Meet Ben Reeves TONIGHT!

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—July 15, 2026

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

Join us Wednesday, July 15th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Patti Callahan Henry & Kristin Harmel welcome debut novelist Ben Reeves to discuss his super buzzy new book, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, an astonishing, deeply moving story about finding beauty in the brevity of life, as narrated by the one who knows it best: Death.

When Ben Reeves is not writing, he paints, makes music, and works as a web designer for a book printing company in Peterborough, UK. An early draft of Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt won the international 2024 Bath Novel Award. Perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and Virginia Evans, the book has been named a Most Anticipated Book of the Summer by People, BuzzFeed, and Goodreads. We are excited to talk to Ben about the book that NYT-bestselling author Graeme Simsion (The Rosie Project) calls “one of the most original, riveting, and moving books I’ve read in a long while.

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

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

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Latest News from the Fab Four!

KRISTIN HARMEL is doing a short writing retreat with three writer friends she’s written with nearly every summer for the last fifteen years: Wendy Toliver, Allison Van Diepen and Emily Wing Smith (all of whom are young adult writers). She can’t believe she’s LESS THAN TWO WEEKS OUT from the release of Meet Me in Paris! She’ll be kicking off her book tour on Monday, July 27 with stops in Nashville, TN; Ocean Isle Beach, NC; Myrtle Beach, SC; Bethany Beach, DE; Rehoboth Beach, DE; Scottsdale, AZ; Tucson, AZ; Denver, CO; St. Louis, MO; Plainville, MA; Orlando, FL; Council Bluffs, IA; Margate City, NJ; St. Petersburg, FL; and Tampa, FL. She would love to see you on the road; find out more here.

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is so thrilled to announce her FALLING FOR PEACTHREE BLUFF Tour!! Check it out because you know it won’t be complete without YOU! She is working away on her next novel and trying to savor every square inch of summer. It is going way too fast! She is so excited that John Searles will be joining her tomorrow in Atlantic Beach for a fun event, and, it is also her favorite week of the year… Her birthday! (If you want to help her celebrate, she loves reviews of SUMMER STATE OF MIND on Amazon, Goodreads, or wherever you review your books ;))

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY is so excited for you to see this week’s show with Ben Reeves and his beautiful debut, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt. This week, Patti was reminded again of the power of community and family as she attended two funerals for people she loved. Some weeks are full to overflowing with fun and adventure and others are a reminder of the fragility of life and how much our love matters to each other. Now she is off to her nephew’s wedding and then to visit her daughter and grandbabies for nearly two weeks. A slew of photos incoming! Did you see that Kristy and Patti announced the new Friends and Fiction Subscription box?

MARY KAY ANDREWS had a blast doing three events with old pal John Searles this week. She’ll be at Poe & Company Bookstore in Milton, GA on Thursday for their Crabapple Summer Stroll at 5pm (deets HERE). And she’ll be the author du jour next Monday July 20th with the Friends & Fiction Book Club (join us HERE).

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Upcoming Events

Kristin is touring in July/August for her forthcoming book, Meet Me in Paris. Stay tuned to her events page 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, Mary Kay Andrews & Patti Callahan Henry welcomed NYT-bestselling author John Searles to discuss his infectious and utterly charming new novel, Single Girls, which is a fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, and the intrepid group of women she took under her wing to create one of the most talked about magazines of all time.

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

Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
Watch: July 15 | Listen: July 17

Kristin Harmel, Meet Me in Paris
Watch LIVE: July 22 | Listen: July 24

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!

Get your subscription NOW from Oxford Exchange!

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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!

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 Kristy Woodson Harvey about her new novel, Summer State of Mind. Mark your calendars for July 20th for their next author guest, Mary Kay Andrews, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Road Trip. 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.
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Find details about everything F&F on our WEBSITE.
Shop our guests’ & hosts’ books in our shop on BOOKSHOP.
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Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus content from our hosts and guests.

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Meet John Searles TONIGHT!

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—July 8, 2026

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

Join us Wednesday, July 8th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Mary Kay Andrews & Patti Callahan Henry welcome NYT-bestselling author John Searles to discuss his infectious and utterly charming new novel, Single Girls, which is a fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, and the intrepid group of women she took under her wing to create one of the most talked about magazines of all time.

John is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of four atmospheric thrillers including Strange But True which was adapted as a major motion picture starring Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Brian Cox, Blythe Danner, and Margaret Qualley. He appears regularly on the Today show to discuss his favorite book selections and has written for The New York Times, Oprah Daily, and The Washington Post. He spent more than two decades as a top editor at Cosmopolitan. He joins us to chat about Single Girls which has been named a Best Book of Summer by Oprah Daily, Harper’s Bazaar, and The Boston Globe, and been praised as “an irresistibly fun, sparkling novel that you’ll want to binge in one night” by Kevin Kwan, and “a poignant and rollicking good time” by Wally Lamb.

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 7/8 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 7/10.

Meanwhile, order John’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 a fabulous Fourth of July weekend with her mom, husband and son at Disney World, which is her family’s annual tradition! Disney World put on their special, patriotic fireworks show three nights in a row–July 3, 4, and 5–and Kristin got to watch the first two nights from the Polynesian and the final night from the Contemporary. If you know Kristin, you know how much she loves Disney World, so this is always a summer highlight! She’s currently gearing up for her book tour for MEET ME IN PARIS, which kicks off in less than three weeks…. She hopes to see you on the road!

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY had the best week celebrating the 4th with family, friends, parades, and lots of time on the water! Summer is going too quickly, but she’s soaking up every second! She’s working away on her next novel and… a film project she can’t wait to tell you more about! ICYMI: the next Friends & Fiction Subscription Box is available now! Get Falling for Peachtree Bluff, Patti’s Heart of the Wild and exclusive F&F swag! Plus, an exclusive book club with Kristy and Patti when you order before July 22! Order HERE.

