BearCity:The Novel front cover

“Finally, a love story for gay men who eat donuts.”

– Alonso Duralde, author of 101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men

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Echo mag: BearCity novel “well-written, often amusing”

BearCity: The Novel
by Lawrence Ferber
(Based on the screenplay co-written with Doug Langway)
(Bear Bones/Lethe, June 2013, $15 softcover, also in e-book)

Tyler is an athletic young man who is coming out of his second “closet.” Already out as gay, he is now ready to admit to his friends that his attraction is to older, hairy, beefy guys, not the hairless circuit boys most of his friends drool over. His twinky best friend, Simon, doesn’t understand that attraction, but helps him navigate the wilds of the “bear scene” in NYC, where Tyler meets and falls in instant lust with Roger, a self-assured, uber-popular “muscle bear” from whom he seems to be getting mixed signals. We also become aware of mini-dramas going on in the same scene, such as a longtime couple wondering if they need to “open” their relationship to keep it strong, and a 300+lb big bear with his Latino “chaser” boyfriend who opposes his partner’s plan to get weight-loss surgery. All this takes place over a special “Bear City” weekend being hosted by a NYC bar.

Having previously seen – more than once – the 2010 comedy film on which this novelization is based, I had doubts that the book would be of much interest to me. For one thing, the action is definitely character-driven, rather than following some kind of logical plot, and it’s not easy to keep all of the different, diverse individuals straight (so to speak) when only meeting them on a printed page rather than portrayed by an actor. To my surprise, the writer does a good job of pacing the story so that it can be understood, and including sixteen stills (including some “behind the scenes”) photos from the film. Light erotic content is not out of place in this well-written, often amusing story, and it’s overall a positive message about a growing minority within the gay community. Four stars out of five.

- Bob Lind, Echo Magazine

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BearCity:The Novel front cover

Now in print!

BearCity: The Novel

Novelization by Lawrence Ferber

Based upon the screenplay
by Doug Langway & Lawrence Ferber

Order your autographed copy of the book direct from BearCity!

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Bear Bones Books proudly presents its newest title, BearCity: The Novel, based on the breakout hit feature-length romantic comedy film.

BearCity follows the funny, romantic, and often dramatic adventures of a tight-knit pack of bears, cubs, and friends in New York City as they gear up for a big party weekend.

A hirsute Sex and the City set in the City’s gay men’s “Bear” scene, the BearCity story brings together these men, their friends, tricks, and lovers, and a cast of colorful, hirsute characters. They experience comical mishaps, lusty and romantic encounters, and a staggering variety of male body types.

Using satire and humor, BearCity, the novel explores these men’s self-image issues, as well as poking fun at aspects of urban gay and bisexual male lifestyles, all while celebrating the worldwide community of homomasculine men who call themselves Bears.

BearCity also features 16 b/w photo images chosen by the author and director from the hi-res digital film, as well as a dozen behind-the-scenes photos taken by Lawrence Ferber.

Lawrence Ferber, author of BearCity: The Novel (left)
Doug Langway, director of BearCity

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About the authors:

Lawrence Ferber is a freelance travel/entertainment journalist and filmmaker who has written for National Geographic Traveler, Passport Magazine, Instinct, LA Frontiers, NYC Next, The Advocate, Entertainment Weekly, Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, Time Out NY, Genre, Out, HX, In Magazine, Philadelphia Gay News. He is co-writer / co-creator of the 2010 gay romantic comedy, BearCity, for which he and Doug Langway won Outfest’s Outstanding Screenwriting Award. He lives in New York City. Doug Langway cowrote and directed the award-winning feature-length films, BearCity & BearCity 2. Both Larry and Doug live in New York City.

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BearCity: The Novel

Novelization by Lawrence Ferber, based upon the screenplay by Doug Langway & Lawrence Ferber

Bear Bones Books / Lethe Press ~ Release date: June 1, 2013

Categories: Gay Fiction / Movies

ISBN-13: 978-1-59021-323-0

eISBN-13: 978-1-59021-154-0

184 pp., 6 x 9 inches ~ Paperback: $15.00 ~ eBook: $5.99

Distributed by: Baker & Taylor, Ingram, TLA Books, Queerbooks.com.

Also available at Amazon on Kindle and at Smashwords in all ebook formats.

