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Solitary Confinement (Issue 9)

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The official Forsaken Press Newsletter:

Issue 9: 14/01/2020

From the desk of the President and Editor in Chief, Mr. Cameron Walker.

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen and welcome to the first issue of Solitary Confinement for 2020. I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday season, whatever it is you did and whoever you spent it with. For us here at Forsaken Press it doesn’t feel like it was much of a holiday as we’ve been extremely busy running the company and getting all of our exciting new releases out on time. But let’s get stuck into the news, announcements and the latest on the recent Forsaken Press developments shall we?

The first announcement I have to make is that from now on Solitary Confinement will be a fortnightly newsletter, making it less regular, but still as informative and insightful as well. The decision for this is a relatively simple one. For the first several months there was an awful lot going on with news and developments occurring on an almost daily basis, hence it was necessary to keep you all up to date with regular newsletters detailing what was going on. Now however, we have settled into a more normal routine and things while still productive, aren’t nearly as chaotic as they were, thank the gods for that. So now its no longer necessary to keep you all informed with weekly newsletters as a fortnightly format is enough to keep our news and announcements current, now everything has been established and we find ourselves with a much more normal schedule.

Secondly all three of our scheduled Forsaken Press releases are now out and available in Ebook format on Amazon, Smashwords, Gardner, Kobo, Scribd and Apple Books. The paperback edition of Devil’s Eye is now available exclusively on Amazon (for now) and the other two are coming in the near future. It was a long and arduous process, but we finally got there in the end. There have been some issues with the review process seeking approval for the manuscripts on Amazon, which despite being all cleared by the upload process are still being rejected upon review, frustratingly without an explanation. So until that issue is solved they will be available only in Ebook format, but we hope to have that issue resolved very soon.

We are currently working on some upgrades to our Instagram, just to add a little bit more flare to the page and make it a bit more informative. Work has begun on designing our Blogger Blog that should be completed in the next week or so. We’re pretty excited about this particular development, as it has been one of our goals for sometime now. In addition to this you can now find Forsaken Press releases available on Lulu, as we expand our distribution network to include their platform. Both Ken Dixon’s The Roots of Marvis Jedd and Through the Gates of the Silver Key: The Best Collaborations and Ghost Writings of H.P. Lovecraft are currently available through Lulu, with Devil’s Eye coming in the near future.

A few scheduling conflicts and minor issues have led to us having to shuffle around our release dates a little bit, but rest assured we have plenty of exciting new releases in store for you in the future. Our next release will be coming out at the end of February, a little bit later than we had initially planned, but still keeping with our manifesto of one release a month, so we’re safe, for now at least.

Don’t forget to check out our release catalogue right here on the blog, along with our official reviews conducted by our Social Media Manager Jenna in her own Jenna’s Side review page. There’s also our official Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, DeviantArt and Facebook page to check out across the web of our social media network. That’s all from me for this edition of Solitary Confinement. I’ll see you next fortnight when I have some official details to be unveiled in regards to our next release and hopefully good news as to the progress of our paperback releases and the launch of our Blogger Blog.

Thank you and kind regards,

Cameron Walker,
President and Editor in Chief,
Forsaken Press.

Solitary Confinement (Issue 8)

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The official weekly Forsaken Press Newsletter:

Issue 8: 21/12/2019

From the desk of the President and Editor in Chief, Mr. Cameron Walker.

Hello everyone, its that time of the week once again and I am here with some exciting news and big announcements to make as usual. So strap yourselves in and lets get started. To begin with I would like to take the opportunity to announce an exciting new addition to our blog, Jenna’s Side, the official Forsaken Press reviews page, ran by our lovely Social Media Manager Jenna.

In it she will be conducting open and honest reviews of all Forsaken Press releases to add some insight to the products we release to help potential customers decide whether or not its for them. This week marks the launch of Jenna’s Side (the name aptly given because its her side of the story, and her own little corner of the blog) with her review of The Roots of Marvis Jedd. Each month she will be doing another review of our latest release and giving her honest opinion on it.

