Friends,

As you may have noticed, there has not been a lot of activity here at LDSreview. As many of you know, life has its share of worthy demands. As our young family grows, we have come up short on time and have not given the site the effort it deserves. And for this reason, I’m sad to announce that LDSreview will no longer be actively updated.

Our plan is to maintain the archives for another year. If we have not handed it over to ‘new management’ by then (April 2010), the site will go dark. Serious offers will be considered, so if you are interested in taking over the site, use the contact us form to propose your plan to us.

Again, this is due to increased demands on our time and has nothing to do with the success of failure of the LDS media industry. In fact, we’ve put together our parting thoughts reflecting on 5 years of reviewing LDS media.

One more time, thanks for reading!

My interest in Mormon media matured as a film student at BYU, and while my career has taken me in other directions, I’m happy to see the success of some of my former classmates. Before I pack up the mic, I do have some parting thoughts:
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When we started LDSreview.net nearly 5 years ago, we were fairly new newlyweds, fresh BYU graduates, and even fresher new parents. We had left the safety of the breadbasket of LDS culture and were embarking on a new life outside of Utah. We had high ambitions for the site: my husband had a degree in Media Arts and was looking to review LDS films specifically, and I was looking for mental stimulation combined with a love of LDS literature, particularly LDS fiction.
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