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IBR – PAWS

Grrreetings, gentlebears!

Just pokin' my furry face out from under the covers of hibernation to let folks know what I'm up to. In December, I finished work on two collections of bisexual men's writings, to be published by Haworth Press and the Journal of Bisexuality.

Bear Lust, which came out in November, has been doing well, as far as I can tell. Due to new federal regulations, I can no longer travel to red states, so I had to limit readings for the new anthology to Manhattan, Boston, and Providence. ;-)}

I will be attending IBR with my husbear, Dr Rocco Russo. It will be his first IBR, so please do say hi and flirt with him shamelessly. If any other husbears are interested in a group photo op, perhaps we can set up something with Lyn Ludwig during IBR. Watch the message board at IBR.

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And now, the lit-bear-ary event of the year!

Saturday, February 19, 2005
10:30am sharp
San Francisco, CA
Downtown Civic Center Ramada

PAWS (Performance, Arts, Words, & Screen) Lit-bear-ary Festival

Join us for our newly re-acronymed
PAWS – the fourth annual Lit-bear-ary Festival held as part of the Bears of San Francisco's furapalooza deluxe, International Bear Rendezvous 2005.

This year's program features:
+ A film screening of Barth Cox's short documentary, Asking to See the Soul
+ Raymond Luczac, author, Men with their Hands
+ Jeff Mann, author, Edge
+ Joel Perry, author, That's Why They're in Cages, People!
+ Alan Reade, performance artist, 4 Seasons in a Day
+ Simon Sheppard, author, In Deep
+ Ron Suresha, editor, Bear Lust

Books and CDs will be available for sale, and authors will gladly autograph books and meet readers in person. For more info on the event and links to the PAWS authors and their books, go to:
http://suresha.com/events/events.php

As some folks may know, I was unable to attend last year due to health problems. I'm glad to report that, one year following the end of treatment, my health is great. Thanks again to Bob McDiarmid and Les Wright for coordinating last year's event; unfortunately they are unavailable this year to participate. Still, I'm very much looking forward
to seeing everybear else back in my old SF haunts again soon.

allbest, with bearhugs,
Ron

Published by Ron Suresha

Ron Jackson Suresha is an editor, anthologist, and writer. He is considered an authority on emergent queer masculinities, in particular the subcultures of gay and bi male Bears and of male bisexuality. For Ron's service to the bear community, he was named "Bear of the Year" 2008. Born in Detroit, Michigan, Suresha attended the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 1976-8), where he studied creative writing, and Vista College (Berkeley, Cal., 1989-92), where he studied American Sign Language. For more than two decades, he has worked as a freelance proofreader for trade book publishers such as Shambhala Publications. He was married in October 2004 to Rocco Russo. He is also a licensed Justice of the Peace in Connecticut, an ordained minister, ULC, and a member of the New London Green Party. Nonfiction works include Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions; Bi Men: Coming Out (coeditor, with Pete Chvany); Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey (editor). His latest book is The Uncommon Sense of the Immortal Mullah Nasruddin: Stories, jests, and donkey tales of the beloved Persian folk hero, published by Lethe Press.