Meet Madeline Martin & Linda Hurtado Bond TONIGHT!Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—August 28, 2024
Tune in LIVE at 7pm ET for TONIGHT’s episode! Join us Wednesday, August 28th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Kristin Harmel & Ron Block welcome bestselling author Madeline Martin to discuss The Booklover’s Library, her heartwarming new story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of books to bring them together. We’ll also be treated to a pop-in by Emmy-award winning journalist turned novelist Linda Hurtado Bond to chat about her gripping new thriller All the Missing Girls.
Madeline Martin is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and internationally bestselling author of historical fiction and historical romance with books translated into more than twenty-five languages. Having spent most of her childhood as an Army brat in Germany, Madeline loves to travel and is a die-hard history lover who will happily lose herself in research any day. She joins us from sunny Florida to discuss her latest, The Booklover’s Library, which has been dubbed “a must-read for booklovers” by Chanel Cleeton and “a quiet little jewel of a wartime novel” by Kate Quinn. By day, Linda Hurtado Bond is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow award-winning journalist. By night, she’s an author of James Bond-like adventures and heart-stopping thrillers. The host of “Tampa Bay Reads,” Linda has hosted all of F&F’s Fab Four on her television segment. She joins us to discuss her new spine-tingling mystery, All the Missing Girls, featuring her recurring character, Tampa crime reporter Mari Alvarez. Watch the video broadcast of this show as it airs Wed 8/28 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 8/30. Order Madeline’s book & Linda’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!
PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY is loving the cool mountains as summer ends. She’s found hidden waterfalls and long winding hikes (no, she hasn’t gotten lost yet). She’ll be celebrating her husband’s birthday with family this Labor Day weekend. She has been writing like mad trying to find a new story while prepping all the fun pre-pub things for The Story She Left Behind. She is sending out a newsletter next week and you won’t want to miss it with a Goodreads Giveaway and, as usual, the things that are inspiring her now! SIGN UP HERE. KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY cannot believe that summer is over and is tempering her end-of-summer blues with excitement about football season and pumpkin spice lattes. Despite embracing the fall vibes, she is working away on her next summer book and is so excited about how it is coming together. She has quite a few upcoming tour dates – both with her Friends & Fiction sisters and on her own – and hopes to see so many of you there. You can find full tour information on her website under tour dates! KRISTIN HARMEL got to hang out with her Aunt Donna (visiting from Massachusetts) over the weekend (including a trip to the outlet mall, one of Kristin’s favorite places), and she also got to spend a night in a new Fort Wilderness Disney Vacation Club cabin with her husband and son. (Her son was excited to sleep in one of the cabin’s bunk beds–and her husband was excited that the cabin came with its own grill!) She’s hard at work on two writing projects and is hoping that she can share her 2025 book with you any day now! MARY KAY ANDREWS spent the weekend with family at Ebbtide on Tybee Island, celebrating Mr. MKA’s BIG birthday. Now she’s back home, furiously trying to make headway on her next book and wrestling with dual timelines and a dueling points of view from two very different sisters. She’s counting the days ‘til takeoff for her trip to Ireland that starts next week. 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
Friday, September 27, 4pm ET — Join us for an F&F Live “Toast to the Ta-Tas” event at the beautiful High Point Country Club in High Point, NC to benefit Earlier.org. The Fab Four will be sharing fascinating insider talk about publishing and writing and discussing their newest releases, all to raise funding for critical research to identify an earlier biological detection test for breast cancer. Books will be available for purchase care of The Country Bookshop with each author signing select books and proceeds benefiting Friends for an Earlier Breast Cancer Test®! Get details & tickets HERE. Sunday, September 29, 10am ET — An F&F Live brunch event at the 19th Annual Bookmarks Festival of Books & Authors in Winston-Salem, NC. Close out the book festival with us at this super fun event to be held at the Benton Convention Center. There are two ticket options. The 10am Meet & Greet + Brunch Event is $80 (plus