Celebrating Meet Me In Paris LIVE with Kristin Harmel
Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—July 22, 2026
Tune in LIVE at 7pm ET tonight for this week’s episode!
Join us on Wednesday, July 22nd 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 NYT-bestselling author Kristin Harmel’s captivating new novel, Meet Me In Paris about several intertwined stories of love, loss, courage, and redemption set over the course of one magical week in Paris, which is, of course, our July Pick of the Month!
One of F&F’s co-founders and co-hosts, Kristin Harmel is the New York Times bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau, The Paris Daughter, The Forest of Vanishing Stars, and The Book of Lost Names. She is published in more than thirty languages. She joins us before heading out on book tour to chat about her new contemporary novel, Meet Me In Paris, which is described as Love Actually meets The Notebook. We can’t wait to celebrate this tale of love, loss, and finding your way home set during one life-changing week in Paris in grand F&F style complete with games and surprises!
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 Kristin’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 can’t believe that MEET ME IN PARIS comes out in just a few days! She hits the road Monday for book tour and hopes to see many of you at her events. She took a few days off from her pre-launch madness to spend a few days at Disney World over the weekend with her husband, son and mother… Now it’s full speed ahead to launch day! She hopes you’ll tune into Friends & Fiction tonight for a very special launch episode for MEET ME IN PARIS!
KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is SO EXCITED for everyone to read MEET ME IN PARIS. Y’all are going to love it as much as I did, so prepare to read it in one sitting and be totally swept away! She is so thrilled because Peachtree Bluff Freebies are HERE. Check out her website for all the details!
PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY enjoyed a weekend with a huge family gathering for her nephew’s wedding at the most majestic chapel she’s ever seen at the top of a mountain. Now she is spending the week in Hawaii with her grandbabies and she is SO excited for Kristin’s MEET ME IN PARIS launch party tonight. Just you wait and see what we have in store for you!
MARY KAY ANDREWS enjoyed a weekend at home with family and grandkids and is looking forward to launching Kristin’s MEET ME IN PARIS tonight. On Friday, she can’t wait to do the intro at her neighborhood bookstore, The Bookbird of Avondale Estates for old pal Lisa Scottoline for the signing of her new book THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING. Buy tickets here. And on Saturday, she’ll be in conversation at Barnes & Noble Buckhead, with Kelly Rimmer for her new novel THE STORY KEEPER. Go here for deets.
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Upcoming Events
Kristin is touring for Meet Me in Paris! See her full book tour HERE.
See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.
See Kristy’s upcoming events HERE.
See MKA’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 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.
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
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Already aired: Mary Kay Andrews, Road Trip
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Already aired: Annabel Monaghan, Dolly All the Time
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Already aired: Ann Patchett, Whistler
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Already aired: Lisa See, Daughters of the Sun and Moon
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Already aired: Lisa Jewell, It Could Have Been Her
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Already aired: John Searles, Single Girls
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Already aired: Ben Reeves, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
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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!
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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!
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 Mary Kay Andrews about her new novel, Road Trip. Mark your calendars for August 17th for their next author guest, Kristin Harmel, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Meet Me In Paris. 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.
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