A funny and empowering thriller about women, the manipulators who underestimate them, and cutting yourself slack for being human, by the author of I Thought You Said This Would Work.
COMING SEPTEMBER 2026
About Tell Two Friends
Jane Baye is a regular person, good at a lot of things, but identifying the serial killer right in front of her isn’t one of them. Could you??
In 1990, college senior Jane Baye wrote to an incarcerated woman because she thought it was a nice thing to do. Twenty-five years later, unbeknownst to Jane, that felon is actually a man who has moved next door. He’s watching her every move, with a decades-long plan for Jane—a plot that a nice person, like Jane, would never see coming.
About Ann
Ann Garvin, Ph.D. is a scientist turned humorist, a USA TODAY and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of five books. She is the CEO and founder of the award-winning The Tall Poppy Writers and she thinks everything is funny and a little bit sad.
About There's No Coming Back From This
They said the movie business is make believe. She had to make believe she belonged.
"The show must go on” takes on a whole new meaning for one single mom in a witty and emotional novel by the USA Today and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of I Thought You Said This Would Work.
Movies, Costuming & Ann
Movies, Costumes, & Ann
Learn more about why I write about the movie industry and wardrobe - the department where women primarily run the show, and the inspiration behind There’s No Coming Back From This.
Praise for Ann
No one captures the human condition in all its complexity, humor and significance quite like Ann Garvin.
—Kristy Harvey,
New York Times Best Selling Author
Hilarious, poignant, and heartbreaking.
—Jacquelyn Mitchard,
author of The Good Son
A great, big, generous, war-hearted page-turner about best friends, love, loss and dogs. What more could you ask for?
—Lauren Fox,
author of Send for Me
Garvin’s wit, humor and sensitivity keep her in full control of the emotional subject matter.
—Publishers Weekly
I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around
Despite dealing with some heavy topics—cancer, widowhood, and the impending birth of a first child—Garvin’s book is laugh-out-loud funny.
—Library Journal
I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around
Ferociously funny, perfectly pitched, and weighted with the stuff of life.
—Wiley Cash, New York Times bestselling author of a Land More Kind Than Home
The award-winning Tall Poppy Writers
Ann Garvin, Founder and Member
New York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Amazon Charts best sellers, and National Book Award finalists.
Female authors in all genres, having fun with readers and doing good in the world.
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#3! Who Empties the Dishwasher (and Other Good Relationship Math) I’ve long said that every relationship is about what to keep and what to give, whether it’s a friend, a romance or with the person that does your hair. (Hi Liz!) Every time we engage with another person, we have to decide what’s fair, what do I want, what do they want, how…
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