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY had an incredible week full of family, friends, and celebrating the 250th (photos on her instagram) in South Carolina. Even that record breaking heat could not deter them from cooking out, laughing at each other’s foibles, boating, swimming in the river, watching fireworks, and celebrating at a band party. Also, earlier this week she revisited the place that inspired her newest novel HEART OF THE WILD (out in April of 2027) — Sewanee, TN. Those mountains are just as beautiful as they were the day she first visited 13 years ago. And, coming up tonight, she is so excited for everyone to see the interview with John Searles. Patti had the best time talking to him about his new novel, Single Girls.

MARY KAY ANDREWS celebrated the Fourth in a big small town way, watching the town’s parade, and sharing a potluck BBQ with family and friends. Wednesday night she’s doing a fun wine and book-signing at the historic King and Prince Resort on St. Simon’s Island with GJFord Booksellers. Tickets are available here. She’ll be at The Bookshelf in Thomasville, GA on Friday, and on Sunday she starts a fun mini-tour with pal John Searles to celebrate publication of his new book, SINGLE GIRLS, at FoxTale Bookshoppe in Woodstock, Ga. Then it’s on to Florida for two more events. Get all the details here.

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Upcoming Events

Kristin is touring in July/August for her forthcoming book, Meet Me in Paris. Stay tuned to her events page 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, Ron Block & Mary Kay Andrews welcomed #1 NYT-bestselling author Lisa Jewell to discuss her “deliciously dark, devilishly addictive” (Alice Feeney) new novel It Could Have Been Her, in which two women’s lives converge in a house containing devastating secrets that refuse to stay buried.

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

SUMMER 2026 SEASON
John Searles, Single Girls
Watch: July 8 | Listen: July 10

Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
Watch: July 15 | Listen: July 17

Kristin Harmel, Meet Me in Paris
Watch LIVE: July 22 | Listen: July 24

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!

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 Kristy Woodson Harvey about her new novel, Summer State of Mind. Mark your calendars for July 20th for their next author guest, Mary Kay Andrews, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Road Trip. 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 Lisa Jewell TONIGHT!

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—June 24, 2026

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

Join us Wednesday, June 24th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Ron Block & Mary Kay Andrews welcome #1 NYT-bestselling author Lisa Jewell to discuss her “deliciously dark, devilishly addictive” (Alice Feeney) new novel It Could Have Been Her, in which two women’s lives converge in a house containing devastating secrets that refuse to stay buried.

Lisa Jewell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels, including Don’t Let Him In, None of This Is True, The Family Upstairs, and Then She Was Gone. Her novels have sold more than 15-million copies internationally, and her work has been translated into more than 30 languages. She joins us from her home in London before embarking on her US tour to chat about her new psychological thriller, It Could Have Been Her, which Riley Sager calls “twisty, twisted and oh so dark,” and Publishers Weekly calls a “pitch-black spine-tingler.”

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 6/24 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 6/26.

Meanwhile, order Lisa’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!

MARY KAY ANDREWS was so excited to see her new novel appear on the USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists last week. She hopscotched from Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard to Chateau Elan in Braselton, GA last week for her ROAD TRIP book tour, and was thrilled to share a signing with Elin Hilderbrand and then lunch afterwards with F&F bestie Tim Ehrenberg (AKA Tim Talks Books.) She’s off to join Kristy in Beaufort, NC for a kickoff luncheon for Old Homes Week on Wednesday, then she’ll head down to Thomasville, GA for a signing at The Bookshelf. Tickets here. On Sunday she’ll be at the Forsyth County, GA library for back-to-back events with Atlanta author pal Colleen Oakley. Get tickets here. MKA has several more events coming up, so check her website for all the deets. Oh, and tomorrow, Thursday June 25th, for one-day only, the Summers at the Saint e-book will be marked down to just $2.99 as part of an Amazon Kindle Gold Box deal. Score that deal HERE.

KRISTIN HARMEL managed to knock out several chapters of her 2028 novel while on a solo mini writing retreat last week, so she’s happy to be chugging along! She snuck in a visit with her friends Molly Stevens and Aria Mia Loberti—and Aria surprised her with a hand-painted bag featuring all of her novels! This week, she’ll be writing in the mornings and hanging out with her dear friend Kristen, and her two honorary nephews Colton and Eddie, in the afternoons; they’re in town for a Disney World visit! Just five weeks to go until the launch of MEET ME IN PARIS! How is that possible? In the meantime, if you’re looking to snag some fun Prime Day deals, check out deals on THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU and THE PARIS DAUGHTER, plus a Kindle deal for THE LIFE INTENDED – all good through June 26. Finally, Kristin is thrilled to see MEET ME IN PARIS as a LibraryReads Hall of Fame title for July! And, if you are a Barnes & Noble Premium or Rewards member, you can get 25% off all online pre-orders of MEET ME IN PARIS (in any format) at B&N.com using code PREORDER25 at checkout now through Fri 6/26! More fun MEET ME IN PARIS news coming soon!

