March 30, 2022 | Issue #88 |
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And Now a Word From Our Friend, Kristy Woodson Harvey
Kristy’s THE WEDDING VEIL is finally in stores everywhere and all of us at F&F could not be more excited! Check out this great television ad for THE WEDDING VEIL! Isn’t it amazing? In Kristy’s first foray into dual timeline historical fiction, she brings “her signature wit, charm, and heart” (Woman’s World) to this sweeping new novel following four women across generations, bound by a beautiful wedding veil and a connection to the famous Vanderbilt family. The book has been deemed a must read by Katie Couric Media, E! Online, Southern Living and more. You can get signed copies from South Main Book Co., M. Judson’s, and in the Spring Reading Box from Oxford Exchange. We hope you’ll go see Kristy on tour if she’s in a town near you. Check out Kristy’s full book tour HERE.
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Bookseller of the Week
Bookshop.org
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 more than $19 million for indie bookstores! Find recent books by our Wed March 23rd guest Lisa Scottoline—and books by the Fab Four—on our Friends & Fiction 2022 Guests list!
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Sponsor Spotlight
Charleston Coffee Roasters
Have you bought your coffee from Charleston Coffee Roasters yet?! Everyone in the F&F community gets 20% off all bagged coffee on their website with the code coffeewithfriends. And what better time than St. Patrick’s week to try your luck at our monthly giveaway! We’ll pick three winners—one each in March, April & May—to win a three-month coffee-of-the-month club subscription (a $90 value!). Get in it to win it using this entry form! Meanwhile, have you signed up for the Charleston Coffee Roasters email newsletter on their website and followed them on Facebook & Instagram? We sure hope so! ENTER NOW! Stay tuned for news of Fab Four book & coffee bundles!
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Sponsor Spotlight
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When you sign up for a 3-, 6-, or 12-month Page 1 subscription package you get 15% off with code FRIENDS15. A Page 1 Books Subscription is always a custom fit, chosen just for you by real live indie booksellers, not by an algorithm. We hope that you’ll also sign up for the Page 1 email newsletter and follow them on Facebook & Instagram! Thanks for supporting our sponsor!
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Spring Subscription Box
Subscribe Today for Signed Books & an Exclusive Gift!
Friends & Fiction co-hosts & co-founders Mary Kay Andrews and Kristy Woodson Harvey have teamed up with Oxford Exchange to offer this fun Spring Reading Box! Order the box from Oxford Exchange to get a signed copy of THE WEDDING VEIL when it releases in March, a signed copy of THE HOMEWRECKERS when it releases in May, and this fun, exclusive Friends & Fiction notebook with sticky flags for marking all your favorite parts! (We hope there are tons!) Get more information and place your order with Oxford Exchange HERE.
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Latest News From "The Fab Four"
Kristy Woodson Harvey is so excited that her new book THE WEDDING VEIL releases this week! Kristy is heading out on tour and is excited to see everyone along the way! Did you check out her full tour schedule? If you haven’t you can by clicking here!
Patti Callahan Henry is so thrilled to celebrate Kristy’s The Wedding Veil release this week, and then she’s peeking forward to the April 5th release of Surviving Savannah’s paperback with a podcast, an updated book club kit and so much more! And did you hear about the Book Club Giveaway? Well there’s only two more days but you could win a visit with Patti and your book club by CLICKING HERE. She’s also so thrilled that spring has finally arrived in the south – nothing better than daffodils, azaleas, dogwoods and cherry blossom trees bursting out everywhere.
What Patti is Reading: Meant to Be by Emily Giffin (advance copy out in May, 2022)
Mary Kay Andrews after a fun-filled quick trip to New York where she and Meg Walker took in the bright lights of Broadway to see Hugh Jackman in The Music Man, it’s back to business. MKA is firming up last minute details for the launch and book tour for The Homewreckers, which is out in less than five weeks. Mark your calendars for Sat. April 30 for the official Atlanta launch party at HuffHarrington Home, then look for MKA coming to a bookstore near you!
