Seekrit Project!

[telophase]

Yay, my grandfather has received his copy of the Seekrit Project so I can now post openly about it!

As many of you know, my family lived in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania for a couple of years in my childhood while my dad did research for his dissertation. Mom wrote a bunch of letters home to my grandparents during that time, which they saved and we now have. A couple of years back, I spent some time typing the letters in and scanning the photos she sent back with them, and more recently collated them together into a book, which I had printed at Lulu.com. Mom and I each got a copy, and sent one to my grandfather. We'd been intending to do this for a year and a half now, and it finally got done. Woo!

My Lulu.com page - I don't really expect anyone to buy copies of the book, but made them publicly available on the off-chance. :) There's supposed to be previews there, but I can't find them, so have some PDF previews!

Ebook preview - Due to the layout, which I fixed in stone before the e-reader boom, it looks good on the computer and the iPad but not a Kindle or Nook.

B & W preview - Print version, with the photos converted to B&W because the color ones are stupidly expensive.

Color preview - If you buy a copy of this one, you are me or my mother because no way would anyone else spend that much money on it. :)

Comments

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D He and my grandmother both liked it.

I think this is fabulous!

[riofriotex.livejournal.com]

I remember reading those letters here on LJ, but the way you have it laid out in the book with the comments column really adds to it. I think the Wildlife Sciences department (or whatever it's called now) at A&M would buy a copy of the book if you send them a link. Your mom wrote great letters!

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

This is so cool. Great project!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[naitachal666.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I read the e-book preview, and liked it. While reading it, I thought of something that you might be interested in. I don't know if you know this, but two professors at Palo Alto College of San Antonio, Tx have made a website where they have upload student projects on Oral History and small Texas towns.
The Oral History Project is where students interview people 55 and older on topics that concerned them during their life time, transcribe the interview, add facts about them and their lives, and other things to preserve their history. (Mostly from Texas)
the one on Texas towns is similar, but I haven't taken that professor's class, so I'm not really sure on the exact of it.

Check them both out here if you want!: http://www.alamo.edu/pac/faculty/InteractiveHistory/

I plan on telling my professor about your book on Tuesday. Sounds like something he'd be interested in.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad!