March 23, 2022 | Issue #87 |
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Five Facts from our Friend, Lisa Scottoline
The one thing you’ve learned you can’t live without during the pandemic:
Dunkin' Donuts coffee, extra cream, extra sugar
Your perfect day:
Any day I wake up
Your favorite independent bookstore:
I have too many to name here. I'm grateful to them all and I love them all. I've toured in them over 30 years and make a point of supporting them whenever I can.
The last book you raved about:
Your next book in ten words or less:
A carjacking goes wrong and a suburban father must choose between law and justice.
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Spotlight on Joy Callaway
We are excited to introduce you to Joy Callaway on tonight’s after show! Joy is the author of The Fifth Avenue Artists Society, and Secret Sisters. She holds a BA in journalism and public relations from Marshall University and an MMC from the University of South Carolina, and lives in Charlotte, NC, with her family. She joins us tonight to talk about her forthcoming novel, The Grand Design. Follow her on Instagram and Facebook.
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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
Page 1 Books
Did you enter our recent giveaway (it closed last night!) with Page 1 Books where one lucky winner will get to choose between the “Boozy Reader Bundle” or the “Jane Austen Persuasion Bundle?” Be sure to tune into the show tonight because we will announce the winner live on the air! Meanwhile, 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 getting ready for her book launch next week, THE WEDDING VEIL releases on 3.29. You still have time to get your free THE WEDDING VEIL magnet, AND she’s sweetening the pot! You might have heard authors say that, sometimes, they have deleted chapters they leave on the cutting room floor. Well, in THE WEDDING VEIL, she had TWO! If you preorder you will get the magnet, deleted chapters and a signed bookplate. If you haven’t preordered, well… there’s still one week left! Once you preorder be sure to fill out this form!
Kristy is also getting ready to head out on tour. Check her tour schedule to see if she’s coming to a city near you!
Patti Callahan Henry sent out her NEWSLETTER this week! Did you receive it in your inbox with all the updates? And she loved this Book Riot Historical Fiction Quiz with Surviving Savannah. And speaking of Surviving Savannah – the paperbacks have arrived at Patti’s house and she can’t wait for all of you to see them on the April 5th release date! And she is counting the days until Kristy’s The Wedding Veil is out next week!!
Mary Kay Andrews made a quick trip to the Big Apple this week to attend the Tuesday launch event for old friend John Searles at Symphony Space. While she was in the city, she did research for her Christmas 2023 book, and had drinks with her publisher and agent, and brunch with her dynamic marketing and public relations team to discuss the upcoming May 3rd publication of The Homewreckers. On Wednesday, she and F&F managing director Meg Walker took in a matinee of the Broadway revival of The Music Man. MKA will be joining this week’s show from her NYC hotel room.
Kristin Harmel is speaking today at a luncheon in Bluffton, South Carolina (a five-hour drive from Orlando) and will do her best to get back for Friends & Fiction tonight; Lisa Scottoline is one of her favorite authors, and Kristin would be heartbroken to miss her! In fact, she’s listening to Lisa’s 2021 WW2 epic, Eternal, as she drives! She’s finalizing her paperback tour for The Forest of Vanishing Stars (beginning May 3) and is excited to announce those tour dates soon. And she’s thrilled to see The Book of Lost Names back in Costco stores across the United States this week.
What Kristin is Reading: Listening to Lisa Scottoline’s Eternal on audiobook and encouraging everyone to preorder Kristy’s The Wedding Veil in advance of its release next week!
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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, March 25th—To round out our month of March Madness on the podcast, Ron chats with Kristy Woodson Harvey all about The Wedding Veil, in stores next week!
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!
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 John Searles & Jessica Strawser? 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 March 16th 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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