Oscar Goes Camping

by Chelley Kitzmiller, Gene Stirm

If you’ve ever set up a tent and wanted to tear your hair out because of the EASY instructions, if you’ve ever awakened in the middle of the night because of rocks poking you through your sleeping bag, if you’ve ever discovered too late why you should store your food in bear boxes, or if you’ve ever been smoked out by your own campfire, you’ll appreciate Oscar Goes Camping.
Oscar Goes Camping is a comical look at the crazy things novice campers do, the mistakes they make and the lessons they learn illustrated by color photos of Oscar in various camping scenarios. Oscar’s ever-so-clever Yorkie antics exemplify the excitement, disappointment and mishaps that befall many an unwary camper.
Veteran writers, photographers and campers, Gene Stirm and Chelley Kitzmiller collaborated with Oscar to create this charming, tongue-in-cheek camper’s guide. This is truly an animal lover’s book and perfect gift for every camper or aspiring camper on your gift list. Of course you will want to keep a copy for yourself.

About Oscar:
After Oscar was rescued from the Bakersfield SPCA, Chelley and her husband Ted discovered that the little Yorkie suffers from separation anxiety. So they took Oscar with them most everywhere they went. It was on a camping trip with camping buddies Gene and Patricia Stirm that Gene took a picture of Oscar and discovered that Oscar posed like a pro. Gene took a few more pictures and Oscar Goes Camping was born.
Since then, Oscar has become the spokesdog for Have A Heart Humane Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit. For more about Oscar and his mission to save shelter pets, abandoned pets and strays please visit www.haveahearthumanesociety.org.

72 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 27, 2012

About the author

A California native, Chelley Kitzmiller lives and breathes the Wild West. She travels the West doing research, decorates her home with everything from a cowhide ottoman to a window valance of antique spurs and frames her own Western photography. She’s known and loved a host of Western movie stars such as Jack Palance, Harry Carey, Ronda Fleming and others. She says, “I’ve had quite a ride and the saddle ain’t even broke in yet.”
As a teen, she hated history. The teacher was only interested in students memorizing names and dates; nothing about what motivated the people to do the things they did.
Her favorite historical romance is Sweet Savage Love by Rosemary Rogers. When she read it, she didn’t know that the historical detail was factual and only later discovered the truth and realized that she’d gotten a painless dose of history. SSL was her life-changing experience; it made her want to pen her own historical romance and give to others what Rosemary had given her: history wrapped in an emotional action-packed story.
In her pre-published years, Chelley founded the Orange County RWA Chapter, finaled in RWA’s Golden Heart Contest, organized the Amtrak Love Train (Google the film documentary Where The Heart Roams), organized writers’ conferences, wrote book reviews for Publishers Weekly and had her own book review columns in two major newspapers.
After publishing four books with NAL and Harlequin, Chelley took a long break to help in her husband’s business, open two bookstores, work as an editorial assistant on nine books for Fern Michaels and one for Lauraine Snellng, learn photography and start a pet rescue. Through it all she wrote and still writes magazine and newspaper articles and grants for the pet rescue.
These days she splits her time between writing, RVing and rescuing pets with her daughter, Gina (www.Haveahearthumanesociety.org ). Interact with Chelley on Facebook, Twitter @chelleykitzmlr and sign up for her newsletter at www.chelleykitzmiller.com.