Hello Everyone Just thought I’d share the map That I’ve started to make as I write Age of Betrayal. I am going to use it to track the adventures of Ryn and Dagan. The world is much bigger than shown here, but that will be revealed as the story progesses to it! NB: Map…
Last weekend the family went to visit Newark, Ohio on a research trip for some storylines I want to write for The Way to Freedom series. I wanted to have a look firsthand at the prehistoric earthworks that are located around the area. There are quite a few of them! The Newark Earthworks are the largest…
I thought that I might tell you all a little bit about where I got the idea for the group known as ‘The Kalarthri’. The Kalarthri are drawn from the second born children of the Suene Empire and are used as an indentured ‘slave’ workforce for a period of thirty years. After that, the Kalarthri are pensioned off…
Traffic Stop Scenarios at the Citizen’s Academy run by the Dayton PD – Ohio Hi Guys Just thought I’d share some videos that I took while attending the Dayton Police Citizens Academy this week while doing writing research. In this class we went through some traffic stop scenarios that officers have run into during the…
Real life dragons! (or cool looking lizards….) I thought I would share these here, as I love lizards and reptiles and these are beautiful little creatures. I might have to feature something like them in a future story. Armadillo Girdled Lizard – Cordylus cataphractus – from South Africa. If you enjoyed this article, get email…
This article was originally published on Bookmarketingtools.com No really, chocolate is good for you. Dark chocolate can even help you lose weight! But as with all good things, for the above to be true, chocolate should be eaten in small quantities. That means those small quantities had better be good. The same can be said…
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When is FREE the right price? An Article by Chris Robley Last week at the end of an Apple product launch event, the band U2 came on stage and played a song. They then surprised the world by announcing that every single iTunes customer (500 million people) already had a copy of the band’s…
Data from the ISS-based Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer experiment supports the idea that dark matter consists of the invisible particles called weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs. The universe seems to be full of dark matter, yet no one knows what it’s made of. The best guess is that invisible particles called weakly interacting massive particles,…
Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya by Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube This book is chock full of site plans and photos, artifacts and loads of maps. This is a highly informative work considering that most of Maya history comes from the Glyphs/writing left on buildings and monuments….
Evidence of contagious yawning in chimps, dogs and now wolves suggests that the behavior is linked to a mammalian sense of empathy By Helen Thompson SMITHSONIAN.COM AUGUST 27, 2014 Chimps do it, birds do it, even you and I do it. Once you see someone yawn, you are compelled to do the same. Now it seems…
