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 Nita Prose
    Apr 4 2025

    On this episode, Kristin Harmel & Mary Kay Andrews welcome #1 New York Times bestselling author, Nita Prose, to discuss her latest intriguing and heartwarming installment in her wildly popular Molly the Maid series, THE MAID'S SECRET. Nita is the author of THE MAID, which has sold more than two-million copies worldwide, THE MYSTERY GUEST, and THEN MISTLETOE MYSTERY. A Good Morning America Book Club pick, THE MAID won the Ned Kelly Award for International Crime Fiction, the Fingerprint Award for Debut Novel of the Year, the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, and the Barry Award for Best First Mystery. THE MAID was also an Edgar Award finalist for Best Novel. In THE MAID'S SECRET(April 8, Ballantine Books), Molly’s life is threatened when a daring art heist takes place at the Regency Grand and we wonder who’s out to get her as long-buried secrets are revealed.

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    39 mins
  • Friends & Fiction with Emilia Hart
    Mar 28 2025

    On this episode, Patti Callahan Henry & Kristy Woodson Harvey welcome New York Times bestselling author Emilia Hart to discuss her latest spellbinding novel, The Sirens, about sisters separated by centuries, but bound together by the sea. An Australia native now living in England, Emilia has worked as a lawyer in Sydney and London. She is the author of the runaway NYT-bestselling debut novel, Weyward. She joins us to discuss her highly anticipated second novel, The Sirens. It’s a breathtaking tale of female resilience and the bonds of sisterhood across time and space, which captures the power of dreams, and the mystery and magic of the sea.

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    41 mins
  • Friends & Fiction with Emma Donoghue
    Mar 21 2025

    On this episode, Ron Block and Kristin Harmel welcome internationally bestselling author of contemporary and historical fiction, Emma Donoghue, to discuss her latest book, The Paris Express, a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 railway disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station. Emma Donoghue is the author of sixteen novels, including the award-winning national bestseller Room, the basis for the Academy Award-winning film of the same name starring Brie Larson. Emma’s fiction has been translated into more than forty languages and she has written the screenplays for her novels Room and The Wonder, and nine stage plays. Her next film is the adaptation of Helen Macdonald’s NYT-bestselling memoir, H Is for Hawk. Emma joins us to discuss The Paris Express which has gotten starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Booklist and been named a most anticipated book of the year by the Los Angeles Times and Oprah Daily.

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    40 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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