Producing.

Just felt like updating my friends on current stuff in production.

I have been asked for permission to print one of my photos by a US magazine out of Columbia University (SOULS Journal). It’s my first time having a photograph in print (I’ve had some of my other Colombia photos used in online stories about the country) – and I have to say that I’m flattered even though it’s not anything really big. It’s in print!

And, for those of you who enjoy my writing, I am working on a collection of essays and other pieces based on my last three years of blogging, journals and letters which I will combine with some of my photographs to make something book-like. Essentially this involves rewriting the stuff that was more essay-ish to begin with and then cleaning up the journal entries and letters to make them read a bit better. I plan to self-publish in the fall and offer it for sale via my blog. I highly doubt there is a market beyond a few friends and activists out there – which is why I am not even attempting to get this done through a publishing house – but that is the beauty of print-to-order publishing.

And I am still working on the activist manual some of you already have heard about – – which I am hoping to get published through AK Press next year.  Am aiming to have the first draft of that done this summer as well and the prospectus submitted to AK by early fall.

Really, if I could do this stuff full time I’d be getting a lot more done… but as it is I am trying to use my slackened summer schedule to get at least first drafts completed for assistance with editing. Really – all I want is one finished book (I don’t care if it’s self-published) – everything feels a little too loose-ends otherwise.