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Let an expert create a custom newsmap, war map, historical map, family history map, or infographic for your book. Custom maps have been Gene Ingle's passion for 50 years.

 

Another
lost generation:
What a shame!

In the 20th Century, Ernest Hemingway (thanks to Gertrude Stein) called it the Lost Generation in The Sun Also Rises.

 

They were the American literati who fled to Paris after World War I: F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and many others. They knew where they were: in Paris.

 

In the 21st Century, sadly, we have another Lost Generation. A huge percentage of (especially young) Americans have no idea where places are. Most of them don’t even know where Paris is:

 

Are you communicating?

Their knowledge of where places are – the places you may be writing about – is woefully deficient. If your book refers to a place – any place – you need to know this:

 

Studies show that up to half of your readers don’t have the vaguest idea of where you are writing about!

 

Half! Think about that. Are you communicating, or what? It’s not just cities and countries they can’t point out. It’s also CONTINENTS. They simply don't know  world geography.

 

Case in point: A University of Miami

study found that fully ONE-THIRD of the

students it studied could not identify

the Pacific Ocean, the largest body of

water on Earth.

 

Another survey of 5,000 U.S. high school students found that 25 per cent living in Dallas couldn’t name the country that borders the U.S. on the south. In the same survey, 45 per cent of those in Baltimore couldn’t shade in the area representing the USA on a map.

 

"What’s a map?"

In another survey, one student said he couldn’t begin to

answer the questions. "What’s a map?" he asked. Seriously.

 

Another survey of adults between ages 18 and 24 found that

nearly one-third could not locate Louisiana, where Hurricane

Katrina hit. Six in 10 could not find Iraq on a Middle East map,

where the U.S. has been at war for five years.


Folks, these are your readers – or

future readers. Does your book over-

estimate their geographic knowledge?

 

Now . . . before you start berating America’s educational

system . . . let me ask you this:

 

As the author of a book or the publisher of a book, what are

you doing about it? A custom map is all it takes to change this.

 

Why a map matters to you

You know, survey after survey has shown that a book with maps keyed to the text - especially non-fiction books.

 

·       Attracts more readers (make that book buyers).

·       Increases understanding of the book’s text.

·       Brings readers back for more, it enhances the

·       readers loyalty for the author’s NEXT book.

 

Unless you’re a coffee table author writing captions for pictures that are each “worth a thousand words”, a map for a book doesn’t need to be arty.

 

Unless you’re trying to attract attention in your book, it doesn’t

need to be colorful.

 

What your book needs

What it needs to be is:

 

Chock-full of information.

Content. Content. Content.

Full of geographic information

that relates to author’s text.

 

What I provide is good, readable, solid, reliable geographic information – mostly black and white custom maps.

 

For books, for ads, for brochures, for newspapers and magazines, for infographics.

 

If your book even MENTIONS places that your readers should know about, I’m sorry to tell you this: Without maps, you have a problem.

 

This website’s goal is to provide solutions for your problems.

 

Please visit my pages to learn how I can help.

P.S.     If you want to know why your readers don’t know geography, see my blog.

 
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