Rusty walker
Walking is traveling at the Speed of Life.
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Camino Frances Spring 2018
Via de Francesco 2019
I am in the final stages of completing my memoir of walking the Camino Frances, which I completed in May of 2018. Yes, another Camino book.
With so many books out there already, why am I writing it?
First, I had no plans on writing a book about it. I just went for the experience, and it was life-changing, even at 61 years of age.
I have worked in publishing much of my adult life and in early 2018 left my job as a publisher to take a year's sabbatical. A two-decade-old dream to walk the Camino was part of the plan for the year. Part of the plan also included starting my own freelance business as a self-publisher; my service is to help others self-publish books.
A few weeks after I returned--over a year ago-- it came to me that the best thing I could do to launch my business was to write my own book and self-publish it. Even though I feel that there are already too many books on the Camino (and most of the recent ones are also self-published) I am undeterred. My life-long love of writing resurfaced during my six weeks in Spain and I am doing this as much for the love of it, as much as anything. While I have no illusions of making a living as a writer, I do hope to continue it even as I develop my own work helping others self-publish. Writing this book has been the longest and most complex creative experience of my life...
I am aware that many of the books about the Camino are "formulaic" and I hope to avoid some of that in my writing; I'm going to probe more of the inner themes and depths of my own inner-life; at the same time there is no escaping the fact that the Camino is a journey and there is no better way to tell a story than tell of a journey...
So far I have gotten good feedback from readers and I have an editor finalizing the manuscript. I'd like to offer the first two or three parts of the book to anyone who is interested in reading it, for helpful feedback. Please contact me via PM and I can send them to you.
Buen Camino hermanos!
With so many books out there already, why am I writing it?
First, I had no plans on writing a book about it. I just went for the experience, and it was life-changing, even at 61 years of age.
I have worked in publishing much of my adult life and in early 2018 left my job as a publisher to take a year's sabbatical. A two-decade-old dream to walk the Camino was part of the plan for the year. Part of the plan also included starting my own freelance business as a self-publisher; my service is to help others self-publish books.
A few weeks after I returned--over a year ago-- it came to me that the best thing I could do to launch my business was to write my own book and self-publish it. Even though I feel that there are already too many books on the Camino (and most of the recent ones are also self-published) I am undeterred. My life-long love of writing resurfaced during my six weeks in Spain and I am doing this as much for the love of it, as much as anything. While I have no illusions of making a living as a writer, I do hope to continue it even as I develop my own work helping others self-publish. Writing this book has been the longest and most complex creative experience of my life...
I am aware that many of the books about the Camino are "formulaic" and I hope to avoid some of that in my writing; I'm going to probe more of the inner themes and depths of my own inner-life; at the same time there is no escaping the fact that the Camino is a journey and there is no better way to tell a story than tell of a journey...
So far I have gotten good feedback from readers and I have an editor finalizing the manuscript. I'd like to offer the first two or three parts of the book to anyone who is interested in reading it, for helpful feedback. Please contact me via PM and I can send them to you.
Buen Camino hermanos!
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