The Christmas dreams came true!

Last week I got an e-mail of a young guy from Latin America, he is about fourteen years age, maybe a little bit more, he wrote that he read about Bombadil Publishing somewhere and he don’t believe this marvelous opportunity. I mean, he explained to me that he have a big trust on us, in our editorial work, but it’s was so amazing that’s was unreliable and unbelievable, because he had dream about to be listened by somebody and to be interested in his book.
This young boy wrote that in the matter of the facts he beg to Santa in a letter for two years ago if he could find an editorial agency whom could take care on his literary business and finally came Bombadil Publishing in his life as a gift from the sky, a gift he had asked for to Santa. A Christmas gift! His dream about to be edited came true with Bombadil Publishing!
I wrote back this young boy, that Bombadil Publishing is a really matter, that we are represented globally nearly all around the world, that we have several thousand young writers whom are a part of our world, a part of our vision to get a better world, with our slogan YOUTH2YOUTH have found the heart of many young writers around the world whom transmitted their messages of love, their messages of hope, peace and love to other young writers and other young people… And adults too!
I wrote too to this young boy that is not a casualty that Tom Bombadil (Our inspirited character of the Trilogy of the Lord of the Ring) and Santa had a splendid white beard, and both like children, but I aggregated that Tom Bombadil likes younger to twenty six year old and everybody who’s thinking as a young!

We at Bombadil Publishing wish Merry Christmas to everybody and Happy New Year

Chile: A country with literary skills has joined to The Bombadil’s Generation!

The Bombadil world are growing in a beautiful and wonderful way in Latin America, and global as well; every day we are getting new writers and mentors who understand the Bombadil Publishing’s philosophy, which is communicated betweens young people who share this message of hope and progress with other young people: and adult who want to too; all around the world!
Bombadil Publishing wants to welcome our very brand new mentor from Chile, Sandra Leiva; Sandra is living in the big city of Santiago, the capital of Chile, the South American country that has born several magnificent writers as the Nobel Price Winners in Literature Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral.
Sandra Leiva has taking with her the austral and long country Chile in our Bombadil world and with Sandra has coming the very first writer from Chile to us, the young lady Fernanda Ferrada, she is writing a roman and is in the terminal phase and we can have soon Fernanda’s book in our prints and we’ll get the book to the world.
Bombadil Publishing proudly introduce to the world our Mentor Sandra Leiva, our young writer, Fernanda Ferrada and of course the republic of Chile.
YOUTH2YOUTH
Melvin Gonzalez

Bombadil Publishing has launched their first two books in Spanish.

A group representing Bombadil Publishing AB will be travelling to Latin America to launch the two very first books in Spanish, next already next week in Lima, Peru where we will be presenting Rogger Avendaño’s book “La Dama de Negro y otros Cuentos”, at the Cultural Spain Center in the Incan capital. A week later our Bombadil group will be in El Salvador’s capital, San Salvador, and we will be introducing to the world the book of our author Mario Chavez Jovel named “31 Cuentos Cortos” at the famous local in San Salvador.

Our company will be represented by our lovely MD Marianne Rugård-Järvstråt, the smart Niklas Järvstråt and myself Melvin González, together with our local mentors Maggy Jacinto in Peru and Margarita Alfaro Bulle in El Salvador, who will be very happy to get these books to their writers. The feelings of our work is crowned.

These two books are the result of the combined work of a great cooperation team between Bombadilians, the author, the mentor, myself, the team in the international office and the distribution team. There is a very good feeling in the air about these books and the message of those young writer is very clear: harmony, love, peace and taking care each other and help to building a better future, a Bombadilian future where young people help young people… and adults… as myself. YOUTH2YOUTH

Melvin González

Young People are writing!

When I read the mails of girls and boys from USA, El Salvador, Peru, Venezuela, Sweden, India and many other countries, and I can see that all of them are writing books with the help of mentors provided by Bombadil Publishing AB, and the writers ask me what I think about their books, about their writing, about their stories, I feel that these young people give me a kind of energy, a kind of inspiration and happiness which takes me to horizons far away deep in the future. When young people are writing different stories, different feelings, different way to think, different ways to see in the future, they express themselves as the adults they will be in a near future. And these young people show us how they will live in the future, how they will take care of matters in the future, in the society and in real life. There will be a good life, no doubt about that, because these young writers are taking their responsibility already now, but in a young way, in a happy way and in a responsible way at the same time.

YOUNG WRITERS OF BOMBADIL PUBLISHING AB

Srishti- India Andrea-Venezuela Lily- Peru Josephine-Sweden

A boy wrote the following to me: “Mr. Melvin, there was time to us, the younger generation to obtain this opportunity that Bombadil Publishing AB gives

us, this will be a historical success for both us young writers and for your nice editorial too, because never before has there been an opportunity like this. My mother is incredulous to this way to write books, because she never seen something like this before; my father is thinking in the same way, but they are just adults, they’re thinking like the other adults who didn’t have this marvelous opportunity your editorial has provided us. My parents are just adults, they don’t know better, poor people.” And there is to this young writer that I want to thanks this wonderful time I live right now, those young writer injected this inspiration, this good feeling, the Bombadil feeling. YOUTH2YOUTH.

