Tune in at 7pm ET for TONIGHT’s episode! Join us Wednesday, July 23rd at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as the full F&F family gathers to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Author, #1 bestselling novelist Lisa Scottoline to discuss our July 2025 Pick of the Month, her new gothic thriller with dashes of romance and excellent twists, The Unraveling of Julia, in which a young widow inherits a Tuscan estate from a mysterious benefactor and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy.
Lisa is a #1 bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of 37 novels. She also wrote a series of humorous memoirs, co-authored with her daughter, novelist Francesca Serritella. Lisa is President of Mystery Writers of America and she reviews fiction for the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. A former trial lawyer, she graduated magna cum laude in three years from the University of Pennsylvania and cum laude from its law school, where she taught Justice & Fiction. There are 30 million copies of her books in print, and she is published in 35 countries. She joins us from her Pennsylvania farm with her array of disobedient pets to discuss her twisty, transportive, and haunting, new novel, The Unraveling of Julia. Called "pulse-pounding, propulsive, and utterly unputdownable,” by our own Kristy Woodson Harvey, this is suspense with a passport and we can’t wait to talk to Lisa all about it! Watch the LIVE video broadcast of this interview as it airs on Wed 7/23 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 7/25. Order Lisa’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 had a great event with Sarah MacLean for her new novel THESE SUMMER STORMS last week, but now it’s back to trying to shore up the saggy middle of her work-in-progress novel. But also—she’s eating a LOT of tomato sandwiches harvested from the backyard garden. She can’t wait to reconnect tonight with her longtime author pal Lisa Scottoline! KRISTIN HARMEL is off on a trip to New York, Los Angeles, and St. Louis—part work, part vacation—and will be joining the live show tonight from a hotel room in midtown Manhattan after a day of meetings with her publishing team. She can’t wait to chat with one of her all-time faves, Lisa Scottoline! KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY had the best, best time celebrating her 40th birthday all week long last week and can’t thank each of you enough for your kind words and messages. If you want to check out some behind-the-scenes from her birthday party (okay… parties…), she is sharing pics over on Instagram and in her Substack this week. And… drumroll please… Her Spring 2026 book is off to copy edits! Hooray! Best birthday present of them all. She can’t wait to share it with you and really can’t wait to chat with Lisa this evening! PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY is so excited to talk to Lisa Scottoline tonight! Meanwhile, she’s been home all week working like mad, writing, and catching up. Instead of a newsletter this week, Patti had a moment of nostalgia after watching Part I of the Billy Joel documentary and wrote an essay. You can read that HERE! She has one more The Story She Left Behind event in Birmingham this 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
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On last week’s episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, Mary Kay Andrews & Ron Block welcomed beloved New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani to discuss The View from Lake Como, her new novel about one woman’s quest to build her own life before it’s too late. 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: F&F June Pick of the Month—Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Collette Marceau Already aired: Julie Clark, The Ghostwriter Already aired: Jess Walter, So Far Gone Already aired: Fourth of July “Best-of” Kristin Hannah, The Women Already aired: Meg Waite Clayton, Typewriter Beach Already aired: Adriana Trigiani, The View from Lake Como LIVE! July Pick of the Month: Lisa Scottoline, The Unraveling of Julia Susan Wiggs, Wayward Girls Celebrating Debuts! Morgan Pager, The Art of Vanishing & Laura Dickerman, Hot Desk Victoria Benton Frank, The Violet Hour LIVE! August Pick of the Month: Francesca Serritella, Full Bloom Christina Baker Kline & Anne Burt, Please Don't Lie Sarah McCoy, Whatever Happened to Lori Lovely? LIVE! September Pick of the Month: Elin Hilderbrand & Shelby Cunningham, The Academy Hank Phillippi Ryan, All This Could Be Yours Jane Hamilton, The Phoebe Variations F&F 2025 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange
The 2025 FRIENDS AND FICTION Subscription Box is available for purchase now, exclusively from our friends at Oxford Exchange. This subscription includes three separate shipments: *Optional add-on: A paperback, signed, first edition of SUMMERS AT THE SAINT by Mary Kay Andrews (coming in paperback June 3)! Get your subscription NOW from Oxford Exchange! 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. Tees in New Summer Colors!
We’ve added two fun, new summer colors to our Bonfire merch store in our signature Name List apparel line. These are perfect for attending Kristy & Kristin’s upcoming events. How fun to dress to match the books?! 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 more than 38,000 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 Kristin Harmel about her novel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau. Mark your calendars for August 18th for their next author guest, Eliza Knight, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Confessions of a Grammar Queen. 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 July prompt is to read a book set in France and for August it’s to read an author’s sophomore book. Stay in Touch!Subscribe to our PODCAST. Upgrade to our PAID Subscription for bonus content from our hosts and guests.
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