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Secret Places
September 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment
If you’re unable to just pack it up and go on a roadtrip, one option is to just get totally weird in your own backyard. Pretty much every somewhere has something secret, something eccentric, something unspeakable – and for people who like fiction or like to write it, those sorts of attractions are invaluable brain stimulating machines. For example, San Francisco has the Bureau of Urban Secrets (it also has this), and the united states of the Internet has The Selby and Big Questions Online. The obvious jump here is that of course there are plenty of books available to help you explore the underbelly of our world – and odds are there’s a book corresponding to your own neck of the woods…
In Copenhagen, 11 artists give away their secret places in Copenhagen for The Secret Book of Secret Places.
For vintage saloons and a Hasidic dairy bar, you’ll need to go to New York with City Secrets.
If you care about things like a ‘A rare surviving “sewer venting lamp”‘, hidden London is for you! See: Secret London: guide to the weird and wonderful secrets of London-town
Or, when it’s just a little mystery you seek and you’re all explored-out for the day, here’s how to make a hollow book in which to keep your very own secrets. You don’t even need to leave the house.
Now, mystery aside, our friends at Booktrix have a new blog post up!
I Tweet iPad: Why technology matters to writers and publishers – are you a publisher or writer? Use iPad yet? More tablets coming that will change how we consume information. What will it mean for creators?
Booktrix.com | Creative Publishing & Marketing Services | Every Trick in the Book
www.booktrix.com
I’m recommending that every writer and publisher should buy an iPad and start exploring the Apple App Store in order to understand why technology matters so much to writing and reading.I’m also recommending that writers and publishers create Twitter accounts and begin to spend some serious time learn… (Click here for the rest.)