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Sunday, June 16th, 2013, 3:00 PM  ~  27 Orchard St., New York, NY

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How Bear Erotica Can Spice up Your Relationship

Coined by Richard Bulger and his partner Chris Nelson, the term “Bear” was popularized when the two founded Bear Magazine in 1987. Although the term was already widely used in LGBT community, Bulger and Nelson’s publication brought the term and the lifestyle to the mainstream. Now, 26 years later, the bear lifestyle has generated apps, websites, magazines, and books devoted to hairy, husky, strong men and those who love them.

You may already be deeply entrenched in the bear community and think that there’s nothing new you can glean about the lifestyle, yourself, or, if you’re a bear chaser, your prey. However, there’s still much that you can learn about the bear lifestyle, and reading erotic novels on the subject can make you a master on the topic. Erotic novels about the bear community can teach you a lot about the lifestyle and how to incorporate certain aspects of the lifestyle in your relationship.

Story Time Equals Couple Quality Time

Reading erotic stories with your mate allows you and your partner the opportunity to discuss and share naughty tales without having to contrive these stories on your own. Choose a certain paragraph or section in the book that relates to you and your mate as a bear couple and read the part out aloud to your partner. This creates gives you the chance to connect as a couple and share your own fantasies as erotic storytelling produces an excellent avenue for sharing. Additionally, these tales provide you and your partner with an outlet for fantasies and an opportunity for sexual dialogue, which is an intrinsic part of a relationship.

Erotic Bear Novels Offer up Some Tantalizing Ideas

Let’s face it—relationships can be a drag and a bit boring at times, so couples need something to spice things up a bit. Why most relationships fail is due to monotony in the shack. Enter erotic tales about bears. Oftentimes, couples are aware that their relationships are lacking in the sex department; however, they don’t know where to begin. Erotic stories open your mind to sexual fantasies and ushers in new ideas that you can experiment with and implement in real life. In addition to an erotic novel or anthology of bearotic stories, you and your mate can intensify the sexual components of your relationship by adding men’s sex toys into the mix. Combining erotic book storytelling with a sexual device can increase your desire not only to have more sex, but engage in different types of sex.

Sharing Erotic Stories Can Inspire Sexual Role Playing

Reading erotic stories centered on your relationship and the homomasculine community of man-lovers can generate ideas for different roles you and your partner can use in the boudoir. Although you and/or your mate may have sexual hang-ups or view role-playing as a trite, unnecessary act, acting out a scene or scenario from a bear novel can be more exciting and passionate than you or your partner could ever imagine. Use the story as a script, choose which characters to play, and, most importantly, enjoy yourselves and your intimacy as a couple.

BearCity: The Novel

Novelization by Lawrence Ferber

Based upon the screenplay
by Doug Langway & Lawrence Ferber

Order the book now from the BearCity website!

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BearCity, the novel, front cover, pre-release

The Bear Bones Books imprint of indy publisher Lethe Press proudly presents its eighteenth title, BearCity: The Novel, based on Doug Langway’s eponymous smash hit feature-length comedy film.

BearCity follows the funny, sexy, and often dramatic adventures of a tight-knit pack of bears, cubs, and friends in New York City as they gear up for a big party weekend.

A hirsute Sex and the City set in the City’s gay/bi men’s “Bear” scene, the BearCity story brings together these men, their friends, tricks, and lovers, and a cast of colorful, hirsute characters. They experience comical mishaps, lusty and romantic encounters, and a staggering variety of male body types.

Using satire and humor, BearCity, the novel explores these men’s self-image issues, as well as poking fun at aspects of urban gay and bisexual male lifestyles, all while celebrating the worldwide community of homomasculine men who call themselves Bears.

BearCity also features 16 outstanding b/w photo images chosen by the author and director directly from the hi-res digital film, as well as many behind-the-scenes photos taken by the author.

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About the authors:

Lawrence Ferber  is a freelance travel/entertainment journalist and filmmaker who has written for National Geographic Traveler, Passport Magazine, Instinct, LA Frontiers, NYC Next, The Advocate, Entertainment Weekly, Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, Time Out NY, Genre, Out, HX, In Magazine, Philadelphia Gay News. He is co-writer / co-creator of the 2010 gay romantic comedy, BearCity, for which he and Doug Langway won Outfest’s Outstanding Screenwriting Award. He lives in New York City.  Doug Langway cowrote and directed the award-winning feature-length films, BearCity & BearCity 2. Both Lawrence and Doug live in New York City.