It’s that time of year again with the holidays upon us and what better way to celebrate the end of the year than with Christmas Cthulhu? That’s right, Forsaken Press’s newest release “Through the Gates of the Silver Key: The Best Collaborations and Ghost Writings of H.P. Lovecraft” is due out just in time for Christmas with a December 23rd release date. This project is a personal passion of mine as a huge fan of Lovecraft who has been a major influence on my own work. So it is something I have been very excited to work on as a labour of love for the craft. 😉 ….So much so that I decided to make the cover the featured image for this issue of the newsletter and will be doing so with future upcoming releases as well.

The new year will see the launch of our new blog on Blogger to work in conjunction with our wordpress blog to ensure we make the most of the opportunities presented to us by the online blogging community. Although it will feature a lot of the same content as the wordpress blog we have plans to mix things up a bit to give both blogs their own unique feel with some fresh and original content, so they are not just a carbon copy of each other.

In conjunction with this we will also be revamping our Instagram a bit and adding some new content to the Facebook page with easy to locate catalogs for you to view all of our wonderful releases. Don’t forget we also have the re-release of Devil’s Eye coming on December 30th, along with the release of the print edition, just in time for New Years.

Well that’s all from me for this week, the last announcement I have to make is this is the last issue of Solitary Confinement for the year. The newsletter is being put on hold until the January 7th edition, as we scale down our operations over the holiday period to focus on getting the two releases we have coming up in just over a week ready and out by their release dates.

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year. It’s been a great ride this past couple of months and we at Forsaken Press have a lot more to come in the new year with four releases scheduled in for the first few months of the year and a lot of big plans for the company to come over the next 12 months. Thanks to everyone who has supported us thus far, we hope you will continue to support us in 2020. We are all very excited and looking forward to what 2020 has in store for Forsaken Press.

With sincerest thanks and best wishes,

Cameron Walker,
Editor in Chief,
Forsaken Press.






Solitary Confinement (Issue 7)

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The official weekly Forsaken Press Newsletter:

Issue 7: 14/12/2019

From the desk of the President and Editor in Chief, Mr. Cameron Walker.

Hello ladies and gentlemen,

Welcome to another issue of Solitary Confinement, the official Forsaken Press newsletter. We have a massive issue for you this week with lots of exciting news and announcements to make. First off, as we have been advertising a little bit these past couple of weeks we are now closed for submissions from the 14th of December until the 30th of January for the holiday period and to sort through the submissions we have while dedicating some time and effort to other things that require our attention.

Tomorrow also marks the official release of the first Forsaken Press title released under the company’s banner, Ken Dixon’s, The Roots of Marvis Jedd. An absurdist, satirical take on small town life in the American Mid-West, it tells the story of journalist Clay Reston returning to his home town, a place he despises after a fifteen year absence. You can find it available for purchase on Amazon, Smashwords, Kobo, Scribd and Apple Books.

“Returning apprehensively to his home town of Thune, writer Clay Reston endeavors to document the early years of enigmatic musician and fellow Thune native, Marvis Jedd. At every turn, he is reminded of the many reasons they both left as soon as they could.

The Roots of Marvis Jedd is a satirical, somewhat absurdist portrayal of small town life in the American Mid-West. Baring similarities to the work of existential philosopher Albert Camus, Clay Reston struggles to find a sense of meaning and purpose to his own existence and the people and events taking place around him, while writing a biography on his home town’s most famous son, Marvis Jedd.”

Not only that, but we have another two novels scheduled for release before the year is out with Through the Gates of the Silver Key: The Best Collaborative and Ghost Written Works of H.P. Lovecraft set for release on December 23rd and the second and print editions of Cameron Walker’s tale of pillage, plunder and pirates, Devil’s Eye out December 30th.

We’re all hard at work behind the scenes, with our Social Media Manager Jenna, and our Marketing Manager Ashley, working with us to really make our marketing and social media network something impressive and innovative that offers our authors a lot of exposure, support and presenting a refined and professional image that’s eye catching and easily identifiable. Jenna is working hard on our twitter to bring you all the latest news and updates, while Ashley recently took over management of our Instagram and we are all very excited to see what she achieves with that.

Meanwhile I am hard at work helping to prepare Devil’s Eye by going over it with a fine comb, and perfecting the manuscript for its print and our new and improved second edition release. In conjunction with the myriad of other tasks I deal with while conducting the every day operations of Forsaken Press and preparing some promotional pieces for The Roots of Marvis Jedd and our future releases out later this month. Priest is working hard at designing cover art and formatting manuscripts for their Ebook and print releases. If he escapes with his sanity intact, it may very well be a miracle.

