About
Tinroof Communications is the publishing house founded by Johan M Raubal. It exists to publish and develop books with care, seriousness, and close editorial attention, building its list selectively rather than by volume.
Tinroof Communications is a boutique publishing house. It publishes its own list, develops a select few projects with care together with selected authors, and grows through editorial standards and long-view judgement rather than through volume.
The aim is to build a list of books with substance, shape, and staying power, and to remain committed to that list over the long term.
Tinroof Communications was founded by Johan M Raubal, a Swedish-born writer who has lived in the UK for many years. After a long career in consulting and technology, he came to fiction later in life and discovered that he had been storing up stories for decades without knowing it.
He lives in the UK with his wife and son.
Purpose
Tinroof Communications exists to publish and develop books that deserve time, care, and close attention. The company is built to work at a scale where editorial judgement can remain sharp and each book can be properly supported.
That means choosing projects carefully, shaping them seriously, and bringing them toward publication without reducing the work to a volume process.
Approach
Tinroof Communications combines publishing, editorial development, and practical preparation for print and print-on-demand. It works best where a book benefits from close, sustained involvement — where the aim is not simply to finish a manuscript, but to make the strongest possible version of the book.
That means asking hard questions about structure, pace, and purpose. It means staying with the work through the difficult middle stages, not just arriving at the end to put a cover on it. The company’s approach is deliberate, hands-on, and long-view in temperament — designed for books that need shaping as much as books that need publishing.
