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.