Lawrence Ferber, author of BearCity: The Novel (left)
Doug Langway, director of BearCity

BearCity:  The Novel

Novelization by Lawrence Ferber, based upon the screenplay by Doug Langway & Lawrence Ferber

Bear Bones Books / Lethe Press   ~   Release date: June 1, 2013

Categories: Gay Fiction / Movies

ISBN-13: 978-1-59021-323-0

eISBN-13:   978-1-59021-154-0

184 pp., 6 x 9 inches    ~   Paperback: $15.00   ~   eBook: $5.99

Distributed by: ASP, Baker & Taylor, Ingram, TLA Books, Queerbooks.com.

Also available at Amazon on Kindle and at Smashwords in all ebook formats.

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Please join us for the book launch at BGSQD

Sunday, June 16th, 2013, 3:00 PM

27 Orchard St., New York, NY

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For more on the movie.

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Media queries: Ron J. Suresha: ron DOTsuresha ATgmailDOT com .

Night Duty, and other stories

by Nicolas Mann

Hot & hairy Daddybear tales and artwork

to awaken and arouse your nocturnal missions!

Night Duty, by Nicolas Man, front cover

Bear Bones Books proudly presents its 15th title, Night Duty, and Other Stories, a sexy, fun, often touching collection of Daddybear short fiction by bear-identified writer and artist Nicolas Mann, with fifteen captivating stories, accompanied by thirteen of Mann’s original illustrations.

Buy Night Duty at Amazon now!

All men hold secrets. It’s in their genes. It’s part of their nature. The mystery of a man, like his musky, masculine scent, is discovered only when he meets naked with another man.

The janitor in the college bathrooms late at night and the professor he meets there. The grizzled mountain men in the Old West sharing a bathtub in a hotel room. The neighbor kid’s Dad in his underwear, drinking and watching videos in the basement. The thickset, gray-bearded homeless daddybear in the alley behind the house. The shadowy priest confronting the young man confessing his sins. The burly innkeeper at a mysterious rustic country retreat.

By day, these men daily mask their innermost desires. Yet it is inevitable that, in the course of their nighttime duties, these men of hair and bone will reveal the hidden secrets thumping in their hearts and pulsing in their pants, to another man who will fulfill those hidden fantasies.

In Night Duty, Nicolas Mann shares his erotic fiction and artwork featuring masculine, hairy men and the other sexy guys whom they lust after, and who love them in return — including drawings created especially for this book.

As a writer, illustrator, and photographer in the gay/bi/queer men’s Bear community, Nick calls himself a dreamer and admits that his dreaming life is richer than his waking one. To him, “dreams are like stories and stories are like dreams: they walk hand in hand in the realm of sleep.”

This unique collection of bearotic fiction and art will amuse and arouse anyone who enjoys the intimate company of masculine men.

Illustrations from Nick Mann’s book, Night Duty

Contents

Preface by R. Jackson •  Night Duty • Bar Tale • Lost Daddy • Mountain Men • Guy’s New Toys • Mr. Tucker • To Protect and Serve • Newt’s Lesson • Bless Me, Father • Extra Pair of Hands • The Manhandler • Summer of Love • Father Figure • Jeremy • The Ghost of Dark Oak Cottage

Nicolas Mann

About the Author

Nicolas Mann (no relation to BBB author Jeff Mann) grew up in Northern Ohio, where he began writing and drawing at an early age. In 1974 he moved to Chicago, where he studied at The American Academy of Art. His writing was published first in 1993 when, prompted by a friend, he submitted a story to the popular gay / bi men’s magazine, HandJobs. Since then, Mann has contributed more than a dozen stories to HJ, often accompanied by his own drawings and photography, as well as illustrations for other stories. Mann’s writing has been published also in 100% Beef magazine and in the anthology, Tales from the Den. His artwork has graced the cover of the weekly paper Gay Chicago, and appeared in several local bar advertisements. The author lives in upstate Wisconsin with his partner Matthew, their dog Gus, and their cat Lila.

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Night Duty, and other stories

by Nicolas Mann

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Bear Bones Books / Lethe Press • February 2013 • Category: Gay Fiction

ISBN: 978-1-59021-263-9 / 1-59021-263-0

eISBN: 978-1-59021-455-8 / 1-59021-455-2

200 pp., 6 x 9 inches • Paperback: $15.00

eBook (depends on format): $6.99

Distributed by: Brodart Co., Folletts, Ingram, TLA Books, Queerbooks.com, Smashwords, Amazon, and by order from your local independent bookseller.

