As with any good quality website and publishing company, I am in the process of setting up the online e-commerce platform for Pomerak Ventures products, brought to you by Payhip!
Payhip is an e-commerce platform that enables anyone to sell digital products, courses and memberships directly to their fans and followers. I am at this present time setting up the shop by including all the products (both physical and digital) on the web store, including potential integration with PayPal (but at this present time, it's being difficult due to proving who I am and consistently being booted out and needing to verify phone numbers, e-mails, etc...)
However; when the shop is fully onboarded on the website, I will be launching a limited run of discount codes for my products which YOU can use for my books, and music!
I was broadcast on television after my appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? on the Sunday, that same evening, I was on the front page on the websites for the Daily Mail Online, The Mirror, The Sun, and a few other questionable and quite frankly in my view, disgusting hubs of 'journalism' (worst offender Birmingham Live) sharing a page with Dele Alli which I didn't expect; on the Wednesday I made it to the front page of my local newspaper next to the headline "BABIES LEFT ALONE IN CAR".
The following day, I celebrated what was my 27th birthday (and the 1st anniversary of Pomerak Ventures Ltd) and ventured to Bristol to appear live on BBC Points West with Amanda Parr. Here is my interview, yes I was bricking it because it was live. Copyright BBC 2025.
It's been 8 weeks ago today since Wisdom from a Yellow Suitcase was published and I'm pleased to be able to give some sales figures since the book's release up to the 8 week point!
In its first week, the book went straight in at #1 on the Hot New Releases chart in the Haiku category! and in the same week it was the #11 best selling Haiku book on Amazon and #12 on the Kindle store for Contemporary Poetry! If you'd like to label me as a contemporary poet of my time, I'll happily accept the moniker!
Update on the suitcase for the vaguely interested, the zip mechanism broke and the airline has sent a brand new one to my home address, therefore it comes with great regret that the Yellow Suitcase used in the cover art has now been destroyed; here are some of the original photos for the cover art on the book.
Jack Soley's 4th musical venture is by no means something that will be ignored as this venture takes a major influence and hopes to shatter expectations with his previous musical adventures; influenced by French Touch house music particularly by artists Étienne De Crécy, Alan Braxe, and Mr Oizo; and by the likes of House legends Disclosure, Erick Morillo, and Theo Parrish to name the primary influences for POMMYDAX.
POMMYDAX is described as a conference of House, and Deep Electronic sound with hints of UK Garage, EDM, IDM, with a splash of Techno into the mix. This is intended to be a musical venture that Soley intends to pursue and carry on with in the further future given the level of original commitment for the first Single EP release and the début album in January 2025. The influence of the album was entirely upon Etienne De Crecy's 1996 work "Super Discount", with artwork of the album to match, with an impromptu and later successful trip to Manchester being the basis of Soley's creation of the album entirely.
The following are attributions for the names of the sound packs and their respective artists for the tracks on this album, the sound packs used for the named tracks are used under a royalty free licence when used in-app from Easybrain Ltd, a company with a registration number HE 345807, having registered office at 335, 28th October Avenue, Trilogy Limassol Seafront, West Tower, Floor 14th, 3106, Limassol, Cyprus.
The sale, distribution, sub-licensing, transfer, or granting of any rights to the loops or sound packs owned by Easybrain is prohibited. The recording, copying, loan, unauthorised hire, public exhibition, or broadcasting of this album managed by Pomerak Ventures is prohibited. Cover art and music by Jack Soley, performing under the name of "POMMYDAX". The audio and art copyright are managed by Pomerak Ventures, 2025. Catalog number for the CD is not present but the UPC is identical to the Vinyl Record. Distributed by Kunaki LLC.
The album can be streamed, and purchased from Spotify, Apple Music, and all other good digital and physical music retailers.