taxes & fees) will include a mimosa and the chance to mingle, meet the authors, and take photos, plus a wristband to get to the front of the signing line following the brunch. The 11am Brunch Event only is $50 (plus taxes & fees) and includes a seated program and book signing. Note that there will not be an opportunity for posed photos during this portion of the event. Get tickets HERE. Wednesday, November 6, 6pm ET — Join all four founders and hosts of Friends & Fiction—along with Meg Walker & Ron Block—together in-person at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Orlando, FL for a unique fundraising event benefiting the Florida Cancer Specialists (FCS) Foundation which will include a reception over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, an intimate presentation, book sales, and an autograph session. Get tickets HERE. Thursday, November 7, 12:30pm ET — An F&F Live luncheon event hosted by the Amelia Island Book Festival at The Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, FL. Ticket price will include tea fare: light lunch, snacks, and refreshments. For members of book clubs who are interested in reserving an entire table, the Book Club Pre-Sale will open on August 15th. If interested, email bookclubs@ameliaislandbookfestival.org identifying yourself and providing a main point of contact. Ticket sales will open up to the public on September 1st. Details HERE. Ticketing link to come! Want to know what these F&F Live events are all about? Watch this video compilation! Did not find video In Case You Missed It
On last week’s episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, the Fab Four welcomed this month’s F&F Featured Author, Jessa Maxwell, to discuss her new book, our August 2024 Pick of the Month, I NEED YOU TO READ THIS, a sly and addictive new mystery about an advice columnist searching for answers about her predecessor’s murder. Order Jessa’s book from the F&F Shop on Bookshop.org, where you’ll also find books by all our hosts and guests, all at a discount—and where all your purchases support our show and our beloved indie bookstores nationwide! 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: Killer Author Club (Kimberly Belle, Heather Gudenkauf & Kaira Rouda) Already aired: Christina Dodd, A Daughter of Fair Verona Already aired: F&F Pick of the Month: Jamie Brenner, A Novel Summer Already aired: Emily Giffin, The Summer Pact Already aired: Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran Already aired: Rhys Bowen, The Rose Arbor Already aired: Greer Macallister, The Thirteenth Husband Already aired: F&F Pick of the Month: Jessa Maxwell, I Need You to Read This Madeline Martin, The Booklover's Library TJ Klune, Somewhere Beyond the Sea Laura Dave, The Night We Lost Him F&F Pick of the Month: Jodi Picoult, By Any Other Name Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment Bonus Episodes!
The Fab Four (along with Meg & Ron) are taking turns interviewing some additional authors in short video segments we are calling “Behind the Book.” Check out a few recent bonus interviews that we’ve run on the F&F YouTube channel! WATCH Kristy’s interview with Gilmore Girls star Devon Sorvari, who is also the voice of Keaton in the audiobook version of A HAPPIER LIFE. 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.
NEW ITEM! We’ve just added long-sleeve t-shirts in our fun “Name List Wear” line to our Bonfire shop. These are perfect for the cooler weather F&F Live events coming up this fall. So, if you’re coming to hang out with the Fab Four in NC this September or in Florida in November—or even if you’re just tuning in weekly from home—we’ve got your wardrobe on lock! These are available in 5 colors (black, grey, navy, army green & red) in sizes S-2XL. This current campaign is open through 8/28 with orders shipping to arrive by mid-September. Let’s go! Let’s show our F&F pride! F&F Official Book Club & 2024 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 30k 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 novel, A Happier Life. Mark your calendars for September 16th for their next author guest, Wanda Morris, when they’ll discuss her novel, What You Leave Behind. With the help of Annissa Armstrong, the Book Club is also hosting the 2024 F&F Reading Challenge. Join them for a different category prompt each month to read outside your comfort zone. The August prompt was to read a book that inspired a TV show or movie and the September prompt is to read a true crime book. Stay in Touch!Subscribe to our PODCAST. Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus content from our hosts and guests. You're currently a free subscriber to Friends & Fiction Endless Stories. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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