancy Thayer to discuss her latest summer sensation, FAMILY REUNION. Hear all about Nancy’s long career as an author, her love for old houses and how they figure prominently in her writing, writing romantic plot lines for cahracters of all ages, and her love of Nantucket—a place she has called home for more than three decades and which figures prominently in all of her fiction. https://nancythayer.com/
