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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Maria Liberati cooks up an event in Second Life]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/13/maria-liberati-cooks-up-an-event-in-second-life/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/13/maria-liberati-cooks-up-an-event-in-second-life/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/13/maria-liberati-cooks-up-an-event-in-second-life/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/real-life/" rel="tag">Real life</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/culture/" rel="tag">Culture</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/events-in-game/" rel="tag">Events, in-game</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/crafting/" rel="tag">Crafting</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/news-items/" rel="tag">News items</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/opinion/" rel="tag">Opinion</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/second-life/" rel="tag">Second Life</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/free-to-play/" rel="tag">Free-to-play</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/virtual-worlds/" rel="tag">Virtual worlds</a></p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Art-Italian-Cooking/dp/1928911005/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1202887110&amp;sr=8-1"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/02/basicartofitaliancooking.jpg" alt="" /></a>Second Life gets ready to nosh -- former supermodel-turned-celebrity chef Maria Liberati will make her first virtual appearance at the <a href="http://slurl.com/secondlife/Second%20Shores/51/50/23">Second Life Writer's Club</a> today at 12 PM SLT (despite what the <a href="http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&amp;ID=20170">press release</a> says). She will be there to promote her book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Basic-Art-Italian-Cooking/dp/1928911005/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1202887110&amp;sr=8-1"><em>The Basic Art of Italian Cooking</em></a>, and to answer questions from the audience. <br /><br />I'm always pleased to see more authors take advantage of the benefits of a virtual book tour: the travel time is negligible, your appearance need not reflect your actual state, you can do the tour in your bedclothes if you want to, etc. With voice chat, an author can even read excerpts from her book and answer questions from the audience. In fact, an author could do multiple cities (virtual worlds) in one afternoon without leaving her hotel room. This sort of thing will only become more prevalent as virtual worlds get more sophisticated and accepted by the mainstream. We're surfing the edge, here, folks -- dive in with both feet.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/13/maria-liberati-cooks-up-an-event-in-second-life/">Maria Liberati cooks up an event in Second Life</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDetail&amp;ID=20170>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/13/maria-liberati-cooks-up-an-event-in-second-life/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1113183/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/02/13/maria-liberati-cooks-up-an-event-in-second-life/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>book-tour</category><category>maria-liberati</category><category>second-life</category><category>second-life-writers-club</category><category>the-basic-art-of-italian-cooking</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Akela Talamasca]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
