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Sensitive Cultural Artifacts: On Sale!

All museum reproductions are 20% off. Our featured artifact is a reproduction of the Mask of Death and Rebirth. The Maya belief in the never-ending cycle of life and afterlife is illustrated in this sculpture, with each layered face representing a specific stage of life. The original is from the ruins of Tikal in Guatemala and dates to about 900 AD.

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Artful Nomad Co. Names ShelliusMax "Best Person Ever"

“Assuming she is a real person,” says ANC Editor Dave Berg. Berg is referring to ShelliusMax’s recent blog on belizeforum.com, an excellent forum for info about traveling in Belize.

According to ShelliusMax (not her real name):

“Thanks Steve, the book came on Monday already. It looks fantastic! What I have read so far is very useful and your writing is also funny in places which is great. Terrific photos too. I’m really glad I ordered it.”

Shellius will retain the BPE title and accompanying notoriety until the ANC sees fit to award a new Best Person Ever at a future date.

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Artful Nomad Company Shamelessly Promotes Self

— Staff Report

Following a glowing book review by Toni Salama from the Chicago Tribune, The Artful Nomad Company continues to wontonly trumpet this review of their book, “Belize to Guatemala and Tikal: a nine-day adventure guide” at any given opportunity.

“The Chicago Tribune wasn’t the first,” to tout the book, says author Steve Stratman. Actually he says their hometown paper St. Paul Pioneer Press initially gave the book a thumbs up and soon afterward the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review put its two cents in as well. As they put it, the book had “Scruffy Charm.” This moniker was promptly stolen, trademarked, and began appearing unabashedly in all the company’s literature said a source with ties to Company management.

On the heels of the Chicago Tribune article came similar reviews in the Philadelphia Enquirer, Hartford Courant, Charlotte Observer and the British Columbian newspaper The Province. “There are people out there, important people, who like our book.” Says Stratman.

The travel guidebook publisher is holding off on contracting a distributor in the United States as of yet. They are counting on word of mouth, the internet, Amazon.com and the national press to create interest and get their line of books on the street. However, they do have a distributor in Belize, Cubola Productions, who supplies books to tourist shops, hotels and the like in that country.

In the meantime, they will continue to squeeze every drop of publicity from every available source at any time in order to get people out into the world immersed in strange and far-off destinations. Although there is presently no law against “blowing one’s own horn’” the company certainly walks a razor’s edge between good marketing and irritating everyone within earshot.

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