November 24, 2021 | Issue #69 |
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Which Pie Am I? and Whose Review?
It's Game Night Tonight!
On tonight’s 100th Episode Extravaganza, we have some fun and games in store including “Whose Review?,” a guessing game with excerpts from bad reviews, and “Which Pie Am I?,” where viewers will be tasked with matching the favorite Thanksgiving pie to the author. Our good pal Tim Ehrenberg will play emcee and game show host! We even have some great prizes, including signed copies of guest Elin Hilderbrand’s latest, Golden Girl.
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Bookstore of the Week
Nantucket Book Partners
Our featured independent bookseller of the week is Nantucket Book Partners, consisting of Nantucket Island’s two indies Mitchell’s Book Corner and Nantucket Bookworks. As some of the only downtown businesses on Nantucket that are open year-round, these stores are the cornerstone of the residential community, a favorite of vacationers, and, thanks to the herculean efforts of their amazing marketing guru Tim Ehrenberg, a favorite online shopping destination for book lovers all over the country. Nantucket Book Partners has been a great ground to F&F, most recently with the Winter Wonderland Subscription Box. We hope you’ll shop with them this week. They’ve got signed books, box sets, and swag available for anyone who buys from their F&F Thanksgiving shop! SHOP NOW!
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Latest News From "The Fab Four"
KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is so excited that one of her funny family holiday traditions appeared in the pages of HGTV magazine this month--and she’s celebrating because all those traditions you’ve read about in Christmas in Peachtree Bluff are starting now in Beaufort, NC, the town that inspired Peachtree Bluff. She’s watching wreaths go up on light poles right now! She is feeling so incredibly thankful this holiday season for her Friends & Fiction family and wishes all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving!
PATTI CALLAHAN is celebrating Thanksgiving week in the NC mountains and so thrilled to celebrate 100 episodes with all of you. She is grateful for so much, and Friends and Fiction is at the top of that list. Did you see the list by Buzz Magazines 14 best historical fiction titles of the year? Both Once Upon a Wardrobe and Surviving Savannah are on the list and Patti is so grateful! She loved talking to the All About Jack podcast about stories behind stories!
What Patti is Reading: Good Company by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney
MARY KAY ANDREWS is holed away in the Squirrel’s Nest at home in Atlanta finishing up the manuscript for The Homewreckers and preparing to host family for a Thanksgiving feast. She’s super grateful for the F&F community and is so excited for our 100th Episode Extravaganza tonight!
KRISTIN HARMEL can’t quite believe that Friends & Fiction will be celebrating 100 episodes this week. Where has the time gone? She’s tremendously grateful to each and every one of you who have tuned in to episodes and who have become a part of this amazing community. She’s still recovering from her Hawaii jet lag this week, but she had an awesome trip with extended family, and now she’s looking forward to celebrating Thanksgiving with her in-laws. She hopes everyone out there has a wonderful Thanksgiving!
What Kristin is reading: The Wedding Veil by our very own Kristy Woodson Harvey—and it’s excellent! Out 3.29.22)
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Listen to the F&F Podcast!
Coming soon! Out this Friday, November 26th—Ron interviews country music artists Kim Richey & Gretchen Peters about storytelling through songwriting.
Out Now! WB_S1E24—Mary Alice Monroe speaks with publishing elite Allison Heller and Faye Bender about writing for children. LISTEN NOW!
Out Now! WB_S1E23—Mary Kay Andrews speaks with editor/publisher Pam Dorman & literary agent Stuart Krichevsky about their life in publishing. 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 through the end of the year and be sure to save the dates! All events begin at 7pm Eastern unless otherwise noted.
Dec 3: Happy Hour with Ron Block -Get your TBR lists ready! We will have book recommendations galore and we will announce our book club picks for January-March 2022. You don't want to miss it!
Dec 6: The Santa Suit book club discussion with Mary Kay Andrews
Dec 20: Christmas in Peachtree Bluff book club discussion with Kristy Woodson Harvey
If you missed our book club chat with Patti Callahan Henry on Monday 11/15, you can watch it HERE.
If you missed our 2nd Annual Friendsgiving on Thursday 11/18, you can watch the replay HERE.
Need more books added to your growing TBR list? We've got you covered! Check out our latest Happy Hour with Ron Block HERE.
Not a member of the Friends & Fiction Book Club? Click here to join us. We would love to have you!
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F&F is Now on LoCo+!
Come join Friends & Fiction on LoCo+, a brand-new streaming platform. 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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F&F is on YouTube!
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Did you miss last week’s episode with Vivian Howard? You can watch the whole thing on our YouTube channel HERE. We air our show live 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 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 November 17th show HERE.
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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.
Cozy cotton with a flattering v-neck and our signature Friends & Fiction logo, these comfy
t-shirts are the perfect way to show your
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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