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is so excited that Old Homes Tour week is HERE! If you’ve read her novel A HAPPIER LIFE, you know all about that! And, even better, the one and only Mary Kay Andrews is coming to be the speaker for the kickoff literary luncheon! She had the best time chatting with her F&F Official Book Club gals on Monday and… giving a little sneak peek of her FALLING FOR PEACHTREE BLUFF tour. Stay tuned for full tour dates, preorder freebies, and more! AND, she has F&F pal John Searles coming to Atlantic Beach on July 16 – AKA, the national holiday that is her birthday! – in conjunction with Earlier.org and Carolina Women’s Collective. Find out more information and get your tickets! Speaking of FALLING FOR PEACHTREE BLUFF, if you are a Barnes & Noble Premium or Rewards member, you can get 25% off all online pre-orders of my forthcoming fall book (in any format) at B&N.com using code PREORDER25 at checkout now through Fr 6/26!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY had an incredible week visiting her son in Washington, DC and spending a couple days in Middleburg, VA where she was so enchanted with the countryside that she felt, for a few brief moments, that she might be capable of owning and managing a horse farm. The feeling passed. In DC, she visited the National Archives and saw an original Magna Carta and Declaration of Independence. She wandered the hallways of the National Gallery of Art Museum and was also lucky enough to get a private tour of the Supreme Court and enter the hallowed courtroom where you can’t take photos! (Did it even happen if you didn’t take a photo? Yes, it did). AND most EXCITING!!!! – with People Magazine, Patti revealed her title and cover for her April 2027 novel HEART OF THE WILD. CLICK HERE TO SEE IT. Stay tuned to Patti’s Instagram for news of several marked down e-books of her titles this week. And, if you are a Barnes & Noble Premium or Rewards member, you can get 25% off all online pre-orders of HEART OF THE WILD (in any format) at B&N.com using code PREORDER25 at checkout now through Fr 6/26!

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Upcoming Events

See MKA’s remaining Road Trip tour dates HERE.

Kristin will be touring in July/August for her forthcoming book, Meet Me in Paris. Stay tuned to her events page 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, Kristin Harmel & Kristy Woodson Harvey welcomed beloved New York Times bestselling author Lisa See to discuss her new novel, Daughters of the Sun and Moon, the story of three Chinese women whose unexpected friendship helps them survive and, despite the odds, thrive, in the turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles.

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: Joshilyn Jackson, Missing Sister
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lucy Score, Mistakes Were Made
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SPRING 2026 SCHEDULE:
Already aired: Virginia Evans, The Correspondent & Allen Levi, Theo of Golden
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Already aired: Evelyn Clarke, The Ending Writes Itself
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Already aired: Tana French, The Keeper
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Already aired: Lynn Cullen, When We Were Brilliant & Priya Parmar, The Original
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kristy Woodson Harvey, Summer State of Mind
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Christina Baker Kline, The Foursome
WATCH | LISTEN

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

Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
Watch: 6/24 | Listen: 6/26

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 more than 43,000 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 Kristy Woodson Harvey about her new novel, Summer State of Mind. Mark your calendars for July 20th for their next author guest, Mary Kay Andrews, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Road Trip. 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 June prompt is to read a book whose title starts with the letter “S” and for July it’s to read a book about a road trip.

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 Lisa See TONIGHT!

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—June 17, 2026

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

Join us Wednesday, June 17th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Kristin Harmel & Kristy Woodson Harvey welcome beloved New York Times bestselling author Lisa See to discuss her new novel, Daughters of the Sun and Moon, the story of three Chinese women whose unexpected friendship helps them survive and, despite the odds, thrive, in the turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles.

Lisa See is the NYT-bestselling author of a dozen novels including Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, The Island of Sea Women, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. She is also the author of the memoir, On Gold Mountain, which tells the story of her Chinese American family’s settlement in Los Angeles. See was the recipient of the Golden Spike Award from the Chinese Historical Association of Southern California and the Historymaker’s Award from the Chinese American Museum and was named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women. We look forward to discussing her new book, Daughters of the Sun and Moon, which Library Journal called “a stunning piece of historical fiction based in truth” in a starred review.

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 6/17 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 6/19.

Meanwhile, order Lisa’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!

MARY KAY ANDREWS is still pinching herself because her 34th novel ROAD TRIP debuts at #5 on this week’s New York Times bestseller list, thanks to all of you who bought the book, reviewed it, or talked it up on our F&F page. The first two weeks of book tour went by in a whirl, and she was so grateful for all the friendly faces who graced the front row of her events at stops from South Carolina to the Jersey Shore to the Midwest to New England. Our Meg Walker was her steadfast roadie for the first two weeks, but on Friday MKA’s daughter-in-law Meghan took over. The two of them enjoyed a rare day off Sunday with a trip to Newport, RI, where they hit an estate sale (duh!) took the historic Cliff Walk tour, and ended the day with an early dinner of lobster rolls and rosé. Catch MKA today, Wednesday, on Nantucket, where she’ll be signing with Elin Hilderbrand, or Thursday on Martha’s Vineyard. Lots more events to come, and you can see the full calendar here, including a stop on Saturday, June 20th at Chateau Elan in Braselton, GA.

KRISTIN HARMEL took herself on a little writing retreat this week…. With her son on a vacation with his grandparents, and her husband busy running a summer camp for high school kids interested in construction, she has a few days all to herself and is determined to write lots and lots of words (she’s working on her 2028 book). She’s just under six weeks out from the publication of MEET ME IN PARIS… It’ll be here before we know it!

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is having a great summer so far and working hard on her next book! She is so excited about Mary Kay Andrews coming to Beaufort on June 24 and can’t wait to see a lot of readers there! SUMMER STATE OF MIND was also included in The Atlanta Journal Constitution in a list sharing summer beach reads that boast buttloads of humor and romance alongside Mary Kay Andrews’ brand new, instant New York Times bestseller, ROAD TRIP!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY was in New York last week meeting with her entire publishing team from editor to publisher to publicist to agent and more. She was reminded – again – that it might be her name on the cover of the novel but there are so many devoted people behind the scenes. It literally takes an entire enthusiastic, smart band of people to launch a book well. And launch they are! KEEP YOUR EYE OUT FOR THE COVER AND TITLE REVEAL tomorrow, June 18th at 9 AM EST on People Magazine, PCH’s Instagram and all of F&F’s channels. We can’t wait to share it with you! FINALLY she can start talking about the novel and there’s so much to tell you. Also this past week she LOVED celebrating MKA’s monster week premiering at number 5 on the NYT list.

