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New York Times Bestselling author of a dozen novels and cofounder and cohost of Friends & Fiction.
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The Weekend Beaufort, NC Became Peachtree Bluff + Where you can find me next! (opens the original)
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There are weekends you look forward to and then there are weekends that turn out to be even more magical than you could have imagined. The Peachtree Bluff Town Takeover in Beaufort, North Carolina, was one of those weekends for me!<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" he
Auburn, Dothan, and Fairhope, AL + Winston-Salem, NC, Come See Me This Week! (opens the original)
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Seven TRUTHS and a LIE... About Peachtree Bluff + Signed Copies from Brenda Novak! (opens the original)
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I Wrote Falling for Peachtree Bluff. And Then Two Things I Wrote CAME TRUE. + People Magazine! (opens the original)
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My Career was Over. Enter: Peachtree Bluff. (opens the original)
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The Peachtree Bluff Series began with me, sprawled out on the floor in total despair, certain that my writing career was over. (Isn’t that so often the way?) My first two novels had released, and I had written a third, feeling confident about my trajectory in the writing world until… My publisher didn’t want it. You might not know this, but publishing is a hard business, a competitive one, difficult to break into, maybe even harder to stay. So I was sure of one thing: My career was over. <a clas
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