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Print-on-Demand Printers and Publishers

A&A Printing, Billy Ashby, 6103 Johns Road #5-6, Tampa FL 33634; 813-886-0065; 866-886-0065; Fax: 813- 884-0304. Email: [email protected]. Caters to self-publishers and first-time authors for short-run book printing in runs from 50 to 3,000. Capabilities include digital and offset printing as well as short-run four-color book printing.

Advantage Media Group, Benjamin Toy, P O Box 272, Charleston SC 29402; 843-414-5600; 800-848-3180; Fax: 843-414-5610. Email: [email protected]. Motto: We bring dreams to life. Works especially with professional speakers, providing on-demand, self-publishing, and co-publishing services.

Alexander's Print Advantage, Gwen Gades, 245 South 1060 West, Lindon UT 84042; 801-224-8666; 800-574- 8666; Fax: 801-224-0446. Email: [email protected]. On-demand digital printing as well as offset printing. Ames On-Demand, Jose Colon, 12 Tyler Street, P O Box 120, Somerville MA 02143-0120; 617-684-1132; Cell: 617-501-1879. Email: [email protected]. On-demand books, perfectbound or wire-o.

Angel Printing, Vladimir Medvinsky, CEO, 237 Luiseno Avenue, Oceanside CA 92057; 760-967-0492; Fax: 760- 967-0496. Email: [email protected] or [email protected]. “We offer 1 to full color offset and digital printing services. In-house we produce short run book printing, and work with web-printing facilities to produce large book printing orders. Angel Printing also offers graphic design capabilities, which most authors find extremely useful.” Also printing on recycled papers with soy-based inks.

Annex Print and Mail Solutions, Jeff Lazerus, Director, Digital and Imaging, 4721 Ironton Street, Unit A, Denver CO 80239; 303-393-1883. Full-color high-quality books for the short-run and print-on-demand market. Apex Book Manufacturing, Almad Meradji, CEO, Alpharetta GA. Email: [email protected]. Opened for business on April 1, 2007.

Apple iPhoto — Users of its software can order bound volumes of their photos. Tiny 2.6 x 3.5 inch softbound books cost $3.99 for 20 pages and 29 cents for each additional page.

Area Printing & Design, Neal Sumlin; 678-325-2732. 877-268-9110; Fax: 678-325-2733. Email:

[email protected]. Custom on-demand books.

Author House, Director of Author Promotions, 1663 Liberty Drive #200, Bloomington IN 47403; 812-339-6000; 800-839-8640; Fax: 812-339-6554. Publishes 500 to 600 titles each month. Writers retain all rights (and are free to publish elsewhere as well). Royalties go as high as 30%. Among their authors are Amanda Brown, author of Legally Blonde; Buddy Ebsen, author of Kelly's Quest; and Thomas Hargrove, author of Long March to Freedom.

Automated Graphic Systems, Adam Rutkowski, Manager, Print-On-Demand Department, 4590 Graphics Drive, White Plains MD 20695; 301-843-1800, ext. 522; 800-678-8760; Fax: 301-843-6339. Email: [email protected]. Ohio Office: 8107 Bavaria Road, Macedonia OH 44056; 330-963-7770; 800-362-6134; Fax: 330-963-7771. Owned by Consolidated Graphics. Provides customers with the ability to build an online digital library where they can order books from quantities of 5 to 500 with a variety of binding options (perfect, plasticoil, wire-o, and saddlestitched. Aventine Press, Brion Sausser, Managing Editor. Email: [email protected]. “Aventine Press is only a little over two years old, but in that time we have published in excess of 100 titles, many of which by previously published authors. Our goal however, has never been to become a mill to churn out vast numbers of titles. We take pride that in our brief history numerous independent reviewers have given our company high marks in quality, value, and customer care.”

Axess Purchasing Solutions, Print on Demand Division, Edward Busse, Director Sales/Marketing, P. O. Box 500835, Atlanta GA 31150; 770-521-9939; Fax: 770-521-6022. Email: [email protected]. “We specialize in short, medium, and long runs (100 - 100,000), and can perfect-bind or case-bind to all sizes (5.5 x 8.5, 6 x 9, 7x10 and 8.5 x 11). We have both digital equipment and offset equipment to maximize each end of the printing spectrum and provide impressive pricing and turn-around times.”

