January 26, 2021 | Issue #78 |
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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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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 nearly $19 million for indie bookstores! Find recent books by tonight’s guest Amor Towles and by the Fab Four on our Friends & Fiction 2022 Guests list!
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Latest News From "The Fab Four"
KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is so excited to announce her THE WEDDING VEIL book tour, beginning March 29! Visit her website for a selection of events and keep checking back because more are being added!
PATTI CALLAHAN is trying to stay warm in the uncharacteristically cold south! She loved visiting Mobile last week for an in person event and is looking forward to MORE EVENTS! For those who might have missed out on the LIVE pre-order book club with C. S. Lewis’ stepson about Patti’s Once Upon a Wardrobe, it is now HERE to view. Now everyone – stay warm out there!
MARY KAY ANDREWS excavated her office last week and uncovered a long hidden masterpiece; son Andrew’s first-grade description of his mother as being “tall and slim with culry hair.” (Spelling was never his forte.) He added that his mother loved pinball (?) and that as a kid she hated “fish sticks and her little brothers.” Check her Instagram page for photographs of that and her latest estate sale find. In the meantime, MKA and her team at St. Martin’s Press are starting to plan the tour for The Homewreckers, out May 3.
KRISTIN HARMEL is hard at work revising the first draft of her next novel and is excited that the ebooks of both The Room on Rue Amelie and The Book of Lost Names are on sale TODAY ONLY ($3.99 for Rue and $4.99 for Book). If you haven’t read them, this is a great chance to catch up on Kristin’s backlist.
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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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Listen to the F&F Podcast!
Coming soon! Out this Friday, January 28th—Ron and special guest podcast host Nancy Johnson (author of The Kindest Lie) interview Lillie Damilola Blackburn about her novel YINKA, WHERE IS YOUR HUZBAND, one of the most hotly anticipated debuts of the year.
Out Now! WB_S2E3—Ron interviews Rachel Hawkins about her latest work of Gothic suspense, Reckless Girls. LISTEN NOW!
Out Now! WB_S2E2—Ron & Kristin interview two historical fiction authors, Genevieve Graham & Julia Kelly, about breathing life into history. LISTEN NOW!
Out Now! WB_S2E1—Ron interviews Indian-American journalist, critic and novelist Thrity Umrigar about her latest novel, The Secrets Between Us, recently released in paperback. 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
Happy New Year! We have a lot of fun events coming up! Take a look at our book club schedule coming up through the early part of 2022 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 Jan 24th book club discussion with Wade Rouse (aka Viola Shipman) about The Secret of Snow, catch it HERE.
Not a member of the Friends & Fiction Book Club? 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 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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F&F is on YouTube!
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Did you miss last week’s episode with Jillian Cantor and Jenny Judson & Danielle Mahfood? 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 January 19th 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 pride! ORDER T-SHIRTS HERE.
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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