Prison Camp e-Novel Premier
Gale Chester Whittington, a frontline veteran of the 1969 Gay Revolution, is proud to announce the release of his first e-novel, The Happy Campers, a prison tale of murder, passion, and sunbathing, now available for download from www.torquerepress.com for the reasonable price of $5.95.
Tulsa, OK, November 29, 2005 --(PR.com)-- Gale Chester Whittington, a frontline veteran of the 1969 Gay Revolution, is proud to announce the release of his first e-novel, THE HAPPY CAMPERS, a prison tale of murder, passion, and sunbathing, now available for download from www.torquerepress.com for the reasonable price of $5.95.
SUPER BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
What would happen if a slight, but attractive blond gay guy fell in love with a good-looking straight Hispanic man and had to deal with an anonymous slasher targeting gay inmates? What are prison camps like? Find out without asking Martha Stewart!
Gale Chester Whittington's murder/mystery/gay romance novel, The Happy Campers, takes place in country-club-like Texarkana Federal Prison Camp, an unusual setting for a novel. The main characters are two men down on their luck: a lonely, 52 year-old, white gambler, KENT WESCHESTER, and a depressed, 31-year-old, drug dealer, DON VILLANOVA.
The book is by turns funny, poignant, and philosophical. It's filled with twists and turns, plus a heart-wrenching love story. Whittington pays close attention to detail and his workmanlike prose is to be commended.
SHORT BIO:
A fit 57, Whittington tells us his father was a fundamentalist Nazarene preacher with a Christian radio program, his mother, a gospel-recording artist. As a young radical militant, Gale fought against the Vietnam War and for gay rights on the streets of San Francisco 1968-1969, (months before the Stonewall uprising--to be documented in his memoir, Beyond Tolerance, The Birth of Gay Pride, currently under consideration by Haworth Press).
Now semi-retired, Gale Chester Whittington worships the sun on fifteen acres in the Oklahoma woods with a vicious Taco Bell dog named Little Devil. When they're not floating in his pool, they care for heirloom varieties of turkeys, guineas, chickens, peafowl, guppies, and wildflowers. After running a Denver pet/bird breeding store for 28 years, Gale returned to writing full time in 2000 and has received numerous awards from the Oklahoma Writer's Federation, Inc. (OWFI) for his novels, memoirs, poems, short stories, and essays. Fully aware that love is a lie, he insists he's most anxious for the next masquerade to begin.
Whittington invites everyone to visit his website--
www.galechesterwhittington.com -- and e-mail him at
gale@galechesterwhittington.com. Ask him why he believes e-books are the wave of the future!
Reviewers should request a free pdf copy of The Happy Campers from
saclements@torquerepress.com
(any or all of the above may be reprinted in part or in it's entirety free of charge by permission of the author, Gale Chester Whittington)
Use this hyperlink to access a picture of the novel's cover:
http://www.galechesterwhittington.com/sitebuilder/images/Cover_Happy_Campers_enhanced
and this one for a small banner that says, "Happy Campers * prison, desire, sunbathing * a novel by gale chester whittington * www.torquerepress.com":
http://www.torquerepress.com/pr/smhappycampers.gif
or this one for a larger banner of the same:
http://www.galechesterwhittington.com/images/lghappycampers_banner.gif
A July 2000 photo of the author taken while he was a prisoner at the Texarkana Federal Prison Camp (for bank fraud--the result of a former gambling addiction) may be accessed here:
http://www.galechesterwhittington.com/sitebuilder/images/Gale_FPC_July_2000_-138x186.png
or a current 2005 Oklahoma picture taken at his home here:
http://www.galechesterwhittington.com/sitebuilder/images/strawhat1-250x187.jpg
(any of the above images can be accessed free of charge when used in conjunction with news about The Happy Campers by permission of the author, Gale Chester Whittington)
For interviews or further information, contact Gale Chester Whittington by e-mail:
gale@galechesterwhittington.com
GAY PRISON CAMP E-NOVEL PREMIER
Title: The Happy Campers
Date Available: November 15, 2005
ISBN: 1-933389-31-1
Publisher: Torquere Press http://www.torquerepress.com
editor@torquerepress.com
Price: $5.95
Author: Gale Chester Whittington
gale@galechesterwhittington.com
http://www.galechesterwhittington.com
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SUPER BRIEF SYNOPSIS:
What would happen if a slight, but attractive blond gay guy fell in love with a good-looking straight Hispanic man and had to deal with an anonymous slasher targeting gay inmates? What are prison camps like? Find out without asking Martha Stewart!
