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!
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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!
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
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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
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Already aired: Kristy Woodson Harvey, Summer State of Mind
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Already aired: Christina Baker Kline, The Foursome
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Already aired: Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club
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Already aired: Mary Kay Andrews, Road Trip
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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!
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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 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.
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