Uncle Bear Publishing LLC

01/02/2025

My neon sign arrived :)

12/01/2024

Digging Up Positivity did a nice story on the Good Furry Awards, which is sponsored by us. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9cx3SXvut4
The part about the GFAs stars a little after 8 minutes, but watch the whole show. Danny Palic does a wonderful video series and it is not getting the audience attention it deserves.

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11/10/2024

A Note on Upcoming Tariffs:

All Uncle Bear books are printed and bound in the USA (in California, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania) for customers in North and South America and in the United Kingdom for customers in the UK and in Europe.

At this time, we do not anticipate that book costs will go up much should the new administration follow through with its promise to impose a 20% tariff on imports (costs that are passed along to the consumer, not the country of origin, as many mistakenly believe). However, prices might be affected if such things as ink or other materials and machinery involved in the manufacture of books come from nations outside the USA.

We will do our best to keep costs about where they are currently. We support our American workers and customers and all those in the USA and out in the furry community.

Thank you for your support and your patronage.

​The Uncle Bear Team

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11/06/2024

https://www.askpapabear.com/letters/a-special-note-about-the-election-result

Papabear offers a sympathetic ear for anyone upset that the criminal Trump is going to return to the White House. Feel free to write Papabear and we can hug and support each other during these scary times.

10/24/2024

I'm looking for authors to write nonfiction books related to the fandom. Here are some thoughts, but I'm open to other ideas. If you are someone who has a book idea and would like to actually write it, I'm listening. Some possible book ideas that I am interested in:

--Fursuit care, repair, and mainenance
--Fursona species: what they are and what do they mean?
--Best Furry Board, Card, and Video Games (basically, reviews of the best furry games, kind of like a movie review book only with games)
--Exploring your s*x and gender identity in the fandom
--Making Money in the Fandom (types of businesses in the fandom and how to make money online and going to cons and such)
--Creating Your Fursona (how-to book)
--Best in Furry Fiction: Novels, Graphic Novels, Comic Books, etc.

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10/19/2024

The Good Furry Awards, which Uncle Bear Publishing sponsors, have been announced. You can learn about the worthy winners here:

The Image Award The winner of the Image Award is . . . Finn the Panther! Finn recorded the message below as a thank you! Below is a special "Thank You" video from Finn.

09/13/2024

Just and update on books in progress.

Okay, first of all is Michael D. Winkle's Beasts Beyond Belief: Sneaky Werewolves, Flying Cats, and Accidental Apes, which I just need to finish proofreading and typesetting, so hopefully before Halloween! This is a really fun book that includes some new stories of familiar beasts (Bigfoot, Nessie) but also some less familiar tales such as flying rabbits and interdimensional hamsters. You'll be both spooked and amused by this one!

Next is my cowritten book with Grubbs Grizzly called The Furry Book: The Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of the Furry Fandom. I don't mind telling you that this has become quite the project. I am now sympathetic to Margaret Mitchell, who took 10 years to finish her Gone with the Wind. I am on track to match that as the book is now 170,000 words in length. If I play my cards right, my ambition is to make this the bible of the furry fandom. No, I'm not God LOL. It's bible with a small "b." It is quite evident that this project will continue even after this edition is complete because as the fandom changes (which it is doing at an astonishing pace) I will need to produce new editions every couple of years.

Third is Rod O'Riley's Movies for Furries: An A to Z Guide. So far, he has written the A's through the C's. He hopes to finish it by next spring, and having read these first chapters, I can tell you it is a terrific book that any furry who loves movies will want to own.

Down the road further, I will be writing a "Best of Ask Papabear" book, which, being a selection, should easily come out in 2025. Another project is in the proposal stage that is written by a singer and composer about their trials and tribulations making it as an entertainer in the furry world. I'm also keen on writing a book all about s*x and s*xuality in the fandom (along the lines of Dr. Ruth). Might see if I can't find a licensed s*x therapist to help me on that one.

I am always open to book proposals. There are so many things that could be written about. For example, I would love a book about gaming in the fandom, and I would love to see an in-depth book on the furry fandom's history from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Thanks for reading! I hope to have more news in the coming months.

