HeyJaredPatti Callahan Henry
Stories Are My Thing: A newsletter and thoughts on writing, reading, and inspiration for the creative life with NYT bestselling author of eighteen novels, and Founder and co-host of Friends and Fiction.
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The Best of Summer (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,I’m supposed to love it, I know. Summer, I mean. I spent my high school years in South Florida, so I’m meant to love the heat. Summer is fun! School is out! The beach. The lake. Whatever it means to you. But I don’t love it. It’s hot. I often feel like I am supposed to be having more fun than I am. And I feel adrift.I don’t hate it. There is so much good around a more relaxed schedule. But, and don’t come after me with your reasons why I should, I just don’t love it. The first yello
A Return to Peachtree Bluff (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,Six years ago when we started during the lockdown of 2020, we thought it would last for two months max. As we supported indie bookstores that had to shut down and authors who couldn’t go on tour, something else happened—we built an incredible reading community of more than 360,000 members. It has been an incredible six years interviewing more than 400 authors. And none of this would have happened in the way it has happened without our co-founder and co-host Kristy Woodson Harvey.
When I Don’t Want to Talk About It (opens the original)
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Dear Friends and Readers,Aren’t there things you just don’t want to talk about? I have mine, and cancer is one of them. I just don’t like reliving the days that made me, in many ways, spiral nearly out of control in my life. But the American Cancer Society asked me to talk about it to raise money for Hope Lodge, which I am dedicated to. So I sat down and I dug through my old notebooks and my old journals and I wrote this speech for the night. I’ve never used this experience in a novel, and I dou
It All Started at a Book Club (opens the original)
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An Exclusive Bundle Announcement!Dear Friends,Over ten years ago, I attended a wild event called Pulpwood Queens book club. If you’ve been you know that wild is a mild description. Dressed as Tinker Bell (I'm not kidding and I wish I had a photo), I sat next to during the opening keynote. Later that night, among other authors, we found ourselves in a hotel room singing show tunes off tune, but as loudly as we could. A fast and dear friendship was born.Fast forward to the spring of 2020 (and you
It’ll Never Be Perfect (opens the original)
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Dear Friends,In the beginning, when I first decided I wanted to try to write at least one novel, I scribbled longhand in notebooks on the dining room table. I took my papers away when we needed to sit there, and I hid my secret from anyone coming into the house. When that became too much and a friend asked, “What is that?,” I carried everything upstairs to an open foyer, where I put a little desk and a computer right outside my kids’ rooms.Finally, one day, after reading The Artist’s Way, where
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