The Peach Seed ~ LIVE Updates & Tour Schedule

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APRIL 20, 2024 UPDATE

Cheryl, here, with a long overdue update! With Anita in the midst of writing her next novel and deadlines, Women’s History Month events, wedding planning with her daughter, tending to the school garden, life, and the paperback version of The Peach Seed coming out July 30th (Pre-Order here), it’s been busy!

THIS JUST IN:

From Anita: Check out this beautiful video created by Keleigh Arrington in collaboration with other SSU Honors students (shown above) from my Author Talk on The Peach Seed during the Savannah Black Heritage Festival. Thank you Savannah State University Honors Program for hosting this event! Enjoyed the wonderful interview, thoughtful questions and great conversations!

👉🏽 NEXT UP: 📚 FRI. ~ SUN. April 26 ~ 28, 2024 | Sonoma Valley Authors Festival | Sonoma, CA |
Purchase Festival Passes Here | Book Hotel Room Reservation Here

Looking forward to learning from great authors, like Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Grann, Irish author Colin Tóibín and Amy Tan (and many more) while speaking on Friday for Students Day and sharing The Peach Seed during breakout sessions during the Festival. Come join us in the wine country!

On Writing Our Stories, Lifting Our Voices, and Getting the Word Out

March, being Women’s History Month, was filled with events that shined the light on the importance of women writing our stories, uplifting our voices and the people and organizations who provide support, visibility and help spread the word about authors and their books.

Being on The Women’s History Month panel with four fellow women authors at Book Passage in Corte Madera, CA, sharing The Peach Seed and talking about the process of writing and storytelling with middle school, high school and for the LibGuides, College of Marin students led to fascinating conversations.

A Shout-Out to Poets & Writers Organization & Magazine

As a debut author, it’s tough out there to get good exposure for your work. Poets & Writers, a non-profit, has been very helpful to me and other creative writers with social media training and opportunities that increase visibility and help spread the word. I was delighted to support them by serving as a Table Host at their 2024 Poets & Writers Gala which is their major fundraising event.

MARCH 9, 2024 UPDATE

Cheryl here with a few updates. (Yes, Anita is coming up for air after her tour and being in the midst of deadlines working on her second book!)

📚TODAY, 2PM PACIFIC: Live Online & In-Person | WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH PANEL | Book Passage-Corte Madera, CA | FREE | Online Link
Join the conversation with Anita and fellow diverse women author panelists celebrating the impact of women writers, past and present, and discussions on topics such as the importance of women’s voices and stories and more.
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera, CA
Fellow panelists: Margo Candela (The Neapolitan Sisters), Linda González (Breaking Through Your Own Glass Ceiling), Pricilla Wathington (Paper and Stick) with Moderator Paula Farmer

CHECK OUT ANITA’S ESSAY, FINDING MY STARTING POINT: Just published in Poets & Writers March-April 2024:

We writers face finding a starting point every time we set out to tell a new story. For my own promotional journey, this story began with the intrinsic value of the Get the Word Out application process, which required that I pause, take stock, and once again decide how to talk about my work and figure out what was missing from my promotional toolbox.

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LAST GEORGIA TOUR EVENTS REFLECTIONS (from Anita)

Landed safely back in San Francisco Bay on Monday evening—with all my bags this time—and thanks to AirTags, I knew exactly where they were at all times. Still no news on the one lost right out the gate on Feb 10th. 

Savannah State University Black Heritage Festival

It’s always a pleasure to be in the company of young folk talking about The Peach Seed. SSU honor students came out in numbers. They were joined by other students and folk from the community. I was in conversation with the dynamic Tamia Smith.

Authors Market Dougherty County Library Northwest Branch, Albany, GA

My late mother, Mrs. Irene Gaines Jones, was a 6th grade teacher and school librarian in Worth County Georgia for 39 years so — I have a special place in my heart for Librarians. Many thanks to Krista Dixon and team for a wonderful time at Dougherty Co. Library’s 2nd annual Local Author Market, held at the palatial Northwest Branch, 2507 Dawson Road, Albany, GA. (Locals: do you know about their Events Center? Best deal in town!).

