Jeremy Macpherson:

'In 1943, a booklet version of "Kazanda, The Wild Girl and the Lost Continent" was produced in association with Albert Deane to promote Kazanda in the United States. Archie E. Martin (who wrote Kazanda as "Peter Amos") had met Deane while working as a publicity officer for the J.C. Williamson theatrical management company. Deane was also an Australian-born publicity officer but for Paramount Pictures, and had landed that role after being the sole applicant to respond to a job advertisement from Paramount in 1926.

'It appears that Martin sent the Kazanda booklet to Fiction House in New York. At the time, he was successfully placing stories with publications in the United States like Collier’s, The Saturday Evening Post and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. He also had a novel published by Simon & Schuster in 1946.

'The Fiction House version of Kazanda was heavily edited and rewritten…'