Friends & Fiction

By: Mary Kay Andrews Kristin Harmel Kristy Woodson Harvey Patti Callahan Henry Ron Block Bleav
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  • We're four bestselling novelists and friends whose common love of reading, writing, and independent bookstores bound us together. Now we want to share and celebrate stories—of the books we’ve written, the ones we’re reading now, and the art of writing—with each other and the guest authors we invite to join us. If you love books and are curious about the writing world, you’re in the right place.
    2024 Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Patti Callahan Henry, Ron Block | 2020-2023
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Episodes
  • Friends & Fiction with Jasmine Guillory
    Apr 25 2025

    On this episode, 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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    42 mins
  • Friends & Fiction with Jeneva Rose
    Apr 18 2025

    On this episode, the Fab Four—Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey—gather 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. Jeneva is the NYT and USA Today bestselling author of several novels, including Home Is Where the Bodies Are, You Shouldn't Have Come Here, and One of Us Is Dead. Her breakout thriller, which earned her a loyal and massive fan base, The Perfect Marriage, has sold more than two million copies, been translated into more than two dozen languages, and been optioned for film. The Perfect Divorce (April 15, Blackstone) is an expertly plotted, emotionally charged thriller and fast-paced game of cat-and-mouse, and it delivers what her fans have been begging for—the return of Jeneva’s fan-favorite protagonist, Sarah Morgan. We are so excited that Jeneva is joining us to discuss this red-hot new book before embarking on a major national book tour.

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    54 mins
  • Friends & Fiction with Dolen Perkins-Valdez
    Apr 11 2025

    On this episode, Kristy Woodson Harvey & Ron Block welcome New York Times bestselling author Dolen Perkins-Valdez to discuss her enthralling new novel, HAPPY LAND, in which a woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family’s ties to it. Dolen is the NYT-bestselling author of TAKE MY HAND (2022), which was awarded an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association, and a Fiction award from the Black Caucus American Library Association, and was long-listed for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. A three-time nominee for a United States Artists Fellowship, Dolen is widely considered a preeminent chronicler of American historical life. She joins us to discuss HAPPY LAND (April 8, Berkley) which has been called “exhilarating” by Charmaine Wilkerson and “astonishing” by Jodi Picoult, and which has been named a most anticipated book of 2025 by People, Harper's Bazaar, Reader's Digest, Woman’s World and more!

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    42 mins
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Another amazing don't miss episode!!!

Looking forward to reading this one and her others too! Great episode and interview ❤️!

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watch every week

I enjoy watching this show every week for the wonderful 5 authors and their books, but also the incredible guest list. It's truly a don't miss.

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