{"id":2172,"date":"2024-05-10T16:33:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendsandfiction.com\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2024-05-10T16:33:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:33:41","slug":"friends-fiction-episode-165-brenda-novak-alka-joshi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsandfiction.com\/friends-fiction-episode-165-brenda-novak-alka-joshi\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends &#038; Fiction: Episode 165 &#8211; Brenda Novak + Alka Joshi"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=&#8221;in_container&#8221; full_screen_row_position=&#8221;middle&#8221; column_margin=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_tablet=&#8221;default&#8221; column_direction_phone=&#8221;default&#8221; scene_position=&#8221;center&#8221; text_color=&#8221;dark&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; row_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; row_border_radius_applies=&#8221;bg&#8221; overflow=&#8221;visible&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; shape_divider_position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221;][vc_column column_padding=&#8221;no-extra-padding&#8221; column_padding_tablet=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_phone=&#8221;inherit&#8221; column_padding_position=&#8221;all&#8221; column_element_direction_desktop=&#8221;default&#8221; column_element_spacing=&#8221;default&#8221; desktop_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; tablet_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; phone_text_alignment=&#8221;default&#8221; background_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; background_hover_color_opacity=&#8221;1&#8243; column_backdrop_filter=&#8221;none&#8221; column_shadow=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_radius=&#8221;none&#8221; column_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; column_position=&#8221;default&#8221; gradient_direction=&#8221;left_to_right&#8221; overlay_strength=&#8221;0.3&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243; tablet_width_inherit=&#8221;default&#8221; animation_type=&#8221;default&#8221; bg_image_animation=&#8221;none&#8221; border_type=&#8221;simple&#8221; column_border_width=&#8221;none&#8221; column_border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/nEkjMHcqODM&#8221; align=&#8221;center&#8221;][vc_column_text text_direction=&#8221;default&#8221;]\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Brenda Novak + Alka Joshi<\/h2>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\" data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;On this season premiere episode we welcome two incredible author guests \u2014 Brenda Novak and Alka Joshi. \\n\\nNew York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak has written 75 novels and is an eight-time Rita nominee, among many other awards. She runs Brenda Novak for the Cure, a charity that has raised more than $2.5 million for diabetes research \u2014 as well as the warm and enthusiastic Brenda Novak\u2019s Book Group on Facebook which boasts more than 26,000 members. Brenda joins us live on-location from Oklahoma City on her 2-month \u201cBookstream\u201d book tour on which she\u2019s covering 8,000 miles over 33 stops in an Airstream trailer converted into a combo bookstore and coffee shop. You wont want to miss this fun dispatch from the road and the chance to hear about her latest novel THE SEASIDE LIBRARY.\\n\\nBorn in India and raised in the US since she was nine, Alka Joshi has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. Joshi's debut novel, THE HENNA ARTIST, immediately became a New York Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, &amp; is in development as a Netflix series. 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She runs <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/brendanovak.com\/about\/diabetes-fundraising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brenda Novak for the Cure<\/a>, a charity that has raised more than $2.5 million for diabetes research \u2014 as well as the warm and enthusiastic <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/155566941542924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brenda Novak\u2019s Book Group<\/a> on Facebook which boasts more than 26,000 members. Brenda joins us live on-location from Oklahoma City on her 2-month \u201cBookstream\u201d book tour on which she\u2019s covering 8,000 miles over 33 stops in an Airstream trailer converted into a combo bookstore and coffee shop. You wont want to miss this fun dispatch from the road and the chance to hear about her latest novel <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/19399\/9780778333517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE SEASIDE LIBRARY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Born in India and raised in the US since she was nine, Alka Joshi has a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from California College of Arts. Joshi&#8217;s debut novel, <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/19399\/9780778331476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE HENNA ARTIST<\/a>, immediately became a New York Times bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, was Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, &amp; is in development as a Netflix series. 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