✊🏻 Yo, New Jersey!✊🏻 🎟🎟 Have you gotten your tickets yet?!🎟🎟 I'm coming to the Jersey Shore THIS FRIDAY with my @friendsandfiction sisters @kristinharmel, @kristywharvey & @pattichenry! Meet all four of us in-person on Friday, May 20th at 7pm at the Jack Nicholson Theater at Manasquan High School for an F&F LIVE event hosted by our good friends at the awesome indie bookstore @booktowne. Gather up your besties, your book club, your co-workers, your family, and your neighbors. Come one, come all. And get ready for an awesome Friday night to kick off your weekend—and your summer reading!
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I’m glad to be home from book tour and have a moment to reflect. I’m still doing the happy dance that THE HOMEWRECKERS is a huge bestseller. It’s because of you, my amazing readers, and all the hard work of my incredible @stmartinspress team, that my 30th novel has made the @nytimes list at No.5, the @publisherswkly list at No.5, the @usatoday list at No.14, the @wsj list at No.8, and the @siba_books list at No.3! Thank you so much for reading, buying, reviewing, and spreading the word about #thehomewreckers! And, if you know anyone who hasn't yet, tell everyone you know to #buymybookdammit. #summerbeginswithmka #30YearsofMKA
Such a happy homecoming after 2 weeks on the road touring for The Homewreckers. Nice review in the @ajcnews, congratulatory balloon bouquet from @smurrrrrr and literally the icing on the cake, a home-cooked dinner by Mr. MKA, including his first effort at cake baking. Ladies, find you a man who will try baking you a cake. #thehomewreckersnovel #booktour #welcomewagon #familylove #buymybookdammit
Had a great signing today at @sweethomebookstore in Wetumpka AL where they sold out of #thehomewreckers. Yesterday I enjoyed meeting readers at @sundogbooks in Seaside FL where I left behind lots of signed copies of THE HOMEWRECKERS. Onward to Birmigham and @littleprofhomewood with @pattichenry.
Sundown in Seaside last night at the iconic @budandalleys with my literal ride or die @megwalker1225. Left lots of signed books at @sundogbooks. It’s a two-fer Saturday today, with a signing at @sweethomebookstore in Wetumpka, Alabama, 11-1 pm. Then off to @littleprofhomewood for a ticketed event with @pattichenry. Promise I’ll leave lots of signed books. #thehomewreckersnovel #buymybookdammit #sweethomealabama #booktour22 #beachbooks #bamabound
Books are like potato chips. No one eats just one. So I’m here to tell you about two great books that also came out last week along with mine. Obvi you’ve #boughtmybookdammit (right?!). Well now that you’ve read, devoured, reviewed and spread the word about #thehomewreckers, make sure you also buy #summerlove by @nancythayerbooks and #magicseason by @authorwaderouse / @viola_shipman. Both are friends of mine, favorites in the @friendsandfiction community, and never disappoint in their fantastic storytelling. #buytheirbooksdammit #summerreading #summerreads #beachreads
What a fantastic night last night in Fairhope AL with @pagepalette. Steph, Stacy, and the whole crew at this great indie really went all out including creating a Homewreckers themed stage set and dressing in overalls like Hattie in the book. It was a packed house and I left lots of signed copies of #thehomewreckers so swing by or call the store to grab yours. I’m off to @sundogbooks in Seaside FL later today. Come by and see me there to #buymybookdammit. #30yearsofmka #summerbeginswithmka
What a day yesterday was! It started out with an incredible sold-out luncheon at @fmdons hosted by fab indie booksellers Cathy & Serena at @copperfishbooks in Punta Gorda, Fl. I sat with local freelance journalist Nancy Stetson who had written a great feature on me and THE HOMEWRECKERS for @floridaweekly. Then later on I got the world’s best news that my 30th novel will debut at No. 5 on the @nytimes bestseller list just before heading to another sold-out event at @oxfordexchange in Tampa. It has been so fun and rewarding to meet so many @friendsandfiction members everywhere I’ve gone on book tour. Thank you all for coming out and making these events so fun and lively! If you need signed books see Copperfish or Oxford Exhange. Tonight it’s on to @pagepalette in Fairhope, AL.
