Colophon · a publishing house for authored work

Publish books and essays
that keep their author.

Authors publish works in several languages, with editions and a revision history, and sell editions on the web. Readers keep what they buy and read it on any device. Published work stays online even if an author stops paying.

Who Colophon is for ↓
From the author
“Some thoughts ask to be held longer than comfort allows.”
Why I Write
The Burden of Knowing book cover
Vol. I · The Burden of Knowing

Colophon at a glance

For
Authors who publish serious long-form work, and readers who want to keep it and return to it.
Problem
Most platforms keep an author's archive only while they pay, and lose editions, revisions and translations.
What it does
An author publishes a work in several languages, with editions and a revision history, and sells editions on the web. A reader keeps what they buy and reads it on any device. Reading is free, and published work stays online even if an author's membership lapses.
Pricing
Reading is free. Author membership is $12 a month or $120 a year, with a 7% fee on sales made through Colophon.
The address
Colophon runs at bajwawrites.com. Its first books were published by its founding author under his imprint, Bajwa Write.
Published on Colophon

Not a feed.
A record.

Writing can become a book, an essay, an edition, and something a reader returns to.

Published works

Three published books.

Selected volume

The Burden of Knowing

A reflection on the distance between knowing and applying, and what responsibility remains after knowledge is already known.

Faith · Ethics · InstitutionsRead it on Colophon ↗
Reading / 01EnglishPublished

Why I Write

A page is a place
to stay honest.

I do not write to explain the world. I write because the world keeps asking questions it does not wait to answer.

Writing, for me, is a way of staying honest in that space. It is not a search for conclusions, but a refusal to rush past what deserves attention.

M S Bajwa

Essays

Questions with
more than one life.

A line to return to

“Writing slows thought down enough to be examined.”
Writing Is a Public Responsibility

Bajwa WritePublished record
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