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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 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.