I am thinking of purchasing a DVD off Amazon and it says it is a Print on Demand DVD, what does that mean?
Here is the DVD:http://www.amazon.com/Newport-Harbor-Orange-County-Complete/dp/B001EO5NUI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1281310580&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Newport-Harbor-Orange-County-Complete/dp/B001EO5NUI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1281310580&sr=8-1
CreateSpace makes self-publishing print on demand easy for do-it-yourselfers.
PORCELAIN BUTTERFLIES
by John Luna
The black, loose fitting night gown stretched down to the floor while a pair of wrinkled, shaking hands tightened a sash of mustard colored cloth. Paula Willows steps were more of an early morning shuffle as she skirted around the length of the bed to the other side. The soft curls of her white hair hung loosely on both shoulders and bounced with each of her steps. But while she arrived to her husband’s side, a low breath escaped her mouth.
Eyes white and round she stood like a shroud at the end of the plain, four post bed looking over the still form of her husband Damon Willows. The wrinkles on his brow looked scrunched up and angered like a constant scowl plastered upon his face. Each of the few gray hairs he had were upright and pointed in all directions while his thick, bushy eyebrows seemed to teeter on the edge of his heavy brow ridge. Even his chapped, pale lips seemed to be stretched up in a sneer of contempt for the new day.
Most mornings this was followed by Paula leaning down to wake her husband up. First she would cast aside the crisp, white linens in order to shake him awake. She always tried to get him moving early so he could get downstairs to take his morning medication along with his breakfast. But the ritual soon changed to him spitting out those carefully cooked scrambled eggs and swallowing the green and white pill among the cursing and snarls of hatred for her horrible cooking and incompetent behavior. In twenty years Paula had never been able to cook an edible breakfast for him.
Yet his yells and chosen words would soon fade into a low hum as Paula would struggle to fall to her aching knees and clean up the broken dish on the kitchen floor. How many had he broken this month? Five? Ten? She had a hard time keeping count. The thought of plastic plates always came around her mind, but they never looked as pretty as her porcelain, butterfly prints.
Paula had dearly loved butterflies. Ever since she was a little girl she would run out into the fields during the Spring to dance and twirl among them. Two or three would even fly close enough to land on her shoulder or on the top of her head. They were always so free.
But she was too old to do that anymore. These days she enjoyed collecting only porcelain versions of her winged friends. They sat quietly in her bedroom upon a top shelf, all in a row and shining various colors. Some days while Paula would nurse a freshly given bruise or split lip, she would spend practically all day staring at the miniature collection she had. In certain mornings the daylight would strike them at just the right pose and she could swear that they were alive. Fluttering around in front of her eyes, doing all sorts of loops and stopping to flap their tired wings on her nose.
But her intent staring wasn’t on her butterflies now. Her brown eyes were now focused on the unmoving form that lay in her bed. She had already tried to wake him repeatedly, but his face remained in that irate expression. There was no rise or fall of his chest underneath the blankets and the disturbing sound of his snores didn’t waft through the room like an out of control chainsaw anymore.
Yet, while Paula stared at Damon’s stiffened body, only a single tear welled up and rolled over her cheek. As it trickled down she glanced to the bedroom window to see a yellow and black butterfly fluttering around in the April morning light. Her one tear fell with barely a whisper on the hardwood floor with only silence to hear it.
THE END
Hi!
I’m a photographer and want to sell my artwork online. I know many websites for on-demand photo printing, but I’m afraid they offer quite average quality prints (well, let’s say roughly similar to consumer printing services by Fuji or Kodak).
What’s you opinion on lulu.com photo printing+frames? What about imagekind.com (they seem to use Epson printers)?
Any high-end service you recommend, or should I just buy some Epson Stylus Pro 3800 or 4880 and do the job by myself?
Thanks
Larry
I write a lot. I think everyone should. I got some good stories, poems, and one novel I did back in 2003 and 2004. I checked out Lulu.com and Cafepress.com, but I wasn’t really satisfied with those two. They are all right, but I am looking for something where they provide software for creating the hard copy files and ebook files if it exists. I didn’t like Cafepress, because they seem more into the tees and coffee mugs. Lulu is okay, but not quite professional enough. I can pay a nominal fee for services, but print-on-demand should offer to pay me, not the other way around. If anyone with experience in this area could help, I would be very grateful. Thanks!
In my local newspaper 3 days ago a strange animal was sighted and reported. In tonights paper a picture and confirmation of what the animal is has been printed.
I have never heard of it before! I thought it would be fun to have people guess what this animal is based on the description below. Good Luck!
When it stood up it was about 24 inches tall. It looked like a rabbit, but it did not have ears like a rabbit. It’s head is deer like.
It has a combination of short brown hair on the upper part of its body and has longer black hair with a white stripe like a skunk .
It’s body was small and more tube like, in comparison to its legs which are longer and slender. It was sitting in the middle of the road and drew alot of attention. It actually came right up to a couple of people.
People stopped and some took pictures. It did not seem to be afraid of people. When it decided to leave It ran as fast as a Gazelle springing away on all four feet.
As I said above it turned out to be an animal I have never seen or heard of before. The description of it is what the paper printed
I am thinking of purchasing a DVD off Amazon and it says it is a Print on Demand DVD, what does that mean?
Here is the DVD:http://www.amazon.com/Newport-Harbor-Ora…
http://www.amazon.com/Newport-Harbor-Orange-County-Complete/dp/B001EO5NUI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1281310580&sr=8-1
I am thinking of purchasing a DVD off Amazon and it says it is a Print on Demand DVD, what does that mean?
Here is the DVD:http://www.amazon.com/Newport-Harbor-Ora…
http://www.amazon.com/Newport-Harbor-Orange-County-Complete/dp/B001EO5NUI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1281310580&sr=8-1
I am thinking of purchasing a DVD off Amazon and it says it is a Print on Demand DVD, what does that mean?
Here is the DVD:http://www.amazon.com/Newport-Harbor-Ora…
Sorry….here’s the correct link http://www.amazon.com/Newport-Harbor-Orange-County-Complete/dp/B001EO5NUI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1281310580&sr=8-1
“Getting Your Book Published in 2010-11″ provides detailed, relevant and surprising revelations on the three primary methods of publishing your book, along with the advantages and disadvantages of each method: 1) Traditional publishing houses, 2) Self-publication, and 3) POD or Print-on-Demand. The speaker is David Mills, who has successfully employed all three avenues, and who shares his firsthand, real-world advice on how you too may enjoy book-publishing success in the fast-changing literary world of 2010-11.