Gale Chester Whittington's murder/mystery/gay romance novel, The Happy Campers, takes place in country-club-like Texarkana Federal Prison Camp, an unusual setting for a novel. The main characters are two men down on their luck: a lonely, 52 year-old, white gambler, KENT WESCHESTER, and a depressed, 31-year-old, drug dealer, DON VILLANOVA.
The book is by turns funny, poignant, and philosophical. It's filled with twists and turns, plus a heart-wrenching love story. Whittington pays close attention to detail and his workmanlike prose is to be commended.
SHORT BIO:
A fit 57, Whittington tells us his father was a fundamentalist Nazarene preacher with a Christian radio program, his mother, a gospel-recording artist. As a young radical militant, Gale fought against the Vietnam War and for gay rights on the streets of San Francisco 1968-1969, (months before the Stonewall uprising--to be documented in his memoir, Beyond Tolerance, The Birth of Gay Pride, currently under consideration by Haworth Press).
Now semi-retired, Gale Chester Whittington worships the sun on fifteen acres in the Oklahoma woods with a vicious Taco Bell dog named Little Devil. When they're not floating in his pool, they care for heirloom varieties of turkeys, guineas, chickens, peafowl, guppies, and wildflowers. After running a Denver pet/bird breeding store for 28 years, Gale returned to writing full time in 2000 and has received numerous awards from the Oklahoma Writer's Federation, Inc. (OWFI) for his novels, memoirs, poems, short stories, and essays. Fully aware that love is a lie, he insists he's most anxious for the next masquerade to begin.
Whittington invites everyone to visit his website--
www.galechesterwhittington.com -- and e-mail him at
gale@galechesterwhittington.com. Ask him why he believes e-books are the wave of the future!
Reviewers should request a free pdf copy of The Happy Campers from
saclements@torquerepress.com
(any or all of the above may be reprinted in part or in it's entirety free of charge by permission of the author, Gale Chester Whittington)
Use this hyperlink to access a picture of the novel's cover:
http://www.galechesterwhittington.com/sitebuilder/images/Cover_Happy_Campers_enhanced
and this one for a small banner that says, "Happy Campers * prison, desire, sunbathing * a novel by gale chester whittington * www.torquerepress.com":
http://www.torquerepress.com/pr/smhappycampers.gif
or this one for a larger banner of the same:
http://www.galechesterwhittington.com/images/lghappycampers_banner.gif
A July 2000 photo of the author taken while he was a prisoner at the Texarkana Federal Prison Camp (for bank fraud--the result of a former gambling addiction) may be accessed here:
http://www.galechesterwhittington.com/sitebuilder/images/Gale_FPC_July_2000_-138x186.png
or a current 2005 Oklahoma picture taken at his home here:
http://www.galechesterwhittington.com/sitebuilder/images/strawhat1-250x187.jpg
(any of the above images can be accessed free of charge when used in conjunction with news about The Happy Campers by permission of the author, Gale Chester Whittington)
For interviews or further information, contact Gale Chester Whittington by e-mail:
gale@galechesterwhittington.com
GAY PRISON CAMP E-NOVEL PREMIER
Title: The Happy Campers
Date Available: November 15, 2005
ISBN: 1-933389-31-1
Publisher: Torquere Press http://www.torquerepress.com
editor@torquerepress.com
Price: $5.95
Author: Gale Chester Whittington
gale@galechesterwhittington.com
http://www.galechesterwhittington.com
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