Nov 28, 2016 | Maps and Infographics, My friends' Guest Posts, Writing
Reedsy recently published an inspired infographic on the differences between the third person limited point of view (PoV) and the third person omniscient one. As they say, an image is worth a thousand words, so here is the perfect way to understand the differences...
Oct 26, 2016 | Maps and Infographics, My friends' Guest Posts
This is a guest post by Lucy Adams of BuzzEssay, who prepared this fine infographic. Storytelling Quotes from Great Writers Books are much more than just means of communication. They are sources of knowledge that help to understand the surrounding world, to interpret...
Oct 12, 2016 | Maps and Infographics
This is a guest post by Carmen Jacob of selfimprovement.org, who has produced an infographic titled 23 Keys to Success in Life. 23 Keys to Success in Life How you define success is a personal interpretation of happiness. However, no matter how you define it, the...
Oct 8, 2016 | Maps and Infographics, Marketing
Mark Crosling of Strategic Content recently published the ultimate guide for all your free photo needs. Listing 56 websites, you can use it to download high-quality photos at no cost. All the listed free photo websites have been summarized to include information...
Aug 4, 2016 | Maps and Infographics
Steve Aedy, a content creator at FreshEssays.com, contacted me recently to let me know that their team has recently created an infographic called Reading Habits that Lead to Success. They’ve come up with the idea having read a lot of articles dedicated to habits...
Jul 8, 2016 | Fun Historical Facts, Maps and Infographics
East is placed at the top. The sun and moon hold lush forests. Jerusalem is the center of the world. And dragons hold the globe up at the bottom. But there is one aspect of the Psalter World Map, created in the 1260s, that is even stranger: a line-up of grotesque men...
Jun 15, 2016 | Maps and Infographics
Continuing on the subject of maps, I recently came across a fascinating post on Atlas Obscura, describing the various kinds of maps used by cartographers. As Harvard landscape architecture professor and author Jill Desimini explains, maps must retain geographic...
Jun 9, 2016 | Maps and Infographics, Marketing
Bookbub recently announced it will start offering advertising spaces. Unlike the vigorous screening process that leaves more books out than it allows in its popular newsletter, these will be available to anyone who can afford them. BookBub Ads will run in a dedicated...
Jun 5, 2016 | Fun Historical Facts, Maps and Infographics
Continuing my infatuation with maps, I came across this fine 16th-century example of a cartographer’s imagination running wild in an excellent post by Urvija Banerji of Atlas Obscura. The creatures depicted on land in the 16th-century Carta Marina are not...
May 27, 2016 | Fun Historical Facts, Maps and Infographics, My Publications
A New Pearseus Map Prompted by my recent post on maps in fantasy, I edited the Pearseus map I’d drawn for the Robinson Companion. The new map, seen below, is in high resolution (2700×2200) and includes Caria, a location first mentioned in Endgame, the...
