Voted one of the Best 50 Indie Books of 2015, Infinite Waters contains ten speculative fiction short stories and flash fiction.
Infinite Waters: A Collection of Science Fiction/Speculative Fiction Short Stories (Exciting Destinies Book 2) by Nicholas C. Rossis — The Novel: UnHoly Pursuit: Devil on my Trail
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Responding to Negative Reviews — Nicholas C. Rossis
Mark Lindsey of Enplug has written an interesting article with tips on how to respond to negative reviews on social media. There seem to be two schools of thought when it comes to reviews. The first is that reviewers need to feel that Amazon is a safe space where they can review without worrying about […]
Responding to Negative Reviews — Nicholas C. Rossis
36 Ways to Describe Buildings–Neighborhoods
Reading Is the Key to Learning
This is a guest post by Garima Aggarwal. Garima is an aspiring content writer working for TABSCAP. Coming from a journalism background, she has been into content writing for 2 years and is passionate about topics related to lifestyle, health, and digital marketing.
Reading is the key to learning
Books don’t just teach you good vocabulary, but a lot more than that.
As a child, I always found it hard to read books. I mean, who could read a thick novel containing difficult text and no pictures?
And yet, I was always been told that reading books is vital, especially for people interested in writing or those who have to interact with a mass audience on a regular basis. But very few people ever cared to explain to me why reading is important. The rather boring list of reasons they gave me included clichés like, “you will learn new…
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Black Friday Writer Deals
Publisher Rocket Deal
You may remember my review of Kindlepreneur’s Free AMS Tutorial & KDP Rocket (now Publisher Rocket). I have been using Publisher Rocket for two years now to optimize my Amazon campaigns and book categories. Dave Chesson, aka Kindlepreneur, is now offering a Black Friday special: from 12:00 am on Friday through 11:59 pm on Monday, a free Kindle Keyword course worth $49 is included for anyone who purchases Publisher Rocket.
Mastering Kindle Keywords
Choosing the right keywords and placing them in the right spots make a large difference in how Amazon chooses to show your book.
Do it correctly, and the number of book shoppers that see your book will increase dramatically. Do it poorly and guess, and your book’s discoverability will suffer.
In this course, you will:
- Learn how to find profitable keywords
- Learn where to place them for most optimal discoverability
- Understand…
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The Spread of English
Ivy Panda has created a World Map Timelapse of the spread of the English language from the 5th century to date. You can watch it in its entirety below or click on the links to jump to a specific time period:
- 0:00 Intro
- 0:09 5th-15th century
- 0:26 16th century
- 0:49 17th century
- 02:15 18th century
- 04:04 19th century
- 06:56 20th century
- 10:52 2000-2018
- 11:40 2019-Present
I hope you enjoy it!
Your Digital Assets
Since the sudden passing of my father, I’ve been thinking a lot about digital assets and what becomes of them. UK firm I Will Solicitors has produced an interesting infographic about this very topic. I’m sharing here in case others are wondering about the same thing. Turns about that our digital assets have significant value and that after a loved one passes it can often be difficult for their family to access this to protect private information and data.
Even though we are spending significantly more time using digital platforms for everything from banking through to personal administration and sensitive correspondence, this is an area that few people are thinking of accounting for in their estate planning. I hope this infographic helps people better understand what their digital assets are and how to manage them in 2020 and beyond (not the GREAT beyond, just the normal one).
Picture Colorizer: Free Photo Editing Tool
I recently came across Picture Colorizer; a free online tool that lets you produce stunning color pictures out of your old black-and-white photos. I used it with some old photos from my personal album and was amazed by the result. For example, this is a 1970 photo of my mother holding me:
The same photo after colorizing:
What’s amazing is that it literally took a few seconds for the software to colorize the photo. All I had to do was drag-and-drop it into the relevant field and hit “go.”
Colorizer also works beautifully with color photos that have faded with time. This is a 1972 photo from a birthday party:
And this is how Colorizer fixed it:
Pretty impressive, right?
How to Use Images
I confess that I’ve been caught up in the past lately and a tool like this has been invaluable in bringing it to life. But…
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New Video – Protected Books Timeline
Here is the updated timeline of the Protected Books titles, November 2020.
Bizarre Weapons: the Lantern Shield
Robert Arthurs reports on Quora first seeing this wonder of medieval over-specialization on display in Vienna, Austria:
Doesn’t it look awesome? Well, looks can be deceiving.
You see that small hole in the top region of the shield? That is where a soldier would put a small lantern so that he could see at night. It was their version ofnight vision!The shield even had a compartment to keep oil so the lantern could be used for hours on end.
How cool, right? Wrong. Very wrong!
As awesome as this thing looks, it was really quite useless in combat. The oil for the lantern would often leak out. In combat, it would spill out uncontrollably. The wearer would get his arm covered in very flammable liquid. This means that your cool medieval night vision would actually set the wearer on fire more often than not. While being on fire illuminates…
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