During my book tour travels the last few months, I’ve been impressed by the grand buildings, warm inviting people and beautifully curated stacks in libraries throughout my home state of Georgia.

✨📚BOOK PEOPLE ARE GOOD PEOPLE✨📚

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FEBRUARY 24, 2024 UPDATE

Cheryl, here. A quick update as Anita is catching her breath before flying back to the San Francisco Bay area.

Anita said today’s AUTHOR MARKET in Albany, GA featuring Southwest Georgia authors “was an amazing event” for both authors and eager readers, especially with Albany being the setting for part of The Peach Seed. She has lots of photos and stories to share from the event that she’ll be writing up after a little R&R.

If you haven’t subscribed to her newsletter, the AGJInsider, do so as she will be sharing more in-depth stories and articles there.

As Anita heads back to the Bay area, she will be participating in events in celebration of Women’s History Month. First up:

📚 Sat. Mar. 9, 2024 | 2:00 PM PT~ Book Passage | Corte Madera, CA (LIVE IN-STORE and ONLINE)
Tune into this Women’s History Month Panel with four diverse women authors and lively conversation celebrating the impact of women writers, past and present, and discussions on topics such as the importance of women’s voices and stories and more.
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera, CA

Free and Open to the Public.
Fellow panelists: Margo Candela (The Neapolitan Sisters), Linda González (Breaking Through Your Own Glass Ceiling), Pricilla Wathington (Paper and Stick) with Moderator Paula Farmer

More exciting news and updates will be coming once Anita comes up for air!

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024 UPDATE

NEXT UP for Georgia Peeps: SAT. FEB. 24 | 11AM ~ 2:00 PM EST | AUTHOR MARKET | Northwest Library | Albany, GA

On the uneventful almost 3 Hour drive from Atlanta to Albany Sunday night, but…

Beastly Atlanta freeways are like asphalt rivers, ever slowing, ever narrowing into tributaries —Anita Gail Jones Plus, lively Southwest Georgia gatherings, a visit to Alice Walker and a surprise cousin!

We had a small but lively group gather at Morgan County Library in Madison, GA. My my cousin Saundra McLester joined me. So nice to have Georgia family members in the audience, adding bits and pieces to the history of the book.

Then I had to check out the Alice Walker exhibit at the Georgia Writers Museum in Eatonton, GA, her birthplace. Saundra and I drove about 20 miles to it. Captured photos and video. It’s a beautifully curated museum.

Before leaving Atlanta, I dropped in for what was to be a book signing and possible meet and greet curated by my new friend, Patience, who manages Hills & Hamlets Bookshop in Chattahoochee Hills, GA.

What a beautiful surprise to walk in and find more than a handful of folks who look like me, including a cousin, Norris, who I had never met! He came bearing a photocopy booklet, with family names, and pictures, many I’d never seen and others I knew well; so we had a two person reunion right there in the store!

After Saturday’s Author Market event in Albany, I am heading back to the San Francisco Bay area for a good rest before more events including some exciting news: I’ll be speaking at the Sonoma Valley Authors Festival April 26-28 and at the 10th Annual Bay Area Book Festival, June 1-2. If you are around the Bay area, these are two great events to meet inspiring authors and fellow book enthusiasts.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024 UPDATE

Quick update about my last two events in Southwest Georgia before heading back to the San Francisco Bay area.

👉🏽 TONIGHT, WED. FEB. 21 ~ 6:00 PM EST | Savannah, GA | 35th Annual Savanna Black Heritage Festival | Savannah State University | 3219 College St., Savannah GA

👉🏽 NEXT UP: SAT. FEB. 24 ~ 12:30 PM EST | Albany, GA | Author Market | Northwest Library | 2507 Dawson Rd., Albany, GA | Free/Open to Public

With The Peach Seed partially set in Albany, GA, I am looking forward to this Author Market to meet fellow Southwest Georgia authors and readers.

