Book cover for Cocaine + Surfing: A Sordid History of Surfing's Greatest Love Affair by Chas Smith

Cocaine + Surfing

A Sordid History of Surfing's Greatest Love Affair

Chas Smith
2018 Released
256 Pages
4-5 Hours
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Rare Bird Books, A Vireo BookISBN 9781947856745

  • Author has 67k Instagram followers
  • Previous book Welcome To Paradise, Now Go To Hell was a finalist for the 2015 PEN Center USA Award for Nonfiction
  • Book giveaways
  • Coverage in Surfer and Surfing magazines
  • Partnerships with local surf clubs in surfing heavy places like Huntington Beach, Santa Cruz, San Diego, etc.
  • Events in Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, San Diego, Huntington Beach, etc.
  • National media outreach
  • Op-ed placement
  • Online broadcasts with experts in the field
  • Special marketing to drug treatment centers in surf-centric cities and towns
  • Special interest marketing to surf shops, drug treatment facilities, etc.
  • Featured title at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Bay Area Book Festival, Brooklyn Book Festival, and Texas Book Festival

    • Chas Smith

    Chas Smith has spent his whole life surfing. He has written adventure/travel stories for Playboy, Esquire, Vice, GQ, BlackBook, and The New York Times Magazine. He has covered wars in Lebanon, conflicts in Yemen, dirty oil dealings in Azerbaijan, and fashion in Somalia. He is the former editor-at-living-large for Surfing magazine, and writes for Australia's Stab. He lives in Los Angeles and has spent five winters on the North Shore.

    More by Chas Smith

    Welcome to Paradise, Now Go to Hell
    Reports from Hell
    Blessed Are the Bank Robbers

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