Meet Julie Clark TONIGHT!
Weekly News from Friends & Fiction—June 18, 2025
Tune in at 7pm ET for TONIGHT’s episode!
Join us Wednesday, June 18th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Mary Kay Andrews & Kristy Woodson Harvey welcome New York Times bestselling author Julie Clark to discuss her dazzling new thriller, The Ghostwriter.
Julie is the NYT-bestselling author of The Ones We Choose, The Last Flight, and The Lies I Tell. Her debut, The Ones We Choose, was published in 2018 and has been optioned for television by Lionsgate. The Last Flight was a #1 international bestseller and an Amazon Best Book of the Year that has been translated into more than twenty languages, earning a trifecta of starred trade reviews and picks from Indie Next and Library Reads. We are so excited to talk to Julie about The Ghostwriter (Sourcebooks, June 3), an instant NYT-bestseller and Book of the Month Club pick that Booklist called it “a riveting, five-star read” in a starred review.
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Latest News from the Fab Four!
PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY just spent the most incredible five days in Nantucket for the Nantucket Book Festival! Meg Walker joined her and of course our beloved Nantucket Bookseller Tim Ehrenberg! Now she has just finished seeing her beloved F&F family for the launch of The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau and she’ll be in Jersey (her birth state) for the rest of the week doing events.
KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY is finishing up her last week of tour this week and celebrating the launch of Kristin’s novel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau! It has been so great traveling all over the country to see so many of you. Thank you to everyone who has been so supportive of BEACH HOUSE RULES! She is so thrilled because she got her first ever in-print mention in People Magazine this week! Beach House Rules is one of People’s “Must Read Books for Summer”!
KRISTIN HARMEL is so grateful to all of you for your support for THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU, which came out yesterday! She loved seeing so many of you at her Monday night event in St. Pete, Florida with Tombolo Books and her launch day Friends & Fiction LIVE event in Manasquan, NJ with Booktowne last night! Today, it’s on to Rehoboth Beach and Bethany Beach, Delaware, then Doylestown, PA; Atlanta; Orlando; Tampa; Columbus, OH; Carmel, IN; Plainville, MA; Greenville, SC; Palos Verdes, CA; Carlsbad, CA; and San Diego! You can find her full tour schedule here–and you can find THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU wherever you buy your books! Happy reading!
MARY KAY ANDREWS loved being with the F&F crew at the Jersey Shore this week for the live launch of Kristin Harmel’s The Stolen Life of Collette Marceau followed by a luncheon today in Rumson, NJ with Patti hosted by River Road Books to chat about Patti’s The Story She Left Behind. She is so looking forward to joining Kristin and our pal Colleen Oakley on Friday night at the Atlanta History Center. Tickets are still available here. Saturday, MKA will be in Austin, Texas at Book People. Tickets are available here.
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Upcoming Events
View Kristin’s full 2025 book tour for The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau HERE.
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In Case You Missed It
On last week’s episode of The Friends & Fiction Show, the full F&F family gathered to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Author, New York Times bestselling novelist Kristin Harmel to discuss her electrifying new novel, our June 2025 Pick of the Month, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau, about two jewel thieves, a priceless bracelet that disappears in 1940s Paris, and a quest for answers in a decades-old murder.
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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Already aired: Jasmine Guillory, Flirting Lessons
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Already aired: Carley Fortune, One Golden Summer
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Already aired: Mary Alice Monroe, Where the Rivers Merge
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Already aired: Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel
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Already aired: F&F May Pick of the Month—Kristy Woodson Harvey, Beach House Rules
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Already aired: Kristina McMorris, The Girls of Good Fortune
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Already aired: 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
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Already aired: F&F June Pick of the Month—Kristin Harmel, The Stolen Life of Collette Marceau
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Julie Clark, The Ghostwriter
Watch June 18 | Listen June 20
Jess Walter, So Far Gone
Watch June 25 | Listen June 27
F&F 2025 Subscription Box with Oxford Exchange
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This subscription includes three separate shipments:
1. MARCH 18th: A hardcover, signed, first edition of Patti Callahan Henry’s forthcoming book THE STORY SHE LEFT BEHIND with an exclusive Friends & Fiction friendship bracelet and car magnet
2. MAY 27th: A hardcover, signed, first edition of BEACH HOUSE RULES by Kristy Woodson Harvey!
3. JUNE 17th: A hardcover, signed, first edition of THE STOLEN LIFE OF COLETTE MARCEAU by Kristin Harmel!
*Optional add-on: A paperback, signed, first edition of SUMMERS AT THE SAINT by Mary Kay Andrews (coming in paperback June 3)!
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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 tour stops. How fun to dress to match the books?!
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 35,000 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 Viola Shipman about her novel, The Page Turner. Mark your calendars for June 23rd for their next author guest, Kristy Woodson Harvey, when they’ll discuss her new novel, Beach House Rules. 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 May prompt is to read a book with water on the cover and for June it’s to read a book recommended by a friend.
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