Tune LIVE in at 7pm ET for TONIGHT’s episode! Join us Wednesday, November 5th LIVE at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as the full F&F family gathers to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Author, the award-winning global #1 bestselling David Baldacci to discuss our November 2025 Pick of the Month, his new thriller, Nash Falls, in which Walter Nash’s life is turned completely upside down when he’s recruited by the FBI to bring down a global crime network.
Baldacci is one of the world’s favorite storytellers with books published in more than forty-five languages in more than eighty countries with 200 million plus copies sold worldwide. His works have been adapted for feature film and television. He’s the cofounder, along with his wife, of the Wish You Well Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting literacy efforts across America. He joins us from his native Virginia to discuss his brand-new stand-alone novel Nash Falls (coming from Grand Central Publishing on Nov. 11) featuring investment banker turned FBI inside man Walter Nash who’s tasked with exposing a money laundering enterprise at his own firm. Watch the LIVE video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 11/5 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 11/7. Order David’s book 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! Latest News from the Fab Four!
MARY KAY ANDREWS had a productive five days at her mountain writer’s retreat last week. Being deeply superstitious she stress-walked 13k steps instead of watching Saturday’s big Georgia-Florida rivalry game and is now taking credit for UGA’s last-minute win. Now she’s stress-eating leftover Halloween candy and working on revisions for Road Trip. KRISTIN HARMEL had a great Halloween with Noah, watched him play two basketball games the next morning, hosted a driveway movie night (projected on her garage) that night for his friends (complete with popcorn and pizza), and spent Sunday at Animal Kingdom, where Noah enjoyed drawing Dante from the Disney movie Coco in an animation class! This week, she’s knocking out copy edits for 2026’s Meet Me in Paris and looking forward to tonight’s live F&F show! KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is so excited because she’s checking something off her bucket list tomorrow: Teaching at her alma mater, UNC-Chapel Hill. She isn’t intimidated at all by 185 journalism students… (That’s what she keeps telling herself!) She is also thrilled to be attending the opening of a new building at Kenan Flagler Business School and spending the day meeting with her fellow Women’s Leadership Council Board Members. Fall in Chapel Hill is one of her favorite times! She is still riding the high of the fabulous Good Morning America cover reveal of Summer State of Mind last week, and is so excited to announce the preorder freebies: an exclusive acrylic bookmark with tassel, signed book plate, page-by-page readers’ guide with behind-the-scenes content, videos and personal insights, and a “Live Your Story” magnet. Check out her website for all the information and the preorder form! PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY is in Hawaii right now visiting her daughter and grandbabies and enjoying the sunshine before heading to Kauai to teach at the Kauai Writers Conference. She went trick or treating with her grandgirls who were both princesses, of course. She’s been hard at work on her edits so she can start to tell you more about the new book! She’s also so excited about the 2026 F&F Subscription Box with MKA, Kristy and Kristin’s new books – they look so good together. Patti knows what she’ll be getting everyone for the holidays! 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! Giveaway!
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On last week’s episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, we aired the recording from a recent in-person theater event that Kristy Woodson Harvey conducted with #1 NYT-bestselling global phenomenon Nicholas Sparks. 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: LIVE! September Pick of the Month: Elin Hilderbrand & Shelby Cunningham, The Academy Already aired: Hank Phillippi Ryan, All This Could Be Yours Already aired: Jane Hamilton, The Phoebe Variations Already aired: Meagan Church, The Mad Wife Already aired: Mitch Albom, Twice — October Pick of the Month! Already aired: Joe Hill, King Sorrow Already aired: Catherine Newman, Wreck David Baldacci, Nash Falls — November Pick of the Month! Brisa Carleton, Last Call at the Savoy Lee & Andrew Child, Exit Strategy John Irving, Queen Esther — December Pick of the Month! Ace Atkins, Everybody Wants To Rule the World Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Birdwatcher F&F 2026 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange
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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. Tees in New Colors!We’ve added two fun, new colors (hot pink & turquoise!) to our Bonfire merch store in our signature Name List apparel line! 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 Morgan Ryan about her novel, A Resistance of Witches. Mark your calendars for November 17th for their next author guest, Alisha Fernandez Miranda, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Someone’s Gotta Give. The Book Club is also hosting the 2025 F&F Reading Challenge. Join them for a different category prompt each month to read outside your comfort zone. The October prompt is to read a book with “magic” in the title and for November it’s to read a book written by a celebrity. Stay in Touch!Subscribe to our PODCAST. Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus content from our hosts and guests.
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