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Upcoming Events

MKA is on tour now for Road Trip. See her full book tour HERE.

Kristin will be touring in July/August for her forthcoming book, Meet Me in Paris. See her full book tour 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, Patti Callahan Henry & Kristin Harmel welcomed #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett to discuss her new Katie Couric and Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick, Whistler, a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time.

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: Joshilyn Jackson, Missing Sister
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lucy Score, Mistakes Were Made
WATCH | LISTEN

SPRING 2026 SCHEDULE:
Already aired: Virginia Evans, The Correspondent & Allen Levi, Theo of Golden
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Evelyn Clarke, The Ending Writes Itself
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Tana French, The Keeper
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lynn Cullen, When We Were Brilliant & Priya Parmar, The Original
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kristy Woodson Harvey, Summer State of Mind
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Christina Baker Kline, The Foursome
WATCH | LISTEN

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

Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Watch: 6/17 | Listen: 6/19

Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
Watch: 6/24 | Listen: 6/26

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!

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 Kristy Woodson Harvey about her new novel, Summer State of Mind. Mark your calendars for July 20th for their next author guest, Mary Kay Andrews, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Road Trip. 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.
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Find details about everything F&F on our WEBSITE.
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Meet Ann Patchett TONIGHT!

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—June 10, 2026

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

Join us Wednesday, June 10th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Patti Callahan Henry & Kristin Harmel welcome #1 New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett to discuss her new Katie Couric and Good Housekeeping Book Club Pick, Whistler, a moving, luminous novel that reminds us of the sweetness and impermanence of life and the power of connection to defy time.

Ann Patchett is the author of ten novels, most recently the #1 New York Times bestselling Tom Lake, five works of nonfiction, and three children’s books whose work has been translated into more than thirty languages. A winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and the Book Sense Book of the Year, she was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time magazine, and was awarded the National Humanities Medal in recognition of her contributions to American culture by President Biden. Her novel The Dutch House was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She joins us from her home in Nashville—where she is the owner of Parnassus Books—to discuss her new novel Whistler, which has earned a trifecta of starred reviews from Booklist (“entrancing, radiant, and heart-seizing”), Publishers Weekly (“beautiful and generous”), and Kirkus (“death-defying, heart-opening”).

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 6/10 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 6/12.

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

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Latest News from the Fab Four!

MARY KAY ANDREWS is endlessly grateful for the support for her new novel ROAD TRIP, which launched with a bang in Atlanta, followed by a second big-bang F&F live event in Savannah with Kristin Harmel, PCH and, of course, Meg Walker and Ron Block. Tour stops so far have included Myrtle Beach, Ocean Isle Beach, Greenville, Greensboro, Raleigh, Bluffton, Charleston (where MKA was in conversation with PCH), the Jersey Shore, the Delaware beaches, Severna Park, MD, Cleveland (with Ron Block), Columbus, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. Lots more events to come—get the deets here. And did you see the Homeworthy tour of Ebbtide, MKA’s Tybee Island, GA beach house? Now you know what she does with all her estate sale finds! And there was also a recent feature in Woman’s World magazine about MKA’s weight loss. Meanwhile the tour rolls on with Fairhope AL on Thursday and then on up to the northeast for a string of events.

KRISTIN HARMEL had the best time hanging out with MKA, Patti, Meg, and Ron in Savannah last week for MKA’s ROAD TRIP launch event with E. Shaver Bookseller! They all missed Kristy, though! Last night, Kristin got to chat with Eliza Knight about her new novel, LOST IN THE SUMMER OF ‘69, with Writer’s Block Bookstore in Winter Park, FL. Today, she’ll be cutting the ribbon at 10am for the grand opening of a new Barnes & Noble store in the Lake Nona area of Orlando. She’s looking forward to hitting the road in less than seven weeks for her MEET ME IN PARIS book tour; see the full schedule here.

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is SO THRILLED that Joanna Garcia Swisher (she’s not sure if she loves her more as Maddie in Sweet Magnolias or Cheyenne in Reba!) chose SUMMER STATE OF MIND as her Rolling Clover Reads for June! She is also getting excited about being on the Friends & Fiction book club live next Monday at 7 pm! She hasn’t gotten to talk about spoilers yet and that is her favorite part! She is so excited because today… She began something new! An idea she had on tour that she can’t wait to share with you. She started it on the beach this morning and let’s just say, this was a strange book to start on the beach! Is that a hint?! And, FALLING FOR PEACHTREE BLUFF has a huge, 40-copy giveaway over on Goodreads! Enter here! Overall, let’s just say that Kristy is in a SUMMER STATE OF MIND and hopes you’ll pick up her new book so you can be in one too!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY loved being on part of MKA’s road trip through Savannah and Charleston. Now she’s back home readying for a trip to New York to meet with her publisher and editor about next year’s novel because the planning starts early! Have you checked out her latest instagram post where she talks about what she’s reading and looking forward to reading? And she’s so excited for all of you to watch this week’s episode with Ann Patchett (spoiler: Patti loved Whistler).

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Upcoming Events

MKA is on tour now for Road Trip. See her full book tour HERE.

