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READERS TREATED TO SPECTACULAR SATELLITE IMAGERY FROM WHISKEY GULF
 For the release of his latest nautical thriller, Whiskey Gulf by Vanguard Press, author, and software consultant, Clyde Ford, further developed his special software that allows users to go online, click on a place name from the book, then fly there with Google Earth™ or Virtual Earth™.
 Launch iGeo.
And there will be plenty to interest readers once they get to a location. Click on pushpin icon and read about the history of the location. Click on a speaker icon and listen to Ford read a selection from the book set at that location. Click on a movie camera icon and a video pops-up with an interview of Ford or a celebrity reading from the book.
Ford's an award-winning author who's first career was as a software engineer for I.B.M. He calls his blend of high-tech software and high-adventure reading, iGeo.
“We’re losing a generation of readers to the Internet and to visual means of entertainment,” says Ford. “I wanted to show that a book can be as exciting as a film and as engaging as a video game. I also wanted to give my readers the thrill of experiencing areas that I know intimately from two decades of cruising the Inside Passage aboard my boat. The satellite imagery is so good that I can actually tag the anchorages where I was while creating Whiskey Gulf.”
A complete place name index accompanies iGeo for Whiskey Gulf is online, so readers can go anywhere Ford's characters do.
Click here to go to OnScene.
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Clyde W. Ford, was among twenty-four Northwest authors honored Saturday night, March 10, at the “Literary Lions Gala,” an annual benefit for the King County Library System. 
