More Terrific News on the Espresso Printing Press

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)…

Interview with Deb Salisbury, author of Elephant’s Breath & London Smoke

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…

Canada’s Shame

I don’t often get political on this blog. Today, however, I feel I must. I am proud to be a Canadian. Proud of our peaceable nature, our multi-cultural society, our tolerance. I am also deeply shamed and humbled by our government’s historical and continued refusal to embrace our First Nations. Frankly, the conditions in which they live every day of their lives is like unto a war zone in some third world country. Watch this…

Easier to Purchase Five Rivers Books

In order to make purchasing Five Rivers’ books easier for you, I’ve set up a series of Buy Direct links in the sidebar to the right. These links will take you directly to Chapters in Canada, and Barnes & Noble in the U.S., thereby allowing you the opportunity of not only purchasing directly from Five Rivers, but also from two of your favourite booksellers using your membership reward cards if you have them. If you…

Buying New v.s. Renovation Costs

The economy isn’t wonderful, but your living space is threatening explosion, little say your temper because you’re falling over your kids’ toys, or your kids are threatening revolt because there’s nowhere they can retreat with friends. Worse, you’re expecting an addition to your numbers, or need that extra bathroom to solve morning revolts. So you start scouting out homes with that extra bedroom and bathroom, upgrading from three bedrooms to four, and two baths instead…