Kristin will be touring in July/August for her forthcoming book, Meet Me in Paris. Stay tuned to her events page 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 & Mary Kay Andrews welcomed New York Times bestselling author Annabel Monaghan to discuss her brand-new novel, Dolly All the Time—the GMA Book Club pick for June—in which a hardworking single mom returns to her seaside hometown and stumbles into a fake dating situationship with a wealthy, workaholic scion.

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: Joshilyn Jackson, Missing Sister
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lucy Score, Mistakes Were Made
WATCH | LISTEN

SPRING 2026 SCHEDULE:
Already aired: Virginia Evans, The Correspondent & Allen Levi, Theo of Golden
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Evelyn Clarke, The Ending Writes Itself
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Tana French, The Keeper
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lynn Cullen, When We Were Brilliant & Priya Parmar, The Original
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kristy Woodson Harvey, Summer State of Mind
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Christina Baker Kline, The Foursome
WATCH | LISTEN

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

Ann Patchett, Whistler
Watch: 6/10 | Listen: 6/12

Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Watch: 6/17 | Listen: 6/19

Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
Watch: 6/24 | Listen: 6/26

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!

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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!

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 Wade Rouse about his new novel, That’s What Friends Are For. Mark your calendars for June 15th for their next author guest, Kristy Woodson Harvey, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Summer State of Mind. 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.

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Meet Annabel Monaghan TONIGHT!

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—June 3, 2026

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

Join us Wednesday, June 3rd at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Kristy Woodson Harvey & Mary Kay Andrews welcome New York Times bestselling author Annabel Monaghan to discuss her brand-new novel, Dolly All the Time—the GMA Book Club pick for June—in which a hardworking single mom returns to her seaside hometown and stumbles into a fake dating situationship with a wealthy, workaholic scion.

Annabel Monaghan is the NYT-bestselling and Library Reads Hall of Fame author of It’s a Love Story, Summer Romance, Same Time Next Summer, and Nora Goes Off Script, as well as two young adult novels and Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in The Huffington Post, The Week, and The Rye Record. After twenty-five years in the suburbs of New York City, she now splits her time between Connecticut and Florida. Her novels have been translated into twenty-three languages. Annabel joins us to discuss Dolly All the Time, which Carley Fortune calls, “a luminous story of love, duty, and the tension between the two” that is “less like a novel and more like a place I never wanted to leave,” and which Elle Kennedy says, “grips you from the very first page and sparkles like the sun.”

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 6/3 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 6/5.

Meanwhile, order Annabel’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!

MARY KAY ANDREWS is off and running with the publication of ROAD TRIP after a weekend of sold-out events in Myrtle Beach, Atlanta, Greenville, Greensboro and Raleigh. She loved seeing so many F&F members at those events and can’t wait for tonight’s F&F Live launch party in Savannah with Kristin, Patti, Ron and Meg. You can still catch her at upcoming tour events. Go here for all the deets. And in the meantime, you can enjoy the brand-new Homeworthy virtual tour of Ebbtide, MKA’s restored Tybee Island beach house, here. She LOVED Annabel Monaghan’s new book Dolly All the Time and hopes you enjoy tonight’s episode!

KRISTIN HARMEL is sending all good wishes out to MKA, who’s absolutely killing it out there on her road trip for ROAD TRIP! Happy book birthday, MKA! Kristin’s book tour for MEET ME IN PARIS was just announced this week, too; she’ll be kicking it off in less than eight weeks at Parnassus Books in Nashville, followed by stops in Ocean Isle Beach, NC; North Myrtle Beach, SC; Bethany Beach, DE; Lewes, DE; Scottsdale, AZ; Tucson, AZ; Denver, CO; St. Louis, MO; Plainville, MA; Orlando, FL; and more! See her whole tour schedule at https://kristinharmel.com/events/. Tonight, of course, you can catch Kristin live and in person with MKA, Patti, Meg, and Ron in Savannah… and next week, she’ll be appearing at two Orlando area-events; a book launch for Eliza Knight on Tuesday, and a ribbon-cutting for a new Barnes & Noble location on Wednesday. Find all the information here.

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is so excited to be celebrating her son’s eighth grade graduation today – but so sad to miss all of you in Savannah! BUT, she will get to celebrate with MKA on June 24 in her beloved Beaufort, so, if you’re in the area, get your tickets now! She is celebrating with all of you in spirit and so excited about this book! She is – unbelievably – already gearing up for the FALLING FOR PEACHTREE BLUFF tour, which is almost completely booked! What?! And she’s writing away on a special surprise project for 2027 (her 2028 novel is finished and she thought she was taking 2027 off, but the story gods had other ideas!)

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY spent the weekend putting her office back together after a renovation – every rock, feather, photo, and book is in its place! Photos forthcoming! She is working hard on material for her upcoming book, and soon she will have a cover reveal for the 2027 novel! (June 18th, to be exact). She is having so much fun watching Mary Kay’s epic road trip and can’t wait to join her for the next two nights of fun in both Savannah and Charleston.

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Upcoming Events

MKA is on tour now for Road Trip. See her full book tour HERE.

Kristin will be touring in July/August for her forthcoming book, Meet Me in Paris. Stay tuned to her events page HERE.

See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.

See Kristy’s upcoming events HERE.

Join us Wednesday, June 3rd for an in-person Friends & Fiction Live event in Savannah to celebrate the launch of MKA’s Road Trip! Get full details and tickets HERE!

Get Savannah Tickets!