The Author Market runs from 11:00 AM ~ 2:00PM EST. I am speaking at 12:30 PM. It is a great opportunity to meet and learn from these authors about their process and get signed copies of their books for yourself and others. Stop by for a great Southwest Georgia conversation!

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FEBRUARY 17, 2024 UPDATE

NEXT UP IN GEORGIA: WED. FEB. 18 1 ~2PM EST| Hills & Hamlets Bookshop | Chattahoochee Hills, GA

Yes, I have moved on to those sweet, sweet parts of Georgia (sans luggage) that I call home for a series of events from tomorrow, the 18th, through the Feb. 24th. But first a quick update about recent wonderful events in New York City.

The Franklin Park Reading Series in Brooklyn, NY was a rare opportunity to listen to four fellow authors read from their books, in addition to sharing The Peach Seed. Engaging in a lively conversation with the audience was such a pleasure. Presenting authors: Marie-Helene Bertino, Emily Schultz, Sidik Fofana,Christina Cooke, Will Mountain Cox, and Anita Gail Jones.

On the 13th, in spite of the slushy cold, snowy New York City weather, we gathered in-person and on Zoom for a warm, lively Pop-Up Book Club conversation. (This Pop-Up Book Club does author events in different people’s homes in Manhattan.) My daughter, Miranda, joined us, which is always a plus!

Being in the company of readers and fellow authors who strongly embraced the story, and took time to formulate insightful questions and comments was such a joy! They showed me aspects of the story I had not thought about. LOVE when that happens.

We also talked about manuscript and agent issues, like one manuscript pass dedicated to eradicating unnecessary occurrences of “the.” Took awhile, but it was worth it. And what does knitting have to do with finalizing the manuscript edit process? It felt like knitting the most intricate sweater: you have to be willing to rip.

Thanks to author and curator Jean Hanff Korelitz for the invitation. We met last August when we were table neighbors at the East Hampton Library Author’s Night.

Wedding dress, anyone? This trip hasn’t been all work: also included a trip deep into NYC’s Chinatown for Miranda to try on wedding dresses! A small cluster of us had a great time, but she has not said “yes to the dress” just yet.

Onward to Georgia events including:

Feb. 21 6:00PM EST: The W.W. Law Lecture Series III: Author Talk and Book Signing at The 35th Annual Savannah Black Heritage Festival at Savannah State University. Join us!

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024 UPDATE

NEXT UP IN NYC: WED. FEB. 14 6PM EST| Sister’s Uptown Bookstore & Cultural Center | Harlem, NY

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FEBRUARY 11, 2024 UPDATE

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RECENT HAPPENINGS AND GOOD NEWS!

This break between tours has been filled with a colorful patchwork of experiences, from watering the garden with The Dirt Club at a local school and a lively conversation about The Peach Seed with Marin Oaks high school students who gave me their take on issues, story and characters as well as their feedback (one student confidently told me about a piece of the story he thought was unnecessary).

Then a published essay. If you want to know what inspires and motivates me when I’m in that deep trench of writing and what saved me during the pandemic, check out my Essay on Poet & Writers Writers Recommend (published early January, 2024).

Book Clubs and Author Conversations! We have had fascinating conversations about The Peach Seed with members of several San Francisco Bay area book clubs (along with making drop biscuits and a theme-related meal—a foodie’s dream), and author conversations at the Marin County Library and more.

And, yes, a few Made-the-List awards:

• The Peach Seed was selected as a 2024 Book All Georgians and Young Georgians Should Read by the Georgia Center for the Book.
• The Peach Seed Book Trailer made The 10 Best Book Trailers of 2023 from book trailer production company Film-14.
• Hills and Hamlets Bookshop chose The Peach Seed as one of Patience’s Favorite Books of 2023. Can we give a shout out to independent booksellers! They are like angels that help authors and books like The Peach Seed succeed! Please support them!