A not so younger human been but feeling still young Melvin González.

This is last Friday's blog entry; it's rather late as I have been short of words lately. Instead of rambling at length about kayaks and moon bases and other trivial subjects, I give you some words by the masterful John Keats, who succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five and whose epitaph reads "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."

On leaving some Friends at an Early Hour

Give me a golden pen, and let me lean
On heap’d up flowers, in regions clear, and far;
Bring me a tablet whiter than a star,
Or hand of hymning angel, when ’tis seen
The silver strings of heavenly harp atween:
And let there glide by many a pearly car,
Pink robes, and wavy hair, and diamond jar,
And half discovered wings, and glances keen.
The while let music wander round my ears,
And as it reaches each delicious ending,
Let me write down a line of glorious tone,
And full of many wonders of the spheres:
For what a height my spirit is contending!
’Tis not content so soon to be alone.

John Keats (1795 - 1821)

A wonderful Lady! A wonderful book!

We at Bombadil Publishing AB are proud to introduce this young, charming and beautiful writer Lady Jerez from Venezuela, she has finished her book named “Inocencia Marchita, Confesiones de una virgen enamorada” which is to be sent for printing during next week. Lady has done a magnificent work together with me and Mrs. Maggy Jacinto in Peru; we had a very good communication in the virtual Internet world that Bombadil Publishing AB has created all around the world.


Lady Jerez have a contagious energy that she use to send via mail, she sends her energy by writing in an easy but very easily understanding and entertaining way that touches every reader and captures their attention until the end of her book. There is a story about a very young girl who is fallen in love in an older man and then… and then you can read it in Lady’s book, it will possible to buy this book in our internet webshop and your near library in all latin America and USA soon. Congratulations My Dear Lady! We want to send to our lovely Lady our admirations and the best hopes, the green hopes that Bombadil Publishing is getting all around the world to those marvelous young writer in this very moment.
Melvin Gonzalez.

Back from holiday, poetry bingo, books

Hello everyone

Well it has been some confusing days in many ways. Is that good or is it bad? Well I don´t know but I hope it will come out some good of it in the end :-).

"Happiness is for close friends.

To have close friends is happiness.

Close friends,

one of the most important thing in the world." (MG)

This Monday Sara came back from her holiday in Austria. Welcome back Sara! It´s nice to have you around again, it´s not so quiet any longer. As she has told us she had a really nice time down there with her boyfriend Christof and some other relatives to him. Hopefully we will see some pictures also. Sara, I hope we will?

Her first thing to prepare for was the Poetry Bingo up in Pershyttan, a couple kilometres from here. It was Sara and My reading poetry.

My reading poetry and Sara is waiting for her turn to do the same thing.

The people first had to write some words (that they later crossed over) in a kind of grid system (bingo badge). It was words that they could hear in the poetry that Sara and My read (poetry that they had written). They really had to pay attention! I actually asked John first if he would go up there but first he was not to (so) keen on it. But then Sara phoned and was a bit concerned that it were so few people up there, it was actually raining a bit. But she manage to persuade John to drive up there and I in the "speed" to the bus catch Jason and told him to come with us :-)). Jason is one of Marianne's sons.

The Bingo grid (badge).

It was actually pity that it was bad weather (not funny at all), if it hadn't been like that then I think it had been some more people up at that event. It was a new experience for me to go to a Poetry Bingo! But a good experience and nice :-)). I had my hands kind of full any way with the film camera, filming the whole thing. It might be a movie that Sara will put up on YouTube (Poetry Bingo in Pershyttan) in time, when it´s finished, it needs to be edited I think.

Here me filming in the rain!

And I also right now doing some setting on two Spanish books, well two books by authors from Latin America. It´s a bit hard to do as I can´t the language. I might have to learn Spanish in the end! But with some help from Melvin that is actually the one that is mentoring these guys it goes just fine. I have kind of sorting it out rather well I think :-)), so far I shall say. I hope that I will have at least one of the books ready and clear for the printing in the end of this week. So keep your fingers crossed out there so I managed to do this :-)). This is important with these two books because Marianne and Melvin plus Niklas will go to Latin America in the end/middle of August and they shall have some examples of the books with them.

Phuu now I have done my blog for this week, this confusing week!