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, the full F&F family gathered to celebrate the launch of our very own “undisputed queen of beach reads,” (Southern Living) NYT-bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews’s new book, Road Trip, which is, of course, our June 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: Joshilyn Jackson, Missing Sister
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lucy Score, Mistakes Were Made
WATCH | LISTEN

SPRING 2026 SCHEDULE:
Already aired: Virginia Evans, The Correspondent & Allen Levi, Theo of Golden
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Evelyn Clarke, The Ending Writes Itself
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Tana French, The Keeper
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lynn Cullen, When We Were Brilliant & Priya Parmar, The Original
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kristy Woodson Harvey, Summer State of Mind
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Christina Baker Kline, The Foursome
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club
WATCH | LISTEN

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

Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time
Watch: 6/3 | Listen: 6/5

Ann Patchett, Whistler
Watch: 6/10 | Listen: 6/12

Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Watch: 6/17 | Listen: 6/19

Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
Watch: 6/24 | Listen: 6/26

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 Wade Rouse about his new novel, That’s What Friends Are For. Mark your calendars for June 15th for their next author guest, Kristy Woodson Harvey, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Summer State of Mind. 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

Celebrating Road Trip LIVE with Mary Kay Andrews

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—May 27, 2026

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

Join us on Wednesday, May 27th LIVE at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as the full F&F family gathers to celebrate the launch of our very own “undisputed queen of beach reads,” (Southern Living) NYT-bestselling author Mary Kay Andrews’s new book, Road Trip, which is, of course, our June Pick of the Month!

A former journalist with a fourteen-year career in newspapers, including a decade as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, MKA is the NYT-bestselling author of thirty-four novels and a cookbook. Her novel, Summers at the Saint is currently in development with Universal Studios. She joins us before heading out on a massive book tour to discuss her most personal novel to date in which two estranged sisters honor their mother’s dying wish to take a road trip to Ireland to uncover the provenance of a mysterious and potentially priceless family portrait. Publishers Weekly says Road Trip “sparkles,” and Library Journal calls it “a delightful tale with vivid characters.” We can’t wait to celebrate in grand F&F style complete with games, a signature cocktail, and lots of laughs.

Join us for the LIVE video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 5/27 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 5/29.

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

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Latest News from the Fab Four!

MARY KAY ANDREWS spent the Memorial Day weekend dodging raindrops, doing last minute shopping with daughter-in-law Meghan for her ROAD TRIP book tour—travel umbrella, check, comfy airport shoes, check, air-vac compression bags for suitcase packing, check. Saturday she joined her extended family to celebrate a high school graduation. A fun dinner with friends on Sunday, and brunch with son Andy and wife on Monday. MKA’s so excited to finally launch ROAD TRIP with the F&F gang tonight. She also announced a fun giveaway for the in-person Savannah F&F event on June 3. Every ticket-buyer to the Savannah event will be entered into a drawing to win a two-night stay at a dreamy restored vacation rental townhouse in historic downtown Savannah, courtesy of her friends at Lucky Savannah Vacation Rentals. Go here to buy tickets.

KRISTIN HARMEL spent the weekend celebrating her mother’s birthday (along with her brother and his family), and then on Memorial Day, she spent the day with her family and friends at Discovery Cove, where she swam with a dolphin and snorkeled with stingrays and tropical fish. What a weekend! She’s so excited to be launching MKA’s ROAD TRIP on the show this week–and to meet up with her Friends & Fiction friends next week in Savannah for MKA’s in-person celebration!

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is so grateful to everyone for all your support of SUMMER STATE OF MIND, which just had its second week on the USA TODAY Bestseller List! Hooray! She had the best start to summer with friends and family on the water, and couldn’t be more thrilled for her favorite season to be beginning. She absolutely LOVED MKA’s ROAD TRIP and is so excited to celebrate the launch! She will miss all of you in real life in Savannah because—unbelievably—her son’s 8th Grade Graduation is that day. But she will be there in spirit and knows it will be fabulous!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY is thrilled to help MKA launch her book ROAD TRIP into the world! Join us tonight for the shenanigans. Patti had a great time in Simsbury CT at a library event and then a beautiful Memorial Day weekend with her family boating, pooling (as if that’s a verb) and finishing her page proofs!

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Upcoming Events

MKA’s Road Trip book tour kicks off this Friday May 29th with a double-header of events in North Myrtle Beach, SC & Ocean Isle Beach, NC. See the full book tour details & ticketing links HERE.

Kristin will be touring in July/August for her forthcoming book, Meet Me in Paris. Stay tuned to her events page HERE.

See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.

See Kristy’s upcoming events HERE.

Join us Wednesday, June 3rd for an in-person Friends & Fiction Live event in Savannah to celebrate the launch of MKA’s Road Trip! Get full details and tickets HERE!

Get Savannah Tickets!

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, Patti Callahan Henry & Mary Kay Andrews welcomed the multimillion-copy-selling author of The Help, Kathryn Stockett, to discuss The Calamity Club, her bold, big-hearted new novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what’s rightfully theirs—and the power of friendship to change everything.

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: Joshilyn Jackson, Missing Sister
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lucy Score, Mistakes Were Made
WATCH | LISTEN

SPRING 2026 SCHEDULE:
Already aired: Virginia Evans, The Correspondent & Allen Levi, Theo of Golden
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Evelyn Clarke, The Ending Writes Itself
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Tana French, The Keeper
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lynn Cullen, When We Were Brilliant & Priya Parmar, The Original
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kristy Woodson Harvey, Summer State of Mind
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Christina Baker Kline, The Foursome
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club
WATCH | LISTEN

Mary Kay Andrews, Road Trip
Watch LIVE: 5/27 | Listen: 5/29

Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time
Watch: 6/3 | Listen: 6/5

Ann Patchett, Whistler
Watch: 6/10 | Listen: 6/12

Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Watch: 6/17 | Listen: 6/19

Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
Watch: 6/24 | Listen: 6/26

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!

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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!

