Birthday Week Recap!
Well, guys, it was the birthday week to end all birthday weeks! If you know me, you know I LOVE a birthday. Mine, yours, anyone’s! I think it’s such a big, huge privilege to get to live another year… Plus, I’ll take any chance I get to celebrate! My family and friends threw a beautiful party on Saturday and, on Wednesday, on my actual birthday, little Will and his friends took some of my besties and me on a fun boat ride with champagne and caviar and all my favorite treats. It was the perfect way to celebrate! Thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes. I appreciate you all so much!
Beach House Rules on GMA!
Speaking of incredible birthday gifts… Patti Callahan Henry recommended Beach House Rules on Good Morning America! It was SUCH a thrill!
Ready for a literary escape? Here are all the books bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry would pack for the beach. 🏖️
Watch Patti on GMA here!
Order your copy of Beach House Rules if you are ready for a new summer read!
A Note From Karen White on Release Day of That Carolina Summer:
Y’all, my friend Karen White’s new novel releases TODAY. I’m so excited for her!! She wrote a super fun little note just for us, all about THAT LAST CAROLINA SUMMER. If you’re looking for your next favorite read, check it out—and don’t miss her on tour! From Karen:
I’m so excited for the publication of my thirty-sixth (!) novel and my first single-title book since 2019, THAT LAST CAROLINA SUMMER! It’s set in one of my favorite places in the world, the South Carolina Lowcountry, in the Charleston suburb of Mt. Pleasant. It’s all about sisterhood, secrets and the unbreakable bonds of family. There’s also a dash of romance and a haunting mystery—a little something for everyone looking for an engrossing summer read. To find out more, click here https://www.karen-white.com/standalones/that-last-carolina-summer/
I’m hitting the road on an extensive book tour and would love to see you on the road. Check out my book tour schedule here https://www.karen-white.com/appearances/ and please come see me! If you can’t make it but would still like to have a signed copy, my local bookstore, FoxTaleBook Shoppe or any of the stores I’m visiting on tour, will be able to set you up with one (or more). Remember—signed books make excellent gifts and the holidays are less than six months away!
Happy summer—and may it be filled with lots of wonderful books.
Karen
North Myrtle Beach Event!
Come see me THIS THURSDAY, July 24 in North Myrtle Beach! Lunch… Beach House Rules… It’s going to be a great time!! Get your tickets here!
This Week on Friends and Fiction:
COMING UP ON JULY 23rd!
Join us Wed 7/23 at 7pm ET on F&F’s Facebook page & YouTube channel as the full F&F family — Kristy Woodson Harvey, Patti Callahan Henry, Kristin Harmel & Mary Kay Andrews — gathers to welcome this month’s F&F Featured Author, No.1 bestselling novelist Lisa Scottoline to discuss our July 2025 Pick of the Month, her new gothic thriller with dashes of romance and excellent twists, THE UNRAVELING OF JULIA, in which a young widow inherits a Tuscan estate from a mysterious benefactor and finds herself thrust into the crosshairs of a dangerous conspiracy.
Lisa is a No.1 bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of 37 novels. She also wrote a series of humorous memoirs, co-authored with her daughter, novelist Francesca Serritella. Lisa is President of Mystery Writers of America and she reviews fiction for the New York Times, Washington Post, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. A former trial lawyer, she graduated magna cum laude in three years from the University of Pennsylvania and cum laude from its law school, where she taught Justice & Fiction. There are 30 million copies of her books in print, and she is published in 35 countries. She joins us from her Pennsylvania farm with her array of disobedient pets to discuss her twisty, transportive, and haunting, new novel, THE UNRAVELING OF JULIA. Called “pulse-pounding, propulsive, and utterly unputdownable,” by our own Kristy Woodson Harvey, this is suspense with a passport and we can’t wait to talk to Lisa all about it!
Watch the LIVE video broadcast as it airs Wed 7/23 or catch the audio version on our podcast Fri 7/25.