I continue being filled with gratitude for all of you helping to spread the word about The Peach Seed and to independent booksellers who are instrumental to the success of authors and their books like mine. Every single effort helps The Peach Seed rise!

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OCTOBER 30, 2023 UPDATE

While Anita is catching up after her book tour and the wonderful Kidney Foundation Author Luncheon (update will be coming), check out her interview today on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s Georgia Today podcast with host Peter Biello.

Listen to this lively conversation about the characters and stories in The Peach Seed and the important—yet underreported—civil rights events of the Albany Movement which play an important role in the book.

🎙 Anita is story #9. Listen or read the transcript here.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023 UPDATE

📺 Enjoyed this interview on KTVU/Fox 2/San Francisco yesterday morning about The Peach Seed, Southwest Georgia and tomorrow’s 35th Annual Kidney Foundation Author Luncheon . I’m honored to be one of the five featured authors. Enjoy the interview. I hope you join us tomorrow Saturday 12 noon – 3 PM at the Author Luncheon (info below). Please stop by my table. I would love to see you.

Want to join us for this wonderful literary event for a great cause ? 👇🏾

📚 THIS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 12PM – 3PM | 35th Annual Kidney Foundation Author Luncheon | Palace Hotel, San Francisco | Get Your Tickets

This wonderful event which unites best-selling authors and literary enthusiasts in San Francisco is for a great cause—to fight kidney disease and benefit kidney patients everywhere. Michael Krasney will be the host. I am honored to be one of the Featured Authors. Join us and bring your friends to what is sure to be a fun and engaging event.

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OCTOBER 21, 2023 UPDATE

Remember the great staff from The Bookshelf who provided the book sales at the ASU Homecoming last weekend? Today, I am on my way to their store in Thomasville, GA for a book reading/storytelling/signing and Q&A event this afternoon. Their staff is knowledgeable and fun. I’m grateful for their interest in spreading the word about The Peach Seed and getting it into the hands of readers who will enjoy it.

TOMORROW, SUNDAY MORNING, if you are in the Georgia area, I am on WALB’s Sunday Dialogue with Karla Health-Sands | 9AM on BOUNCE, 9:30AM on NBC and 10 AM on ABC (all times EST)

We talk more about the backstory, growing up in Albany, what my father did for a living, and how the interweaving threads from my roots in this area, my family, passions, questions and career came together to write The Peach Seed.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023 UPDATE

A few photos from Saturday’s Albany State University Homecoming vendor event. Never having been a vendor with a booth before, I did not know what to expect! It began with light Southwest Georia mist, but we had fun. Thank you to The Bookshelf staff from Thomasville, GA for taking care of book sales and for bringing the tent. I loved meeting people, sharing The Peach Seed and making new friends. Thank you all!

👉🏾 JOIN US this SATURDAY. October 21, 2023 | 1PM EST at Bookshelf in Thomasville, GA for The Peach Seed book reading, storytelling, Q&A and book signing event. This a wonderful bookstore and community I discovered during my last SOWEGA trip.

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OCTOBER 14, 2023 UPDATE

Today, I am in Albany, Georgia, my hometown and the setting for The Peach Seed—plus, it’s Homecoming at Albany State University which is in the book! We decided to get a booth at the vending event. What a great way to share The Peach Seed and meet people who could connect with its story, time and place!

👉🏾 TODAY, 9AM – 7PM, stop by our booth at East campus on Pedestrian Walkway (under the bridge). The wonderful staff at The Bookshelf in Thomasville, GA are here handling sales.

Having a booth is a new experience. A few things I have learned:

Knowing how to punt and adjust is important.

Prepare for early morning Georgia mist.

