7 Tips For Designing Your Book Cover

Your book cover plays an important role when it comes to selling your book and yet, all too often, authors treat it as something of an afterthought. The truth is that you need to put considerable time, research and thought into the design of your cover. Get it right and you will reap the rewards but, get it wrong, and …

Why Publish With Amazon KDP?

1. Market Size. With an enormous 80% market share, Amazon dominates the book market. While there are a lot of different places that you can go to sell your books, it makes sense that you should, at the very least, offer your books for sale through the world’s largest bookstore. Indeed, for new authors, Amazon is a great place to …

The History of Kakuro Puzzles

The history of the kakuro puzzle is similar to that of the sudoku puzzle in the sense that, despite its name, it did not originate in Japan. The kakuro puzzle that we are familiar with today was invented by Jacob E. Funk, a Canadian employee of Dell Magazines, in 1966. The puzzle was originally named “cross sums”, although many people …

5 Tips for Aspiring Self-Publishing Authors

1. Check Your Mindset It is important when embarking on any new venture to ensure that you know exactly what you are getting yourself into and that you take positive steps to get yourself into the right frame of mind at the outset. Do your research and make sure that you understand just what self-publishing entails. More importantly, think about …

The History of Sudoku

Sudoku puzzles can trace their history clear back to the end of the 18th century when a Swiss mathematician devised a game called “Latin Squares”. Then, at the end of the 19th century, these number puzzles came into wide use with their publication in newspapers in France. However, the number puzzle we know today as sudoku is a relative newcomer …

How Can Sea Turtles Survive A Hurricane?

Researchers from floridaleatherbacks.com have been studying endangered leatherback sea turtles for some time now and this includes tagging and tracking individuals to monitor their movements. One such leatherback is named Isla and she was being tracked during the summer of 2018 in a joint project with Fisheries and Oceans Canada and NOAA Fisheries. The plan was to track Isla’s movements …

Titanosaur – The World’s Largest Dinosaur

The titanosaurs were the last surviving group of long-necked sauropods and roamed the earth from about 136 million years ago to 66 million years ago. Titanosaurs were the dominant herbivores of their time and, according to fossil evidence, they replaced dinosaurs like the diplodocids and brachiosaurids that dies out during the late Jurassic and mid-Cretaceous periods. As expected fossilized dung …

Spot the Difference Puzzles for all Ages

Spot the difference puzzles have been around for many years now and come in different levels of difficulty, so that it is possible to find puzzles that are suitable for all ages, from quite young children to senior citizens. Classed as a game of logic or a brain teaser, spot the difference puzzles require patience and attention and so are …

Solving Kakuro Sum Puzzles

Perhaps the two most popular puzzles today are crossword and sudoku puzzles. It should not therefore be a surprise to learn that Kakuro puzzles, which are in essence a combination of crossword and sudoku puzzles, are also extremely popular today. A kakuro puzzle looks a bit like a crossword grid and is solved using a set of rules which are …