I just found out about Google Lit Trip and suddenly I’m thinking (with a bit of fatigue, I confess) that I could make a “Lit Trip” for each of my books.
I already have a Google map for all the places mentioned in Mistress of the Sun. It probably wouldn’t take too much to turn it into a Lit Trip.
My imagination takes off: embedded photos, both old and new. Passages from the novel. Travel notes!
It’s meant to be a great tool for educators —and it is, clearly—but I think the general reader would enjoy it as well.
Sigh! I have a novel to write. I’m hoping perhaps some students will take this on. There are several wonderful student-created Lit Trips on the Google site. One of my young readers created a website for Mistress of the Sun as part of a computer class. Imagine an English or History teacher assigning the creation of a Google Lit Map of a historical novel … mine, for example. I’d be delighted to help.
Link for Google Lit Trips:
http://www.googlelittrips.com/GoogleLit/Downloads_etc..html
Link for the Google map of Mistress of the Sun:
http://bit.ly/MistressoftheSunMap
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Awesome, Jerome! Some of my readers on my Facebook fan page are eager. We'll be in touch!
Sandra,
This is Jerome Burg, founder of the Google Lit Trips project. Thank you for your kind words about the project. Just wanted to let you know that I'd be happy to provide any support you might want as you explore the Google Lit Trips concept.
Jerome Burg
founder, Google Lit Trips
http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com
What a wonderful adventure — lit trips! Such a cool way to bring a novel's story alive and to explore the background history — in Conceit's case, John Donne and his family, Izaak Walton, Samuel Pepys, St Paul's Cathedral, the Great Fire of 1666, and so on).
However, like you Sandra, I'm working on a new novel and need to keep my energy focussed there. So, for the moment Conceit won't have a lit trip unless some adventuresome student wishes to take it on as a project. I'd be keen on helping out and could make a google map for the novel (yours is very impressive, Sandra) as a starting point.
Thanks for drawing our attention to this, Sandra!
Cheers,
Mary
http://www.marynovik.com