Good morning, friends! I hope your week is off to a fabulous start! School is almost out, and I just couldn’t be happier that it’s almost my favorite season: summer! I have a few more virtual events on the way, including helping Jennifer Weiner launch THAT SUMMER and Lindsay Rogers Cook launch her lovely sophomore novel, LEARNING TO SPEAK SOUTHERN, and I would love to see you at any or all of them. Your smiling faces on the screen and your great questions make these virtual events so much fun!
Tuesday, May 11: VIRTUAL Murder by the Book with Karen White, 7 pm, Register Here.
Thursday, May 13: LIVE on Instagram with @sloane_reads.
Sunday, May 16: VIRTUAL with The Lexington Public Library, 3 pm, Register Here.
Monday, May 17: VIRTUAL Live on Friends & Fiction Official Book Club on Facebook, 7 pm
Wednesday, May 19: VIRTUAL in Conversation with Jennifer Weiner, 4 pm, Book Passage. Register Here.
Wednesday, May 19: CHRISTMAS IN PEACHTREE BLUFF Cover Reveal, 7 pm Friends & Fiction Facebook.
Tuesday, June 1: VIRTUAL in Conversation with Lindsay Rogers Cook’s LEARNING TO SPEAK SOUTHERN with Novel Memphis, 7 pm. Register Here.
Wednesday, June 2: VIRTUAL with University of North Carolina Libraries with Maghon Taylor, 5:30 pm
“It’s an antidote for the blues and could be a primer on how to overcome this pandemic.”— National Book Critics Circle
“Readers Come for the Characters but Stay for the Animals” — New York Times
“Saving Our Wildlife…One Book at a Time” — Southern Living
My friend–and Friends & Fiction Sister–Mary Alice Monroe’s brand new The Summer of Lost and Found is out today!! It is the highly anticipated, must read now, “Beach House” themed novel. It sees the multi-generational Rutledge clan navigating a challenging season of change and upheaval on the island, especially for Linnea Rutledge, who amid layoffs and love during the time of quarantine, learns to appreciate life as it comes. The Summer of Lost and Found can be read as a stand-alone story or chronologically as part of the larger series.
Join Mary Alice Monroe on book tour, which is a mix of in-person and virtual events, and includes some of her author friends for special “in conversation with” events, including Debbie Macomber, Delia Owens, Lisa Wingate, and Elin Hilderbrand and William Kent Krueger.
SEE MARY ALICE’S BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE HERE
WATCH THE BOOK TRAILER
PRAISE FOR BOOK https://vimeo.com/540281296
Join us on FRIENDS AND FICTION Wednesday night at 7 PM ET for our book launch party forThe Summer of Lost and Found! Tune in for the fun, including special guest and Mary Alice’s dear friend, actress Andie MacDowell.
Thanks so much for stopping by today and happy reading! xo Kristy