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Holy schnikeys, y’all! THE HOMEWRECKERS is No. 5 on the NYT bestseller list! I demanded that you #buymybookdammit and you did it! You really, really did it! I’m over here having a Sally Field moment. I’m overwhelmed with gratitude for my team, my readers, my author pals, booksellers across the land, the @friendsandfiction community, and my family. Thank you! Champagne for alllll my friends! 🥂🍾🎉🥳📚🛠
About last night… what a fantastic hometown welcome Tuesday night in St. Pete! My dear pal and @friendsandfiction sister @kristinharmel joined me for a super fun time with indie bookseller @tombolobooks. We talked writing, research, and rival high schools (Go, Lakewood Spartans!). We left lots of signed copies of #thehomewreckers and #theforestofvanishingstars so go see Alsace, Candace, and their awesome team at Tombolo to #buyourbooksdammit
What a fabulous day yesterday in Greenville, SC! Huge thanks to @mjudsonbooks for hosting a great sold-out luncheon at @sobysnewsouthcuisine, followed by another sold-out in-store evening event at their incredible store. I’m so grateful to all who came out. See June & Ashley and their amazing team at M Judson’s if you need signed copies of #thehomewreckers!
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Headed for my hometown, St. Pete, today, for a fun book signing event with @kristinharmel at @tombolobooks. Ticket deets at link in bio. Oh, if I had time…I’d have breakfast at Munch’s, walk on the beach at Pass-a-Grille, cruise the place I grew up, the pink streets and Serpentine Drive. I’d have a drink at Mastry’s, maybe a burger at the El Cap. I’d ride over Thrill Hill and maybe drive past the site of the long-gone Sky-Vue Drive-In, where I had my first kiss from Mr. MKA. But I’ll settle instead for rolling down the car windows and inhaling the scent of Tampa Bay as we cross the Howard Frankland bridge. Hope to see lots of homies tonight! #thehomewreckersnovel #booktour #stpetersburgflorida #hometowngirl #booktour #buymybookdammit
I really felt the love when I needed it the most yesterday for Mother’s Day. What a great event in Winston-Salem, NC hosted by @bookmarksnc! Huge thanks to Jamie and her fabulous staff for the lovely touches and the amazing turnout. I was thrilled that author pal @sarahmmccoy came out to see me too! Her book #mustiqueisland comes out this week! I left lots of signed copies of THE HOMEWRECKERS so visit Bookmarks to grab yours.
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TOMORROW! Come see me and my dear friend @kristinharmel together in our hometown of St. Pete! We will be at @coastalcreative.tv Tuesday May 10th at 7pm for an event with one of our favorite indies @tombolobooks. Join us for an exciting evening of great books, lively conversation, and light refreshments! Click on book tour info in my bio for ticket link. See you there!
Saturday, book tour found me in Southern Pines, NC, for an event at the local newspaper offices of @thepilotnews with the fab indie @thecountrybookshop. Need signed books? Kimberly has lots! Then we shuffled on down the road through torrential rains and flash flood warnings to Raleigh. I was so glad so many readers braved the intermittent foul weather to meet me at @quailridgebooks where we had lots of laughs. My dear friend @diane.chamberlain.author introduced me at the bookstore and joined us for dinner afterwards. See Quail Ridge for signed copies of #thehomewreckers
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I must have done something right in my life and in my 30-year-and-counting career as a published author to have this many fabulous author pals send me good wishes upon the publication of my 30th novel THE HOMEWRECKERS (out now from @stmartinspress!). Huge thanks to @adrianatrigiani, @sepauthor, @kristywharvey, @harlancoben, @pattichenry, @elinhilderbrand, @karinslaughterauthor, @kristinharmel & @debbiemacomber. Your kind words mean more to me than I can say and are truly lifting me up. Now, that’s quite enough touchy-feely stuff. Go out and #buymybookdammit.
Wishing everyone a happy Mother’s Day. If you can’t be with your kids or your moms today, for whatever reason, surround yourself with folks you love and who love you back. Here’s to strong women. May we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.
Last night in Ocean Isle Beach, NC was so fantastic! I’m so grateful to Dawn and her incredible crew at @pelicanbookstore for inviting me to do an event at the lovely @silvercoastwinery. The place was packed and our conversation about THE HOMEWRECKERS was lots of fun. I was so happy that my author pal @marybethwhalen came out too and that we got to enjoy dinner and lots of bookish talk after the event. I left lots of signed books behind so go get you some for #mothersday! They ship! #thehomewreckers #summerbeginswithmka #30yearsofmka #buymybookdammit
What a great luncheon event yesterday with @litchfieldbooks in Pawleys Island, SC. Thanks to Olivia & Wendy from the bookstore and to the incomparable Linda Ketron who runs this luncheon series. Loved seeing our pal @libraryofdallas back at the store after and am [email protected] he’ll be sporting his autographed Team MKA #buymybookdammit T-shirt. Thanks to everyone who came out to see me and took home a signed copy of THE HOMEWRECKERS! If you missed the event visit the bookstore as they have lots of signed copies! #summerbeginswithmka #30yearsofmka #thehomewreckers