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Anita Gail Jones
Telling life's stories as a Writer, Visual Artist, and Professional Storyteller with roots in Southwest Georgia and the San Francisco Bay area
✈️on board — 7:56pm PST for the TPS book tour Befitting the opening flight to my debut book tour, the trip is filled with a bit too much drama. Due to thunderstorms in NYC, our 11:40 am flight out of SFO was delayed at the Delta gate—-sat on the plane for 3 hour and 45 …
My upcoming novel, The Peach Seed, pulsates with history from the 1960s Albany GA Civil Rights Movement, founded and lead by an amalgamation of local groups including many young people involved with the newly formed Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), as highlighted in the recent post I did on Rev. Charles Sherrod. The above quote …
Every morning, I wake up early here in the Pacific time zone to check email for news from the East, and lately, I have not been disappointed! With our pub date just over six weeks away—August 1st— things are ratcheting up. Everyone on my Peachy Team at Henry Holt is thrilled with the review from …
We’re in the home stretch! My debut novel, The Peach Seed, will be in stores August 1st from Henry Holt & Co. Preorder now wherever books are sold. Grateful for early readers on Netgalley who were moved to review.
Albany, Georgia is my birthplace and the central setting for my upcoming debut novel, The Peach Seed. No matter where I’ve lived, I’ve always made a point of visiting home at least once a year. Albany is rich in civil rights history. Many, many undertold and untold stories still wait to enter the world’s light. I …
Poets&WritersGet the Word Out Debut Fiction ReadingTuesday, February 28, 2023, at 3:00 PM PT • 6:00 PM ET ✨Please join our cohort as we read from our upcoming books✨ This has been an amazing experience over the past twelve weeks, meeting via Zoom with authors across the country. In workshops tailored for our diverse collection …
After five months anxiously waiting, I speak for our production team, cast and crew in welcoming you to the drop of The Peach Seed official book trailer! We spent one chunky day shooting on location in Inverness, CA at North Beach, on Saturday, September 10, 2022. We gathered that morning as a group of mostly …
Thank you, Lauren Puckett-Pope and Elle Magazine for selecting my novel, The Peach Seed for your books to read in 2023 list: “65 Of The Best And Most Anticipated Books Of 2023.” I’m honored to be on this list with many talented authors and exciting book projects such as Crook Manifesto by Colson Whitehead, Pageboy: A …
Thank you Poets & Writers for this dynamic opportunity! The Peach Seed being my debut novel I have so much to learn. Lessons come fast and furious every day! I am grateful to join this amazing lineup of authors, learning and sharing how to position our first books well for the journey ahead. Hello-hello AGJ …
To listen to recording of the show, click play below: Grateful to my hosts and friends, Curtis L. Williams and Geraldine West Hudley for this wonderful opportunity to connect with listeners in southwest Georgia and beyond. I was born and raised in Albany, GA and the area is the main setting for my debut novel, …
📣Popping the cork! 🍾🥂 As of Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021, I signed with Steve Ross Agency to represent my novel project. Just so happens that day was also my late mother’s 95th birthday. Mrs. Irene Gaines Jones was always a champion for her daughters; encouraging us to nurture our artist. She did the same …
On Thursday, March 25, 2021 @ 5:30 pm PT, I will be joining other women artists in this virtual event; reading an excerpt from my in-progress debut novel manuscript, Peach Seed Monkey, which was recently selected as a Finalist in the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. An inspiring evening honoring of women who …
