Official Launch Page
Camino Child
ABOUT THE BOOK:
SUMMER DARLING’S life had an unusual start. She was born in an apple orchard. By her teenage years, she was living in a commune on the Olympic Peninsula, where her father grew pot with his friend, Paul, the leader of The Camp. When Paul, a lustful man and controlling leader, began to notice Summer’s beauty, she was whisked off to southern California by her Grandma Pat.
When Grandma Pat receives the first few pages of a travel journal written in 1982 by her older and now deceased sister, Georgia, Pat and Summer follow the diary to Spain and the famed El Camino de Santiago. They wonder who sent those journal pages, and why the mystery. The ancient pilgrimage route stretches out 500 miles ahead of them. More of the journal pages are received then forwarded from home. The mystery unfolds as Summer negotiates a path through tragic loss, shyness, weather, blisters, and boys.
What will Summer discover about her family and herself as she treks across an entire country?
What people are saying about Camino Child:
“Wow! I LOVED this! Great ending.” — Kevin Craig, author of The Camino Club
“I enjoyed reading about places on the Camino Francés as it brought back so many lovely memories. I liked the character of Summer Darling and the author portrayed her as a strong, capable and intelligent young woman.” — Meg Maloney, author of Slow Your Roll
What a Launch Team is:
A Launch Team’s goal is to create as much buzz about Camino Child as possible. A successful book launch can create a buying frenzy that can lead to a book becoming a best seller.
A launch team, also known as a street team, is a group of people who will ensure there is a successful BLAST OFF when the book launches.
They are a group of people who are passionate about helping spread the word about this book.
We will build a platform to shout out the launch of the new book to the person farthest out there in our world who desperately wants to read this kind of story.
Why join the team:
I caught the travel bug at a young age (read more here). But I didn’t start traveling to those far off places I desired until decades later. Camino Child, SUMMER DARLING’S trek across Spain, is a tale meant to inspire young people to see the world, expand their horizons, or simply show them a different aspect of our planet and many different cultures.
Help me get this story out to them, to those who want it most, wherever they may live, at whatever age.
Readers selected for the launch shall be enshrined forever in the pages of this extraordinary tale of one girl’s journey of discovery.
Expectations:
- Buy the book the first week it is released.
- Leave a review (i.e. On Amazon or Goodreads).
- Promote the book on social media.
- The Launch Team will officially start the day Camino Child is released and last for three weeks.
- Please expect to spend some time each day helping to promote the book (emailing friends, writing a blog, posting an announcement on social media, attending fun pre-launch, day-of-launch, and/or post-launch celebrations—in person or online.
Launch Plan Details:
- Camino Child will launch this fall. The exact date to be determined.
- I will be walking the Portuguese Camino and portions of the Camino Francés, the French way, the Way, during September and early October.
- While on Camino in Portugal and Spain, I will record videos on location, where I talk about the story—without spoilers.
- These videos will be posted on social media and my website.
- Launch team members will share these posts and build hype before, at launch, and following.
How we’ll meet:
I may use Discord.com for this book launch. Other social media platforms have become so profit driven, so unfriendly, I’m considering Discord.com as our private place for discussing our launch of Camino Child.
