jonas-jacobsson-0frj2scuy4k-unsplash-550?v=2

All Is Anew

Literary Thriller with a Southern Twist

Franklin resident and first time author, Jim Cheney 

Are you a Tennessee native?
Technically I’m a Georgia native. I grew up on the Georgia side of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, so born in Georgia, but educated in Tennessee. I have been in the Nashville area for about 25 years.
 

Tell me about your family.
My wife, Elena, a native to Franklin and I have two sons together: Jack, who is 18 and Austin, who is 15. We also have three dogs named Dave, Howard, and Francis. We live in the downtown Franklin area.

What was your career before writing All is Anew?
My career has been in communications. I started with Seigenthaler Public Relations in Nashville, but then moved on to Southern Land Company for in house PR and marketing. Following that job, I opened my own company Prufrock Communications.

What are your thoughts on being a new writer?
Writing has been a passion for me most of my life. It took me a long time to be disciplined enough to sit down and write a full novel, but I knew it would eventually come. Once it did, my biggest challenge was keeping up with the characters as they came to life. It’s a very difficult and demanding process, but the end result is very much worth the toil.

What is the WHY and inspiration behind your debut novel?
In one form or another, writers will tell you that they write because they have to. It’s how we make better sense of the world around us. This book was inspired in part by a vision at a rest stop on Monteagle Mountain, but it was fueled primarily by years of reading and absorbing how good writers create multiple perspectives and fabricate environments for those perspectives to take shape and evolve, or devolve as the case often is in All Is Set Anew. I wanted to build a book that took into consideration the rural environments of this region and the people who live within them — how they struggle and fail and struggle and fail again. And hopefully, when all is said and done, at least some of them can see their way clear. And if I have really done my job, I will have encouraged the reader to think beyond the narrative and hopefully that exercise will stick with them for a while. In essence, my writing the book should be secondary to the work itself. Therein lies the inspiration — to fashion something that is bigger and more impactful than you are.

  • jim%20cheney%20photo-300?v=1
  • img_0054-300?v=1
  • jonas-jacobsson-0frj2scuy4k-unsplash-300?v=2

Related Businesses

Museum at Prairiefire

Museums + Art Galleries

Museum at Prairiefire

Overland Park, KS

The Museum at Prairiefire provides ACCESS FOR ALL to understand and celebrate natural history and science. The Museum is open...

Nashville Zoo

Botanical Gardens

Nashville Zoo

Nashville, TN

Nashville Zoo is a progressive and dynamic zoological park serving Middle Tennessee, southern Kentucky and hundreds of...

Powell Gardens

Botanical Gardens

Powell Gardens

Kingsville, MO

Powell Gardens, Kansas City’s botanical garden, is set on 970 acres of lush, rolling hills. Known for its contemporary...

See More

Related Articles

See More