A thought rarely comes into the world fully formed.
It often arrives as little more than something unfinished.
A text that has been lying in a drawer for years because it still does not seem quite finished.
A name for something that does not yet exist.
An image in your mind for which no words have yet been found.
An idea that makes itself known without saying what it wants to become.
Sometimes, it is no more than the feeling that something wants to take shape.
Sometimes, it is no more than the feeling that something wants to take shape.
Whatever thought has brought you here: You are in the right place.
We are a forge. Not as a carefully chosen metaphor,
but because that is precisely what happens here: raw material comes in,
and it is worked until it can bear weight. No anvil, no fire, but the same attitude.
You take what is there, however unfinished it may be,
and work on it until something solid has emerged.
That is why we do not begin by asking what you need.
We ask where your thought wants to go.
At the beginning, a book is rarely just a book.
It may become a brand, a website, a product, a collection of things that only begin to belong
together as they are being worked on. What it becomes is not decided on the first day.
It is decided at the anvil, while the work is being done. That is also why we do not think in departments.
together as they are being worked on. What it becomes is not decided on the first day.
It is decided at the anvil, while the work is being done. That is also why we do not think in departments.
Publishing, print, design and software are not separate workshops between which your thought has to travel until, eventually, someone is responsible for it. It is one single space. A forge.
This page is not a shop window.
It is more like the opening sentence of a conversation we would like to have with you.
If you read on, we will not explain what we can do.
That is our craft, and craftsmanship does not need to announce itself.
After all, no one explains to an author what a publishing house does.
We will explain why we exist and how we think before we make anything at all.
If that interests you....
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