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Camino momento for my fellow peregrinos

Dzyduck87

Northwest Canada
Time of past OR future Camino
May 2014
Hello all!

Natasha and I headed out from Alberta, Canada, and walked the Camino Frances in May 2014. During our camino we gained many new friends, little did we know how significant and long-term some of those friendships would turn out to be.

We were recently invited to Ireland to witness a fellow peregrinos book release.

I know in today's society it is not hard to get a novel published. It is also not uncommon to come across a pilgrim who has plans of writing a book.

However, I have begun reading James Keoghan's book and it is something else. James was seventy years old when he set out from St. Jean Pied de Port and I am privelleged to say I was a part of his party from the start. We were separated for weeks at a time, but fate would have us walk into Santiago together.

James wrote a novel of his experience and if you are a seasoned pilgrim, I implore you read it. I have to pace myself as I nearly break into tears reliving the experiences and moments he describes. It is such a beautiful book. It is available through amazon, and as an e-book through Chapter's. I have pasted the link below.

If you read it, please come back and give it a review as I would love to share it with James. I've also attached some pictures of our group. :) In the picture where we're sitting from L-R it goes Tom, Roly, Sara, Natasha(Meg), James behind her, Des, Graham behind, Anto - and some others we did not know as well.

https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/currahoo-to-santiago-my-camino/9780993353994-item.html
 

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...and ship it to Santiago for storage. You pick it up once in Santiago. Service offered by Casa Ivar (we use DHL for transportation).
I know 3 people in my community with books, so when someone comes out with one, I'm thinking "Oh neat" but not that surprised. You can pay to get a book published and put on Amazon.

James got his book on Chapters Indigo though which I think is wonderful and attests to his ability as an author. :)
 
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Is the book available in hardcover or paperback form? I would love to read it but do not have a kindle. I have looked it up on Amazon and it only seems to be in e-book form from what I can see.
 
You should be able to get it paperback and hardcover soon, I know Natasha pre-ordered through Amazon as it is showing as "Sold Out".
 
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It's actually harder than ever to get a novel published these days.

It's actually very easy these days. I've got 5 so far. :oops: Two are business 'novels'. One even has a love interest! :eek:

On boring business topics though. Not the camino :(

Writing a 'best seller'? Now that's the tough bit....
 
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I fell in love with the description.

All though I'm not a huge fan of e-books, it hurts my eyes reading too much on a screen. It is possible to get a copy in paperback?
 
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