BeWrite. A oon-submission POD publisher that accepts about 20% of the submitted materials, charges nothing for the author to be published with them, appears to do great covers, and works well with authors. Blitzprint Inc., Pete Friebel, Vice President, Book Division, 1235 64th Avenue SE #3, Calgary AB Canada T2H 2J7; 866-479-3248; Fax: 403-253-5642. Email: [email protected]. “We are a no-nonsense POD manufacturer, with a focus on helping authors print top quality books, not collecting upfront fee

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So there you have it. In January of 2008 my Transunion was a 603 and in March of 2008 my Tranunion score is a whopping 768 a stunning increase of 165 points! How did I doit? Well I'll gettothat in just a moment, but rememberthere is no golden ticket, you have to do those things 1 talked about up above. You know paying your bills on time and all that good stuff? Got it? Ok, good.

So here's what I did, first and foremost I become vigilant with my finances. I just got to a point where I was sickand tired of having bad credit, gettingdenied credit, and paying more because of the high interest rates I was gettingdue to my bad credit score.

I stopped urningforand buyingthings I couldn't afford, I paid off as much debt as humanly possible, and here's the big one... I looked at my credit report every monthy and contested the negative items and incorrect items but more on that in a moment.

It's important hereto reinforce the idea of my mindset change. I wasnolongergoingto be a victim. What I had to do was sacrifice. Rememberthat, sacrifice! I was angry at myself for having bad credit, so I made a conscious decision to do something about it by whatever means necessary. This includes ditching the pay cable TV channels, downgrading my cell phone plan, and the big one, selling my beloved cars.

That's right I sold my cars. The cars that I truly loved. A Lexus GS 430, A Hummer H2, and a Porsche Boxster. It was hard at first to swallow my pride and downgrade to an inexpensive, fuel efficient car, but thisdecision enabled me to doa couple keythings.

Rid me of alI the expensethatcome alongwith those cars like insurance, and fuel ANDthe proceeds from the sales allowed me to buy that cheap car and it gave me cash to payoff someotherdebts I had including my college loans which I thought I would be paying on til 11 was old and gray.

All of this of course increasing my credit score. But the key thing I mentioned above is paying close attention to your credit report and exactly what's on it. There's an informal stat floating around that something like 75% of Americans have errors on their credit report.

Think about that, millions of people in this country are losing $1,000's because they have lowerthan normal credit scores and their interest rates are too high! So if you have the cash, or you can borrow it temporarily, pay off you debts in full and it will do wonders foryourscore.

With all that being said, I want to tel I you about my secret weapon in fighting the battle of the all mighty credit score. Remember how I mentioned above it's a good idea to check your credit report and contest errors? Well let me tell you what I did to contestthose errors...

The fact of the matter is, scanning through a credit report, in fact 3 of them Experian, Equifax, and Transunion is a lot of tedious work. Then once you find the errors you have to construct letters to each of the bureaus contesting each item and showing proof of what you are contesting.

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One of the most important things for either a man or woman to know or at least make the effort to learn, is what makes their significant other tick. Y ou must be alert and attentive to the wants and the needs and the desires of the other, put them first in your life. In order to make Valentine?s Day a spectacular it?s essential that you truly know the heart and desires of your mate.

The investment of time and effort and thought during the year leading up to Valentine?s Day are critically important. The expenditure of that time and effort to gain that knowledge is the investment that shows the love for one another is not just a one day a year thing. Real love is earned every day of the year and not just on special occasions. It is not enough to buy a card and some flowers the day before or the day of Valentine?s Day. It truly is not t he present or the card or the flowers that express the messages you want to communicate to the loved one you chose above all others.

The present is the time and the effort as well as the card and the flowers together that is the ultimate expression of the love you feel and the love you share. You can only fail to show your love and cause the ?I am taking you for granted” feeling” if you don?t make the properly directed effort to be actually interested in your loved one everyday. Then you can show on one day, Valentine?s Day, what effort you have made all year long to that one person you love.

The evidence of your efforts is the actual gift on Valentine?s Day. The time it took you to think ahead, find out what was important to the one you love and to arrange the shopping spree, the purchase of the jewelry, the tickets to the game or the show or to prepare the special meal is actually the gift of love. Properly directed, thoughtful time and effort throughout the year are the evidence of your love. The card and the flowers and the unexpected actions are intended to reveal the evidence of your love. You must give of yourself in order to give the love you want to share with your loved one. The day to day effort you expend to know and to understand the one you love is what is important. Finding out their inner secrets and wants and needs is the effort required to make a Valentine?s Day special. If both the man and the woman make that daily effort to know one another better everyday, then there will be love.

