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.
Remember us?
Hello friends and fans. There are some great things going on and some great things coming up soon for us. With the Holidays coming up we wanted to take a quick moment to remind you what we have available for you on our book shelves. An Honest Lie Volume 1: Encouraging the Delinquency of Your Inner Child and AHL Volume 2: Delusions of Insignificance of course are available. But don’t forget our great children’s book A Childress Book of Necromancy and our book written for children by the Jr. Church of the Center for Spiritual Living Dallas called The Cave of Colors. And last, but not least, our newest addition All Along the Pacific written by C.B. Calsing. It was released on December 2nd so get yours first! You can find all of them in our shop.
We are currently also accepting submissions for An Honest Lie Volume 3: Justifiable Hypocrisy. We’ve been receiving a great many fantastic submissions so many we’ve brought in extra help. But, with the extra eyes we could stand to receive a great many more. Come on writers get on board. We’re looking for …
… the ironies in life
… the serendipity of it all
… the epitome of adventure
… the power of imperviousness
… the pull of naivety
… the view from a different angle
… the mix of mood, moment, and movement
… the wretched truth
… a clever lie
… the humor inside
… the mockery of it all
We’re looking for the perspective. The subject is up to you. You can find our submission guidelines here. We are looking forward to reading your work. Submit Here.
