Solitary Confinement – 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 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.