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Friday
Nov122010

WIN A BOOK: Digital Storytelling by Carolyn Handler Miller

Everyone loves to WIN, and YourLifeIsATrip.com wants to bring the WINNER'S smile to your face. From November 11-21, 2010, we'll be GIVING AWAY one of our author's books each day. All you have to do to win is sign up to receive the FREE YourLifeisATrip.com newsletter, 'like' us on facebook, or become a new twitter follower, and you're automatically in the random drawing.

 

Contest Update: WE HAVE A WINNER!!! Congratulations to Therese Williams for winning yesterday's FREE BOOK  - Life Is A Trip: the transformative magic of travel by Judith Fein.

 

WIN TODAY'S FEATURED BOOK:

Digital Storytelling (Second Edition): 

A Creator’s Guide To Interactive Entertainment 

 

Storytellers in the 2lst century -- including writers, filmmakers, and animators -- have a brand new way to create stories, thanks to powerful advances in digital technology. Known as “digital storytelling,” this new arena allows us to create narratives that are deeply immersive, interactive, and pull the audience into the story in ways never before possible. In addition, these new works have the ability to smudge the line between reality and fiction to such a degree that the story almost becomes a part of “real life.”

DIGITAL STORYTELLING (SECOND EDITION): A CREATOR’S GUIDE TO INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT explores the full range of narrative works created for interactive digital media, including Web-based entertainment, video games, mobile apps, virtual reality, and other forms that are much less well-known to the public. Equally important, the book also examines how these cutting-edge works can be used not only to entertain, but also to inform, teach, train and promote.

The practical applications of this form of narrative are enormous. Digital Storytelling techniques are increasingly employed in journalism, marketing, advertising, and education. They are widely used by mainstream corporations, the entertainment industry, and non-profit organizations.

This book is a fascinating read for anyone interested in this new form of storytelling. It offers clear insight into this intriguing and swiftly evolving world, and is written in an accessible, non-technical style. In addition, it is a straightforward and practical guide to anyone who wants to become a spinner of these new kinds of tales, offering them an abundance of tips, real life examples and case studies.


CLICK HERE AND ENTER TO WIN!

Carolyn Handler Miller (www.carolynmiller.com) is a writer who works across a variety of media. Originally beginning her career as a newspaper reporter and magazine journalist, Carolyn's work spans writing for TV, feature films, books and new media.Digital Storytelling is available at major bookstores, online booksellers, and the YourLifeIsATrip.com Trip Shop

 

 

 

 

Thursday
Nov112010

WIN A FREE BOOK: Life Is A Trip by Judith Fein

Everyone loves to WIN, and YourLifeIsATrip.com wants to bring the WINNER'S smile to your face. From November 11-21, 2010, we'll be GIVING AWAY one of our author's books each day. All you have to do to win is sign up to receive the FREE YourLifeisATrip.com newsletter, 'like' us on facebook, or become a new twitter follower, and you're automatically in the random drawing.

 

Contest Update: WE HAVE A WINNER!!! Congratulations to @williwyss for winning yesterday's FREE BOOK  - Morning Light by Nancy King.

WIN TODAY'S FEATURED BOOK: LIFE IS A TRIP: The transformative magic of travel by Judith Fein

Travel with author Judith Fein to l4 exotic destinations where she learned something new and surprising from other cultures. In Vietnam, she experienced forgiveness in a stark and startling way. On the island of Mog Mog in Micronesia, at a funeral, she saw how differently death can be approached and emotions can be expressed. In Turkey, it was all about service. In Guatemala, from a Maya weaver, she was humbled by a lesson in ambition. A Maori elder had a unique way of ending family discord. In Nova Scotia, it was all about life after death. The book is surprising, funny, soulful, unusual and never didactic. If you only read one travel book this year, make it LIFE IS A TRIP.

The book has been endorsed by the editor of National Geographic Traveler, the travel editor of the L.A. Times, Leon Seltzer for Psychology Today, the president of the Adventure Travel Trade Association, the screenwriter of Groundhog Day and many others. To read reviews or order the book,  go to www.JudithFein.com.  

 

CLICK HERE AND ENTER TO WIN!

Judith Fein (YourLifeIsATrip.com co-founder and editor) is an award-winning travel journalist who lives to leave. In LIFE IS A TRIP, you can go with her without leaving home.  

LIFE IS A TRIP is available or can be ordered anywhere good books are sold, including the YourLifeIsATrip.com TRIP SHOP, powered by Amazon. $14.95, Spirituality and Health books. 

TOMORROW'S FREE BOOK: Digital Storytelling (Second Edition): A Creator’s Guide To Interactive Entertainment by Carolyn Handler Miller


Wednesday
Nov102010

WIN A FREE BOOK: Morning Light by Nancy King

Everyone loves to WIN, and YourLifeIsATrip.com wants to bring the WINNER'S smile to your face. From November 11-21, 2010, we'll be GIVING AWAY one of our author's books each day. All you have to do to win is sign up to receive the FREE YourLifeisATrip.com newsletter, 'like' us on facebook, or become a new twitter follower, and you're automatically in the random drawing.

WIN TODAY'S FEATURED BOOK: MORNING LIGHT by Nancy King

New Yorker Anna Baum is a smart, attractive woman who grows up feeling she has lived her life with her face pressed against a window, watching other people savor the pleasures of being alive. To soothe herself, she tells herself stories. Her only friend, an imaginary childhood storyteller named Boonah, suddenly and mysteriously disappears as does the ability to tell herself stories. Unexpectedly, she finds herself lost and adrift.

