In the Big Leagues
Greetings Friends and Fans,
We have some pretty exciting news to share with you. As of right this instant, our books are available on Amazon.com and at Barnes and Noble.com. You can pick up your favorite volume of An Honest Lie at your favorite book store and all for a reduced rate.
An Honest Lie Volume 1: Encouraging the Delinquency of Your Inner Child includes great pieces by top of the pile authors like Brittney Dillard, Bob Clark, Robert Dean, and Will Terry. This is a “can’t miss” volume of some of the best up and coming writers in the business today.
An Honest Lie Volume 2: Delusions of Insignificance is just as exciting and features new authors like, Claire Ibarra, Cynthia Witherspoon, Patrick Scalisi, and Jessica Dunn as well as returning greats such as Eric Trant (who is also, incidentally, the winner of the coveted An Honest Lie Book Deal) and C.B. Calsing who gave us All Along the Pacific.
Wow! such great reading just sitting there waiting to be read, by you our dear faithful friends and fans. It’s only because of you that we get to do this. So keep your support efforts coming in and we will continue to thrill you with the best emerging literature.
Don’t forget, we are also taking submissions for An Honest Lie Volume 3: Justifiable Hypocrisy. We’ve seen more than a few great submissions and now, we are looking to read yours. Throw down your fanciest gauntlet and see if you have the chops to make the grade. Check out the Submission Guidelines for more information.
And now … as always it has been a thrill but we must, I’m afraid, bid you a fond farewell. Until next time dear friends and fans; until next time.
What’s Going On?
Hey there friends and fans of Open Heart Publishing. We hope your new year is treating you right so far. Things are looking bright for us and I am here to share some of it with you today.
Last night the staff of Open Heart Publishing gathered to do some brain storming and to make some decisions about the coming months. And, because you can’t have a creative meeting and not have some fun, we celebrated not one but two birthdays. Our fearless leader Debrin turned on the eighth and our newest addition Melanie turned yesterday. Happy birthday to you both.
As you already know our An Honest Lie Volume 1 winner Eric Trant will be bringing us something amazing in the coming year. Without giving away too many details, I want to tell you that what we are looking at is simply amazing. We’re excited about it.
Also, we are working on a new project, a quarterly literary ezine called “Ramble Tree”. This is going to be a great project. And with it are going to come some great updates to our websites. Keep following us over the next 60 days or so for sneak peeks and all of the glorious details.
Debrin will soon be embarking on a bit of a walk about as well. He’s going to be visiting book stores, libraries and other places around the country promoting our work and our company. Stay tuned for his schedule and when he’s in your town drop in to say hi, and buy a book. Who knows, he may even sign one for you.
Finally, and this is amazing, one of our contributors, Cynthia Witherspoon, writing as Cynthia Gael, is in the running for The Best Young Adult award for her novel Balefire and Moonstone. Look her up and vote for her here. While you’re at it like her Facebook page as well.
Until next time … keep writing, keep reading.
Davin Kimble
Jr. Editor
Ready … Prompt … Go
After the spirit of the holidays and in the spirit of great literature I wanted to talk to you about the theme of this year’s An Honest Lie anthology. As you know ever year we at Open Heart Publishing give ya’ll an opportunity to win a book deal with us. All you have to do is write a tale that follows a simple prompt.
In the first year we offered, for your writing pleasure, An Honest Lie Volume 1: Encouraging the Delinquency of Your Inner Child. We received hundreds of submissions and out of those published fourteen of the best authors I’ve had the fortune to read. Encouraging the Delinquency of Your Inner Child attracted wonderful and thrilling entries like, Gran’s Prophesy by C.B. Calsing, a tale about a man whose Inner child made him a king in his time, and our winner Eric Trant’s submission Apple Tree, where we follow two boys on a mission. Everyone put their inner child forward and made us proud.
An Honest Lie volume 2: Delusions of Insignificance challenged our writers even further. The response was 
almost overwhelming but being the dedicated people we are we were able to give you an even greater effort. The stories were better than before. We are happy to have published great authors like Terry Sanville, Claire Ibarra, Rob Rosen and Patrick Scalisi. In An Honest Lie Volume 2: Delusions of Insignificance they told us about secret world’s hidden right in our own homes, young super heroes in training, high power highbrows, and crushing weight. Vote for your favorite and help them win that book deal.
This year, we really stepped out and brought our most thought provoking prompt yet: Justifiable Hypocrisy. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about those two small words. I am after all expected to present a submission for publication. From the great stories we’ve been reading I am sure we are well on our way to presenting the best anthology yet.
We look forward to reading your work.
… and a happy New year!
Happy New Year
It’s past Christmas but we are still fully in the swing of the holiday season. It’s not too late to order your copy of any of our great books. You can do your part to support the small press and check out our store.
Earlier today I had a long conversation with Our Fearless Leader and he let me in on some pretty exciting stuff. Something about t***rs and a bit about e****s and some thing else about E***c T***t. As you can see the company censors are all over it and won’t let me leak anything right now. I can tell you that we have some secrets and surprises in store for 2011. Even though I’m not allowed to give any spoilers … I am going to do everything I can to ferret out the details and, as ever friends and fans, I will spirit them on swift wings to your ear.
Until then, I wish you all a happy and prosperous new year. Have a safe and sane weekend. See you next year baby! Whooo!
