About

If you remember "The BerenstEin Bears", welcome to THIS universe!

My name is Michael Scanlon, and I write stories. Even though I love writing them, I'm always trying to write stories people would love to read.

For me, story ideas can come from anywhere. The idea for BerenstEin came to me when I realized that my memory of "The Berenstain Bears" was that it was spelled "Berenstein". When I tried to look up when the name had been changed, I found out that it had always been "The Berenstain Bears", and that many people, including me, simply misremember it.

I also found that there are some pretty interesting, entertaining, and thought provoking theories out there for this phenomenon, ranging from government conspiracies to alternate universes. I was instantly inspired to write this 7,000 word short story:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/michael-scanlon/berenstein-a-short-story/664433400358974

I had such a blast writing "BerenstEin - a short story", and there is so much material to develop and explore, that I am working on turning BerenstEin into a novel.

If you enjoyed the short story, please share it and this campaign with as many people as possible.

If any of the rewards of this campaign seem reasonable, and you believe that BerenstEin - a novel is worth even more attention, all money raised during this campaign will go towards the marketing of the book.

Thank you so much!