The Residual Solace is Published

» June 3rd, 2008 | Categorized in Projects

After five long years of writing in the shadow of my first book, The Truth Be Told that was published in the year 2003, The Residual Solace has finally reached a status of publication. The book came to a close in March of this year as the season of spring was beginning to breathe.

Those few who remember The Truth Be Told, it was told from an adolescent view over the course of seven years, filled with crude writing techniques and emotional damage. The book was not, by any means, a full blown success. Yes, at the age of 20 I became a published author in high regard to myself, but few copies were ever sold.

Now five years later I have self-published The Residual Solace through Lulu.com. The quality is superb and much better than the first book that was done through a different publisher. Spanning over eighty pages of written poetic material, the book takes a look at defining my memories and understanding their movement in time.

For those interested in purchasing copy of the book, you can visit the book’s Lulu Marketplace page where both a hard copy and digital edition are available. Autographed copies will be available soon through this website and hopefully in local bookstores (with the exception of Borders). I plan to donate several copies to the library system in the area.

Goodbye Losing Georgia

» April 12th, 2008 | Categorized in Misc, Projects

As of today Losing Georgia is ceasing to continue operation due to other projects that are consuming much of my time. It was not a hard decision to make considering that the project ended in December. Since that time I’ve tried to revive the project through several improvements to the website, however I can no longer spend time on maintenance or new material.

In the lapse of this event, I can finally start concentrating on drafting a coffee table book that will take the 5,000+ photographs and compile them into the Douglas Story that stared in 2005.

Thanks to all those who contributed to the project.

Losing Georgia Updates Coming Soon

» March 29th, 2008 | Categorized in Misc, Projects

A series of updates will be coming soon to the Losing Georgia website hopefully by the end of the week. Since WordPress 2.5 was finally released today after many delays, testing is underway complete as the latest version conflicts with some features from plug-ins. For now, here is a list of updates that is planned.

• The Snippets feature will be going away for a more detailed news feed broken down by each county. So far the news coverage will be for Carroll and Douglas counties with possibility to include Paulding and Haralson. Information from local news agencies will be aggregated making daily posts easier. DONE!
• The Resource page will be revamped to breakdown include information on each county including stats, links and RSS feeds. DONE!
• Looking into building a store for selling prints online. This has been a feature that has been difficult to implement properly since the beginning of the project.

From Scratch

» November 12th, 2007 | Categorized in Misc, Projects

I know that nobody looks at this site anyways, so I’m rebuilding it with retooling the template. Don’t know when I’ll get to it, but it will happen sometime. Okay, back to sleep.