Mari

Yesterday

I got a reproof yesterday, this very young boy and very good writer, who asked me why I forgot him because I didn’t send any mail. The thing is that we in Bombadil Publishing AB are very busy with our visit to Latin America next month and we are preparing our travel to these beautiful and warm countries. Our charming managing director Mrs. Marianne Rugård, our clever Vice-president Mr. Niklas Järvstråt and myself will be visiting several countries this summer and meeting you young writers and talking about our wonderful world, the Bombadil world, the world we are creating together. My dear friend “Chuck” Don’t think that I can forget you, not for a moment, you young writers are my inspiration, I could never stop thinking about you.



As I wrote, we in Bombadil Publishing AB will travel to Latin America and visit several countries, this will be a fantastic meeting with these beautiful, young and intelligent writers. We shall visit my old dear country El Salvador and is possible Mexico, Venezuela and Peru too. We’ll see all you young people and talk about our deep feelings, our wishes and, more important, your feelings and wishes. That will be a Bombadil feeling, our feeling to make a better world, a world with your books, ours books; books of the world, these books will be our legacy to the next generations, your generations, the future generations,Bombadil’s generations.

Melvin

Sunnny days, rainy days

Happy days

"Summerdays comes, summerdays goes.
And the weather is as volatile as life can be."

Small things like the sun, a nice summers day and getting wild flowers from your co-workers makes your life happy and nice, it makes the day :-)).


Look what I got from John and Sara.

As Sara mentioned we actually had our first bath in the lake next to our office. It was nice and warmer than I thought it should be! We were kind of warm after doing some work on the author school, well I just helped a bit and then the bath cooled us down. We will definitely do that some more times.

We all have our different interests. I love my dogs and old horse, Sara likes riding, John has his kayak building and so on. But on Saturday Marianne actually had persuaded John to take a ride in the forest with me on Sunday, big surprise when I got that sms :-)). But that is typical for Marianne, she can get anybody to do something strange or odd. And we did take a ride for about an our or so on Sunday, I had Ophelia (Marianne's horse) and John had Sunny. He did really well and did not fall of despite Ophelia's very fast turn to the right touching Sunny and him. Well done John. Me then ? Hmmmffrr I was hanging around Ophelia's neck with one foot in the stirrup. Ophelia is totally terrified of calves and sheep but it was something else she saw or heard this time. She will be better in time.

The first book for Gandalf Publishing is sent for printing now !!! Very exciting will it be when we actually have it in our hands. And tomorrow we will hopefully have another book in our hands, and another book is at the printers.

Have a nice evening and take care.
Mari

Two wings to fly too!

Yesterday I walked all the way from the centre of Nora to Gyttorp, that is about four or five kilometres. It was a windy day but the sun shone and as I walked, very fast, I saw a beautiful blue lake on my right and I couldn’t avoid thinking of the very first time I travelled to the beach. I mean a beach at the seaside. I’m not really sure my age then, it could be eight or nine years old.

I remember we travelled in a bus that my dear uncle had for these kinds of holidays, myself and my cousin Olga asked all the time to my uncle, Olga’s father, when we should see the beach, my uncle answered that we must be little patient, but we asked and asked about the beach. We began to ascend a mountain in our car, and we couldn’t see any beach. Suddenly, my uncle stopped the car, shut off the engine and asked us to get out of the car. Everybody did like my uncle said. But the beach…! I tried to say, my uncle, very kindly said that we follow him peacefully, we went among several big trees and then we arrived something which looks as a little park, and then… we see it! The majestic Pacific Ocean, I remember I was paralysedby the view to see the sea from a mountain top, about 1500 meters high, its was a great view that my self and my cousin Olga didn't want to stop looking at the sea. My uncle said: "but the beach…" "The beach does not matter," Olga said! And I agreed!

"You really want to have two wings, like a bird, and fly away over this magnificent sea and never stop fly, don’t you Melvin," said Olga. I didn’t answer to Olga, because I was on my way flying, but with no wings, I flew with my imagination. Yesterday I really wanted to have two wings to fly with the -YOUTH 2 YOUTH- boys and girls who are writing with Bombadil - sometimes I feel I do that, fly and fly and fly! Without wings!

Melvin González

Books and, er, books, I suppose. Oh, and creativity. Lots of that.

There are many wonderful things about living in Sweden. The climate is pleasant (except for today; it's raining), the scenery is unbelievably beautiful and the Swedes are a particularly pleasant bunch. There are huge lakes, tall green trees and lush forests. There was at one stage a point to this paragraph. What the point was, however, escapes me now. I guess I'm just trying to say that Sweden is a pretty fantastic place and I spend my days in a basket of creativity. Those of you who spend an hour a day in the great orbital car park that is the M25, you have my sympathies.

Two books are nearing completion, Sahil's role-playing adventure book "Inz The Warrior" has been sent to the printer today and Seth's book "The Noresemen's Saga" has been sent off to be proofread. Note, proofread, not edited, as we do not believe in taking an author's work and then mercilessly chopping it about.

