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sillydoll said:I have a post on my blog entitled 101 camino books.
http://amawalker.blogspot.com/2009/09/b ... amino.html
...or steps in front of Botafumeiro...sagalouts said:i,m stuck for an ending either the killer meets his/her ending being killed by the swinging ball in Santiago or burns to death on the cliffs at finisterre.
Ian
SHUCKS!!! , Now this champion snorer will have to indulge in an extra glass of vino each night to get over the fear of being 'Psychoed'sagalouts said:I have started to write a detective/ travel story about the camino.
what started out as a joke ( pilgrims who snore are getting bumped off)
Ian
Hey there Sil - thanx for the 'constructives'.sillydoll said:After reviewing 4 new camino books in 8 months, I'd like to appeal to potential writers to find a new approach or a different focus to their story to avoid the formulaic, almost write-by-numbers style of camino story.
muppet said:have you or anyone else got advice on how to turn my 96 A4 page word document with photos into an e-book and are there any publishers you can recommend for small scale publishing? If its not good enough then it would still be nice to have a hardback copy for myself
Any tips would be much appreciated from you or others..
vinotinto said:some Camino tales starring the undead...
ivar said:Have you thought of "Self Publishing" directly in the Amazon Electronic bookstore?
falcon269 said:Another guy who thought about it, then did it
A good enough reason for me not to add to the confusion :mrgreen: On top of that, I'm an awful writer, need hours to fill one A4 page, mix Dutch with German, English, French, Italian and even Spanish expressions, and on top of that translations via internet contort ideas into the incomprehensible. :roll: I'll settle for sampling "pinchos" in Pamplonasillydoll said:...Last year we visited a book shop in Pamplona. The owner told us that over 400 new camino stories had been published between June 2008 and June 2009.
A friend, who is a retired reporter from Time magazine with a couple of books under his belt, wrote a novel about a terrorist plot evolving along the Camino. No publisher yet, years later...I think I might like 'Murder on the Camino' or so
I would also be interested in a story that takes place in one specific village along the Camino. How did that village change from the 70s till now? The Camino must have had a huge impact on village life in Northern Spain.
sillydoll said:Blimey! That didn't take long! Its a gret feeling when its done, init!
I have started to write a detective/ travel story about the camino.
what started out as a joke ( pilgrims who snore are getting bumped off) is now fast becoming what fills my waking hours.
i,m stuck for an ending either the killer meets his/her ending being killed by the swinging ball in Santiago or burns to death on the cliffs at finisterre.
Ian
But let the killer get to Santiago first and gain his compostela--he may need every possible indulgence when he reaches St Peter! Come on, An tAthair, forgiveness should be possible, if he's done his penance along the Camino--well, maybe. And I do agree about the early-morning plastic bags whose annoyance may give me an exta inspection at those pearly gates!
As much as I love reading camino stories, and am passionate about the camino, some of the books I've read are becoming exceedingly boring!
After reviewing 4 new camino books in 8 months, I'd like to appeal to potential writers to find a new approach or a different focus to their story to avoid the formulaic, almost write-by-numbers style of camino story.
You know the kind I mean - "I felt called to walk the camino; I climbed over a mountain and got blisters/shin splints/tendonitis; slept in a room with 100 snoring strangers; got up early; packed, walked, arrived, washed, ate, slept - ditto, ditto, ditto, blah,blah, blah - met amazing people; arrived in Santiago, cried in the mass and now I am a changed person - Amen. The End."
Remember, thousands upon thousands of pilgrims walk the same landscape, through the same towns, face similar challenges, learn similar lessons and experience the same highs and lows, and many, like you, now have an urge to hit the keyboard and turn their journal into a book.
Find an original theme. Not everyone can walk with a donkey, or lead a blind person, or walk in the dead of winter, but there has to be new, fresh slant to a camino story for the book to have any appeal.
And please, get your spelling right and be consistent (you can't have hosteleria, hospitaleria, hospitalero etc) And, check your geography. You can't meet up with old friends you first met in Triacastela when you arrive in el Acebo!
Last year we visited a book shop in Pamplona. The owner told us that over 400 new camino stories had been published between June 2008 and June 2009. The market is becoming saturated and unless you self-publish, you will need to have something original to say to persuade a publisher to add your book to the many hundreds out there.
Thanks, Petro. I am in the hands of Amazon, alas. They may not approve publication while the "offending" material remains here, unless I can prove copyright ownership. Even so, they may price my book at ZERO. Great for buyers, but I am not sure I would want to offer it free. I may have to ask Ivar to remove all of my relevant posts from this forum. He may not want to do that, even if it were possible. What a total pain! All that work, potentially done in vain.Hi Bob, I hope you can sort out the problem - I am looking forward to read it!
sounds as though it will be a good read when you get it finished.....I look forward to seeing it in print.....cheers..I have started to write a detective/ travel story about the camino.
what started out as a joke ( pilgrims who snore are getting bumped off) is now fast becoming what fills my waking hours.
i,m stuck for an ending either the killer meets his/her ending being killed by the swinging ball in Santiago or burns to death on the cliffs at finisterre.
Ian
There is always room for more books on the Camino. Only the Camino Frances has been saturated with 100's - if not 1000's - of CF stories!
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