Walking around with The Peach Seed book, bookmarks and meeting people led to connecting with wonderful people who not only bought the book, they suggested other author and speaking opportunities.

Loved sharing South Georgia goodies with book buyers. They enjoyed them as well.

UP NEXT! (Public Events)

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OCTOBER 11, 2023 UPDATE

After a few Bay area events and a short break to catch up, I’m off today for my Southwest Georgia (SOWEGA) Book Tour beginning in Albany, Georgia, the setting for The Peach Seed. Events kick off with Homecoming activities at Albany State University which also features prominently in the book.

In 1961, Albany State students joined Martin Luther King, Jr., the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) for protests lasting eight months. It was the first major initiative of the civil rights movement, known as the Albany Movement, to attempt to desegregate an entire city.

As time allows, I will share updates from various events including a book reading and signing on Saturday, October 21, 1:00PM EST at The Bookshelf, a wonderful independent bookstore in Thomasville, GA. Then I will be back in the San Francisco Bay for several events including being a Featured Author at the 35th Annual Kidney Foundation Author Luncheon, October 28th, 12:00 – 3:00PM. Tickets are still available for you and your friends!

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OCTOBER 1, 2023 UPDATE

TODAY, 2:00 PM, I’m delighted to be in conversation with San Francisco Poet Laureate Tongo Eisen-Martin at Bandung Books in Oakland. (More updates about recent events to come). Then I am heading soon to Southwest Georgia for a series of events beginning in Albany, the setting for The Peach Seed.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 UPDATE

Last Friday’s event at YEMA Clothing Store in Tiburon, CA was so much fun! By popular request we are doing an encore!
👉🏾 📚Tomorrow, Saturday Sept. 30, 4:00 PM at YEMA | 10 Main St., Tiburon, CA

Come enjoy the Tiburon Wine Festival and join us at YEMA, 4PM, for:
🍑Engaging conversation about all things The Peach Seed
📚 Book Reading/Spoken Word and Book-Signing (grab a copy for yourself and a gift for a friend)
🍑Peachy Gift Basket Raffle* (Georgia goodies and a copy of The Peach Seed)
✨All attendees will be entered to win✨*Must be present to win.

And, check out YEMA’s bold, energizing and unique Ethiopian/Kenyan-inspired lifestyle clothes! Founders of YEMA, Hawi Awash and Yema Khalif, empower communities through fashion and education along with their foundation that helps educate orphaned youth in Ethiopia & Kenya.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023 UPDATE

Am heading out the door for tonight’s event—6:00 PM in Sacramento at Underground Books—a nonprofit black-owned bookstore which is the neighborhood gathering place and literary hub for the Oak Park area. (Its only library was closed.)

👉🏾 If you are in the Sacramento area, join us for great conversation (2814 35th Street, Sacramento, CA 🍑Yes, we will be raffling off a Peachy Gift Basket filled with Georgia goodies and a copy of The Peach Seed!)

But first, a quick update about two unique events:

A book event at a clothing store? Yes. YEMA, on Main Street in Tiburon, CA isn’t just any clothing store. It’s a bold and energized Ethiopian/Kenyan lifestyle brand empowering communities through fashion and education.

Right on the corner; like a shining jewel we were a beautifully diverse group of book lovers, who had the added option to shop for unique, stylish street clothes and have 20% of each purchase go to support Yema’s scholarship program to educate orphaned youth in Ethiopia & Kenya.

Thank you Hawi Awash and Yema Khalif, founders of YEMA, for hosting us, and thank you to all who came. Thanks also to Jeff Battis, store manager at Sausalito Books by the Bay, for providing terrific off-site book sales, and owner Cheryl Popp for joining me again for a lively conversation.

👉🏾 📚 GREAT NEWS! We’re doing an encore at YEMA THIS SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 | 4:00 PM | 10 Main St., Tiburon
Come early to also enjoy the Tiburon Wine Festival and relax right on the water.

