Gather any group of writers together and you’ll often hear conversation eventually turn toward annual income, infrequency of royalty statements and payments. Get them in full blow and you’ll find complaints about lack of promotion from their publishers, difficulties with book signings, gripes about contracts, and unreliability of agents. The list can be as impressive as the rejection slips the writers accrued along their way toward publishing success. Enter the burgeoning world of Print on…

A rule of thumb for wet cooperage is: once wet always wet. You may store your vessel filled with water indefinitely. Simply change the water monthly, and add a teaspoon of baking soda to the water to ensure the wood remains sweet. We highly advise people to refrain from using chlorine bleach, as we have recently discovered bleach causes the cells of the wood to corrode, rendering the wood porous.If you do not have facility…