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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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