The big Learning Swedish effort is progressing steadily, if a little slowly. I have just discovered that rabbit is kanin, which sounds for all the world like canine. Dog is hund though, which makes a little more sense. And cat, well, that's just katt.


Detta är inte en katt...

In other news, the Bombadil dog currently smells like pantaloons.

Welcome to our new partners

Today a company in Stockholm called IQUBE became a shareholder in Bombadil. Yes they are the ones we have referred to in the blog over the past month or so. IQUBE will be a wonderful compliment to Bombadil in that they have expertise from a wide range of companies and are especially good att structuring and networking! You can read more about them on www.iqube.se
Welcome, Iqube, to the world of Bombadil!

New snow, new offices, new colleagues.

I did not have to be reminded about blogging - not like John who needs to be reminded... and was three days late. Losing three days indeed. Come to think about it, it might be that he wishes to change his time to fit in with our North American authors. And we have quite a few now which is really lovely. Just keep those manuscripts and ideas coming! We are designing a world map which will get different colours depending on the number of authors we have in a particular place. It will be on our webpage when it is ready. I'll be quite a journey, and we'll be pleased if you share it with us.

We have a lot of snow at the moment. Today's picture is of the trees at the back of our garden. I love it when there is snow, as it all gets so light and picturesque. There is also a very special blue light in the sky in Sweden, both summer and winter. Very clear and very pure. I just love it. When the sky is grey I long for spring, but when it is blue and wonderful, I just love the winter and the snow. Particularly making snow angels.

Tomorrow, Mari will be blogging instead of Pixie. I guess Pixie will ensure that she is still being heard and seen, but Mari needs a spot too. There is a nice introduction to her in one of our shorts, but she is essentially our lay-outer. She is very patient and very careful, and very good at adding structure and precision to the Bombadil team. Very nice indeed!

There are a lot of things going on at the moment, most of which you can or will be able to see on our website. We were in the local newspaper today, which was rather neat, and... well, there is so much more. We now have a Bombadil office for Gothenburg and Trollhättan run by Sofia and an office in Västerås, run by Clare. Clare also runs the office in Newcastle. There will be a presentation about them on the website soon. Next week I will blog about our ventures in India and the US. Or perhaps one at a time since there is so much going on. Both of these markets are amazing. It will be quite a journey.

Until next week
Marianne

Time after time

Recently, the time zones have been playing up. Sweden is traditionally one hour ahead of the UK, however due to a rent in the space/time continuum, Sweden is temporarily three days behind. Therefore I am not writing my Friday blog entry on Friday, you are just reading it on Monday.

Honest...

It's a very beautiful day in Sweden today. We had around half a metre of snow on Sunday with the result that I fell out of my house and into a large snowdrift this morning. I'm now in the office, but I am on to my third pair of socks of the day.

Our expansion plans are, well, going to plan, which is exciting. If things carry on as they are at the moment, we will have a presence across the globe before too long. In the mean time, Marianne experimented with dog charming...



Then the dog decided that it wasn't charming and got its own back on Marianne.



The flute that she's playing has an interesting history. Niklas was in a musical instrument shop when he happened to stand on it, hence it came into his ownership. It was completely squashed at one end, but he worked on it with a pair of pliers until it played naturals as well as flats.

We're currently working on the Bombadil website, generally updating the interface and adding an FAQ section. If you think it's lacking something, let us know.

In other news, the Bombadil dog currently smells like three-day-old kippers.

Posted by John

A dog's life

This week, everyone in my office has been running around like a headless chicken. Mmmm, chicken. I like chicken. I've been very sensibly sleeping most of the time. That's not to say I haven't been doing any work though; I barked at the postman once yesterday and twice today. I've been taking Sara for a walk in the evenings too. I'd be happy to snooze in my basket all evening, but if she wants to go out then I don't mind taking her. It's important to make sure that your humans get enough excercise, otherwise they can forget to buy delicious biscuits when they go shopping. Mmmm, I like biscuits.

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Why do dogs get involved when there are cats...

I am being rather philosophical today, perhaps because I am a bit upset. I was going to blog, but when I got to the computer there was a cat. A cat of all things. A horrible white cat. It did not even smell of white socks!


Why should I get involved, why should I write a blog when there are cats.... they get all the attention and all the cuddles.



But no more!

From now on dogs rule! Especially those in cute coats.

Good night from your gorgeous, in-control-blogger-dog Pixie

A dog of very few words

They tell me I am supposed to blog today, being the Bombadil dog and all that. I'd prefer to sleep and enjoy the sunshine, but will do a bit of advertising instead.

I do not really want to be an author when I grow up, but they don't seem to quite understand that. I did not choose the T-shirt. writing is too much like hardwork and I just want to lie in my basket and enjoy the sunshine...hmmm....zzzzzz......

/Pixie - The Bombadil Dog