Kristin Harmel is so excited that Kristy’s THE WEDDING VEIL is out this week!!!!! She read it months ago, and she has been so excited for all of you to get to read it, too. She hopes that if you haven’t ordered your copy yet, you’ll consider ordering it before Saturday, as an author’s first-week sales make such a big difference in a book’s trajectory (so if you plan to buy it eventually, buying it this week is a great way to support Kristy!). Ditto for Patti’s SURVIVING SAVANNAH, which comes out next Tuesday in paperback with a gorgeous, newly color-saturated cover! Kristin was thrilled to visit her THE BOOK OF LOST NAMES in Costco this week, and she was proud of herself for making ricotta cheese from scratch! She’s excited to chat with Janet Skeslien Charles (THE PARIS LIBRARY) on the BOOK CLUB FAVORITES page this Monday at 1pm ET, and she hopes you’ll come hang out, too!
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The F&F 2022 Reading Challenge
Join the Fun in Our 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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Parade Essay by Kristy Woodson Harvey
Each month, the Friends & Fiction authors take turns writing an essay for Parade.com, the online home of Parade magazine. This week, Kristy wrote a column about what her wedding veil meant to her.
When I was a little girl, my mom’s wedding gown was stored in a sealed box underneath the bed in her childhood bedroom. Since we lived less than a mile from my grandparents, I was at their house several times a week, and I loved to sneak back to that bedroom, pull out the wedding box that was nearly as large as I was, and open the lid. I’d run my hands over the clear plastic film that covered the lace bodice, which was supposed to keep it from turning yellow with age, and imagine that, one day, I would wear the dress that my mom and her three sisters had once worn.
Fast forward a couple of decades, and I had just gotten engaged. I knew already there was no way I could wear my mom’s wedding gown since I was a few inches taller than she was, and I was a little bit sad not to carry on the family tradition.
But right after my engagement to her brother, my soon-to-be sister-in-law delivered her own family treasure to me. It wasn’t just a wedding veil; it was a stunning, handmade mantilla with the most gorgeous lace I’d ever seen, guaranteed to turn any regular woman into a bride.
Veil in tow, I went to my first wedding gown appointment with my mom, my best friend, and my sister-in-law...
To continue reading Kristy’s essay on Parade.com, click HERE.
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Listen to the F&F Podcast!
Coming soon! A two part podcast all about Audible Originals. Out this Thursday, March 31st—Ron & Patti interview Martha Hall Kelly and her co-author Kathy Murray about their Audible Original, The Munich Cowboys Cheerleaders, a novella based on Murray's underdog story of coaching a German cheerleading squad.
Then for Part II on Friday, April 1st—Patti and Ron continue the two part series with an interview with the founder of Audible, Don Katz. Hear all about how Audiobooks have expanded in ways we couldn’t have imagined.
Out Now! WB_S2E12—To round out our month of March Madness on the podcast, Ron chats with Kristy Woodson Harvey all about The Wedding Veil, in stores this week! LISTEN NOW!
Out Now! WB_S2E11—Ron & MKA sit down for an exclusive chat with the one and only Harlan Coben! Hear all about his new book THE MATCH while enjoying some publishing career dish and dad jokes. LISTEN NOW!
Out Now! WB_S2E10—Ron chats with mega-bestselling author Brad Meltzer as he celebrates 25 years as a published author and the release of his latest thriller, The Lightning Rod. LISTEN NOW!
Out Now! WB_S2E9—Ron & Kristy chat with Craig Conover of BravoTV’s Southern Charm. The co-founder of Sewing Down South tells all about his new book, Pillow Talk. 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.
May 6: Happy Hour with Ron Block and special guest Patti Callahan Henry
Grab these books and start reading now!
We had the best time discussing The Wedding Date with Jasmine Guillory. If you missed it, catch the replay HERE.
Not a member of the Friends & Fiction Book Club? Join us! We would love to have you!
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Friends & Fiction Merchandise
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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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