June 15, 2022 | Issue #99 |
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Latest News From "The Fab Four"
Mary Kay Andrews is back in the land of the living after an unwelcome Covid-cation, and still thrilling over The Homewreckers’ five week stay on The New York Times bestseller list. In the meantime, she’ll spend Father’s Day weekend in Appalachicola, Florida, where Mr. MKA and Boomerang Boy will be doing some Gulf fishing–and she’ll be basking under an umbrella with umbrella drinks.
What MKA is Reading: Gilt by Jamie Brenner
Kristin Harmel got to pet sharks last week at SeaWorld Orlando with Noah, and she’s looking forward to a little Father’s Day staycation with Jason and Noah this weekend! She also received her first blurb for THE PARIS DAUGHTER (June 2023), which she can’t wait to share with you soon!
Kristy Woodson Harvey is so excited to be sharing her new cover for her Spring 2023 release, THE SUMMER OF SONGBIRDS with you all! Make sure to tune in this week to see it exclusively first!! Kristy will also be spending her week celebrating her dad and husband for Fathers Day!
Patti Callahan Henry is celebrating that after two years, finally, the museum Grand Opening of the Surviving Savannah real life treasure and artifacts will happen! Together with shipwreck hunter Micah Edlred, Patti will be having a conversation and Q&A at The Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum. After you get your ticket with a passenger name, you’ll be immersed in the events of that fateful night! She’s also thrilled that Surviving Savannah was awarded the top choice book club book with Book Movement! And Patti loved this discussion with Vision Media about The Power of Story in our Lives.
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Get to Know Our Friend, Emily Giffin!
What would you be if you weren't a writer?
I’d be a psychiatrist--or more likely a psychologist to avoid med school!
When did you first know you wanted to be a writer?
I’ve always been interested in writing. Some of my fondest childhood memories involve reading books and writing my own stories. Perhaps because my family moved around a lot, characters in books felt like trusty companions.
Tell us about the first piece of fiction you ever wrote.
“The Three Pandas and the Messy Room” was my very first book (I even bound it myself!). I wrote it when I was five, and it was about, well, three pandas who messed up their bedroom.
Is there a particular independent bookstore or library you'd like to shout-out?
My hometown bookstore, Anderson’s, in Naperville, IL.
The last book you raved about:
I’ve recently started an Instagram-based book club (@egbookclub—please join me!) where I pick one book a month from my to-be-read pile to discuss with my followers, all concluding with a live chat with the author. This past month’s selection was Adriana Trigiani’s THE GOOD LEFT UNDONE. It was so good. I’ve also hosted chats with two of the Friends & Fiction authors—Patti and MKA.
Tell us about your work-in-progress.
Before I start my next novel, I’m working on a limited series for THE LIES THAT BIND with the producers of Something Borrowed.
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Spotlight on Kate Quinn!
Kate Quinn has loved history all her life, and she hopes to share that love with her readers. Too often we grow up thinking history is boring, dull, nothing but flat lists of dates and places. In Kate’s books she hopes to show the life, the laughter, and the humanity that runs through our common past. Whether writing about World War I France or post-World War II London, ancient Rome or Renaissance Italy, Kate brings you history with an irreverent twist: stories to make you laugh, cry, then laugh some more. Visit her website to learn more about her novels, including her latest THE DIAMOND EYE and her previous bestsellers, The Rose Code, The Huntress & The Alice Network. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram. View Kate’s previous appearance on F&F from March 31, 2021 HERE.
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Featured Bookseller
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Find all the books by every F&F guest, past and present, in the F&F Bookshop.org Shop! Portions of all sales placed in our shop help fund F&F and support our guests! Proceeds from every sale made anywhere across Bookshop go straight into the pockets of indie booksellers nationwide. Since its inception, Bookshop.org has raised nearly $21 million for indie bookstores! Find MEANT TO BE by Emily Giffin, THE MATCH by Harlan Coben, and THE DIAMOND EYE by Kate Quinn—as well as recent books by all of our guests and hosts—on our Friends & Fiction Spring/Summer 2022 Guests list!
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Listen to the F&F Podcast!
