What Do You Believe?
Derek Beres & Dax-Devlon Ross, editors

A while back we had an idea to put out an anthology called “What Do You Believe?” The idea was to ask a number of friends who are not necessarily writers (though they could be) to submit whatever came to mind when I asked them that very question: What do you believe? Originally we were to publish twenty essays, but a few people submitted other things: haikus, song lyrics, and the like. There are some longer essays. There are some shorter ones. And we realized that word count or style should not be a restriction. So it’s not going to be.

We are planning a December 2008 publication for this title. The quality of what’s been turned in already is amazing. The question, while seemingly simple, turned out to be rather challenging and even complex to those who have faced it thus far. Thing is, we never asked “What do you believe about…” We wanted to leave the “about” out of this. That’s up to you.

And you are who we’re now talking to. If this idea lights a fire under you, we’d love to have you submit something. Like I said, there are no rules. I can say we are not going to publish anything that explicitly attempts to deny or downplay another's beliefs, or belief system, in the process of "proving" their own. This project is not about that. We're more concerned with presenting a diverse range of voices and thoughts on the nature of belief. The thoughts are all yours to share. And we’d love to hear them.

The deadline for submission is August 1. You can submt directly to info [at] otbpublishing.com. Any questions can be directed there as well. Thanks for listening, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.