Welcome to episode 39 of From the Front Porch, a collection of conversations on books, small business, and life in the South.

I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia.

And today I'm joined by Emily Arwood, artist in residence at the Thomasville Center for the Arts.

Today, Emily and I will be chatting about flaunt, Thomasville's upcoming art festival, and our

favorite books for creatives.

Before we get started, I wanted to thank all of you for continuing to rank and review us

on iTunes.

That helps us so much.

It helps iTunes kind of recognize us as a podcast worth listening to.

And so every time you rank and review us, other people find out about the podcast.

And I'm very grateful for that.

I just wanted to remind you that if you ever hear something on the podcast that you want to respond to, we love interacting with our listeners and readers.

So to do that, you can go to our website, www.bushelfthththomasville.com.

And you can click on podcasts and you can view old episodes and show notes there.

And then you can always comment on Instagram at Bookshelf Teaville or on Twitter at Bookshelf Tevill.

And on our website, you can find ways to email our staff and let us know that you're listening.

If you have any questions, any topics you want us to cover, I have been able to plan out our podcast for the next few weeks,

maybe even months. So we've had a brainstorming session as a staff and came up with topics we

think you'll be interested in. But if there's ever something you want us to cover, let us know.

Send us an email, contact us through our website, and we would be happy, in fact, we'd be

thrilled to hear from you. So thank you so much, and let's go ahead and get started.

Hi, Emily. Welcome to my home. So tell the listeners at home a little bit about yourself.

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