An Art Salon in a North Oakland home? Yes. Leave it to Constance Hale, literary critic, editor, self- proclaimed Bad Girl of Grammar, and author of Sin & Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose. Her penchant for literary and oral storytelling, together with her grammar and usage expertise, made for a delightful convo. Thanks so much!

UP NEXT!

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SATURDAY 23, 2023 UPDATE

📚 TONIGHT, Saturday 4PM, I am honored to be in conversation with noted journalist, editor and writer Constance Hale at her Art Salon in North Oakland. Constance, who grew up in Hawaii, is the author of six books on literary style including highly-regarded Sin and Syntax as well as her books on hula and Hawaii. Join us!

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023 UPDATE

After a whirlwind, fun SoCal book tour and the wonderful event last night at A Seat at the Table in Elk Grove, I’m back in the office getting caught up. But first, if you’re in the San Francisco Bay area, check out these two events coming up later this week.

Friday night, join us in beautiful Tiburon (come early to relax and enjoy being right on the water). Then at 6PM we will have a fun conversation, Q&A and book signing at YEMA’s Clothing Store on Main Street.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2023 UPDATE

👉🏾 📚 TODAY! Sept. 17 2PM | A Seat at the Table, Elk Grove, CA | Join us for a Book-signing, Reading/Spoken Word & Q&A

🍑 Flew back to NorCal last night after a special conversation about The Peach Seed and the making of TPS Book Trailer with Keonté Turner (an actor in our trailer) at Malik Books. Loved that they recorded it. Enjoy!

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023 UPDATE
The SoCal Book Tour: Tomorrow’s Events; A beautiful start. | Back to NorCal

👉🏾 📚 Sept. 16 2PM | Malik Books, Culver City in Conversation with Keonté Turner
Also, Saturday at 12 noon I’ll be book-signing (only) at 📚 Bel Canto @ The Hangout | Long Beach, CA

🍑 A gorgeous SoCal beginning. What a wonderful start to my SoCal book tour: a gorgeous sunset as I arrived at LAX and then an inspiring, soul-filled conversation with Deborah Santana and the audience at Octavia’s Bookshelf in it’s new location in Pasadena, CA. Congratulations to Nikki High (top right) for making your bold dream of making Octavia’s Bookshelf a reality!

📚 SATURDAY (tomorrow) & UPCOMING EVENTS

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SEPTEMBER 9. 2023 UPDATE: SoCal Book Events and New Interviews

If you’re in Southern California (or you have friends there), join us for great conversations and bookstore events in Pasadena, Long Beach and Culver City Sept. 13-16. I’m delighted to be in conversation with:

Stop by. I’d love to meet you. And while you’re at it, get a signed copy of The Peach Seed for yourself (and a friend)!

People, Scenes and Thank You’s from The Peach Seed Book Tour

AUGUST 30, 2023 UPDATE

Tonight while I’m at Books Inc. Alameda, one of the West’s oldest independent bookstores, I thought you might enjoy more Scenes from The Peach Seed Book Tour (and Treks) through Northern California, Georgia and New York. The people I have met, the discovery of gems, serendipitous happenings, surprises and what I have learned during this boots-on-the-ground launch for my book have been extraordinary. More to come.

You also might enjoy my Author Talk interview that was just published in September’s Marin Magazine where I talk about the origin of The Peach Seed and how my work as a visual artist impacts my writing and creative process.

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AUGUST 28, 2023 UPDATE

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AUGUST 24, 2023 UPDATE

After an amazing book trek through Southwest Georgia filled with serendipity and surprises (update coming shortly), I’m back in the SF Bay area.

👉🏾 TONIGHT 6pm Pacific, I am delighted to be at SAUSALITO BOOKS by the BAY in the beautiful Sausalito Yacht Harbor. Join us for great conversation, reading and Q&A about The Peach Seed, the backstory, my art installation, the development and writing process and stories from the Southwest Georgia Book tour and more.

