OUTSIDE THE BOX PUBLISHING PRESENTS PAGE-2-PRINT
 Page-2-Print launches at East Side Community High School in Sept 2008
Partnership with Rayo, an imprint of HaperCollins, provides support for pilot program
Page-2-Print, a revolutionary new program, aims at educating high school students on all aspects of the publishing industry. The program was created by two authors/publishers intent on empowering younger generations with the knowledge of all facets of publishing, focusing on underserviced youth with lots to say but little awareness of where and how to say it.
Taking advantage of incredible advances in technology, Page-2-Print will teach students: writing, editing, graphic/web design, book layouts, marketing, PR, public speaking, social networking, planning author readings, and overall presentation of their work. The elective program picks ten students, who will learn the entire process of writing, editing and publishing a book. Partner-publishers will provide professionals to come in and educate the children on their specific roles, and at the end of the year their book will be published by Outside the Box Publishing, the company created by P-2-P's co-founders, Dax-Devlon Ross and Derek Beres. Their partnership with Rayo will facilitate the students' understanding of how to work within the publishing industry as a whole. For more information visit www.page2print.org.
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THE LATEST FROM OUTSIDE THE BOX PUBLISHING
 SOUND AGAINST FLAME
The Process of Yoga and Atheism in America
By Derek Beres
Sound Against Flame is an insightful and inquisitive look inside two emerging cultural ideas gripping the modern American consciousness: yoga and atheism. While seemingly opposed in numerous contexts, author/yoga instructor Derek Beres uncovers a common foundation as startling as it is revelatory to practitioners of any, or no, faith. Using the concept of neti-neti as a bedrock—the idea of “not this, not that” that is the foundation of yogic philosophy—Beres looks beyond the inherent duality proposed by many religious traditions to drive to core teachings. Knowing that belief is actually a lack of experience, and that once the individual has had an experience there is no need for belief, this thoughtful survey of modern consciousness and religion is a call to do away with abstract idealizing. Instead it offers an opportunity to turn toward what is real and accessible at this very moment. Out now!!! Click here for more information.
 THE NIGHTMARE AND THE DREAM
Nas, Jay-Z and the History of Conlict in African-American Culture
By Dax-Devlon Ross
America is an idealistic nation. Dreams are realized here. Cultural plurality is celebrated here. Freedom is cherished here. But America is also a place where all those who seek to fulfill the promise of opportunity aren’t embraced equally; where prejudice has been institutionalized, codified and thereby legitimized; where the freedoms that mark a democratic society have been stripped from far too many for there not to be an outcry of injustice. This is the contradiction of America itself—what draws us to love and loathe the nation, drives us to seek refuge either within (assimilation) or at a distance (separation) and caused us to embrace the Dream or dwell on the Nightmare. Out now!!! Click here more for information.
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SUBMISSIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR FIRST OUTSIDE THE BOX ANTHOLOGY
 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. Click here for more information, as well as where to submit.
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