Oh my word, my friends! I am leaving for the Christmas in Peachtree Bluff tour two weeks from today! If you’re counting, that’s a whole week before the book releases–which means there will be several chances to get a book before you can buy it or have a signed copy shipped your way! To get your early signed copy shipped to you, just check out my tour dates. Better yet, come see me at an event!
Amazing Booklist Review
Trade Reviews are the most exciting, hold-your-breath moments for an author before a new book releases. This one absolutely made my day!!
In a beach read twist, Harvey returns to Peachtree Bluff, an island town off the coast of Georgia, at Christmastime. Sisters Caroline, Sloane, and Emerson Murphy join their mother, Ansley, in Peachtree Bluff for Thanksgiving, full of plans for the weeks leading up to Christmas. But everything changes when a late season hurricane and Caroline’s stubborn teenage daughter cause problems, jeopardizing the family’s safety and the future of their small town’s Christmas celebrations. Like authors Mary Kay Andrews and Mary Alice Monroe, Harvey offers what appears to be a simple beach read but expands to honor the forgiveness and hope possible with family and community support. She’s drawn likeable, realistic characters and placed them in the center of the kind of community in which the wrong coffee delivery leads to finding its rightful owner rather than a refund. Fans of the Peachtree Bluff trilogy will be happy to catch up with the Murphy sisters, and readers new to the Southern beach town and its residents will find themselves charmed and ready to find the earlier titles in the series.
— Tracy Babiasz
Still Need to Preorder?
Get Signed Copies From: Oxford Exchange, E.Shaver or anywhere one my tour calendar! Christmas in Peachtree Bluff is also available from Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Target and everywhere books are sold! Don’t forget to shop at your local bookstore if you have one!
Friends & Fiction Tour Dates
Mary Kay, Patti, Kristin and I will be together in-person! We are hitting the road to celebrate the launches of MKA’s The Santa Suit (9/28), Patti’s Once Upon a Wardrobe (10/19) and my Christmas in Peachtree Bluff—with Kristin joining as a moderator. Click through below for more info on each event and to reserve your spot!
- Sat 10/23, 7pm—Tombolo Books in St. Pete. Get tickets!
- Sun 10/24, 2pm—Oxford Exchange in Tampa. Get tickets!
- Mon 10/25, 11am—F. M. Don’s with Copperfish Books in Punta Gorda. Get tickets!
- Mon 10/25, 5pm—Sanibel Community House w/ Macintosh Books in Sanibel. Get tickets!
Full Christmas in Peachtree Bluff Tour
For full tour dates, click here! I’ll be in NC, SC, Georgia and Florida on this driving tour but have some fun virtual events as well, so you can tune in wherever you are! Several of the events are already SOLD OUT, so make sure if you want to come, you sign up!
Season’s Readings Bundle!
The Friends & Fiction ladies and I have partnered with Oxford Exchange to bring you the ultimate holiday gift for yourself or someone else! Get all three of our fall releases–Mary Kay Andrews The Santa Suit, Patti Callahan’s Once Upon a Wardrobe and my Christmas in Peachtree Bluff–with the option to add Kristin Harmel’s The Forest of Vanishing Stars along with a free Season’s Readings Ornament. You can also add Friends & Fiction swag, extra books or anything else from Oxford Exchange’s beautiful store to personalize your bundle! All books will be signed on October 24 at our Oxford Exchange event and shipped out in the following days. Get your holiday bundle today! (The 650 Winter Subscriptions with Nantucket Books sold out in a hot minute, so don’t wait!)
My Interview in a Great New Series
I had so much fun chatting with Pirie Grossman about reinventing myself in this fun interview on Creating the Second Chapter of Your Life! You can watch it here!
Creating the Second Chapter of Your life is a series targeted to help inspire men and women to create the second chapter of their lives.
My friend and colleague Pirie Jones Grossman has graciously invited me and some of the most soulful, heart-centered, successful female and male entrepreneurs to share our stories of how we recreated our lives professionally and personally. We share the hows and whys of how we did it! I want to share these stories with you so you’ll get inspired and make the changes in your life, too.
This event is totally free for a limited time, and will start on October 5th – but you can save your seat RIGHT NOW.
This Week on Friends & Fiction
On this week’s show we are honored to welcome poet, educator, and New York Times bestselling author of 35 books, Kwame Alexander. Among many other accolades, Kwame has won a Caldecott Medal, the John Newbery Medal for the Most Distinguished Contribution to American literature for Children, and the Coretta Scott King Author Award Honor. He is a regular contributor and the poet ambassador for NPR’s Morning Edition and a highly sought-after speaker at schools and libraries across the globe. We can’t wait to talk to him! Join us Wed 10/6 at 7pm ET via Facebook Live on the F&F Facebook Group page or our YouTube channel! See you then!
Thanks so much for stopping by today, friends! I hope you have a wonderful day!
Congratulations on your wonderful review!