Hello everyone. It’s me … the new guy. I am sure that many of you are wondering who I am. I hope you all have visited my web sites, done your research and drew your conclusions; as all good writers should. I welcome your inquires and criticisms. You see, one of my guiding principles is being a better person today than I was on the day previous and, with much sweating and ponderous speculation I decided not to regale you with my greatness, instead I hope I can give you something I find much more important, how I see the art form we all share.

I see the art of writing much like I see the art of dance. Both are refined arts with years of preparation required before you are truly capable of producing a work of art. While the dancer spends hours in a studio practicing her steps, the writer spends hours spinning their words into sentences, those sentences into stories that grab, hold and dazzle the reader. I love that journey from the realization that the story is inside of you, to the finalization of the tale itself. You almost feel like you almost have to write “The End”, to close the door and free yourself to start again.

For me, there is no higher thing in a person’s life than to do something that has meaning to them. Many of us chase dreams, but few of us figure out that it’s better to put yourself in the path of your dreams so that they come to you. Your path, like mine is the path of the literate. It’s why you’re here; it’s why I’m here. The dance of the words across the page is just too mesmerizing to resist. So we don’t resist, we dance.

Here at Open Heart Publishing we are working to showcase the absolute best of those dances. We want to give our readers an experience that not only they will remember and tell their friends about, but one that they will return to on occasion. We want to create rainy day books, well thumbed and well loved tomes of “sacred texts”. In order to do that we realize that we have to work closely with our writers in order to produce a product that everyone can be happy with and proud of. We know, that this is not a dance we can do alone, this is an orchestra of creativity and it will only come together if we are all writing on the same page.

To that end, with the upcoming An Honest Lie Volume 2, we are going to be spending some time with the authors chosen for the book. We are going to find out some things about their craft, and the inspirations for their stories. We are going to find out what makes them dance across the pages one word at a time until the “The End”.

I hope you will stand by us as we move forward, turning Open Heart Publishing into a house you can rely on to provide you with quality literary entertainment, a serious and focused place you can trust your best work with, and a network that will work along with you to place all of us in the path of our dreams.

So, as I begin here with Open Heart Publishing, as we all continue into the great tomorrows in our lives, I would ask this of you, do your dance, incorporate it with ours if you can, if you dare to elevate yourself. With an open heart I welcome you all.