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Create Your Own Job Security: Plan to Start Your Own Business at Midlife, 2018

Is a book written for those now in the workforce who fear that their jobs may be automated or downsized out of existence. It advocates conceiving of your own company while still employed and having your new business tested and ready to launch should you be unexpectedly terminated. This title was replaced by the more comprehensive “Make Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age,” 2021.

Father of the Grooms: Murder, Marriage, and Mafia, 2020

First draft e-book, is for those book lovers and fiction writers who would like to see something that is never published – a writer’s first draft. This 408-page manuscript later became the screen play “Blood Ties” and the novel “Until Death Do You Part: An American Family Meets their Sicilian Cousins.”

Ideas For New Businesses: Finding Ideas for Starting Your Million or Billion Dollar Business, 2015

Is a thought-provoking 40-page pamphlet designed for the business person who takes long flights and wants to generate and record new business ideas that are demonstrably his because he is recording them on his own property on his own time. This is the precursor of the later “Create Your Own Job Security: Plan to Start Your Own Business at Midlife,”2018, and “Make Your Own Job: Anytime, Anywhere, At Any Age,” 2021.

Guide To The Geology of Bartow County, Georgia, 1985

Presents the Geology and history of the county’s mining industry which has included ocher, iron ore, bauxite, and most significantly the barite mining industry. This was written on behalf of the William Weinman Mineral Center and Museum, which now contains one of the largest collections of Western art in the Southeast. The 40-page books have rusted staples and may show signs of long-term storage. Inquire to author for availability and bulk purchase.

Kaolin Deposits of Central Georgia: An Introduction To Their Origin And Use, 1983

Is a 90-page homage to the state’s billion dollar kaolin (China clay) mining industry written long before the author became Information Scientist for what was then English China Clay International, now Imerys Pigments.

Guide to Homes And Plantations Of The Thomasville Region, 1984

Is a 60-page book written to document some of the historic plantations which were occupied and built to be outdoor playgrounds of families from the Gilded Age including the owners of companies like Coca-Cola and Hines Catsup, brands that are still well known today.

Geology Of The Tennille Lime Sinks Washington County, Georgia: With An Introduction To Local Geology, 1983

Documents the county’s most famous geologic feature which is a collapsed cave system. This natural area is under private ownership and access is presently by permission only. The 34-page booklet has photos of the features and fossils recovered from the sinks including shark teeth, sand dollars, and silicified bones.

My Home Town

Is an audio CD tracing the history and development of Sandersville, Georgia. It includes its early founding after the Revolutionary War as the seat of one of Georgia's mother counties and was the first in the nation named for George Washington. Trauma visited the town when it was burned by Sherman on his March To The Sea. The town's revival, resettlement and mix of Native American, Black, White, European, and Asian cultures from progressive periods of immigration continues to the present day. Never a homogeneous White culture, the county's residents had their trials, survived, and ultimately prospered through changing times. The CD was recorded by the author, and is available for $8.00 from hoveysmith@bellsouth.net.