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AUGUST 17, 2023 UPDATE

The Peach Seed comes home: The Southwest Georgia Book Tour! With a book reading and signing the other night at Georgia Center for the Book, to book signings in bookstores and other venues in Albany and Americus, Georgia, I’m on the way to a small, excited book community for a book reading, signing and spoken word event at Book Bound Books in the North Georgia Mountains.

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AUGUST 12, 2023 UPDATE

Just in from New York! Anita with her daughter, Miranda, at Authors Night at the East Hampton Library Fundraiser in East Hampton, NY— a major literary celebration event that brings together authors, readers and books. What a wonderful opportunity to meet and share The Peach Seed with many new people.

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👉🏾 UPCOMING BOOK EVENTS: GEORGIA & SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA

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AUGUST 10, 2023 UPDATE

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👉🏾 WATCH LAST NIGHT’S INTERVIEW WITH ANITA AT GREEN APPLE BOOKS in Conversation with with Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

A wonderful writer-to-writer conversation with Anita and bestselling author Margaret Wilkerson Sexton about Anita’s debut novel, The Peach Seed, how the story and characters came to her, the writing process, Q&A’s, creating and producing The Peach Seed book trailer along with a reading.

The Peach Seed San Francisco Book Launch
Green Apple Books
1231 9th Street
San Francisco, CA

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AUGUST 7, 2023 UPDATE

📻 TOMORROW, TUES. AUGUST 8, 2023: ANITA on the RADIO: KALW 91.7FM | 7:19AM & 3:48PM
On KALW’s NEW ARRIVALS: A Pocket-sized Book Tour with Bay Area Authors

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AUGUST 5, 2023 UPDATE

👉🏾 TODAY! SAT. 3PM PST: Book Launch at BOOK PASSAGE – CORTE MADERA

Come help celebrate the book launch for The Peach Seed with great conversations, Q&A, book readings, Anita’s art installation and more!

Wine Reception to follow in Book Passage Art Gallery • Opening for art installation by Anita: Easter Sunday Dinner at Florida’s House, 2012.

📚 Sat. August 5, 2023
3:00 PM PST
The Peach Seed Marin County Book Launch
Book Passage
51 Tamal Vista Blvd.
Corte Madera, CA 94925
415-927-0960

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AUGUST 3, 2023 UPDATE

✳️ Book-signing Trek is in the rearview! We had an amazing time hopping around to bookstores from Harlem to Soho. For a recap: Go to @AnitaGailJones on Instagram and Facebook.

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AUGUST 1, 2023 UPDATE

✳️ 🚀 📚IT’S LAUNCH DAY FOR THE PEACH SEED! 🎉

👉🏾 TODAY! JOIN ANITA ON HER NYC BOOK-SIGNING TREK

If you are in New York City, I’m meeting readers and signing books at these wonderful bookstores. Stop by. I’d love to meet you! Also:

JOIN US 6-9 PM Eastern: Bar Calico at the Freehand Hotel to celebrate The Peach Seed Launch Day!

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JULY 30, 2023 UPDATE

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✳️ JUST IN! Listen to this excerpt from The Peach Seed audiobook, narrated by Anita Gail Jones (4:50 minutes). Available wherever audiobooks are sold.

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JULY 28, 2023 UPDATE

📺📱 COMING UP! Monday, July 31st, 8am

✳️ WATCH ANITA ON ABC7 KGO-TV BAY AREA: Jobina’s Exclusive VIP-Only Private Book Club.

