Open Your Heart

Open Your Heart

As many of you may know I have been diligently working on increasing my exposure, writing my book and getting my work published. I’ve been recently published in two small press releases; The Devil Inside and House of Horror Best of 2009 Anthology. I took a plunge into the Fishbowl and tried my hand at producing a radio show. That took a lot of fast writing. I was on local television. That took very little writing. And I won my first column called On the Other Hand with Pagan Imagination. It’s been a great year. Slowly but surely it seems things are coming together.

I realized early on that nothing was going to happen at all if I continued to sit in my little writing hole pecking away at my keyboard. We, writers I mean not you and me, have a tendency to cloister ourselves and by turns peek out at you masses so that we might cull your personage for our caricature. While great for the art, this approach is not t all good for the career. So, with that thought, and my trusty notebook, in hand I ventured forth into the world of “professional writers”. Always thought to be a daunting and perilous place with mountainous Publishers and Agents standing guard over the sacred Hall of the Published, I found it’s more of a crowded room full of excited people hoping to be the one the gods pick next. Picture a digital casting call where everyone has a voice, and are talking all at once. Sometimes the people standing closest to you start talking about interesting ideas and we get together and get involved with making it happen for our selves. So it went with the places where I have works and write currently, and so it is with Debrin Case and Open Heart Publishing.

In my search for words I am also searching for work. Hopefully, and this is as all writers would like it, I will get work writing. Open Heart Publishing came to my attention through Facebook and a little project called An Honest Lie. Here’s the pitch: Writers from around the globe competing for a chance to not only be published but to also win a BOOK DEAL! I missed last years call to submissions so I will not make the 2009 anthology and I won’t land that book deal this year. Next years An Honest Lie anthology however will be different, much different. The theme is Delusions of Insignificance and while I have time, I must create a master piece that will go down in OHP history as the greatest story ever told! But I digress. There is a greater draw still for me. Another little competition called: Become a Staff Writer.

While this may not be important to some writers, and downright out of the question for others, it would give me what I think of as a one of kind opportunity. Not only will I be writing but I will be collaborating with the publisher and other writers on a serial fiction project. It’s the next best thing to going to school and I think a fantastic opportunity to become a great writer. The bonus section to this is a paycheck. Not a lot of money, but money and money for doing what I love to do. Can anyone say, “Dream Job”? I can.

I had the opportunity to speak with Debrin. His enthusiasm and passion for the work he does is catchy. There are big plans for his company in the future and I only hope…. No, I don’t like that. I am certain I will claim my place amongst the ranks of writers published under his banner. Be looking for the networking chain to grow as ever it has but in bigger and better directions.

As always my loves I leave you with Peace and Zen.

Read! Write! Unite!