The cards, gifts and actions only express that love in a deeper way to the other. You only get out of something what you are willing to put into something. The love you feel and have for another is worth the effort you expend to reveal that love.

If you scrimp and shave off the effort you make, then that will show through too. If you are true to the love you feel then the effort you expend will not be that difficult. Remember that you are giving your time and effort for the one you love. If they are doing the same for you, then Valentine?s Day will be one of the most memorable events of your year. Practice everyday what you are trying to say to the one you love by your efforts on their behalf. A Happy Valentine?s Day is headed your way if you show your love everyday.

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Now that you've read a little bit about just why you procrastinate...wait, you DID read that chapter right? You didn't put it off until later, did you? What do you mean you didn't think it was important? How are you going to stop procrastinating of you don't understand WHY you do it in the first place?Taking a good hard look at why you don't start your term paper until the night before it's due, or why you put off cleaning those rain gutters is the first step in learning how to change that behavior. Below are a few strategies to help you stop procrastinating. Not every tip will work for every person, so take what you can from this list and see what works for you.

Take an Inventory. Do you hear a little nagging voice in your head telling you that you need to do something? Can you see a visual in your head about the taskyou're avoiding and are you feeling the physical and emotional consequences of what will happen if you don't complete this task? Look at the clues that tell you just when and how you're procrastinating and you'll be able to see that you are indeed putting something off. Sometimes it's difficult to tell when you're procrastinating because you're attempting to avoid thinking about it but if you piece together the clues you'll be able to pinpoint your behavior in order to get a handle on it.

Learn How You Procrastinate. Doyou think if you ignore the job at hand it will eventually go away and not bother you? I tried that once with a speeding ticket and nearly lost my license due to procrastination. Trust me when I say that ignoring the problem/job won't cause it to disappear in a puff of smoke.

Do you over-estimate or under-estimate the degree of difficulty in completing the task? Do you scoff at the impact not finishing the task will have on your future? Perhaps you substitute something important for something REALLY important, like putting the dishes away instead of working on that term paper that's due in two hours.

Maybe you take a short break, but let that "short' break turn into an all night event, and therefore put off getting to that taskyou need to finish. You might focus on one part of the job to the exclusion of the remaining task and thereby never finish the entire thing. Once you recognize how you procrastinate, you'll better be able to put a stop to it. Often we don't even realize that we are procrastinating until it's too late and we've missed a deadline.

Make Yourself a Productive Environment. For example, if you work from home, create a home office where there's no TV to distract you from your work. Sure, that baseball game is playing but you don't have time to watch it because you have a deadline with a client. If the TV is there, you'll be tempted to turn it on and then full-blown procrastination occurs. If you are addicted to the Internet, but need to use your laptop or computer to do your work, then try to go somewhere where you won't be able to receive a signal and get online. Removing temptation to do something other than what you NEED to do will help you put a stop to procrastination.

Throw Out Those Procrastination Myths. "I work best under pressure" That's the myth that nearly kept me from graduating from college. Once you believe that you can only work under pressure, you're giving yourself permission to procrastinate. This can snowball and create serious problems for you if you have several deadlines looming

"I can't do this unless I have five uninterrupted hours" This is simply another stalling technique that master procrastinators use for telling themselves it's ok to not start the project because they won't have time to finish it. Hello? If you don't start the taskyou'll never finish it. It's ok to start something and then stop so you can finish it later. Sometimes the simple act of beginning a task will break the cycle of procrastination and allow you to finish your job. I can't do this unless ifs perfect. The problem that most procrastinators have is that we are too hard on ourselves, demanding perfection where perfection is impossible. If you think you can't start your term paper until you have THE perfect opening sentence, then you have once again given yourself permission to put it off.

Break Down the Job. You have a job to do and it looks enormous. You could never, ever complete a job that big, so why even start? If that's your mindset, then you probably won't finish the job. In order to combat this kind of thinking, break the job or task down into small, manageable chunks. Your kitchen is a disaster, it's too much for you to handle. Start on one end and clean off one counter. Voila I You've started. Take baby steps and soon you'll see that the entire task has been completed.