Votre Vie LLC ~ little french press
Votre Vie LLC, a subsidiary of On-Word Bound Books, is our POD arm (print on demand books).
Votre Vie was born in 2024 from the desire to create more content without bankrupting ourselves by paying for traditional printing. Since the start of our business in 2004, the publishing industry has changed dramatically. Resellers (book stores, Amazon, etc.) used to get 40% off of the book's cover price and they paid to have the books shipped to them. Over time the discounts requested became bigger and bigger, and the ones doing the requesting came to have so much clout that a small publisher (or even big publishers) could not say no. We are caught up in the machinations of much larger and more powerful entities and we are doing our best to keep producing content that is top quality without raising our prices. So this year we decided to play the game. We are printing POD (print on demand) with Amazon.com.
We are very excited to present our first POD book by Deborah Adele, the author of the best selling book, The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice. In this companion journal, Deborah offers a new way to engage both physically and mentally with these important concepts.
The Yamas & Niyamas Embodied invites you to delve into each Yama & Niyama through an embodied practice which engages you to answer insightful questions, use illustration techniques, come into carefully considered yoga poses, and experience author-led meditations.
Deborah Adele guides you to practice deep listening through attention to the body. This facilitates a journey toward deeper self-awareness of your heart and mind. This work will help you shed biases and generational harm, letting go as you empower your body to be heard.
This book utilizes self-observation, short form journaling, opposite hand drawing, digital media (free YouTube author-led practices on each Yama & Niyama), meditation, and targeted yoga poses to aid your healing and expand your opportunity for self-realization.
Click the cover image for more information on this journal. And you might like Deborah's guided meditations on YouTube too. Enjoy!
In 2023 Dave tested out the process by designing a wine journal which is both a scrapbook and a self-teaching tool you can use to learn about wine. It is available as a POD book on Amazon, but not available anywhere else.
In each two-page, tasting-note spread, you'll find a space to log the usual things like vintage, producer, grape variety and color. You'll also find a simple scoring system, a place to save the wine label, and an easy to reference, simple to use, connect the dots flavor profiler. When you use all these things together you'll start to notice the differences in wines.
This will, without much thought from you, teach you about wine. It's available on Amazon for only $9.99!
Click the cover image to learn more.