Esther Wallace

Most artists know that a printer is just as vital as a piece of art itself. I have certainly been caught a few times by printing something myself to make sure it prints right and then find that another printer somewhere else has destroyed that same exact picture. Most of the time, at Staples, I pass it off as the workers not knowing what they're doing, but for more official printers, that shouldn't be an issue... shouldn't. For authors, why does this matter? Well, it could mean quite a few things for your book if you're self-publishing. Here are some differences between the Amazon printing and the Ingram printing that might help. BINDING: Amazon tends to use a dark glue in their binding, (As seen on left). That same glue is just a bit wider than the line of glue Ingram uses, thereby creating a sharper, more square fold. COLOR: Ingram prints everything a slightly darker shade than what will show up on a computer screen. Amazon prints the same cover more gray a

First Chapter of The Eternal Struggle (The Black Phantom Chronicles #2) Silence… The silence of impending death filled the air. No light broke the thick blackness. Not even a chisel of starlight on a moonless night seeped into his tiny, entombed—could it even be thought—coffin. Air gradually exhausted itself in the abysmal space, and Arnacin’s uncontrolled shivering, his gasping breaths, the very heat of his body, betrayed him. He sat crumpled against what used to be the entrance, sealed shut out of spite. Already, as he forced sleep away, the pain of airlessness allowed no more movement than the last futile twitch of his fingers in the place a doorway had once existed. Crack! A flash of light brought the windowless cabin back. Something in the back of his mind told Arnacin the storm bashing against all four walls was reality. His trembling body, however, insisted that the sound was wishful thinking, a last hope granted before he died in darkness. For hours on end, it was impos