Meet Jasmine Guillory TONIGHT!
Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—April 23, 2025
Tune in at 7pm ET for TONIGHT’s episode!
Join us Wednesday, April 23rd at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Mary Kay Andrews & Kristin Harmel welcome New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory to discuss Flirting Lessons, her “sexy-sweet, opposites-attract, friends-to-lovers romance, enriched with found-family vibes…an absolute delight” (Booklist).
Jasmine is the NYT-bestselling author of nine novels including Drunk on Love, The Wedding Date, and the Reese’s Book Club selection The Proposal. She’s been a Today Show favorite, with 18 appearances (and counting!) to recommend upcoming novels to their TV audience. Jasmine’s work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Cosmopolitan, Bon Appetit, and Time. She joins us from her home in Oakland, California, to discuss her captivating and sizzling new queer romance, Flirting Lessons (Berkley, April 8) which Taylor Jenkins Reid calls “Jasmine Guillory at her best…absolutely one of the most fun rom-coms of the year!”
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Latest News from the Fab Four!
PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY spent her Easter long weekend with family in South Carolina where the weather was glorious and she spent time at The Heritage golf tournament (not that she had any idea who was playing or winning, but she got to hang out with her boys). She continues to make Easter baskets for her grown children and they don’t complain. She created deviled eggs that looked awful and tasted glorious, along with an Easter lunch they ate outside because spring is hopping in SC. She’s now back on the road and just finished some events at her alma mater (Auburn University – WAR EAGLE!) before heading home to write and write and write! Did you see the article she wrote for Readers Digest? Or the QA for PrintFresh Magazine? If not, check them out along with all other recent essays and interviews HERE!
KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is having the best, best time celebrating Spring Break on Mustique Island! She is totally unplugging because when she gets home, A Happier Life releases in paperback on April 29, we will be a month out from Beach House Rules, and she is touring a ton in May and June. She can’t wait to see YOU. Check out her tour schedule! She’s reading Marie Bostwick’s latest The Book Club for Troublesome Women on the beach and loving it!
KRISTIN HARMEL had a lovely Easter with her mom, husband, son, and in-laws and is now back to work on her 2026 book! This weekend, she’s off to Windsor, Colorado for “Clearview Reads 2025,” where she’ll be discussing The Book of Lost Names. Come on out if you’re in the area! Tickets available here.
MARY KAY ANDREWS spent Easter week at Ebbtide on Tybee Island, where she and Mr. MKA took long walks and hosted Easter lunch with the family. While at the beach she’s working on her book for next summer, and reading Fredrik Bachman’s My Friends for her upcoming sold-out in-conversation event with the global bestselling author on May 14th with the Roswell Library.
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Friday, May 30, 2025—Friends & Fiction Live in Myrtle Beach to celebrate the launch of Beach House Rules by Kristy Woodson Harvey. Meet all four Friends & Fiction host authors! Hosted by Litchfield Books at 21 Main At North Beach in North Myrtle Beach, SC. The event begins at 10:45AM. Tickets are $80 and include a signed copy of Beach House Rules, a special gift, keynote presentation delivered by the Fab Four (plus Meg & Ron!), author Q&A, plated lunch & dessert, meet & greet, photo opportunity, and admittance to the private restaurant. Couples of the same household may exchange one event book for another title in the bookstore. Additional books by all four authors will be available for purchase at the event. GET TICKETS!
Tuesday, June 17, 2025—Friends & Fiction Live at the Jersey Shore to celebrate the launch of The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau by Kristin Harmel. Meet all four Friends & Fiction host authors! Hosted by Booktowne at the Algonquin Arts Theatre in Manasquan, NJ. Doors open at 6:00PM. The show begins at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $45 and include a signed copy of The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau, lively keynote presentation delivered by the Fab Four (plus Meg & Ron!), and live audience Q&A session—plus sips & nibbles, meet & greet, book signings, and photo opportunities in the courtyard after the show! Additional books by all four authors will be available for purchase at the event. GET TICKETS!
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, the Fab Four gathered LIVE to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Author, the multi-million copy New York Times bestselling phenomenon, Jeneva Rose, to discuss our April 2025 Pick of the Month, The Perfect Divorce, the propulsively page-turning and highly-anticipated follow-up to her smash success BookTok sensation, The Perfect Marriage.
You can WATCH that episode on Facebook or YouTube, or LISTEN to it on our podcast.
Coming Up on The Friends & Fiction Show
All shows can be watched on Facebook & YouTube each Wednesday evening at 7pm ET, and listened to on our podcast each Friday, all year long.
Already aired: F&F March Pick of the Month: Patti Callahan Henry, The Story She Left Behind
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Already aired: Emma Donoghue, The Paris Express
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Already aired: Emilia Hart, The Sirens
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Already aired: Nita Prose, The Maid’s Secret
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Already aired: Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Happy Land
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Already aired: F&F April Pick of the Month—Jeneva Rose, The Perfect Divorce
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Jasmine Guillory, Flirting Lessons
Watch: April 23 | Listen: April 25
Carley Fortune, One Golden Summer
Watch April 30 | Listen May 2
Mary Alice Monroe, Where the Rivers Merge
Watch May 7 | Listen May 9
Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
Watch May 14 | Listen May 16
F&F May Pick of the Month—Kristy Woodson Harvey, Beach House Rules
Watch LIVE May 21 | Listen May 23
Kristina McMorris, The Girls of Good Fortune
Watch May 28 | Listen May 30
Summer Kick-Off Beach Party with Mary Kay Andrews, Annabel Monaghan, Meg Mitchell Moore, Martha Hall Kelly, Wendy Francis, Amy Mason Doan & Brooke Lea Foster
Watch June 4 | Listen June 6
F&F June Pick of the Month—Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Collette Marceau
Watch LIVE June 11 | Listen June 13
Julie Clark, The Ghostwriter
Watch June 18 | Listen June 20
Jess Walter, So Far Gone
Watch June 25 | Listen June 27
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