December 15, 2021 | Issue #72 |
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F&F Merch Flash Sale!
20% off through the 21st!
F&F merch makes the perfect gift for the avid reader in your life—or for yourself! Just in time for the holidays, score a sweet discount on our brand-new reading journal, cool wine tumblers, and comfy logo t-shirts! Shop the Friends & Fiction Collection at Oxford Exchange and use the code FFHAPPYHOLIDAYS to get 20% off your purchase. Items are in stock and ready to ship. The discount is good until Dec 21st! Happy shopping!
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The F&F 12 Authors of Christmas Giveaway
Here’s your chance to win all 12 of the books by tonight’s 8 author guests plus the most recent titles by the Fab Four! The entry deadline is midnight on Thursday, December 16, 2021. One lucky winner will be chosen at random and announced on Friday, December 17, 2021. That winner will receive a series of 12 different book packages in the mail—one personally sent from each author. Fill out the ENTRY FORM and get in it to win it! Good luck!
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Bookstore 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! Proceeds from every sale made on Bookshop goes straight into the pockets of indie booksellers nationwide. Since its inception, Bookshop.org has raised nearly $18 million fr indie bookstores! Find all dozen books by F&F’s 12 Authors of Christmas on our Friends & Fiction 2021 Guests list!
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Latest News From "The Fab Four"
KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY had the absolute greatest weekend ever “taking over” her town of Beaufort, NC and turning it into Peachtree Bluff! She is so grateful to the readers from all over who came to town for luncheons, an unforgettable wine dinner and, her favorite, Peachtree Bluff tours on Beaufort Historic Site’s red, double decker bus. She is putting together a PDF with photos and descriptions so you can tour Peachtree Bluff wherever you are! Also, she’s so grateful to Women.com for including Christmas in Peachtree Bluff in its Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide.
PATTI CALLAHAN is so excited about tonight with all of our authors – and the fun Night Before Christmas that Kristin wrote for all of us. Once Upon a Wardrobe received the Earphone Award for Audiofile Magazine and Patti is thrilled. She’ll have the narrator – Fiona Hardingham – on the podcast with Ron Block soon! And what can be better than an Indie bookstore recommending a book for gift giving season? Now back to hanging ornaments on the tree…
MARY KAY ANDREWS is celebrating turning in the revisions for The Homewreckers, She’s headed to New York this weekend for research for her next book (and to catch a Broadway show!). Catch her recent interview with Adriana Trigiani HERE (at the 2:35:56 mark), her recent chat with Brenda Novak HERE, and her recent Friends & Fiction Book Club appearance HERE. Please tune into our Friends & Fiction Writer’s Block podcast the week before Christmas so you can catch MKA reading FATAL FRUITCAKE, a holiday short story she wrote back in 1997. And be sure to join her Monday night 12/20 at 7pm ET for her last event of 2021–when she’ll discuss The Santa Suit with Emily Giffin’s book club. For a limited time, take advantage of the down-priced e-book of MKA's first holiday novella, BLUE CHRISTMAS, at just $1.99 for your e-reading devices.
KRISTIN HARMEL is looking forward to tonight’s action-packed episode–and her son Noah’s school holiday party the next day. (Her husband, Jason, designed a snowball-toss game for the party featuring the Grinch!) She’s hard at work on her next novel and is looking forward to getting some reading done as things slow down over the next couple of weeks. She’s also planning to make a big batch of her mom’s famous fudge and to watch two of her favorite Christmas movies: The Night They Saved Christmas and Love Actually.
What Kristin is reading: Lots of Christmas stories with Noah!
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Listen to the F&F Podcast!
Coming soon! Out this Friday, December 17th—Tune in for the second installment in Ron’s interview with country music artists Kim Richey & Gretchen Peters about storytelling through songwriting.
Out Now! WB_S1E27—Ron talks to comedian and Real Housewives impersonator Amy Philllips and her co-author, celebrity chef Stuart O'Keeffe, about their parody cookbook Cook It, Spill It, Throw It. LISTEN NOW!
Out Now! WB_S1E26—Patti & Ron interview ER doc turned novelist Kimmery Martin about medical fiction. LISTEN NOW!
Out Now! WB_S1E25—Ron interviews country music artists Kim Richey & Gretchen Peters about storytelling through songwriting. 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 early part of 2022 and be sure to save the dates! All events begin at 7pm Eastern unless otherwise noted.
Dec 20: Christmas in Peachtree Bluff book club discussion with Kristy Woodson Harvey
Grab these books quickly and start reading now! We hope everyone is having a great holiday season so far!
If you missed our Dec 6th book club discussion with Mary Kay Andrews about The Santa Suit click HERE to watch it!
If you missed our Happy Hour with Ron Block on Friday Dec 3rd, you can watch it HERE.
If you missed our 2nd Annual Friendsgiving on Thursday Nov 18th, you can watch the replay 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 Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney? 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 December 8th 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.
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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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