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Squirl, Inc. Launches Mapping Platform for Books

October 30, 2019 By Editor

Connecting stories with their real-world settings

HOUSTON, Oct. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Squirl, Inc., the company behind the first location-based book discovery app, announces the launch of its new story mapping platform, Squirl Maps.

Detail of map for Samantha Shannon's 'The Mime Order'
Detail of map for Samantha Shannon’s ‘The Mime Order’

With Squirl Maps, authors and publishers can easily create a map of a book’s real-world settings. Each map can be shared for promotional purposes or as a story companion for the author’s existing audience. From James Joyce’s Dublin to a South African crime scene in a Rizzoli and Isles novel, readers can explore the story’s settings, read the excerpt and step into the characters’ footsteps with the built-in Streetview feature.

Squirl Maps launches with 12 featured maps, including classics like “Frankenstein” and “Huckleberry Finn” along with hundreds of other works from both traditional publishers and self-published authors. Books added to the Squirl app will automatically be available on the new platform.

Squirl Maps is free for authors and readers.

About Squirl, Inc.:

Squirl, Inc. is a Houston-based publishing startup with a mission to map every setting from every book ever written.

Filed Under: Maps and Cartography

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