Outside the Box

This publishing endeavor is the latest in a decade-long literary collaboration between two friends and authors - Dax-Devlon Ross & Derek Beres - who have experienced enough together to consider themselves family. It is an important and valuable way for us to continue believing in the written word. It seems only fitting in a cyberworld so... more »

This publishing endeavor is the latest in a decade-long literary collaboration between two friends and authors - Dax-Devlon Ross & Derek Beres - who have experienced enough together to consider themselves family. It is an important and valuable way for us to continue believing in the written word. It seems only fitting in a cyberworld so accessible, so democratic in its way, that companies like ours are a natural outgrowth. Publishing books nowadays isn’t that difficult. So many alternative avenues have opened that anyone can write and publish efficiently. The difficult part is finding people that believe in and support your work. That makes a big difference in whether we move ahead or stand still. If we don’t have someone, that one person besides us, how can we expect the best of ourselves? In many ways, our commitment to literature is an extension of our commitment to fellowship. We have been fortunate enough to have one another to keep us creatively and philosophically alive, despite the setbacks and detours and plain old realities of modern existence. Outside the Box Publishing is our way of opening up the conversation and allowing other serious writers into the fold.

Dax-Devlon Ross is the author of Beat of a Different Drum: The Untold Stories of African Americans Forging Their Own Paths in Work and Life and The Best of Intentions, and co-author of The Underdog's Manifesto: A Guerilla Artist's Path to Independence (w/Creature) and A Staircase of Words, Vol One: Essays (w/Derek Beres).

Derek Beres is the author of Global Beat Fusion: The History of the Future of Music and Tangled Web: The Best Music Tour You Never Heard Of, and co-author of A Staircase of Words, Vol One: Essays (w/Dax-Devlon Ross).

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