In closing we are also revamping a few things around the place as part of our campaign to enhance our image and ensure Forsaken Press meets its potential, for clients and customers alike. If you’ve visited the blog before you’ll notice a few changes with a sidebar menu and options at the bottom of the page now clearly visible as we seek to flesh the blog out a bit and make it easier to navigate. We also have some new additions coming to the Facebook page and don’t forget to look us up on DeviantArt and Tumblr.

That’s all from me for this week, stay tuned for next week’s edition, which will be the last for a while as we wind things down a bit for the holidays and focus more on behind the scenes developments we have in the works.

Warm regards,

Cameron Walker,
President and Editor in Chief,
Forsaken Press.

Solitary Confinement (Issue 6)

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The official weekly Forsaken Press Newsletter:

Issue 6: 07/12/2019

From the desk of the President and Editor in Chief, Mr. Cameron Walker.

Hello all,

It’s been a very chaotic week outside of Forsaken Press for many of our staff. What with people losing employment, having university finals, financial issues, sick pets and high anxiety provoking jobs. That’s without even getting to the issue of me trying to find more work to support myself and having both of my cats be sick and lose their appetites because of the haze of smoke that lingers over the city of Sydney. So as you can see its all on behind the scenes, but through it all we will persevere and do our very best to bring you some excellent new reading material from unknown writers.

First thing’s first. As per Murphy’s law of “If something can go wrong, it will,” we’ve had a few complications with the release of the paperback version of Devil’s Eye that was originally slated for release on December 14th. To cut a long story short, to ensure the novel is of the very highest quality we’re currently re-editing it in order to bring you a more streamlined, exciting and vibrant tale of high seas adventure. This process is taking longer than originally anticipated, hence we have had to cancel the December 14th release and reschedule it for December 30th instead. In addition to this the Ebook version of the novel will reflect the changes made in the paperback edition and will feature a brand new cover specially designed for the physical book.

We’ve had to reshuffle things with our release schedule around a bit as a result of that and other external factors, but the good news is all three of our promised releases for December will be still happening this month and we have another release slated to take Devil’s Eye’s place for a release date of December 14th.

On December 14th we will be releasing Ken Dixon’s, The Roots of Marvis Jedd. Which is a satircal look at small town life in American, seen through the eyes of journalist Clay Reston, as he seeks to write a biography on his home town’s most famous son, the mysterious Marvis Jedd. The novella will be launched for a pre-release on the 7th of December.

Other than that we are happy to announce the beginning of two new Forsaken Press programs to help promote the company on Facebook and Social Media. The first being our “Promotional Partnerships” program with other individuals, pages, companies and entities as a mutual promotion program. I am very happy to announce that our first promotional partnership is with our very own consultant and accomplished Indy writer Roxanne Bland, who’ has won numerous awards for her work.

The second being the Official Forsaken Press Web Team. Which is a group of dedicated supporters helping to promote Forsaken Press on Social Media by liking, commenting on and sharing our posts across Social Media to help expand our presence and let more people know who we are.

That’s it from me for now, but before I go I would just like to point out that we have now reached 500 followers on Facebook, which is a huge accomplishment. Thank you so much to everyone who liked our page and we hope to see you getting involved in the fun.

Warm regards and sincerest thanks,

Cameron Walker,
President and Editor in Chief,
Forsaken Press.

Solitary Confinement (Issue 5)

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The official weekly Forsaken Press Newsletter:

Issue 5: 29/11/2019

From the desk of the President and Editor in Chief, Mr. Cameron Walker.

Hello all,

As usual its been another busy and eventful week here at Forsaken Press, but I am happy to announce that things are finally settling down into some sense of normality as we get everything we need established set up and ready to roll. The editing and formatting process with a number of works for release is progressing very well and we’ll be getting those out right on schedule in the coming weeks. And you can be sure that in the coming months we’ve got a load of new releases in the works with five scheduled in the coming months and another four currently in development. We are constantly growing, picking up new authors and scheduling new material to be released under the Forsaken Press banner.

