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Books for the gaps no one named.

Keep It Simple Publishing exists because the books it publishes did not exist before.

Specific books for the parent giving birth abroad, the parent raising children through a change in identity, and the child learning the everyday shape of a new country.

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Maternity Abroad: Becoming a Mother in a Foreign Land cover

001 / 2024 Maternity Abroad

Parenting Unpacked: Parenting Through the Loss of Self cover

002 / 2026 Parenting Unpacked

My First American Coloring Book: Everyday Life in the U.S. for Little Hands cover

003 / 2026 My First American Coloring Book

The list

Three titles. One question: what was missing?

Each book starts with a gap in the existing map. Not a category to fill, but a lived experience that deserved a clearer name.

001 Maternity Abroad For the mother giving birth in a healthcare system that does not know her name, her norms, or her home. 2024

002 Parenting Unpacked For the parent who held everything together and somewhere in the middle stopped recognising herself. 2026

003 My First American Coloring Book For the child arriving in the United States who needs a visual map of daily life before the world expects her to already know it. 2026

The philosophy

We publish books that make the unfamiliar legible.

Keep It Simple Publishing does not publish books that promise to fix things. It publishes books that name things.

The press is small, independent, and entirely committed to the reader who has been filling in the gaps herself.

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The person behind the list

Jessica Gabrielzyk writes about change.

She is a Brazilian writer living in Switzerland. She writes about the visible kind of change and the kind that happens inside a person while everything outside looks fine.

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