The Ghosts of Stonewall: Clairvoyant Explores Stonewall Riot Karma in Gay Novel
As a clairvoyant, Alderin Ordell has seen glimpses of the afterlife. Now he taps that experience in his first novel, The Ghosts of Stonewall.
Online, July 23, 2012 (Newswire.com) - As a clairvoyant, Alderin Ordell has seen glimpses of the afterlife. Now he taps that experience in his first novel, The Ghosts of Stonewall (ISBN 1475066856, CreateSpace, http://www.amazon.com/dp/1475066856/ref=rdr_ext_tmb), which explores a gay love story complicated by murderous karma amidst the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York.
Alderin drew from hundreds of hours of clairvoyant readings including gay and lesbian people affected by the riots. "The Stonewall karma is real," the author said. "It affects all gay and lesbian people, even if they weren't there. So I had to write about it."
Karma is born from unresolved events in our lives. "It's unfinished business," said Alderin. "The Ghosts of Stonewall shows how past life karma manifests in the Stonewall riots, then the consequences of that karma are illustrated through four more lifetimes."
Besides past lives and karma, The Ghosts of Stonewall explores the gay and lesbian struggle to love and be loved amidst the American culture of hate and discrimination of the past few decades. "Ultimately, the characters must choose whether to fight for what they believe in or to run and preserve their love," said Ordell. "In the tension of that choice, they discover who they are in the deepest sense possible."
Born in Grass Valley, California, Alderin Ordell has a MA in Psychology from the University of San Francisco and an Associate Minister's degree from the Berkeley Psychic Institute. He interned at Positive Images in Santa Rosa, California, a support group for gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth; and at Matanzas Elementary School. He worked as a group-home counselor for Plumfield Academy in Sebastopol, California. Ordell lives and works in Boyds, Maryland with his wife and two kids and is currently working on his next book. Learn more about The Ghosts of Stonewall at http://www.amazon.com/dp/1475066856/ref=rdr_ext_tmb and at http://www.ghostsofstonewall.com.