The following is a press release from Lightning Source Inc., the world’s largest offset and digital printer. Exciting news indeed! Top publishers exploring the latest print on demand book model with Lightning Source Espresso Book Machine pilot program LAVERGNE, TENNESSEE – Lightning Source, an Ingram Content company focused on enhancing book sales for publishers with innovative, low cost and minimum risk print on demand solutions, today announced the launch of an Espresso Book Machine (EBM)…

The following interview with Deb Salisbury first appeared on her blog in February, 2009, shortly after the release of her book, Elephant’s Breath & London Smoke. I started writing Elephant’s Breath & London Smoke to fill in my own ignorance of colors, especially Victorian era color, but the more I researched, the more colors appeared that I had never heard of before. And in reading Victorian transcriptions of Elizabethan wills, I discovered colors I had…