Tune in at 7pm ET for TONIGHT’s episode! Join us Wednesday, November 19th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Mary Kay Andrews & Kristin Harmel welcome #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child to discuss Exit Strategy, the “blockbuster” (Esquire) 30th installment in their Jack Reacher thriller series.
Lee Child is the author of the #1 NYT-bestselling Jack Reacher series and the complete Jack Reacher story collection, No Middle Name. Foreign rights in the Reacher series have been sold in one hundred territories. Lee is an Executive Producer on the wildly successful Reacher Amazon Prime series which is adapted from his novels. Lee’s brother, Andrew Child, who also writes as Andrew Grant, is the author of six novels of his own (Run, False Positive, Too Close to Home). He’s also the #1 bestselling co-author of six novels in the Reacher universe, including this latest one. The brothers join us to chat about Exit Strategy, how their co-writing process works, and what kind of trouble Reacher gets up to in this “sure to please” (Booklist) thriller with “the best villain yet” (USA Today). Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 11/19 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 11/21. Order Lee & Andrew’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 breathed the sigh of relief heard round the world when she finished revisions for her new novel ROAD TRIP, and got the word from her editor that the book did not suck! Then she flung herself full-bore into Christmas decorating for an upcoming holiday-themed shoot at Squirrel Hollow for the online home design website Homeworthy. Stay tuned to MKA’s Instagram for the tour once it goes live. (Did you see the earlier tour from this summer?! If not, watch it HERE.) And go to Goodreads to vote for THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU for best historical fiction. KRISTIN HARMEL had a blast over the weekend seeing the Beach Boys (with 84-year-old Mike Love still on vocals) at Epcot, with the additional awesome perk of the implausibly ageless John Stamos on drums and guitar. She will be humming “Kokomo” and “Good Vibrations” all week. Also, her latest, THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU is a 2025 Goodreads Choice Award nominee for best historical fiction! If you read it and enjoyed it, she’d be so grateful to have your vote (though she completely acknowledges that all the other books she’s up against are absolutely amazing)! You can vote here, if you are so inclined! KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is getting so ready for the holidays and working hard on plans for the SUMMER STATE OF MIND tour! She is loving seeing early reviews come in and is getting so excited for everyone to read the book on May 5. She’s working on edits for her fall 2026 book and following her son in lots of golf tournaments! She is very busy voting for KRISTIN in the Goodreads Choice Awards! PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY has spent the week teaching and connecting with so many simply astounding authors and writers at the Kauai Writers Conference. She feels filled up with creativity and inspiration and she is also SO homesick. She will be home this week and hug her family and dog Winnie and start writing again. Now go vote for Kristin for the Goodreads Choice! 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! Upcoming Events
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On last week’s episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, Patti Callahan Henry & Kristy Woodson Harvey welcomed Broadway producer turned author Brisa Carleton to discuss her debut novel Last Call at the Savoy, which is set against the glittering backdrop of London’s iconic Savoy hotel where a young woman is forced to confront her troubled past as she uncovers the story of the hotel’s first female bartender who’s been erased from the history books. 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 Already aired: David Baldacci, Nash Falls — November Pick of the Month! Already aired: 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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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 Alisha Fernandez Miranda about her novel, Someone’s Gotta Give. Mark your calendars for December 15th for their next author guest, Jenny Colgan, when they’ll discuss her new novel, The Secret Christmas Library. 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 November prompt is to read a book written by a celebrity and for December it’s to read a holiday book with an animal on the cover. Stay in Touch!Subscribe to our PODCAST. Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus content from our hosts and guests.
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