Coming this Friday, June 17th—Ron & Meg sit down with actor, comedian, and author Michael Ian Black just in time for Father’s Day to discuss his new book A BETTER MAN: A Mostly Serious Letter to My Son
Out Now! WB_S3E9—Ron and Patti talk to Liz Michalski, author of Darling Girl: A Novel of Peter Pan, about crafting a modern-day reimagining of a literary classic. LISTEN NOW!
Out Now! WB_S3E8—Ron & Meg talk with Carter Bays about his debut novel, The Mutual Friend and jumping from co-creating the smash-hit TV sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” to writing novels. LISTEN NOW!
Out Now! WB_S3E7—Joy Callaway joins Ron and Kristy to talk about her fascinating new book, The Grand Design. LISTEN NOW!
Listen, download, subscribe, rate, review & share wherever you get your podcasts!
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News from the F&F Official Book Club
We have a lot of fun events coming up. Take a look at our book club schedule and be sure to save the dates! All events begin at 7pm Eastern unless otherwise noted.
August 19: Happy Hour with Ron Block
Grab these books and start reading now!
If you missed the May 16th book club meeting with Wiley Cash where we discussed his book When Ghosts Come Home, catch it HERE.
If you missed our May 6th Happy Hour with Ron Block and Patti Callahan Henry, catch it HERE.
Did you hear? The Friends & Fiction Official Book Club is now on YouTube! You can view previous book club discussions and happy hours at your leisure. Check it out HERE!
Not a member of the Friends & Fiction Book Club? Join us! We would love to have you!
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Join the F&F 2022 Reading Challenge!
Join us in 2022 for a fun 12-month reading challenge. We will challenge each other all year long to read books in a different category every month. This will help all of us broaden our horizons and read books in different genres we may not have chosen for ourselves. This is a fun way to join with the rest of the F&F community and share a fun reading experience. And the F&F Reading Journal makes the perfect companion piece to this challenge, helping you keep track of all the books you read all year long. Grab your reading journal HERE.
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F&F is on YouTube!
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Did you miss the June 8th episode with Greer Hendricks, Sarah Pekkanen, Ali Brady, Mary Alice Monroe & Angela May? If so, you can watch it on our YouTube channel HERE. We air our show on YouTube every Wednesday night at 7pm ET. And every episode since our show’s inception can be found there too. So if you ever miss one, or in case Facebook is being difficult, check us out on YouTube. Subscribe today so you never miss an episode and get alerted every time we post new content. We also have book trailers and highlight clips on our channel, too! Watch the June 8th show HERE.
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Join Us on Fable!
Introducing Friends & Fiction: Behind the Book
Have you joined F&F on Fable yet?! We are taking our immersive reading experience a step further by partnering with this unique social platform to form the “Friends & Fiction: Behind the Book” Premium Book Club! Let’s discover, read, and talk about great books together! Download the FREE Fable app for your phone or tablet. Join MKA, Kristin, Kristy & Patti as they talk about their own books, the books they love, and books they're just discovering together. They’ll feature a new book selection every month, plus special club events, exclusive content, and more! Join our Premium Club for just $5/month! JOIN TODAY!
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F&F is Now on LoCo+!
Come join Friends & Fiction on LoCo+, a brand-new streaming platform that launched just a few days ago. The platform specializes in locally produced content and will eventually include channels from all over the country, but this is your chance to get in on the ground floor with us; we're part of the platform's rollout, and we'd love for you to be there, too. Eventually, it will be a paid subscription (like Netflix or Hulu), but if you sign up now, you can get the first month free--and you can see past and current episodes of Friends & Fiction as well as lots of other great, independently produced content, including the "Good News Lady" show from our friend (and former F&F guest) Daryn Kagan. Sign up for your free trial here and check it out: https://golocoplus.com/.
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Friends & Fiction Merchandise
SHOP THE F&F MERCH STORE!
NEW! Stay on track with the exclusive Friends & Fiction Reading Journal, featuring 52 book entries (one for every week of the year), a lending library, reading list, and books you put down. With a cloth cover, gold foil embossing, a satin ribbon page marker, elastic band, heavyweight paper, and a back pocket to store notes, this is the perfect gift for the book lover in your life—or for yourself! ORDER READING JOURNALS HERE.
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Friends & Fiction wine sippies are available and shipping now from Oxford Exchange!
But that’s not all! We also have F&F 20oz travel tumblers for on-the-go coffee of drinks!
We can’t wait to see you model your merch!
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