Submitting to Pantera Press’s unique WHY vs WHY™ series - What you need to know

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Edition 2010.1 

The first two WHY vs WHY™ books are on Nuclear Power and Gay Marriage, and are available in bookstores in Australia & NZ from May 2010.

Please check them out to get a flavour for the WHY vs WHY™ series.

Each book is a complete debate on a hot topic

A series of pocket-sized, easy-to-read books for the general public, each one tackling the two sides of a hot topic that confuses, troubles or confronts them. Topics that have no easy answers.

Each 'debate-in-a-book' is written by two opposing experts, each one a strong, committed and well-informed advocate.

Our 2-books-in-1, flip-sided format offers readers a considered answer to every key argument, with nothing left hanging.

Audience

Members of the general public keen to make up their own minds, or to have the tools they need to help them bring others around to their own views. This series is for everyone, from senior high-school students to adults from all walks of life.

Topical

The timely & the timeless: the topics are those being discussed and argued about around kitchen tables, on campuses, in newspapers' letters and opinion pages, on talk-back radio, on TV news review or panel shows, or over a coffee or a beer.

New topics will pop up from time to time, and so speed of writing without sacrificing quality is important.

Easy-to-understand style & easy-to-read format

Though written by experts, the writing is factual, well-argued, and in everyday informal language, with no jargon, technospeak or footnotes.

Also, the writers we choose agree they won’t sneer, ridicule, be shrill, or use abuse or loaded criticism.

No publisher bias

The book format means writers can see we have strait-jacketed ourselves to eliminate publisher bias. Pick up one of these books in a bookstore and look for yourself.

Pantera Press’s intention in creating and publishing this series is to foster spirited and complete debate on important topics, not to sway that debate other than to keep it civil.

We try to ensure even-handedness by choosing strong advocates for the two rival sides, and fairly presenting them. We want the debate to be as good as it can be. We offer each side the same space and present them in the same format, font and design. Through our unique, flip-sided, 2-books-in-1 design, each side starts at the ‘front’ of the book. It’s the reader who decides which side they read first, not us.

Series title - WHY vs WHY™

We’ve called the series WHY vs WHY™ to reflect the two sides of each debate, and that we present them without publisher bias.

We launched the series in May 2010 with our first two on Nuclear Power and Gay Marriage.

If you’re still interested, please read on... 

We admit what follows is long, with important details about our requirements, our process, and the rest of our terms.

It's long because we want to share the answers to the frequently-asked but detailed questions some writers have already put to us.

And it’s also because we prefer openness, so you can know upfront what’s involved and what you’d be committing to.

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