#Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: Make Your Own Book Map using Google Maps

Bloggiesta is a blogging marathon revolving around ticking off those items on your to-do list and improving your blog while in the good company of other awesome bloggers doing the same thing.

Our awesome mascot Pedro (Plan. Edit. Develop. Review. Organize) is ready to break out the nachos, enchiladas, drinks, mariachi music and whack a pinata or two! It’s nothing short of an awesome fiesta! 

Make Your Own Book Map using Google Maps

Are you ready? There are no prizes for this one except for the finished product ... a spankin' new Google Map featuring your books!

This is my book map. I've put in the settings of most of my reads, with the red marker indicating fiction and green non-fiction. Try clicking on a marker and you'll get a book cover and the link to my review.

Ready? This tutorial comes in two easy parts. If you block off a few hours of time for this, I guarantee you can come up with a basic book map. Just a warning that once you start entering your books, it can get pretty addictive (at least that's what my experience was!)

PART 1
Plan, Create Your Map & Start Mapping Your Reads

PART 2
Tweak your Book Map & Embed your Book Map on your Blog

As a little background, I am a participant of the Travel the World in Books Challenge which recently had its first-ever readathon. The challenge is a "make your own rules" one so I've made mine a perennial challenge, a forever challenge.

I hosted this exact mini-challenge and quite a few people decided to make their own book maps. 


Need some inspiration? Check out the links in THIS POST and you'll see some great ways of mapping your books!

When you're done with your map, leave a comment and a link to your map so we can all see it!

If you have any questions, let me know ... together we can figure it out. 

Happy travels!