Kevin

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09/08/2024

Science can do a lot for the problems that science created in the first place. hmmm

Chemists have found a secret sauce to quickly and easily remove 98 percent of tiny invisible plastic pieces from water

09/02/2024

https://www.askpapabear.com/good-furry-award.html
VOTING IS NOW OPEN THROUGH SEPTEMBER!

08/13/2024

An interview with the late Jim Willis, author of Cosmo and Me, was posted recently here. It's an interesting listen from a very spiritual and enlightened man whom we will miss.

You can purchase Cosmo and Me here: https://www.unclebearpublishing.com/store/p1/cosmo-and-me.html #/

Today's episode is a rebroadcast of my interview with Jim Willis Jim sadly passed away in June 2024

07/23/2024

Bearly of Bearly Furcasting interviewed me a couple of weeks ago. You can listen to it here https://bearlyfurcasting.buzzsprout.com/1055632/15346515-bearly-furcasting-s5e3-too-much-fluff . I come on about 53 minutes in.

Taebyn, Rayne and Bearly discuss the goings on of the last couple weeks.  We welcome a new staff member to the podcast: Tick Tock is our new Furry News Correspondent!  We get a story from Taebyn, explain things Taebyn doesn’t understand,...

06/08/2024

It is with great sadness that I report that Jim Willis, the author of our first release, Cosmo and Me, passed away yesterday.

Our thoughts and sympathy are with his family in this difficult time.

05/28/2024

Good news :) After a year of waiting, I can now say that Uncle Bear Publishing is a registered trademark! So, I can switch the little TM symbol with the little circled R next to the company name.

This is nice because it means my name is protected and people can't go around pretending to represent my company.

I feel so official!

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05/21/2024

Here is a quick preview of the books coming soon from Uncle Bear Publishing

05/06/2024

Hope everyone had a fun May the Fourth Cinco de Mayo!

05/02/2024

Get $5.00 off when you order your copy of Furtannia by Tim Stoddard now through May 31. Just enter this code:

UBP500

when you're in the shopping cart!

The complete history of furry conventions, meets, and furry parties in the United Kingdom, including origins, media reactions, furry zines and comics, and the influence of British literature and culture on the furry fandom.

04/30/2024

This is a study explaining why writing by hand is better for you cognitively than typing. The physical action of handwriting makes you think more deeply. Although the below article doesn't touch on the subject, I strongly believe that the same is true for creating art. A number of digital artists I know argue that "AI is only a tool to help speed up the art creation process." I argue that using AI to create art dulls the brain and lessens the creative process.

Anyway, the following is from the Scientific American email newsletter I get:

Hands-On
Students who take notes the traditional way, with pen, pencil or even a stylus on a tablet, learn better. New research points to a mechanism: writing by hand stimulates brain activity across a wide range of interconnected brain regions responsible for movement, vision, sensory processing and memory, reports science and tech journalist Charlotte Hu. But the findings do not hold Luddite implications. The problem is relying too heavily on technology, such as increasingly using smartphones to remember tasks and information, taking photos instead of memorizing visual data, or depending on GPS for navigation.

How it works: By drawing and otherwise enacting information, “you have to produce something that’s meaningful,” says Yadurshana Sivashankar, a cognitive neuroscience graduate student, who was not involved in the new study. As we write, we transform the information, paving and deepening interconnections in the brain, Sivashankar says, making it “much easier to access that information.”

What the experts say: Typing yields minimal brain activity in the same areas. This study and others suggest that we type without thinking. “It’s very tempting to type down everything that the lecturer is saying. It kind of goes in through your ears and comes out through your fingertips, but you don’t process the incoming information,” says study co-author Audrey van der Meer.

04/23/2024

Sometimes, I question my abilities as an author, and when I do, I go look at my previous books. I haven't looked at the Amazon listing of my Handy California Answer Book in some time, and was really happy to see the reviews and that I have a solid 5-star rating :)

The Handy California Answer Book (The Handy Answer Book Series)