LIVE and On-Demand:

STREAM LIVE Online (see it on right sidebar)

ON MOBILE:

ABC7 Bay Area app (available on Apple App Store and Google Play)

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JULY 27, 2023 UPDATE

✍🏾 Exciting News! My essay, Anita Gail Jones on Crafting Fiction From Family Heirlooms, was published today on Literary Hub! Learn how the peach seed monkey found its way into the book and its role in the story. (Cheryl posting for Anita)

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JULY 26, 2023 UPDATE

Befitting the opening flight to my debut book tour, the trip to NYC is filled with a bit too much drama. During this 16-hour door-to-door trip it was time to pull out some good reads and share a few reflections: TPS Book Tour: Delayed—Post from the Plane.

✈️on board — 7:56pm PST for the TPS book tour

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JULY 25, 2023 UPDATE

On my way to NYC, or so I thought! Delayed!

Due to NYC thunderstorms, sitting on the plane; lucky I have good reading material✨💯🍑

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JULY 24, 2023 UPDATE

Getting ready to head to New York City for Launch Day!

✳️ LAUNCH DAY: Tuesday, August 1st, I will be hopping around on Anita’s NYC Book-Signing Trek; popping into a few select bookstores from Harlem to the East Village to sign copies plus meet & greet booksellers and readers. (See Anita’s August Book Tour Dates)

👉🏾 WATCH THIS SPACE FOR AN UPDATED LIST OF BOOKSTORES AND TIMES. If there’s a bookstore near you on the tour, please drop in, join the fun and share with your peeps!

✳️ ANITA INTERVIEW ON BROWN GIRL COLLECTIVE: Tonight Marcie L. Thomas, founder of Brown Girl Collective and I had a delightful conversation about The Peach Seed. Enjoy!

✳️ TO GET A COPY FOR YOURSELF OR A FRIEND:

✳️ AUGUST BOOK TOUR DATES AND PLACES—NYC, California, Georgia: The book tour schedule is constantly being updated. Here are the confirmed dates so far for August. Please stop by! I’d love to meet you!

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JULY 2, 2023 UPDATE

We are now one month out from my publisher Henry Holt & Co. launching my debut novel, The Peach Seed on August 1st! Excitement mounts day-by-day✨ and I’m grateful that the story is resonating with reviewers and readers.

I’ve spent the past two weeks getting ducks in a row with Buzz Professor, Cheryl McLaughlin, the architect of my just revealed Media Room where booksellers, readers, and media professionals will find everything from AGJ author portraits to introductions to reviews. It’s hard out here, and I can use all the help I can get amplifying my book so —feel free to pass the link along to interested parties.

Here’s a Quick Update ~

✳️ LAUNCH DAY: Tuesday, August 1st, I will be in NYC hopping around the city on a Peach Seed Book-Signing Trek; popping into a few select bookstores to sign copies plus meet & greet booksellers and readers. The schedule is TBD and will be posted here and on social media. If there’s a bookstore near you on the tour, please drop in and join the fun!

✳️ PREORDERS: A preorder is your vote, your voice in the book industry. Sends the message that you feel a book and its aesthetics and ideologies are worthy of publication; that the author deserves a seat at the table. Preorders also count toward the book’s all important first week of sales. You can still preorder The Peach Seed hard copy—and the audiobook, narrated by yours truly (!)

✳️ ESSENCE MAGAZINE: Thank you @OklaJones! Thrilled to be included in ESSENCE TBR list: 15 Books We Can’t wait to Read This Summer.

✳️ EVENT with CHEF TANYA HOLLAND: Save the date! Tuesday, October 24, 2023 I will join Oakland chef, Tanya Holland— of the now-closed restaurant, Brown Sugar Kitchen fame, and author of the new cookbook, California Soul — for a fundraising event as part of Homeward Bound of Marin’s Fresh Starts Chef Event series.

In celebration of National Book Month, Chef Tanya and I will be sharing an evening of soul food & stories, with recipe demonstrations, a reading + book-signing. Both our books will be available for purchase just in time to stock up for Christmas! Learn more/ buy tickets

🍑Thanks for reading✨ I’ll be sharing a lot over the next month. To be sure you don’t miss an update, please subscribe to receive posts directly into your email.