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Available in August 2005:
From Humble Beginnings:
Songs of a Native Son
By William Franklin Andrews
With a foreword by Mary Trim Anderson
ISBN 0-9767056-1-3 * 227 pages * $15/paperback * Buy it here
These selected poems of Franklin, Tennessee native Frank Andrews put a simple man's life of friendship and love as well as hardship and sadness to vivid rhyme. Whether he was courting his future wife or privately lamenting the loss of war, Andrews has paused to turn his feelings into poetry. Go with him as he does a U.S. Army private's muddy duty, watches his children grow up, goes broke and learns something from the good times and the bad. Reflecting the author's abiding faith in God and the goodness of the people of his hometown, these "songs" will bring joy to poetry lovers everywhere. Click here to read the foreword by Mary Trim Anderson. Click here for the prologue ("Mule Barn Blues").
Update: Read the short story "Snowball the Orphan Lamb" excerpted in Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal here.
Read about the book release party at Landmark Booksellers
Read selected poems by William Franklin Andrews
Read the short story 'A SHIRT NAMED EUGENE' by William Franklin Andrews
Click here for information on speaking engagements by William Franklin Andrews
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Available in March 2005:
The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs
By Thomas Brent Andrews
With a foreword by Harley Sorensen
ISBN 0-9767056-0-5 * 562 pages * $29.95/paperback * Buy it here
"The best part about this story is its simplicity: The drug war must be stopped," says Thomas Brent Andrews in The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs. Determined to tell his painful tale of addiction and journalism and share the surprising solution to his personal "vicious cycle," Andrews quit the newspaper business and started writing. Several years later, he has been threatened by the police, has suffered symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, has missed journalism like an old friend - and through it all has remained sober. This is his remarkable story. Read an excerpt from The Pot Plan in the October 2007 issue of Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal here.
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT THE POT PLAN
"In addition to defeating the War on Drugs, Andrews wants to come clean with the world in The Pot Plan, and he does so with absolute honesty, incredible descriptions and colorful language. Anybody who's been in a similar situation will pick this book up and sympathize and remember what it was like to live in those dark ages." - Will Jordan, High Times, November 2005 (read the review here)
"A bold book." - Radio newsman Dean Becker, Drug Truth Network
"He's a very good writer. And he doesn't spare himself at all." - Dave Oliveria, The Spokesman-Review (from Huckleberries Online)
"Louie, I love the book. It's a real page-turner and your descriptions are soooo gooooood!!!!!!" - Reader Connie C., Nashville, TN (via email)
"Just wanted to let you know that I started your book this past weekend and found myself reading for hours and hours. I almost called in sick today so I could finish it!" - Reader Chris W., Nashville, TN (via email)
"[The Pot Plan] rightfully rails against the abysmal failure we call the War on Drugs, while simultaneously describing one person’s unique solution to addiction and self-destruction." - Michael Morrison, MichaelMorrison.com, June 2006
"I have your book in my office." - Keith Stroup, Esq., Of Counsel to NORML (via email)
"If you haven't read The Pot Plan by Thomas Brent Andrews, you are missing an excellent read my friends! Now on chapter twenty-six I find The Pot Plan more difficult to put down with each sitting. I also find that I am really glad it is such a big book. Brent, I could read your stories for the next year and not tire. Great work my friend! Looking forward to talking with you soon 'On The Air' about some of these stories and characters. - D. R. "Doc" Smith, Sr., author, Yes We Cannabis: Stimulus That Makes Sense, May 2009 (read Doc's blog post here)
"The Pot Plan is a book of unrelenting passion. Brent Andrews poured his soul into it, completely absorbed, writing furiously, and coming up with several books in one." - Harley Sorensen, in his foreword to The Pot Plan
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ABOUT CHRONIC DISCONTENT BOOKS
http://www.chronicdiscontent.com/
Chronic Discontent Books was founded in 2005 by Thomas Brent Andrews in Franklin, Tenn. The fledgling publishing company's first release was The Pot Plan: Louie B. Stumblin and the War on Drugs by Thomas Brent Andrews, which debuted in San Francisco in March 2005. The Pot Plan has received much praise from early readers and has had numerous favorable mentions in the press. In August 2005 Chronic Discontent Books released From Humble Beginnings: Songs of a Native Son by William Franklin Andrews. Both Chronic Discontent titles are currently available online through the printer, CafePress.com, and at Landmark Booksellers in Franklin, as well as at the Williamson County Public Library in Franklin.