A brief look at our release schedule for the next month shows three exciting releases that you’re sure to love:

Devil’s Eye. PRINT EDITION, by Cameron Walker – Coming December 14th.

Through the Gates of the Silver Key: The Best collaborations and ghost writings of H.P. Lovecraft, edited by Cameron Walker – Coming December 23rd.

The Roots of Maris Jedd, by Ken Dixon – Coming December 30th.

Aside from the news on upcoming releases we’re happy to report that our social media network of Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, DeviantArt and Twitter are slowly, but surely growing. So if you’re on any of these platforms be sure to give us a follow and show your support. I would also like to take this opportunity to announce that next week’s issue of Solitary Confinement will include a very significant and special announcement concerning releases and submitted material, so stay tuned for that.

Plans for our Youtube channel and other forms of media and content outside the area of Social Media have been unfortunately delayed for the near future while we focus on other, more pressing matters, but we still have big plans for them in the longer term. I’m quite excited about what we have in mind, but unfortunately it will have to wait for a later date. Updates and announcements relating to that will be revealed as they become available.

Be sure to follow the official Forsaken Press blog and Facebook page as we have some great content coming for you in the near future in the form of interviews, samples, excerpts, reviews, focus pieces and related articles. Speaking of which I was recently interviewed by our wonderful Social Media Manager Jenna for the first entry in our “On Writing” interview series, right here on the blog, which I would really recommend checking out. Stayed tuned for next week’s addition to the series when I sit down with the maestro of the macabre C. Priest Brumley and discuss writing, horror and things that go bump in the night.

Lastly I would like to take the opportunity to welcome Allyson Cooper Russell to the Forsaken Press team. Allyson will be releasing her debut novel, True Companion, through us in the coming months and its sure to be a hit with fans of slow burning Sci-Fi.

That’s all from me for this week, as I said stayed tuned next week for what could possibly be our biggest announcement yet. 🙂

Thank you for all your continued support,

Cameron Walker,
President and Editor in Chief,
Forsaken Press.



Solitary Confinement

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The official weekly Forsaken Press Newsletter:

Issue 4: 22/11/2019

From the desk of the President and Editor in Chief, Mr. Cameron Walker.

Well friends another week has passed us by and it has officially been a month since the launching of Forsaken Press, and what a month it has been. During this past month we have signed five writers and obtained three additional staff members with four novels slated for release in the next few months. We have established our social media network for marketing and promotions across Social Media including: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, DeviantArt, Youtube, Instagram and our brand new official blog. A lot of the paperwork for contracts and behind the scenes Forsaken Press documents have been drafted and finalised and we have established a distribution network that includes Amazon, Smashwords, Kobo, Bookbaby and Lulu. We are also in the process of paving the way for print editions of all our releases and have some big plans in store in regards to other media outlets, projects, Youtube channel, official blog, future releases and the overall growth and expansion of Forsaken Press.

This week as with any other comes with another big announcement and this week’s should be pretty obvious, simply by the fact that this issue of Solitary Confinement is coming from our brand new official blog and not our Facebook page as previously published. We have some big plans in store for our blog with it starting out small for now, but as Forsaken Press expands it will too with the establishment of our official online store where you can purchase all our releases directly from the publisher, along with some other cool bonus features and a regular column or two from some of our fantastic staff and writers.

I would like to take the opportunity to officially welcome our new editor Ashley Olivier to the Forsaken Press team. Ashley has joined us to help with the workload of editing that plagues my desk on a daily basis to take some of that pressure off my shoulders so I can focus more time and energy on the day to day operations of Forsaken Press without wanting to tear my hair out. Which is good because I’m rather attached to my hair.

We have a lot planned for the future and not one, but two releases coming in the following month, with the print edition of Devil’s Eye and another release not too far behind them. The response and support given to Forsaken Press has been phenomenal thus far and I would like to take the opportunity to say thank you to everyone who’s shown us their interest and support. It motivates us to work even harder to bring you releases of great, fresh new material from previously unheard of writers, bring exciting developments and original content from Forsaken Press across various forms of media and offer independent writers a place where they can get support from a publisher that is truly operated by writers, for writers.

Warm regards,

Cameron Walker,
President and Editor in Chief,
Forsaken Press.