She and her family divide their time between Atlanta and Tybee Island, GA, where they cook up new recipes in three restored beach homes, The Breeze Inn, Ebbtide, and Coquina Cottage-all named after fictional places in Mary Kay’s novels, and all available to rent through Tybee Vacation Rentals. To date, her novels have been published in German, Italian, Polish, Slovenian, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech and Japanese. In 2006, Hissy Fit became her first New York Times bestseller, followed by fifteen more New York Times, USA Today and Publisher’s Weekly bestsellers. In 2002, she assumed the pen name Mary Kay Andrews with the publication of Savannah Blues. She went on to write ten critically acclaimed mysteries under her real name, Kathy Hogan Trocheck.

Her first novel, Every Crooked Nanny, was published in 1992 by HarperCollins. After a 14-year career working as a reporter at newspapers including The Savannah Morning News, The Marietta Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she spent the final ten years of her career, she left journalism in 1991 to write fiction. in journalism from The University of Georgia.

MARY KAY ANDREWS is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels (including The Homewreckers The Santa Suit The Newcomer Hello, Summer Sunset Beach The High Tide Club The Weekenders Beach Town Save the Date Ladies’ Night Christmas Bliss Spring Fever Summer Rental The Fixer Upper Deep Dish Blue Christmas Savannah Breeze Hissy Fit Little Bitty Lies and Savannah Blues), and one cookbook, The Beach House Cookbook.Ī native of St.

Spring fever by mary kay andrews