Santa Cruz Traveling Mystery Tour Contest

The Santa Cruz iconic landmarks used as the backdrop in our two YouTube series and that make up the Santa Cruz Traveling Mystery Tour Contest are listed below, followed by the winners.

Thanks to all of you who entered the contest and to each of you who have visited our YouTube channels.

SANTA CRUZ LOCATIONS:
Step 1 - 4: Secret Gardens
Step 5: Santa Cruz Harbor
Step 6: Gray Whale Skeleton - Long Marine Lab Seymour Biology Museum
Step 7: Davenport Jail Museum
Step 8: Natural Bridges State Park
Step 9: Cement Whale Sculpture, Front of Santa Cruz Natural History Museum
Step 10: Walton Lighthouse
Step 11: Seacliff Beach Pier and Cement Ship "Palo Alto"
Step 12: Bronze Statue of musical saw player Tom Scribner in front of Bookshop Santa Cruz, Pacific Ave. at Locust Street.
Step 13: Longboard Surfer Statue on West Cliff Drive
Step 14: Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf
Step 15: Capitola Wharf/Pier
Step 16: Shadowbrook Restaurant in Capitola
Step 17: Cabrillo College Horticulture Department Hydroponics Program
Step 18: Michael's on Main in Soquel
Step 19: Stockton Street Bridge in Capitola
Step 20: Giant Prayer Wheel at Land of Medicine Buddha Retreat Center
Step 21: Land of Medicine Buddha Retreat Center
Step 22: Santa Cruz Library in Live Oak with Alfred Hitchcock birds statue/sculpture
Step 23: Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History: Mural of everyday life in an Ohlone village
Step 24: 1911 Looff Carousel at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
Step 25: Santa Cruz Surfing Museum
Step 26: Bookshop Santa Cruz
Step 27: UCSC viewpoint with the whole bay on view

WINNERS:

Victoria Beck won an overnight stay at the world-renowned B&B, the Darling House, in Santa Cruz

Michele Blood won a 1-hour phone consultation with family expert Cathy Jo Cresss on sibling reconciliation and forgiveness 

Wednesday McKenna won a 1-hour writer's plot phone consultation with plot expert to the stars Martha Alderson, aka the Plot Whisperer

Congratulations to the winners! 

For more information about the series and the experts:

Cathy Cress is an expert on the aging family and sibling warfare.

Martha Alderson, aka The Plot Whisperer, is a plot consultant for writers.

In appreciation for writers who learn best by watching and listening, Martha takes writers through the process of plotting out a story via video in the Plot Series, How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay?

Cathy shows people how sibling relationships affect our lives and how to fix them in her Mom Loves You Best series.

Plot Series, How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay?

Mom Loves You Best.

Local writer Martha Alderson AKA Plot Whisperer is an international plot consultant for writers, author Blockbuster Plots Pure & Simple, and founder of Blockbuster Plots for Writers. Her clients include best-selling authors, New York editors, and Hollywood movie directors. She can help you plot your next novel, memoir or screenplay.

Cress is the author of Mom Loves You Best, Forgiving and Forging Sibling Relationships, published by Horizon Press and to be released October 2010. She is the author of several books including, Handbook of Geriatric Care Management, which is the international bible of geriatric care management. She teaches aging and geriatric care management at universities and conferences. She is an expert on the aging family and sibling warfare.

Santa Cruz Traveling Mystery Tour Contest

Correctly identify Santa Cruz iconic landmarks used as the backdrop in two YouTube series and win a prize in the Santa Cruz Traveling Mystery Tour Contest

PRIZES

· Locals win an overnight stay at the world-renowned B&B, the Darling House, in Santa Cruz

· Out-of-towners win a 1-hour phone consultation with family expert Cathy Jo Cresss on sibling reconciliation and forgiveness or a 1-hour writer's plot phone consultation with plot expert to the stars Martha Alderson, aka the Plot Whisperer

Both Cathy's and Martha's YouTube series are now complete. You have until May 20th to submit your list of film locations and qualify to win. View either or both series to determine where in Santa Cruz County the video was filmed. Whether you identify one or all 27 locations, feel free to enter the contest. 

How to Enter:

******Send a list of as many of the Santa Cruz locations you are able to identify to the following email address: info (at) illusionpress (dot) com by midnight PST on Friday, May 20th 

Winners will be announced on May 23rd.

Cathy Cress is an expert on the aging family and sibling warfare.

Martha Alderson, aka The Plot Whisperer, is a plot consultant for writers.

In appreciation for writers who learn best by watching and listening, Martha takes writers through the process of plotting out a story via video in the Plot Series, How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay?

Cathy shows people how sibling relationships affect our lives and how to fix them in her Mom Loves You Best series.

Plot Series, How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay?

Mom Loves You Best.

Local writer Martha Alderson AKA Plot Whisperer is an international plot consultant for writers, author Blockbuster Plots Pure & Simple, and founder of Blockbuster Plots for Writers. Her clients include best-selling authors, New York editors, and Hollywood movie directors. She can help you plot your next novel, memoir or screenplay.

