Tune in at 7pm ET for TONIGHT’s episode! Join us Wednesday, February 25th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Ron Block & Patti Callahan Henry welcome acclaimed author Terah Shelton Harris to discuss her new novel, Where the Wildflowers Grow, poignant story of survival and redemption that questions what it means to stop existing and start living.
Terah Shelton Harris is a former librarian who now writes upmarket fiction with bittersweet endings. She is the author of One Summer in Savannah and Long After We Are Gone. Her books have been chosen as a Target Book Club pick, LibraryReads pick, Kobo Best Book, Publishers Marketplace Buzz Book, and a Goodreads Choice Awards nominee for Best Debut. Terah was also named Target’s inaugural Author of the Year. She joins us from her home in Alabama to discuss Where the Wildflowers Grow, which has been named a most-anticipated book of the year by Goodreads, Essence, and BookBub, and which Annabel Monaghan calls, “a masterpiece.” Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 2/25 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 2/27. Order Terah’s new 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 great trip to New York City last week to meet with her publishing team and hear all the amazing plans for publication of ROAD TRIP. Sitting in the audience at the Ed Sullivan Theater to watch the taping of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert was a bucket list item, made better by the fact that her U.S. Senator from Georgia, Jon Ossoff, was the lead guest. Dinner after was at her favorite Italian restaurant, Rossini’s. The publishing meeting (and lunch) was exciting, but the thrifting trip afterward, with her editor and our own Meg Walker, was the cherry on top. Continuing the tradition of catching a Broadway show with Meg, they saw Jonathan Groff in the Bobby Darin jukebox show, JUST IN TIME. (Do not sleep on catching this show!) Drinks after at Sardi’s. On Friday, MKA braved the cold and soaking rain to do a walking tour of the Gilded Age mansions of the Upper East Side. Next Monday, she’s looking forward to joining our Peach, aka Patti, in a fun luncheon at Poe and Company Books in Atlanta to celebrate the paperback publication of The Story She Left Behind. Get tickets HERE. KRISTIN HARMEL spent the weekend at the beach with her husband and son, visiting with her mother, brother, sister-in-law and niece, and rooting for Team USA as the Olympics closed out (Did you watch that amazing hockey game?). This week, she’s looking forward to a live event with author Shara Moon at Barnes & Noble on Colonial Drive in Orlando tomorrow (Thursday) night, to celebrate Shara’s LET US MARCH ON (get tickets HERE), and to a Sister Hazel concert on Friday night. (Ken Block and Drew Copeland from the band were guests on an episode of F&F during the show’s first season – still one of Kristin’s very favorite episodes.) Kristin is also looking forward to TWO events with Patti in Florida next week! KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY announced her tour for SUMMER STATE OF MIND, beginning on May 1 in Charleston, SC! Will she be in a city near you? If she is, she hopes you will come see her! She is also getting SO EXCITED because she will be making a big surprise announcement at the end of the week. Make sure you are subscribed to her email newsletter to be the first to get the news! Her son’s last ever middle school basketball game was on Monday and, yes, there were tears shed. Time flies! She is always sad when basketball season is over, but she is going to be on the road so much coming up! Will she see you at the Amelia Island Book Festival this weekend? PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY is so excited to chair the Johnson County Public Library Foundation BOOK BALL–a virtual ball where you can stay home all day and snuggle up and read!! INFORMATION HERE! Please join her in supporting libraries! She had a great week at home ending with a live event with Allen Levi (author of Theo of Golden) in Tuscaloosa. Meanwhile, she’s gearing up for a book tour that starts on Monday, and wondering if it will be 20 degrees or 80 because no one knows anymore! She’s so psyched about being with both Mary Kay Andrews and Kristin Harmel during her tour! GO CHECK OUT THE SCHEDULE. Also, Patti sent out a newsletter this week with all the books that found her this winter! Click HERE for that, and sign up for her Substack HERE. Hopefully she will see some of you on the road starting 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
Catch Patti on tour for the paperback release of The Story She Left Behind beginning March 2nd in Atlanta! See all of her upcoming events HERE. Kristy will be touring in May for her forthcoming book, Summer State of Mind. Stay tuned to her events page HERE. MKA will be touring in June for her forthcoming book, Road Trip. Stay tuned to her events page HERE. Kristin will be touring in July/August for her forthcoming book, Meet Me in Paris. Stay tuned to her events page 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 — Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey & Patti Callahan Henry — gathered with Managing Director Meg Walker for a special “just us” episode for an off-the-cuff chat about what they’re reading and loving, what trends they’re seeing in the industry, and what’s happening in their busy author lives. 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: Brad Meltzer, The Viper Already aired: Jayne Ann Krentz, The Shop on Hidden Lane Already aired: Jesse Q. Sutanto, Read Between the Lies Already aired: Paula McLain, Skylark Already aired: Janie Chang, The Fourth Princess & Kate Quinn, The Astral Library Already aired: Omid Scobie & Robin Benway, Royal Spin Terah Shelton Harris, Where the Wildflowers Grow Joshilyn Jackson, Missing Sister Lucy Score, Mistakes Were Made Virginia Evans, The Correspondent & Allen Levi, Theo of Golden 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 Vanessa Riley about her new novel, Fire Sword and Sea. Mark your calendars for March 16th for their next author guest, Heather Webber, when they’ll discuss her new novel, The Forget-Me-Not Library. 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 February prompt is to read a BIPOC Goodreads nominee or award winner and for March it’s to read a book from an indie or small press. Stay in Touch!Subscribe to our PODCAST. Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus content from our hosts and guests.
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