Get to Know Our Friend, Adriana Trigiani!
What would you be if you weren't a writer?
I would like to be the conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
What is one book your readers might be surprised to find on your bookshelf?
How to Cook A Wolf
Tell us about the first piece of fiction you ever wrote.
A very very very bad poem.
Do you have any writing rituals?
I clean. I light a candle. And I pray before pulling my hair out in clumps and weeping.
Is there a particular independent bookstore or library you'd like to shout-out?
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Featured Bookseller
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 $20 million for indie bookstores! Find THE GOOD LEFT UNDONE by Adriana Trigiani—as well as recent books by our hosts and guests—on our Friends & Fiction Spring/Summer 2022 Guests list!
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Latest News From "The Fab Four"
Mary Kay Andrews is enjoying her book tour events which have been great so far. She is so grateful that so many of you are turning up, buying the book (dammit!), and leaving online reviews. In addition to a great time last week in Cleveland with the rest of the Fab Four, MKA counts herself lucky that so many author friends have turned up at or participated in some of her events so far including Emily Giffin, Chris Swann, Lynn Cullen, Paula McLain, Diane Chamberlain, Mary Beth Whalen, Sarah McCoy, and Kristin Harmel. The Homewreckers was reviewed in the Tampa Bay Times in a piece that has been picked up in lots of small papers around the country. MKA was also pleased to see a feature and interview in the Greenville Journal, a feature in Woman’s Day, and to do an interview with Fox 13 Tampa Bay News at Noon. She was also tickled to be featured in this Coastal Living feature about what they’re calling the “Nauti Auntie” aesthetic. Her book tour continues through next week. Get details HERE.
What MKA is Reading: She and Meg are engrossed in the audiobook of The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave while road tripping on book tour.
Kristin Harmel had a great week visiting readers in Greenville, SC (M. Judson), Cleveland (F&F Live with the Cuyahoga County Library System), Tallahassee (Midtown Reader), Memphis (novel.), Fairhope, Ala. (Page & Palette), Tampa (Oxford Exchange) and St. Petersburg (Tombolo Books with MKA!). She is so grateful to all of you who came out to events, or who bought THE FOREST OF VANISHING STARS in paperback during its first week of release. Now she’s off to Tuscaloosa, AL, on Saturday for the BookStock Book Festival (with Ernest & Hadley Booksellers), and she can’t wait to hang out with her F&F sisters again next Friday, May 20, with Booktowne on the Jersey Shore!
What Kristin is Reading: Just finished The Circus Train by Amita Parikh (a debut!) for a blurb
Kristy Woodson Harvey had so much fun in Cleveland with many amazing readers and her Friends and Fiction friends. Spent the weekend at home for Mother’s Day celebrations with her family. Kristy is heading off to meet with her publishing team in New York next week before heading down to the Jersey Shore for the F&F Live event! Stay tuned to her instagram to follow along for the fun!
Patti Callahan Henry is still recovering from an incredible few days in Cleveland, OH, and Lancaster, PA. It is amazing to finally be with readers, librarians and booksellers again – they are the lifeblood of what we do! And did you hear that Surviving Savannah is the BooksaMillion Book Club pick? You can join the discussion! She just finished the last edits on the new book and keep your eye open for the title and the pub date coming soooon. She is going to be with MKA in Birmingham on Saturday, and wouldn’t it be fun if you showed up? :-) Get event details HERE.
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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 (out now!), a signed copy of THE HOMEWRECKERS (out now!), 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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Listen to the F&F Podcast!
Coming this Friday, May 13th—Ron & Patti talk with Aimie Runyan and Kelli Stuart about taking little known stories from history and crafting powerful works of historical fiction surrounding them.
Out Now! WB_S3E4—Ron Block and Patti Callahan explore mythology in fiction with Jennifer Saint and in non-fiction with Natalie Haynes. LISTEN NOW!
Out Now! WB_S3E3—Ron chats with Mary Kay Andrews all about her new book THE HOMEWRECKERS and looks back on her 30 years as a published author as she celebrates a major career milestone. LISTEN NOW!
Out Now! WB_S3E2—Ron explores Women, Science and Fiction with two exceptional new releases, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, and Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum. 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.
Grab these books and start reading now!
If you missed our May 6th Happy Hour with Ron Block and Patti Callahan Henry, catch it HERE.
Not a member of the Friends & Fiction Book Club? Join us! We would love to have you!
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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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F&F is on YouTube!
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Did you miss the May 4th episode celebrating the launch of MKA’s The Homewreckers and the release of Kristin’s paperback of The Forest of Vanishing Stars? If so, you can watch it 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 May 4th show HERE.
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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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Sponsor Spotlight
Charleston Coffee Roasters
Do you need a great hostess, graduation, or teacher gift? We think the F&F Book & Coffee Bundles available through our friends at Charleston Coffee Roasters make the perfect gift for the book and coffee lovers in your life! You choose a book by one of the Fab Four, then select the coffee roast and grind of your choice. Pay one price for the bundle and receive your autographed book & coffee pairing in the mail! Check them out HERE. Remember to enter our ongoing coffee-of-the-month giveaway. We’ve got ONE more 3-month subscription (a $90 value) up for grabs with a final winner to be announced in May. ENTER NOW! And don’t forget that everyone in the F&F community gets 20% off all bagged coffees on the Charleston Coffee Roasters website with code coffeewithfriends. SHOP NOW! While you’re on their website, please sign up for their email newsletter, and be sure to follow CCR on Facebook & Instagram.
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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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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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