FORTHCOMING:
BOTANICAL APARTHEID:
How Drug Wars Affect Culture, Politics and the Environment
By John Veit
Articles, interviews, and photographs covering global drug wars.
I started reporting for my high school newspaper in 1988 at a Ku Klux Klan rally in Pennsylvania. A few years later, I landed a job writing and shooting photos for High Times Magazine in New York City. Despite a brief and horrible foray as director of public relations there, I wrote dozens of articles covering government complicity in the drug trade, clandestine cannabis operations, book and record reviews, the evolution of medical marijuana, a media column, and interviews with Noam Chomsky and Tony Serra.
In 2007, I visited the groovy offices of Revista Cáñamo in Barcelona and was hired to write about the evolving cannabis scenes in Colorado, California, Las Vegas, Seattle, Mexico, Jamaica, and South Africa. Those articles were translated into Spanish and published exclusively in their print magazine.
Also included are articles, interviews, and reports from Cannabis Now, Vice, Global Ganja Report, Grindline, Psyche!, Quantum 9, Ojai Valley News, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and Humboldt State University.
This book is for colleges, cannabis dispensaries, independent bookstores, and anyone who appreciates the voices of courageous people devoted to harm reduction, botanical literacy, peace, and art.
WARM BLOOD:
A BOOK ABOUT A MOVIE
by Rick Charnoski and his Friends
From the 2022 feature film, Warm Blood. This book illustrates how to produce and shoot a 16mm feature film. Essays by the film’s producer, director of photography, audio engineer, gaffers, grips, writers, actors, costume designers, makeup artists, and the film’s lab tech accompany classic portraits of the cameras, mics, and other gear used to make the film. Photos of sets, notes, whiteboards, and storyboards provide a road map for anyone wondering what they need to shoot a movie on film.
Published by These Days, 2023
Softcover, 114pg
8.5 x 10.75"
Saddle Stitched and linen tape
eBook available soon
EMMA FROG MEETS TANYA TURTLE
By John Veit
Illustrations by Tim Sanders
Text in Four Languages
Emma Frog Meets Tanya Turtle is a sweet story about a frog who finds herself in a tough spot and manages to make a new friend. This book is an excellent way for young children and their parents to learn English, Spanish, French, and German. The lovely watercolor illustrations make any kid smile.
Emma Frog Meets Tanya Turtle presents a unique way for kids and their parents to learn English, Spanish, German, and French. Each page tells the story in all four languages, so kids and parents can compare and memorize each phrase. The book's final pages provide a review of the vocabulary with pleasant pictures that teachers and parents can easily use to create language lessons. Children learn vocabulary in four languages covering many of the basic things they find in nature: lakes, water, sticks, roots, lily pads, turtles, frogs... For children ages 2-12.
AN ORDINARY LIFE: ITS BITS AND PIECES
By Judith Otto
An Ordinary Life: Its Bits and Pieces is a quietly radical collection of memoir, journalism, letters, and essays. Judith Otto offers a clear, compassionate vision rooted in her decades as an educator, mother, social ecologist, and executive coach. Her writings argue that true preparation for life goes far beyond traditional academics. Survival—physical, emotional, and ethical—requires knowing oneself, understanding others, and mastering process skills like decision-making, communication, and reflection.
Editor's Note: I put this book together from my mom's writing after she passed on last May. It is a vivid window into the 1970s and how women navigated the same issues that plague and inspire us today. There is an essay on education, her newspaper column and articles, an interview, her astrological chart, a memoir she was writing, and letters of recommendation from colleagues that illustrate her work and approach to living. $1 from every book and e-book sold is donated to concordprisonoutreach.org and communityfarms.org.