Episode 526 || Ordinary Time: Behind the Scenes

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Arts:books, Arts, Books, Fiction, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This week on From the Front Porch, we’re celebrating the release of Annie B. Jones’ debut book, Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put! Listen to today’s episode for a behind the scenes look at all things Ordinary Time. To purchase the books mentioned in this episode, stop by The Bookshelf in Thomasville, visit our website (search episode 526), or download and shop on The Bookshelf’s official app: Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put by Annie B. Jones (physical copy) Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put by Annie B. Jones (audiobook) From the Front Porch is a weekly podcast production of The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in South Georgia. You can follow The Bookshelf’s daily happenings on Instagram, Tiktok, and Facebook, and all the books from today’s episode can be purchased online through our store website, www.bookshelfthomasville.com. A full transcript of today’s episode can be found here. Special thanks to Dylan and his team at Studio D Podcast Production for sound and editing and for our theme music, which sets the perfect warm and friendly tone for our Thursday conversations. If you liked what you heard in today’s episode, tell us by leaving a review on Apple Podcasts. You can also support us on Patreon, where you can access bonus content, monthly live Porch Visits with Annie, our monthly live Patreon Book Club with Bookshelf staffers, Conquer a Classic episodes with Hunter, and more. Just go to patreon.com/fromthefrontporch. We’re so grateful for you, and we look forward to meeting back here next week. Our Executive Producers are...Beth, Stephanie Dean, Linda Lee Drozt, Ashley Ferrell, Wendi Jenkins, Martha, Nicole Marsee, Gene Queens, Cammy Tidwell, Jammie Treadwell, and Amanda Whigham.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to From the Front Porch, a conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South.
0:28.5	Thank you. When you write a novel, you are alone in it.
0:35.0	But when writing, there is always, for me, a hope that I will not be alone.
0:38.9	Not in this work, and not in this world.
0:44.0	John Green, everything is tuberculosis.
0:50.0	I'm Annie Jones, owner of the bookshelf, an independent bookstore in beautiful downtown Thomasville, Georgia. And today, in celebration of the publication of my debut book, Ordinary
0:56.4	Time, I'm answering your questions about the writing and publishing process.
1:02.0	Ordinary Time is officially out in the world this week. I've got a few tour dates still on the
1:07.9	books if you're in the South and want to meet together in person.
1:11.9	If you're listening to this on the day it drops tonight, April 24th at Midtown Reader in
1:18.1	Tallahassee, Florida, I will be in conversation with my friend and fellow bookstore owner,
1:22.8	Sally Bradshaw. On Monday, April 28th, I will be in Birmingham, Alabama, at Little Professor,
1:29.7	with my friend and small business expert, Carrie Rollwagon. On April 29th, that's a Tuesday,
1:36.4	I will be at Garden District Bookshop in New Orleans. And then on May 5th at M. Judson in Greenville, South Carolina, I will be doing a reading from my book,
1:47.5	and I believe they will be serving cocktails and mocktails. So everybody gets super excited.
1:52.2	I am.
1:53.8	Now, if you cannot join me in person at one of these events, please do not forget that on Thursday, May 8th, at 7 p.m. Eastern, I'll be hosting a virtual
2:03.3	event on Zoom with my dear friend Hunter McClendon. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased through
2:10.0	the bookshelf. There's a link in the show notes. I wanted a way to honor all of the long
2:15.1	distance friends and customers who I won't be able to see this spring.
2:19.2	And conversing with Hunter and having him interview me about the book felt like a really fun way to do that.
2:25.5	So this event will be recorded.
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