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 Wade Rouse about his new novel, That’s What Friends Are For. Mark your calendars for June 15th for their next author guest, Kristy Woodson Harvey, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Summer State of Mind. 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.

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Best-Of Re-Airing with Steven Rowley, Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—May 20, 2026

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

On Wednesday, May 20th 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 the Fab Four talk to Steven Rowley about his 2023 novel The Celebrants, and to Liz Fenton & Lisa Steinke about their 2023 novel Forever Hold Your Peace.

Steven Rowley is the NYT-bestselling author of six novels including The Guncle, winner of 2021’s Thurber Prize for American Humor. His fiction has been published in twenty languages and all of his books are in development for feature film or television adaptation. In this episode, he joined us to discuss his NYT bestseller and Read With Jenna Book Club pick, The Celebrants. Steven’s got a new novel, Take Me With You, coming on May 19th.

Best friends for more than three decades, Liz & Lisa have co-authored eight novels in addition to hosting a podcast, and appearing monthly on a San Diego news station to share their favorite book club picks. In this episode we discussed their Father of the Bride meets Bride Wars rom-com Forever Hold Your Peace. We hope you’ll check out their latest novel, The Naysayers, which was released earlier this year.

So, as you prep for your Memorial Day weekend festivities, tune in for this interview, now with a brand-new introduction from Kristin Harmel.

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 5/20 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 5/22.

Order Steven’s and Liz & Lisa’s new books on Bookshop.org! 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!

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is heading home from her last stop on this first round of SUMMER STATE OF MIND tour dates. She is SO grateful to everyone who came out to see her on the road and to all of you who have already purchased your copies of the book. What a gift you are! That said… The fun isn’t over, and there are plenty more times to see Kristy, so check out her tour dates. Also, if you’re on the fence, check out this exclusive excerpt in People. Plus, she absolutely loves writing personal essays. It’s how she got her start in writing! This piece in Country Living about a kind strawberry farmer was so fun to write, and she hopes you enjoy it!

MARY KAY ANDREWS is crossing off ALL the things on her pre-tour to-do list before she sets off on her ROAD TRIP. Events are selling out fast but tickets are still available (as of today) for the kick-off luncheon on Friday May 29 with Litchfield Books in Pawley’s Island, SC, with an evening event just up the road at Silver Coast Winery. The big Atlanta launch party on Sunday May 31 with Bookbird of Avondale Estates–when MKA will be in convo with the wildly entertaining but unpredictable Karin Slaughter is almost at capacity. And there are still seats available for the Friends & Fiction Live Savannah show with the whole F&F crew (except Kristy Woodson Harvey who gets a hall pass because it’s her son’s middle school graduation) on Weds. June 3 with E.Shaver Books. See MKA’s complete tour schedule here.

KRISTIN HARMEL can’t believe her son only has one more week of 4th grade… Kristin is volunteering today for his end-of-year class party. She’s also looking forward to celebrating her mom’s birthday this weekend at—where else?—Disney World. She’s putting the final touches on her July/August tour for MEET ME IN PARIS, and she looks forward to sharing all her tour dates with you soon!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY just received her first pass pages (these pages are the first time an author sees her work in the same format as the book)! She has also seen the cover and can’t wait to share everything SOON! She spent the weekend in Fairhope, AL at a wedding and a fascinating conversation with Kathryn Stockett about her newest, The Calamity Club. Photos here! This week, she’ll be in CT at an event and then off to celebrate Memorial Day with her family!

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

Kristy is on tour now for her new book, Summer State of Mind. Stay tuned to her events page HERE.

MKA will be touring in June for her forthcoming book, Road Trip. Stay tuned to her events page HERE.

Kristin will be touring in July/August for her forthcoming book, Meet Me in Paris. Stay tuned to her events page HERE.

See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.

Join us Wednesday, June 3rd for an in-person Friends & Fiction Live event in Savannah to celebrate the launch of MKA’s Road Trip! Get full details and tickets HERE!

Get Savannah Tickets!

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, Patti Callahan Henry & Mary Kay Andrews welcomed the multimillion-copy-selling author of The Help, Kathryn Stockett, to discuss The Calamity Club, her bold, big-hearted new novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what’s rightfully theirs—and the power of friendship to change everything.

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: Joshilyn Jackson, Missing Sister
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lucy Score, Mistakes Were Made
WATCH | LISTEN

SPRING 2026 SCHEDULE:
Already aired: Virginia Evans, The Correspondent & Allen Levi, Theo of Golden
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Evelyn Clarke, The Ending Writes Itself
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Tana French, The Keeper
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lynn Cullen, When We Were Brilliant & Priya Parmar, The Original
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kristy Woodson Harvey, Summer State of Mind
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Christina Baker Kline, The Foursome
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club
WATCH | LISTEN

Mary Kay Andrews, Road Trip
Watch LIVE: 5/27 | Listen: 5/29

Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time
Watch: 6/3 | Listen: 6/5

Ann Patchett, Whistler
Watch: 6/10 | Listen: 6/12

Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Watch: 6/17 | Listen: 6/19

Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
Watch: 6/24 | Listen: 6/26

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 Wade Rouse about his new novel, That’s What Friends Are For. Mark your calendars for June 15th for their next author guest, Kristy Woodson Harvey, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Summer State of Mind. 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 Kathryn Stockett TONIGHT!

Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—May 13, 2026

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

Join us Wednesday, May 13th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Patti Callahan Henry & Mary Kay Andrews welcome the multimillion-copy-selling author of The Help, Kathryn Stockett, to discuss The Calamity Club, her bold, big-hearted new novel about a group of unbreakable women, fighting for what’s rightfully theirs—and the power of friendship to change everything.

