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clearing the publishing air

Received today all sorts of positive clarification, businesslike conciliation, and satisfying progress on nearly every major project I'm working on. An essay I submitted on gay marriage was accepted for an anthology to come out this year…Finished Bear Stew #7 column for AmBear… After a couple of emails and a phonecall, I'm optimistic that my new editor at Alyson has BEAR LUST on track, although we have to scramble now to approve a new coverbear and back cover copy, and I suddenly have 10 days to check the page proofs – right in the middle of everything else! Rocco and I were wondering aloud yesterday if the new editrix, Tiffany was maybe a tranny name but, no, turns out she's a biogirl. She seems a real copy editor who communicates well… Also some positive contact with the folks publishing KINK….Plus now that everything is basically in for both bi men anthologies, I can start to envision the shape that both of those books will actually take.
A big yay day.

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.