Guest Line-Up Reveal for July–September

Independence Day "Best-Of" Re-Airing with Kristin Hannah

Jul 02, 2025

Summer 2025 Season Reveal

🥁Drumroll, please!🥁 We are thrilled to reveal the full Summer 2025 guest line-up for The Friends and Fiction Show!

The fun kicks off on July 9th with our first guest of the season, Meg Waite Clayton to discuss her latest Typewriter Beach!

After a break in the action this week for the 4th of July holiday, we’ve got a new author guest coming up every week — with web shows airing each Wednesday evening at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook page & YouTube channel and podcast episodes going live every Friday — through the end of September.

We are excited for our three Picks of the Month! For July it is Lisa Scottoline with her new thriller The Unraveling of Julia. For August we will welcome Francesca Serritella to discuss her new novel Full Bloom. And for September we can’t wait to welcome Elin Hilderbrand back to the show, this time with her daughter Shelby Cunningham who co-authored their new novel The Academy. We just know those will be three incredible live episodes!

This Week’s Episode

On Wednesday, July 2nd at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel we will re-air one of our favorite episodes for our vault.

In honor of Independence Day, we will feature our show from January 17, 2024 with special guest, #1 New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah where the full fab Four — Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey & Patti Callahan Henry — join Kristin in a discussion about her smash success novel, The Women.

If you missed this show when it first aired — or if you just want to watch or listen to it again after having savored this phenomenal novel — now’s your chance! An eye-opening portrayal of Army nurses during the Vietnam War, The Women is at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided. What better time to reflect on the service of our nation’s brave Army nurses than during Fourth of July week?

Kristin Hannah is the award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, the instant No.1 NYT bestsellers The Great Alone and The Four Winds, and Firefly Lane, which was the No.1 Netflix series around the world the week it came out. Her novels have hit the NYT, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Indie bookstores’ bestseller lists; won the People’s Choice award for best fiction; been named Book of the Year by Book Of the Month Club; been voted the Best Historical Novel of the Year by Goodreads; been chosen as book club picks by Reese Witherspoon and the TODAY Show; and been highlighted as best books of the year by outlets such as Amazon, iTunes, and Buzzfeed.

Watch the video broadcast of this interview as it re-airs Wed 7/2 at 7pm ET on the F&F Facebook group page & YouTube channel. Catch the audio version when we re-air it on our podcast Fri 7/4.

Meanwhile, if you’re one of the rare few who haven’t yet read The Women, grab it now from the F&F Shop on Bookshop.org where all your purchases support our show, our guests, and indie bookstores nationwide.

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Upcoming Events

View Kristin’s upcoming events HERE.

View Kristy’s upcoming events HERE.

See Patti’s upcoming events HERE.

See MKA’s upcoming events HERE.

Want to know what our F&F Live events are all about? Watch this video compilation!

In Case You Missed It

On last week’s episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, Patti Callahan Henry & Ron Block welcomed #1 New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter to discuss his propulsive new novel So Far Gone, a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.

You can WATCH that episode on Facebook or YouTube, or LISTEN to it on our podcast.

F&F Merch Store

We have a Friends & Fiction merch store with t-shirts, sweatshirts, coffee mugs and a book bag on Bonfire. We also have other items like wine tumblers, reading journals, and our original white v-neck logo tees available through Oxford Exchange.

Tees in New Summer Colors!

We’ve added two fun, new summer colors to our Bonfire merch store in our signature Name List apparel line. These are perfect for attending Kristy & Kristin’s upcoming events. How fun to dress to match the books?!

Order New Summer T-Shirts!

F&F Official Book Club & 2025 Reading Challenge

Join Brenda Gardner & Lisa Harrison for monthly book club picks and live online author chats on the Facebook page for the F&F Official Book Club with Brenda & Lisa, where they’ve amassed more than 38,000 of their own members. You can also follow the Book Club on Instagram and subscribe to their YouTube channel where you can catch past discussions, including their most recent chat with Kristy Woodson Harvey about her novel, Beach House Rules. Mark your calendars for July 21st for their next author guest, Kristin Harmel, when they’ll discuss her new novel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau. The Book Club is also hosting the 2025 F&F Reading Challenge. Join them for a different category prompt each month to read outside your comfort zone. The June prompt is to read a book recommended by a friend and for July it’s to read a book set in France.

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