Kathryn Stockett was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. After graduating from the University of Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she worked in magazine publishing and marketing. Her first novel, The Help—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—was a #1 New York Times bestseller that has sold over 15-million copies worldwide and was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film. Seventeen years after this cultural phenomenon, Stockett returns with a new novel that Oprah Daily calls, “so immersive, exciting, and downright fabulous, you never want it to end.” We cannot wait to talk to her about this eagerly anticipated book that Bonnie Garmus calls “a must-read,” Adriana Trigiani calls, “terrific,” and the New York Times calls, “heart-wrenching [and] often hilarious.”

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 5/13 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 5/15.

Meanwhile, order Kathryn’s new book 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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Latest News from the Fab Four!

KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is having an amazing time on tour and is loving seeing so many familiar and new faces! She still has events in Sneads Ferry, NC, Ocean Isle Beach, NC, Pawleys Island, SC, Columbia, SC, and Camden, SC coming up and would love to see you there! Check out her whole tour schedule here! Also, if you haven’t snagged your copy of SUMMER STATE OF MIND yet and are on the fence… Check out this awesome snippet in People! Kristy is so grateful for all the support so far on this launch and can’t thank each of you enough for your reviews and posts and showing up on tour and all the love! She hopes to see you soon in a town near you and hopes you’re loving SUMMER STATE OF MIND!

MARY KAY ANDREWS is getting revved up for the June 2nd publication of ROAD TRIP, her 34th novel. You can see her entire tour schedule here. Tickets are selling fast for the Atlanta launch party, at The Chapel on Sycamore in Decatur, where MKA will be in conversation with Karin Slaughter. Your ticket (buy it here!) gets you a signed first edition of the book, a swag bag, drinks and light bites. She and Mr. MKA are busy testing recipes for a signature cocktail they’re calling The Roadie, made with their favorite bourbon from 13th Colony Distilleries. Can’t make it to Atlanta? Join the F&F crew (minus Kristy, who has a previous commitment) in Savannah, where ROAD TRIP is partially set, on Weds. June 3 for the Friend & Fiction Live launch party, complete with managing director Meg Walker and rockstar librarian Ron Block. You’re coming right? Buy tickets here.

KRISTIN HARMEL is back home after a whirlwind trip to France last week with her family. Paris is always a highlight, of course, but this time, she was very moved to get to visit Normandy, where she, Jason, and 10-year-old Noah toured D-Day sites including Omaha Beach, Utah Beach, Brecourt Manor, and the American Cemetery with a private guide (Malcolm Clough, who was absolutely fabulous–Kristin would recommend him to anyone planning to visit Normandy!). In Reims, the center of the Champagne region (where The Winemaker’s Wife is set), she, Jason, and Noah got to visit Notre Dame de Reims (the stunning cathedral where 25 kings of France were coronated) and the G.H. Mumm Champagne house for a tour. And in Paris, they had some fabulous meals out, got to see the Mona Lisa at the Louvre, picnicked under the Eiffel Tower, and even took a quick half-day trip out to Disneyland Paris (45 minutes from Paris by train). She wishes they could have stayed longer, but as usual, Paris has refilled her creative tank, and she’s back at her desk, diving headfirst into writing her 2028 novel! She hopes all the moms in Friends & Fiction world had a great Mother’s Day!

PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY had a lovely long weekend in the North Carolina mountains where her new book is set and spent Mother’s Day with family and being spoiled! She is so excited for y’all to watch the interview with Kathryn Stockett tonight, and if you’re anywhere near Fairhope, AL this weekend, Patti will be interviewing Kathryn live at Page and Palette. Meanwhile she is slowly slowly slowly putting her office back together after cleaning it shoveling it out for a new paint job!

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

Kristy is on tour now for her forthcoming book, Summer State of Mind. Stay tuned to her events page HERE.

MKA will be touring in June for her forthcoming book, Road Trip. Stay tuned to her events page HERE.

Kristin will be touring in July/August for her forthcoming book, Meet Me in Paris. Stay tuned to her events page HERE.

See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.

Join us Wednesday, June 3rd for an in-person Friends & Fiction Live event in Savannah to celebrate the launch of MKA’s Road Trip! Get full details and tickets HERE!

Get Savannah Tickets!

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, Patti Callahan Henry & Kristy Woodson Harvey welcomed #1 NYT-bestselling author Christina Baker Kline to discuss her new historical novel, The Foursome, a boldly original reimagining of the astonishing true story of two sisters in nineteenth-century North Carolina — Kline’s own distant relatives — who married world-famous conjoined twins from Siam.

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: Joshilyn Jackson, Missing Sister
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lucy Score, Mistakes Were Made
WATCH | LISTEN

SPRING 2026 SCHEDULE:
Already aired: Virginia Evans, The Correspondent & Allen Levi, Theo of Golden
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Evelyn Clarke, The Ending Writes Itself
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Tana French, The Keeper
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Lynn Cullen, When We Were Brilliant & Priya Parmar, The Original
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Kristy Woodson Harvey, Summer State of Mind
WATCH | LISTEN

Already aired: Christina Baker Kline, The Foursome
WATCH | LISTEN

Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club
Watch: 5/13 | Listen: 5/15

Mary Kay Andrews, Road Trip
Watch LIVE: 5/27 | Listen: 5/29

Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time
Watch: 6/3 | Listen: 6/5

Ann Patchett, Whistler
Watch: 6/10 | Listen: 6/12

Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
Watch: 6/17 | Listen: 6/19

Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
Watch: 6/24 | Listen: 6/26

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 Sarah Fox about her new novel, Definitely Maybe Not a Detective. Mark your calendars for May 18th for their next author guest, Wade Rouse, when they’ll discuss his new novel, That’s What Friends Are For. 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