Author: Bombadil

Moving to Dornie is the most exciting thing for Bombadil Publishing! And to add to the excitement the West Highland Free Press has published an article about our big move in this week's edition. The article refers to Bombadil Publishing's expectation of Dornie being the perfect place for their business model, while Dornie could profit from having a fresh and innovative company settling and hiring locally. This mutually beneficial situation creates great opportunities. Download the PDF containing the article here.

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The new shop is now ready, and the website has had a revamp.There is still a way to go, but please visit and please support our wonderful young authors, by buying their books, by sending them messages, by appreciating their world. Most of the books available in the shop are also available in print. How about a book for Christmas? For a friend, a teacher, or just to read? Enjoy! We will be launching something new every week, and to start off the excitement, we will be launching a very exciting short story competition on Saturday 4th of October together with an amazing partner. Details to follow.... Bombadil Publishing is not only a virtual community, but also has a home...

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As you might all see, things are happening. Every time I look at our website, something new has happened. So exciting days ahead. There is a team of amazing people sitting behind screens and working on getting it out there. We are all very excited and will be introducing the people to you over the next few months. We will of course also introduce the many other people who are involved with Bombadil. On the 2nd of October we will be launching our new shop and each week after that we will be adding a new book. We will also add interviews with authors, tips on writing and excitingly, also start themed short story competitions. More on that later. Stay...

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Sorry that it has been so quiet for a while. I have been working behind the scenes, and so many amazing things are happening. I wish I could tell you all, but hopefully, I will be able to make an announcement next week. The future for Bombadil is bright and beautiful, and we are almost there. Thank you all for being so patient. Soon I will be joined by more people, two already starting in two weeks, with more to follow, and then we will be able to bring everything up to date. and give you all the attention you deserve. Thank you so much for being patient. I know many of you wish I would get back faster, and...

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Stephen Fry has always been a great advocate of the English language. Here is a particularly interesting piece. I tend to agree with what he says, especially since a language can only be great if it grows and changes with the times. Change does not mean leaving the good, it means developing, and adding. Being alive. Here is an interesting view on English by Stephen Fry

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There was this blog from the Bookseller, which I am going to copy in total, as they say it so much better than I could. I am a mac user and I often order books through Amazon, but, as an independent publisher, it makes me upset to see how they try and control the market. Most interesting is that they are fighting over ebooks, when they soon will be last year's black. There are so many better options, especially for the kids that write for Bombadil and the many kids that value our brand. Trial and marginalisation (Submitted by Philip Jones) The Apple e-book price fixing case is a curious side-show for an industry that is already looking beyond the...

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When others go to the beach and enjoy their bank holiday weekend, we have been stuck inside (well most of the time :.D) working hard and getting the last pieces to fall into place. Our shop is ready now, and when it is released there will be new updates about our wonderful authors, their books, future books and publishing at large. We have also developed a dashboard which will show interesting information about what is selling. To keep the suspense, however, we will be releasing features - and books - a little at a time. So keep your eyes peeled. And that is not the only thing. We are also almost ready with our mentor-author stage gate document handling program,...

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There is a brilliant video called The happy List. It is about all the little things that we dream about, about reality, about how many prefer to live in a pretend world. It also raises interesting questions about what happiness is. I know reality is important, but I am in a world where, to some extent, the imagination becomes reality, and thus happiness is imagination. You read a book, you enter a wonderful world of make-believe, a world of thoughts and ideas and action. A pretend world where we can chose the topic, and forget about the world for a while. Saying that, some book topics are not wonderful and neither are they make-believe, but even with the worst of...

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It has long been known that more books are sold in times of financial difficulties than when times are good. One reason is that people spend more time at home, another is the link between studying and bad times. I know that literature is not always seen as education, and though some, like Fifty Shades of Grey, which has added greatly to the increase in book sales in 2012, is not really considered standard educational literature, then books as such, not to mention reading, exemplify learning. According to this morning's briefing in the Bookseller total book sales in digital and physical formats grew 4% in 2012 to a total of £3.3bn. That overall growth contrasts with a 2% dip recorded the...

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