Annabel Monaghan | Friends & Fiction #324
On this episode, Kristy Woodson Harvey & Mary Kay Andrews welcome New York Times bestselling author Annabel Monaghan to discuss her brand-new novel, Dolly All the Time—the GMA Book Club pick for June—in which a hardworking single mom returns to her seaside hometown and stumbles into a fake dating situationship with a wealthy, workaholic scion. Annabel is the NYT-bestselling and Library Reads Hall of Fame author of It’s a Love Story, Summer Romance, Same Time Next Summer, and Nora Goes Off Script, as well as two young adult novels and Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big?, a selection of laugh-out-loud columns that appeared in The Huffington Post, The Week, and The Rye Record. After twenty-five years in the suburbs of New York City, she now splits her time between Connecticut and Florida. Her novels have been translated into twenty-three languages. Annabel joins us to discuss Dolly All the Time, which Carley Fortune calls, “a luminous story of love, duty, and the tension between the two” that is “less like a novel and more like a place I never wanted to leave,” and which Elle Kennedy says, “grips you from the very first page and sparkles like the sun.” SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/FriendsFict... MAIN PLAYLIST: • Friends & Fiction Live Wednesday Episodes WRITING TIP OF THE WEEK: • Writing Tip of the Week OTHER CLIPS: • Friends & Fiction Clips INTERACT WITH US: Join our Facebook group to interact with us and fellow readers: / friendsandfiction Follow us on Instagram: / friendsandfiction https://www.friendsandfiction.com LISTEN ON: GOOGLE: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0... SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/0eMcNYj... APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... SOUNDER: https://friends-fiction.sounder.fm FOLLOW US: PATTI CALLAHAN HENRY: Instagram: / pattichenry Twitter: / pcalhenry Facebook: / authorpatticallahanhenry Latest Release - The Story She Left Behind: https://www.simonandschuster.com/book... https://www.patticallahanhenry.com MARY KAY ANDREWS: Instagram: / marykayandrews Twitter: / mkayandrews Facebook: / marykayandrewsauthor Latest Release - Summers at the Saint: https://us.macmillan.com/books/978125... https://www.marykayandrews.com KRISTIN HARMEL: Instagram: / kristinharmel Twitter: / kristinharmel Facebook: / kristinharmelauthor Latest Release - The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau: https://www.simonandschuster.com/book... https://www.kristinharmel.com KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY: Instagram: / kristywharvey Twitter: twitter.com/kristywharvey Facebook: / kristywoodsonharvey Latest Release - Beach House Rules: https://www.simonandschuster.com/book... https://www.kristywoodsonharvey.com Bestselling novelists Mary Kay Andrews, Kristin Harmel, Kristy Woodson Harvey and Patti Callahan Henry, are four longtime friends with more than eighty published books to their credit. With chats, author interviews and fascinating insider talk about publishing and writing, these friends discuss the books they've written, the books they're reading now, and the art of storytelling. With a mission to support independent bookstores, they are always seeking new and innovative ways to introduce dynamic voices and trends in publishing. If you love books and you're curious about the writing world, you're in the right place.

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