It’s been approximately a year since author Jason Tremere met with the Schofield family, and the project to preserve over one thousand random acts of kindness in the #BeccaToldMeTo movement was born.
Tremere adds as he compiled the list of acts from the first ten weeks of the movement, the Schofields, especially father Darren, welcomed him wholeheartedly.
“We’d go and talk about the book like at a Dooly’s and have a beer together, he’s taken me to breakfast,” says Tremere. “And often times he’ll come to the house and drop off coffee for our family and have a chat with us, I really feel like I’m a part of their extended family.”
He says one of the challenges facing him was how to get all the acts of kindness off the Facebook group Becca created called “Becca’s Battle With Butterscotch.”
“Well okay, they’re all in Facebook, there’s got to be a way to get them out,” says Tremere. “So I spent a couple weeks looking into different technical ways to do that, and I had to create a Facebook app, and pull them into a database.”
Tremere adds “I almost looked at it as a technical challenge, but it also was a rewarding challenge.”
He then proceeded to sort the various acts by day and by number of reactions.
“There’s over 1,000 authors within this book, really, my role is just compiling it,” says Tremere. “And then I didn’t want me to be profiting from her story, or these other 1,000 people’s stories so we have an agreement where I’m giving the net proceeds back to the Schofield family.”
Details of how to get a copy of Tremere’s book can be found HERE.
(Photo credit: Jason Tremere)
