If a picture is worth a thousand words, a map is worth a thousand more. Maps can help bring imaginary worlds to life and give context to the reader that may be difficult to create in words. Maps are an essential ingredient in travel guides, and a must-have reference in magazine articles in which location is featured prominently. No matter what your story is, or whether it’s real or fictional, a map can help you tell it better.
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“Great working with Julie – she’s very responsive, very helpful, very clear on how she will design the map, very open to editing, changing and adding things as the design and idea evolves. She produced a fantastic map for a book for me. Great experience all round!”
“Julie Witmer Custom Map Design provided exceptional, high-quality design services that greatly enhanced the narrative of my soon to be published book on Georgia history. Julie always responded promptly and professionally to my inquiries and never grew frustrated by numerous requests for edits. Julie is the absolute BEST!”
“This was our third mapping project with Julie… In this seven-map effort, Julie exceeded her own high standards for creativity, attention to cartographic detail, and responsiveness. Her unprompted suggestions greatly improved the final maps… We will not hesitate to work with her again when we need maps in the future.”
“Julie was consistently courteous, professional, and attentive throughout the project. I am very pleased with the quality of the maps, which underwent several revisions and were delivered on schedule. I would highly recommend Julie for your mapmaking and publication projects!”
“Every map Julie has produced for our books has been done with great care and attention to detail. Her work always strikes a great balance, providing eye-catching maps that are accurate and readable.”
“Julie Witmer did an excellent job with creating maps to my exact specifications. I needed the maps to be colorful, and she was able to use a watercolor look on the maps that came out beautifully. I am using the maps for my tour guide book. I would highly recommend her. She is highly skilled and very nice to work with.”
“I needed maps for a non-fiction book. I only had a rough sense of what they should look like, but Julie was able to figure out what needed to be shown and produced excellent drafts. She was very responsive to my requested edits, and the final product is everything I’d hoped for.”
“My novel’s heroine finds herself in a multitude of towns and provinces of the Late Roman Empire, but thanks to Julie Witmer’s beautifully crafted maps the reader will never be at a moment’s loss in keeping track of her whereabouts.”
“Julie Witmer produced wonderful custom maps for a book chapter I am preparing on the role of Royal Botanical Gardens in plant conservation. She worked very quickly to produce exactly the product I was looking for, at a very competitive price. I would go back to her for more work in an instant!”
“We employed Julie’s services for the production of 13 maps for an academic book. From the first consultation via Zoom through all iterations of the process of map development, Julie attended to details with great care and provided excellent suggestions for improvement. I wanted the most professional quality maps I could obtain for the book, and Julie delivered.”