 Bears don’t just hibernate in winter anymore. You’ll still find them in caves, but now they’re surrounded by big screen plasma TVs, iPads, and the latest in technology. Even so, they venture out in the cold and ice for food, fun, and romance.

I’m looking for stories about bears finding other bears for romance. Erotic content may be a part of the story (as it is with romance), but should not be the main focus. As always, character, set-up and a great sense of place are all important. The only other stipulation is that cold, snow, or ice must be a fundamental part of the story.

Be as creative as you like with the concept—bears on snowy peaks, bears and refrigerators (a great combo), trucker bears in reefers, western bears on the frozen plains, bears delivering ice during Prohibition—don’t feel limited by time and space, either. Spec fic, mythology, fantasy, historical, horror or paranormal are all fair game as long as it’s chilly. And romantic.

The particulars? Okay, make it between 2,500 to 7,500 words in a nice 12 point Times Roman font. Numbered pages, double spaced, indented paragraphs with one space after a sentence-ending period, please—otherwise, your story will be returned for re-punctuation. Please include bio and contact information with the submission. No reprints, please. The deadline is September 1, 2013 with a November 2013 publication date from the Bear Bones Books imprint of Lethe Press. Payment will be three cents per word, and you can send all submissions to Jerry L. Wheeler at pfloydian191@hotmail.com.

So put on your thinking caps (the ones with the earflaps), learn how to type while wearing mittens and watch out for frostbite.

Call for Submissions: Bear Poetry

Deadline extended to January 31, 2013!

Call for Submissions: Bear Poetry

The Bear Bones Books imprint of GBLTQ publisher Lethe Press is planning to release an anthology of poems written by and for gay/bi/queer Bear readers in the next year.
We seek excellent poetic writing that conveys the depth and breadth of the experience of Bear life. Topics may include Bear love, lust, fat, hair, fetishism, aging, eroticism, maturity, masculinity, chasing, community, &c. We want poems that will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up and grow hair on your palms!
We will definitely consider previously printed work; please include publication date and complete details.
Deadline : December 31st, 2012. Extended to January 31, 2013.
Submission: Word doc file, one poem per page. Please include your legal name, pseudonym (if used), complete street address, contact numbers / best times to call, and brief (<75 words) biographical notes.
Remuneration: Upon publication, 2 contributor copies and modest one-time payment.
Information : Go to http://snurl.com/247sirz for complete submission details and latest news — or email bearsoup @ gmail. com.

Bear Bones Books proudly presents

its 2008 ~ 2012 collection

of powerful contemporary fiction and nonfiction

written by and for men of the gay & bi bear community.

Fiction

Bear Like Me, a novel by Jonathan Cohen

Bear Lust: Hot & Hairy Fiction, edited by R. Jackson

Bearotica: Hot & Hairy Fiction, edited by R. Jackson

Bears in the Wild: Hot & Hairy Fiction, edited by R. Jackson

Desire & Devour, by Jeff Mann

Fog, a novel by Jeff Mann

A History of Barbed Wire, by Jeff Mann

The House of Wolves, a novel by Robert B. McDiarmid

The Limits of Pleasure, a novel by Daniel M. Jaffe

Purgatory, a novel by Jeff Mann

Spring of the Stag God, by J.C. Herneson

Tales from the Den: Wild & Weird Stories for Bears, edited by R. Jackson

Waking Up Bear, and other stories, by Jay Neal

Nonfiction

Bears on Bears: Interviews & Discussions, revised edition, by Ron J. Suresha

Binding the God: Ursine Essays from the Mountain South, by Jeff Mann

Edge: Travels of an Appalachian Leather Bear, by Jeff Mann

Santa’s got it in the bag!

Just click on any of the titles listed above to be linked to TLA Books — including all of our titles in all ebook formats!

Bear Bones Books is proud to announce that two of its books received honors in this year’s prestigious Rainbow Awards.

Desire & Devour: Stories of Blood & Sweat, by Jeff Mann

Best LGBT Erotica:
Jeff Mann – Desire and Devour

Our friend Jerry L. Wheeler also won in this category for his books, Riding the Rails, and The Dirty Diner, both from Bold Strokes Books.

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Purgatory, by Jeff Mann

Best Gay Historical:
Jeff Mann – Purgatory

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Additionally, BBB cofounder Ron Suresha’s book, Fur: The Love of Hair (from German publisher Bruno Gmünder), received an award in the Best LGBT Non Fiction category.

Congratulations to Jeff and to all the winners and honorees, and thanks to Elisa Reviews and their judges!