If you’ve spent any time around here, you know I love my birthday. I love any chance to celebrate, really! And… Tomorrow is the big day! And my friend John Searles will be in Atlantic Beach with me to celebrate his fabulous new novel SINGLE GIRLS! (Note: This is not an event for single girls! (I’ve gotten some questions ;))People of all relationship statuses will love this luncheon! My friends at Carolina Women’s Collective are co-hosting this, and it is all to benefit Earlier.org, one of my favorite organizations for earlier detection of breast cancer. Join us for a delicious lunch at Coral Bay Club and a fun talk and signing!
Upcoming Events:
July 16, 2026 | Atlantic Beach, NC
Single Girls Soirée: A Cosmopolitan Conversation
John Searles in conversation with Kristy Woodson Harvey
Coral Bay Club
1901 West Fort Macon Road
Atlantic Beach, NC 28512
Bookseller: The Country Bookshop
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Join us on July 16th as John Searles, New York Times Bestselling author of multiple novels and longtime editor at Cosmopolitan Magazine, brings this dynamic era to life in his new release, Single Girls. Single Girls Soiree: A Cosmopolitan Conversation will be an unforgettable afternoon with John Searles in conversation with yours truly, celebrating the recent release of Single Girls. Every seat includes lunch, insightful conversation, fun behind-the-scenes stories & a cash bar. Champagne greeting and early entry for sponsors!
July 21, 2026 | Atlantic Beach, NC | 12:00 PM EST
Dunes Club Luncheon
710 E. Fort Macon Road
Atlantic Beach, NC 28512
Book Signing
SEMI-PRIVATE EVENT (Open to Members and Their Guests)
July 24, 2026 | Emerald Isle, NC | 4:30 PM EST
Emerald Isle Books and Toys
8700 Emerald Dr, Emerald Isle, NC 28594
Book Signing Free Open to the Public Event
ENTIRE PEACHTREE BLUFF SERIES on Kindle Unlimited!
Hey, Kindle Unlimited readers! Exciting news! Slightly South of Simple, The Secret to Southern Charm, The Southern Side of Paradise AND Christmas in Peachtree Bluff are now available on KU. If you haven’t started my Peachtree Bluff Series, now is the perfect time to start at the very beginning. And if you aren’t a Kindle Unlimited reader, all of these books are available in e-book, trade paperback, mass market paperback and audiobook, wherever books are sold!
Just in time to catch up before FALLING FOR PEACHTREE BLUFF releases on September 15! How great is that?!
Or… It’s always a good time to:
Pub Day Giveaway!
My friend and Gallery Books sister ’s OUR LAST VINEYARD SUMMER is out in paperback NOW. And I want to give a copy to one of you! To enter, just leave a comment and let me know what’s on your summer reading list!
From the “great storyteller” (Natalie Jenner, author of The Jane Austen Society) Brooke Lea Foster, comes a captivating historical fiction novel set in 1965 and 1978 about a graduate student who returns with her sisters to their family’s summer estate on Martha’s Vineyard and begins to unravel old family secrets.
After suffering through her first year of graduate school at Columbia following her senator father’s death, Betsy Whiting is hoping to spend the summer with her boyfriend…and hopefully end the summer as his fiancée. Instead, her mother—a longtime feminist and leader in the women’s rights movement—calls Betsy and her sisters back home to Martha’s Vineyard, announcing that they need to sell their beloved summer house to pay off their father’s debts.
When Betsy arrives on the island a week later, she must reckon with her strained familial relationships, a long-ago forbidden romance, and the complicated legacy of her parents, who divided the family even as they did good for the world.
Following a dual timeline between 1965 and 1978, and filled with the vibrant, sunlit nostalgia of the cherished New England vacation setting, Our Last Vineyard Summer poignantly captures two generations of women navigating grief, sisterhood, and female friendship while trying to find the courage to stand up for what they believe in—and the strength to decide if the home they once loved is worth saving.
Hope to see you at a tour date soon! In the meantime… Happy Reading!
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