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Chris Yavelow (aka "YAV") has worked in the publishing business for more than 30 years: both books and magazines. He has written extensively for national magazines including Macworld, Electronic Musician, Computer Music Journal, and many others. As an author, one of his books, The Macworld Music and Sound Bible, received the Computer Press Association Award. For five years as a book series editor, he observed the plight of low-paid authors first hand, and responded by founding a publishing company that now publishes more than five dozen authors and, since day one, has been dedicated to giving the lion's share of the profits to the authors rather than the publisher.

Chris and his wife Laura walked the Camino de Santiago in the fall of 2012; they found the experience to be life-transforming. Even before finishing the walk, they pondered through long discussions about how they could possibly describe its significance to their friends and relatives back home. After attending the weekly and monthly meetings of the local Camino group for almost a year and a half, and observing how so many returning pilgrims experienced the same conundrum, and how so many were inspired to write, create art, music, prints, and even tattoos about the Camino de Santiago, Chris and Laura realized that a magazine was the perfect vehicle through which to help new pilgrims, address the needs of repeat pilgrims, some of whom wait several years between walks, and provide a forum for the reflections of those who have completed the walk.

The Camino Quarterly is a print journal dedicated to accurate, up-to-date, usable information about the Camino de Santiago, the evermore-popular 500-mile pilgrimage across Spain. Whether you are thinking of walking the Camino, have already walked it once or many times, or may never walk it but are still interested in learning about it, the Camino Quarterly is for you.

Just as walking the Camino de Santiago is a journey with a before, during, and after; reading the Camino Quarterly is a journey through the three stages of preparation,pilgrimage, and reflection. While each issue is focused on a central topic (the topic for this preview issue and our first “official” issue is the Camino Francés), the magazine progresses through those three sections.

In the beginning preparation section, we'll cover topics such as Camino History & Legends, Gear reviews & guides, Packing, Statistics (including temperature, rain, and Compostela certificates), Spanish culture & language, Technology, and Words of Wisdom.

In the middle pilgrimage section, we provide a Quarterly Events Calendar, In-depth Features about our central theme, a “She said; He said” department, Gallery of Camino Passport Stamps, Interviews, Cathedrals, a "Don’t Miss This" department, Featured restaurants, Spiritual matters, Camino humor, and more.

In the ending reflections section, we offer impressions by those who have walked The Way: our “Everyone walks their own Camino” department, Artistic responses (art, poetry, photo essays, etc.), News from English-Speaking Pilgrims’ Associations’ Worldwide, a “Wish I had; Wish I hadn’t” and a “We were told but we learned this” departments, as well as Camino book reviews, and so forth.

Read our preview issue here: http://Preview.CaminoQuarterly.com