Professionally secure and successful as a teacher in a posh private school, married to a handsome, charming man, it all looks good on the outside. But inside, Anna inhabits a world of pain and disturbing images that haunt and threaten her sense of well-being.

Life changes dramatically when Anna takes a new job and begins teaching emotionally disturbed preschoolers. She is fierce in her desire to protect them. When one of her students runs away from an abusive caretaker and disappears, Anna is devastated. After a fall and a potent nightmare, she is taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a virulent bout of pneumonia.

During a long hospital stay, two nurses, Emma and Jacob, breach Anna's protective wall. With their encouragement, Anna develops the courage to look at what she has always run from. Boonah reappears, and with him, she recovers her stories and the will to live.

Anna's change is profound. She rejects the stoicism of her mother and grandmother and, for the first time in her life, accepts the help that is offered to her. Despite a catastrophic medical diagnosis, she transforms pain into power and discovers that the stories we tell ourselves can kill... or they can heal.

Morning Light, published by Tasora Books, is available at www.nancykingstories.com, www.itascabooks.com, your local bookstore, and the YourLifeIsATrip.com Trip Shop.

TOMORROW'S FEATURED BOOK:  Life Is A Trip: The transformative magic of travel by Judith Fein.


Wednesday
Nov102010

WIN-A-FREE-BOOK-CONTEST CELEBRATES YOURLIFEISATRIP.COM AUTHORS

A WIN-WIN SITUATION:

Everyone loves to WIN, and YourLifeIsATrip.com wants to bring the WINNER'S smile to your face. From November 11-20, 2010, we'll be GIVING AWAY one of our author's books each day.

From the jungle tribes of Papua New Guinea and buying art in a Mexican prison to internal voyages of self-discovery and the digital world of storytelling, the featured books have subjects as diverse as the authors themselves.

All you have to do to win is sign up to receive the FREE YourLifeisATrip.com newsletter, 'like' us on facebook, or become a new twitter follower, and you're automatically in the random drawing.

Daily winners will be announced on YourLifeIsATrip.com, on our facebook and twitter accounts, and at the close of the contest.

If you enjoy YourLifeisaTrip.com, we encourage you to use the links below to share the contest on your facebook page, give us a shout out on twitter, link, blink and a free book can be yours. Good luck!!

YOURLIFEISATRIP.COM BOOK GIVEAWAY SCHEDULE:

November 11, 2010: Morning Light by Nancy King

November 12, 2010: Life Is A Trip: The transformative magic of travel by Judith Fein.

 

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Friday
Oct222010

Scotland - Where Dream Meets Reality

YourLifeIsATrip.com team members Ellen Barone, Judith Fein and Paul Ross are just back from an action-packed week at the Adventure Travel World Summit in Aviemore, Scotland. Below, they offer up an amuse bouche of words + photos from the trip. 

There are two Scotlands. One is the Scotland that people imagine and dream about: wind-swept landscapes, raging seas, rain, mist, then brilliant sun. People who have thick brogues, thin legs that stick out from under kilts, a wicked sense of humor, and a penchant for smooth, aged whisky. Bagpipes that are played to encourage the troops, terrify the enemy, or inspire tourists who have never heard their mighty power. A Robert Burns poem that is recited while a long knife is quickly inserted into a steaming haggis. Scottish-French-Asian fusion dishes that pop and surprise on the palate. On the remote isles of Skye and Mull, long-haired Highland cows roam and sometimes outnumber the inhabitants. Hikers, bikers and kayakers gear up, party down, and explore the fog-shrouded terrain. The drama of the Edinburgh castle and the deep history of the Royal Mile, with its medieval buildings, churches, closes, red phone booths, shops, and ghost tours.  

The second Scotland is the one that really exists: wind-swept landscapes, raging seas, rain, mist, then brilliant sun. People who have thick brogues, think legs that stick out from under kilts ...you see, the Scotland of your dreams is very much like the real one. Your Scottish dreams are real. Real Scotland is dreamy. Slainte! We lift a glass to toast Scotland. 

Photographers ELLEN BARONE and PAUL ROSS take you there with this just-back-from-Scotland slideshow....ENJOY. 

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To launch your own Scotland adventure visit www.VisitScotland.com.

Credits: Words by Judith Fein, photography by Paul Ross and Ellen Barone

Thursday
Aug052010

Win A Travel Photography Scholarship to Bhutan

a special opportunity from the editors of YourLifeIsATrip.com

ATTENTION TRAVELING SHUTTERBUGS: Grab your cameras and get ready turn your passion into a career. Get professional in-the-field mentoring as part of an amazing new Travel Photography Scholarship opportunity in The Kingdom of Bhutan.

photo by d ha rm e sh via flickr (common license)

We're excited to let you know that YourLifeIsATrip.com travel insurance partner, WorldNomads.com, is giving one exceptional individual the chance to travel with National Geographic on-assignment photographer Jason Edwards in the Land of the Thunderdragon.

We want it to be YOU!

Better yet, the scholarship winner will also receive AU$2000 worth of Pentax photographic equipment.

Your best photos will be published on the National Geographic Channel's website where they will be viewed by thousands of travellers worldwide, offering you a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get your foot in the door of one of the most revered exploration organisations in the world.

Ready, set, apply! Entry deadline is October 17, 2010.

Apply now at www.WorldNomads.com

 

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