Linda S. Slough Wins 2 Webby Awards for Novel-Based Website, Beating Thousands of Entries
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Updated · prlog.org · May 14
Linda S. Slough Wins 2 Webby Awards for Novel-Based Website, Beating Thousands of Entries
3 articles · Updated · prlog.org · May 14
Linda S. Slough took both the Webby Award and the People's Voice Award for Best Personal Website/Blog in the 30th annual honors for her site, "Catherine's Adventures in Wonderland."
3.45 million voters across 70 countries backed the People's Voice win, while Webby judges selected Slough over thousands of entries; the awards are widely billed as the internet's top honors.
The site serves as a companion to Slough's forthcoming historical novel and was built with developer Angelita Garcia as an immersive San Francisco experience using animated prose, maps, artifacts and music from the 1920s to 1940s.
10 years of research fed the project, drawing on items such as WWII love letters, Golden Gate Bridge construction photos and other Bay Area memorabilia to bring the novel's settings and hidden histories online.
How will immersive websites change the future of reading and book publishing?
Can a digital experience ever truly capture the soul of a written novel?
When real artifacts are used in fiction, where is the line between history and story?