developments – Forsaken Press

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.

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.