Forged Truth is on a mission to produce high-quality fiction without the gimmicks, fiction that relies on its content from authors whose voices still have something to say about the human condition.
We favour writers with experience of life, over those with creative writing degrees, but for us, what really counts is the text not the hype.
Our first publication was ‘The Typewriterists’ by David N. Martin, which won the Norman King Award for Fiction 2025. It is available on Amazon.
Two more exciting publications from the same author are due to be published in July 2026:
Firstly, we will be publishing ‘Blight and Happiness’, David N. Martin’s ‘best of…’ collection of short stories. Spanning his thirty years as a published writer, these stories take us from the historical horrors of Ireland’s potato blight to the future of AI. This anthology features winners of the Words-with-Jam short story prize, as well as the regional sections of the Aurora Prize, the H.E. Bates Centennial Short Story Prize and a host of other prizes:
Secondly, ‘The Modern Type’, a sequel to ‘The Typewriterists’, which we think maybe David’s masterpiece (we’ve seen the beta-draft; it’s fantastic, it’s epic.) We have a preview of the cover here:
It looks fantastic and we hope to publish a short extract here before publication, if we can only stop the pesky author tinkering with the words!
Forged Truth maintains a keen relationship with Leicester Writers Club (one of our founders was the Club President in 2022/23). We believe all writers should have a solid support base and access to fellow writers who give honest and insightful feedback on works in progress. It’s pretty obvious from many published books currently floundering on bookshelves around the country that this is not a service that many publishers are providing to their authors any more.
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