What a FABULOUS first week on the BEACH HOUSE RULES tour so far. I have had the best, best time seeing hundreds and hundreds of you all over the place. Tomorrow, I’ll be in Westminster and Severna Park, MD tomorrow with my friend Victoria Schade. And, Sunday, I will be in Franklin, IN. Then, next week, takes me to Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, and back to Beaufort. Come see me on tour!
Beach House Rules is The Happy Place Read!
I just positively love Joanna Garcia Swisher—from Sweet Magnolias, of course, but also from the Reba days! I am BEYOND excited that she chose BEACH HOUSE RULES for June’s The Happy Place read! Thank you, thank you, Jo and The Happy Place!
Beach House Rules is on New York Live!
Press has been rolling in for BEACH HOUSE RULES, and I love, love seeing it in the wild! Huge thanks to my friend Ashley Bellman for including it on the New York Live Summer Reads!
Order a copy of Beach House Rules:
Grab your sunhat and your heartstrings —
In Beach House Rules, when one woman’s life falls apart, she returns to her family’s coastal cottage to pick up the pieces — only to uncover long-buried secrets, unexpected hope, and the healing power of second chances.
Set against the breezy charm of the North Carolina coast, this beautifully written story is brimming with warmth, resilience, and the reminder that sometimes the tides of change bring exactly what we need.
📚 For fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Nancy Thayer, and beach reads with heart.
🩷 Available now wherever books are sold.
Orders in the first week of a books on sale life are a huge help to authors. If you plan to read BEACH HOUSE RULES this summer and want to support me please consider ordering this week.If you’re into signed first editions, they are available from Nantucket Books and South Main Book Company. But, of course, the book is also available from Bookshop.org, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and everywhere books are sold.
This Week On Friends and Fiction:
Join us Wednesday, May 28th at 7pm Eastern on the F&F Facebook page and YouTube channel as Kristin Harmel & Patti Callahan Henry welcome New York Times bestselling author Kristina McMorris to discuss her latest work of historical fiction, The Girls of Good Fortune, which shines a light on shocking events surrounding Portland’s dark history.
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