Amazing Tennesee
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| THERESA JENSEN LACEY PO Box 1175 Fairhope, AL 36533 Email Me! |
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I consider AMAZING TENNESSEE to be a
cornucopia of unusual, inspiring, and humorous tales about the Volunteer State.
I came up with the idea for this book when, one, day, I was doing something I rarely do--filing my freelance-journalism articles--I re-read some of them. Of
course, many of them were about Tennessee in some way, and I thought, "Wow!
Tennessee's pretty amazing." BOOM! The book was born. The writing of the book itself was pretty amazing, as I wrote it while simultaneously adding a section on to our house and house-training a new Lab puppy. But the house got finished and now Maggie's only problem is she loves garbage leftovers. One of the most fun things that happened to me in promoting ATN was when WSM--yes, the Grand Ole Opry radio station itself--asked me to come and be interviewed for their talk-show. Live radio! I was both thrilled and nervous. "Just relax," Bill Cody assured me when I arrived. "We've only got 30 million listeners." Despite that, I managed to enjoy myself, and the listeners must have liked the interview, too, for I was asked to come back a second time. |
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| Now the entire "Amazing America" series is being republished by
Jefferson Press. |
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AMAZING TENNESSEE in a nutshell? ATN is
a cornucopia of unusual, inspiring, and sometimes humorous tales about the Volunteer
State. The book is chock-full of photos (about 60 in all) and stories that will make
you alternately laugh, wonder, or sigh with disbelief--but all the stories in AMAZING
TENNESSEE are true! For example:  Why was the world-famous Scopes
"Monkey Trial" really a PR stunt that backfired? What was Elvis Presley's greatest
birthday disappointment? Who was it that was charged with,
then convicted of, killing his political opponent--and even ran against the victim's
widow? What was the most unusual [i.e.,
nonhuman] lynching in the U.S.? Just what Tennessee restaurant has
the world's oldest cooking grease still in use? What two Civil War generals had been
students at West Point together, with one tutoring the other--and wound up in a famous
battle in Tennessee fighting on opposite sides? What did Dolly Parton do as a young
school-girl that made her refer to herself as "The Creative Dreamer of East
Tennessee"? Where in Tennessee is the most
famous haunted house?Find out answers to these questions and more between the pages of AMAZING TENNESSEE. Former Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist liked it so much, he even wrote the forward! As they say in Memphis, "Thankyouverymuch." |
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Excerpts from Reviews: "Lacey has left no stone unturned [in AMAZING TENNESSEE]. The...book is chock-full of information about Tennessee, from the banal to the bizarre, including quick facts, amazing stories and even recipes. There's also a section on Internet sites relating to Tennessee, and an index in the back....you'll just have to read this book!" Tennessee Connections magazine. "...it's a wonderful book!" native Tennessean, Patricia Neal "Martha and I are really enjoying reading it!" Governor Don Sundquist |
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Author's Agent Contact: Lantz Powell Literary Agency for Southern Authors Chattanooga, TN tel: 423.893.5539 email: southernlitagent@aol.com |
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