These are surreal times. Due to COVID-19, we are all traveling down a road never before taken; and you may also find yourself homeschooling without a net. I offer these tips to help ease the journey
Howdy, howdy! It’s been a while. Hope you and yours are surviving our crazy presidential election process. Take a break and read my new post on anitagailjones.com
July, 2018. With friends and family at my first Open House: Headlands Center for the Arts.
You’re invited to join the fun this Sunday for my final Headlands Open House. Please read all about it by visiting my NEW WEBSITE: ANITAGAILJONES.com!*
Thanks in large part to your faith in this work, Peach Seed Monkey begins searching for our publisher, and I’m pulling back curtains to show my own backstory, and little known facts. AGJ.com has lots of new content, photos, audio/video and more.
A fellow writer and dear friend and I are heading to a mega literary conference next week: AWP: Portland (Association of Writers & Writing Programs) which means meeting lots of folk. Agents, publishers and editors will be checking my site and social media to see who is in my corner? Who is interested in buying this book? Now more than ever your show of support can make a difference: • Sign up for updates (most important) • Leave comments • Get friends and family to join you
I know. Been a lot of talking the past seven years here on PSM. Soon enough, we can stop talking and sit down to READ THE BOOK!! Help us get there from here. AGJ.com is waiting for your visit:
As of this Friday, The Ides of March*—I will be moving to a new site—Anita Gail Jones—in preparation for query process kick off at AWP conference in two weeks.
Always, thankful to you for following PSM. I cherish our visits inside the warm wood walls (alliteration couldn’t be helped), but WordPress has retired this theme and, even though this blog will still be around for a few months, it’s time to move on.
Look for your invite to visit/subscribe to anitagailjones.com — meantime, here’s a little OPEN HOUSE surprise just for PSM subscribers: preview screening of freshly cut video.
Feel free to share/invite friends to follow: agents, editors and publishers will be checking out how many people I have in my corner:
*Friday is also the birthday of faithful PSM subscriber, Vivian to whom I am forever grateful for support since the early, early drafts, including hosting a reading in her home. Happy Birthday, Vivian!
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Bookfair
Long time, no see!
Heading to Portland, Oregon later this month for the AWP Conference, but first, let me tell you this, which you won’t believe:
For over two months, I’ve been immersed in a mind-numbing, tedious but extremely rewarding pass back through my manuscript to rein in my overuse of “the”. Yep. What can I say. Had to do it. According to The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society, “the” is overused more than any other English language word*—and I believe it after seeing how many times I had overused it myself.
Once again, joining millions of women world wide, on Saturday, January 19, 2019, Women’s March San Francisco will host a rally and march, kicking off at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza at 11:30 a.m. with a lineup of speakers who advocate and organize on and around topics central to the Women’s March mission to work on behalf of human rights, civil liberties and social justice for all.
“Last year’s march focused on a theme of #HearOurVote, and we are now coming off a momentous midterm, where a more representative body of leadership has taken seat at the local and national levels. This year, we know the work is not done,”
— Sophia Andary, chair of Women’s March San Francisco.
For more details and logistics
This year’s speakers are advocates and leaders in their communities and fields. They’ll be covering a wide array of issues including anti-semitism, immigration, indigenous peoples rights, LGBTQIA rights and representation, reproductive rights, and socioeconomic and social justice.
Writer, visual artist and oral tradition storyteller, Anita Gail was born and raised in Albany, Georgia, living in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1985. As a 2018-19 Affiliate Artist at The Headlands Center for the Arts, she is in the query phase for her debut novel, Peach Seed Monkey. The story was a Novella semi-finalist in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.
Open House as 2018-19 Affiliate Artist at Headlands Center for the Arts: studio art installation based on scene: “Sunday Dinner” from Peach Seed Monkey, my debut novel—now in search of an agent. To view gallery: Click on photo above.
Reading
Headlands Open House: Reading “Piggly Wiggly” scene from Peach Seed Monkey.