Cress is the author of Mom Loves You Best, Forgiving and Forging Sibling Relationships, published by Horizon Press and to be released October 2010. She is the author of several books including, Handbook of Geriatric Care Management, which is the international bible of geriatric care management. She teaches aging and geriatric care management at universities and conferences. She is an expert on the aging family and sibling warfare.

Santa Cruz Traveling Mystery Tour

Correctly identify Santa Cruz iconic landmarks used as the backdrop in two YouTube series and win a prize in the Santa Cruz Traveling Mystery Tour

PRIZES

·      Locals win an overnight stay at the world-renowned B&B, the Darling House, in Santa Cruz

·      Out-of-towners win a 1-hour phone consultation with family expert Cathy Jo Cresss on sibling reconciliation and forgiveness and a 1-hour writer's plot phone consultation with plot expert to the stars Martha Alderson, aka the Plot Whisperer

Two Santa Cruz writers each catch hold of the video craze to share her passion and produce a series for YouTube. Cathy Cress and Martha Alderson film each other sharing tips in their individual areas of expertise. 

Cathy Cress is an expert on the aging family and sibling warfare. 

Martha Alderson, aka The Plot Whisperer, is a plot consultant for writers. 

In appreciation for writers who learn best by watching and listening, Martha takes writers through the process of plotting out a story via video in the Plot Series, How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay? 

Cathy shows people how sibling relationships affect our lives and how to fix them in her Mom Loves You Best series.

What begins as a lark turns even better as the Cathy and Martha begin filming at one gorgeous Santa Cruz iconic location after another. Together, they create the Santa Cruz Traveling Mystery Tour .

Play along and correctly identify all or any of the 27 locations to win free night at a local B&B.

Visit either or both YouTube channels to spot the Santa Cruz landmark that serves as the backdrop for each video. A new video comes out every week.

Plot Series, How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay?

Mom Loves You Best.

Local writer Martha Alderson AKA Plot Whisperer is an international plot consultant for writers, author Blockbuster Plots Pure & Simple, and founder of Blockbuster Plots for Writers. Her clients include best-selling authors, New York editors, and Hollywood movie directors. She can help you plot your next novel, memoir or screenplay.

Cress is the author of Mom Loves You Best, Forgiving and Forging Sibling Relationships, published by Horizon Press and to be released October 2010. She is the author of several books including, Handbook of Geriatric Care Management, which is the international bible of geriatric care management. She teaches aging and geriatric care management at universities and conferences. She is an expert on the aging family and sibling warfare.

Santa Cruz Traveling Mystery Tour

More than 144 billion videos were viewed on YouTube last year. The number is expected to more than double this year.

 Two local Santa Cruz writers, Martha Alderson and Cathy Cress, recently harnessed that power, each launching a YouTube Channel that highlights local attractions on the Santa Cruz Traveling Mystery Tour.  Martha has garnered a contract for a book on the series by a national publishing house. Cathy is promoting the launch of her new book. Together they each have planned a 32-step series to be filmed at famed Santa Cruz landmarks. 

Alderson and Cress began their YouTube series by filming near the renowned surfing spot the HOOK in Pleasure Point. They moved to the Yacht Harbor where they filmed each other sharing tips in their individual areas of expertise. Martha takes writers through the process of plotting out a story in the Plot Series, How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay? Cathy shows people how sibling relationships affect our lives and how to fix them in her Mom Loves You Best series.

32 unique, beautiful, literary and historic locations in Santa Cruz County, such as the Surfer Statue, Mystery Spot, Natural Bridges, in front of Town Clock, Tom Scribner statue on the mall in front of Bookshop SC, the whale Marine Lab and the one by SC Museum,UCSC viewpoint with the whole bay on view, Cement Boat view, SC Library with Alfred Hitchcock birds statue/sculpture to name a few, serve as backdrops for their productions from now until March 2011.

Correctly identify all of 32 locations to qualify for a drawing for a free night at a local B&B.

Visit either or both YouTube channels to spot the Santa Cruz landmark that serves as the backdrop for each video. A new video comes out every week. 

Plot Series, How Do I Plot a Novel, Memoir, Screenplay?

Mom Loves You Best.

Local writer Martha Alderson AKA Plot Whisperer is an international plot consultant for writers, author Blockbuster Plots Pure & Simple, and founder of Blockbuster Plots for Writers. Her clients include best-selling authors, New York editors, and Hollywood movie directors. She can help you plot your next novel, memoir or screenplay.

Cress is the author of Mom Loves You Best, Forgiving and Forging Sibling Relationships, published by Horizon Press and to be released October 2010. She is the author of several books including, Handbook of Geriatric Care Management, which is the international bible of geriatric care management. She teaches aging and geriatric care management at universities and conferences. She is an expert on the aging family and sibling warfare.