Press Release Author = Arthur Wooten - Alyson Books
Industry = Entertainment
Press Release Summary = Self-Published Gay Author Signs Multiple Traditional Book Deal
Press Release Body = FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - ALYSON BOOKS
ON PICKING FRUIT: A Novel by Arthur Wooten www.onpickingfruit.com
"On Picking Fruit is funny, edgy, unpredictable gay dates from hell. I felt like I was reading my dating autobiography!\" - ANT - Host of VH1\'s \"Celebrity Fit Club\" and star of the new LOGO series,\"U.S. of ANT.\"
"Wooten holds a fun-house mirror to our hapless, all-too-human fumblings for true love with hilarious results instantly recognizable to the would-be romantic in each of us.\" --Scott&Scott authors of the Romentic Series
\"Like many of us, here\'s a good guy who enters the world \'butt first.\' At forty-five he decides to change the angle of his view. On Picking Fruit is a fresh and funny mix of truth and whimsy.\" - William Luce - Tony Award Winning Broadway Playwright
"If gallantry in our day is defined as facing adversity with screams of laughter, then this is the most gallant book I know of." -Edmund White
Nominated for three 2006 Best Debut Novel Awards Lambda Literary Awards Stonewall Book Awards Publishing Triangle\'s Awards
(New York, NY, October 9, 2006)- Arthur Wooten signs multiple book deal with Alyson Books. Having purchased his self-published humorous gay novel, On Picking Fruit, Alyson will reissue the novel in December 2006 followed by Mr. Wooten's sequel, Fruit Cocktail - Spring 2007. He is also contributing a short story to their collection, Best Gay Love Stories: New York City - November 2006 and will write a serial novella, untitled - 2007.
"Alyson Books has an entirely new editorial and marketing team," says Executive Editor Joseph Pittman. "We've relocated from Los Angeles to New York and we know that fresh new talent like Mr. Wooten's will take Alyson to a new level."
"Whether you're straight, bisexual, lesbian, gay or just confused.dating scenarios are universal," says Wooten in response to who will relate to On Picking Fruit. "On Picking Fruit is fast and breezy but also heartbreaking and full of hope."
On Picking Fruit throws a hilarious new spin on dates from hell. Excerpt from On Picking Fruit:
."In his earnest quest to find his true soul mate, Curtis is looking in all the wrong places." -Curtis' shrink
."In his earnest quest for happily ever after, Curtis is much too selective." -Curtis' best friend
."In his earnest quest for a monogamous relationship, Curtis will sleep with anyone." -Curtis' mother
Although he was born gay, Curtis Jenkins has trouble picking fruit. Now a successful middle-aged New York City writer, he's still searching for that elusive man of his dreams. Unfortunately, Curtis has already formed a self-destructive pattern of choosing all the wrong men in all the wrong places.
It's after a bizarre yet comical attempt at suicide that Curtis becomes a reluctant patient of the aging and eccentric psychiatrist, Dr. Magda Tunick. Her gruff and unethical approach to therapy relentlessly pushes Curtis to explore the real reasons why he hasn't found love and helps him to discover the important qualities he desires in a man.
And eager to help Curtis on his quest to find his true soul mate is his irreverent and unpredictable mother, Mrs. J. and his incorrigible best friend and soap opera writer, Quinn.
Will Curtis discover who and what he truly wants in his life? While he barely survives dates that become funny, frightening, sexy, moving, and even shocking, he may just uncover the fortitude to find Mr. Right (or even Mr. Pretty Close).
Arthur Wooten grew up in Andover, MA (just houses down from Jay Leno, no less) and now lives in New York City. A former actor/singer/dancer, Wooten has written for television, theatre and film. On Picking Fruit marks his debut as a novelist.
Alyson Books, Joseph Pittman, Executive Editor (212) 242-8100 www.alyson.com Arthur Wooten (212) 712-1540 arthur@onpickingfruit.com www.onpickingfruit.com
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