Welcome to the Main Guide of the Southeastern Literary Tourism Initiative. SELTI is a project that was launched in 2009 as a vehicle to combine tourism attractions and fiction in innovative ways. SELTI has published two tourism tourism novels, Blind Fate and This Side of Paradise: Interactive Tourism Edition. SELTI has also conducted the nation’s […]
Read More SouthEastern Literary Tourism InitiativeBelow is an updated tourism guide for the novel Blind Fate, the first novel in the nation with an interactive tourism guide (order here from Amazon). The guide lets readers click on links to the tourism websites of the real settings that inspired the story. If readers would like to tour the locations in the […]
Read More New Blind Fate Tourism GuideChandler Champion, the reigning Miss Alabama, will give a special reading from Zelda Fitzgerald’s novel Save Me the Waltz. SELTI and the F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum are proud to announce that the reigning Miss Alabama, Chandler Champion, will give a special reading from Zelda Fitzgerald’s novel Save Me The Waltz at the museum on […]
Read More Miss Alabama to read from Zelda Fitzgerald’s novel Save Me The Waltz at the Fitzgerald Museum January 18.Walden Pond, the setting for “A Man by the Pond,” by Jacob Lambert, winner of the 2013 F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum Literary Contest. Lambert is an English major at Auburn University Montgomery. Photo by Tim Hettler/Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism. Editor’s note: “A Man by the Pond” won first place […]
Read More Story About Thoreau’s Walden Pond Wins Fitzgerald Museum Writing ContestFort Morgan in Mobile Bay, site of the famous Battle of Mobile Bay in the Civil War Part of my job is scouting out areas that would make ideal settings for tourism novels and short stories. The Mobile Bay area—where Admiral David Farragut shouted the famous lines above during the Civil War—was the latest destination. The […]
Read More “Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!” How Historic Sites Could Help Save the Future of the EconomyLaurel Falls in DeSoto State Park, the inspirational setting for Natalie Cone’s tourism short story “The Totem,” winner of the Lookout Alabama SELTI Writing Contest. Story By: Natalie Cone Tourism Attractions: DeSoto State Park, The Bookshelf Etc. Location: Fort Payne, Alabama Photos By: Randy Grider, Lookout Alabama Magazine. Click any photo to enlarge! Natalie Cone, […]
Read More Natalie Cone’s Story “The Totem” Wins Lookout Alabama SELTI Writing ContestCook Castle, the venue where the winner of the Lookout Alabama SELTI Writing Contest will be announced. Cook Castle is the home of Jeff Cook, of the famous Fort Payne music group Alabama. Photo by Cook Castle Events. The winner of the Lookout Alabama SELTI Writing Contest will be announced May 10 during the Lookout 2013 […]
Read More Lookout Alabama SELTI Writing Contest Finalists AnnouncedSenator Clay Scofield presents writer Kathryn Lang with the 2012 SELTI Tourism Fiction Award for her story that promoted Moundville Archaeological Park. Now the Alabama Senate is asking writers across the state to follow up with more tourism stories. Write it, and they will come! That is the concept behind Alabama Senate Resolution SJR25, “Expressing support […]
Read More Alabama Legislature Passes Resolution Inviting Authors To Write Tourism Fiction Set In Real Alabama AttractionsLittle River Falls in Lookout Mountain, one of the possible settings for the Lookout Alabama SELTI Writing Contest. Little River Falls: National Park Service The winner of the nation’s next tourism fiction contest will be published in the inaugural issue of Lookout Alabama magazine in summer 2013. The regional magazine has teamed up with the […]
Read More Winner Of Lookout Alabama SELTI Writing Contest To Be Published In Magazine; $500 Prize For First PlaceMonks Mound, the largest of many mounds at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois. Contrast the size of the mound with the tiny car passing by on the road! Photo courtesy of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Click on the photo to enlarge. Excerpt From: People of the Thunder by Kathleen and […]
Read More Shiloh Mounds, Cahokia, and Moundville Come Back to Life in Native American Novels
