The Author Christy Powell (www.christy-powell.com) is collaborating with the award-winning Colorado-based digital technology company Beneath the Ink on The Spoilt Brat’s Guide, a highly innovative and entertaining new travel guide iBook to bring a richer and more engaging third dimensional experience to readers.  
 

Revolutionizing the traditional travel guide format, The Spoilt Brats Guide features ‘Binks’ which enable readers to go ‘Beneath the Ink’ and discover additional personal anecdotes from Christy, with supporting images and links. The Spoilt Brat’s Guide is Beneath the ink’s first foray into the travel book sector, however the company with its patented technology won the Innovation Award last month at the Digital Book Awards for Emma Boling’s ‘Mistress of France’ in the Adult Fiction category.
 

To give readers greater insight into the exciting Bink concept, the first six The Spoilt Brat’s Guides will be available as individual mini-guides for free download, before going on sale as a collection at £2.99. The guides to ‘Kamalaya’ and ‘Rome’ are already available for download with iBooks on Mac or iOS device, and with iTunes on computer.  For the full experience, The Spoilt Brat’s Guide is best viewed on tablet (iPad 2 or later generation).
 

Says Christy: “My Spoilt Brat’s Guide is a tongue-in-cheek personal experience of travel. It offers all the information you need to know about a place without getting bogged down in the detail.  I also aim to entertain rather than just inform. I want to have you laughing your head off while trying to book your ticket”.
 

“Most top hotels and resorts get plenty of write-ups but you then have to go to Tripadore to get the honest or unbiased opinion. My Spoilt Brat’s Guide tries to incorporate both, with a little bit of entertainment thrown in on top. Beneath the Ink has then taken these accounts and put them into fantastic ibooks with anecdotes and photos to make a winning combination. In fact the whole experience is so good you may not even need to go on holiday at all. Just sit back on the sofa, ask one of your kids to shake up a Margarita, turn the lights up bright so you can wear your sunglasses and flick open your iPad to the latest SBG – hey presto, you’re on holiday”, Christy continues.
 

Says Alex Milewski, co-Founder of Beneath the Ink "We have identified Christy Powell as a very exciting new writing talent and are ecstatic to be working with her on The Spoilt Brat's Guide.  The locations, pictures, and her seriously amusing writing style all lend themselves perfectly to Beneath The Ink's technology. Now you can carry these great guides with you wherever you are, so Christy's favourite hotel, restaurant, and hysterical insights are only a touch away." 
 

For more information, visit www.Christy-Powell.com, and also follow Christy Powell on twitter @Christabel888, facebook and google+.

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Note to Editor:
Author Christy Powellwas born to intrepid parents and had an unconventional upbringing in Hong Kong, the UK, Mexico, Spain and the US.
 

Christy’s first book News from the Nail Bar, published in November 2011, is a witty and engaging fictional story, told through email exchanges and drawn from the five years Christy experienced running the first Nail Bar to open in London.
 

In July 2013, Christy launched ‘Just a bit Confucius’, a weekly chronicle providing amusing insights into the intricacies of life in Hong Kong as well as discussing some of the universal issues that can affect us all. 

Married with three children, Christy now divides her time between Hong Kong and London. 

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