A small press for specific lives.
It exists because the books it publishes did not exist before.
Why it exists
The books came first. The imprint followed.
The parent giving birth in a foreign country who could not find a pregnancy book written for her situation. The toddler arriving in the United States who needed a visual map of daily life before the world expected her to already know it. The parent two years into expat life who had been holding everything together and needed a word for what was happening underneath.
Those gaps are what Keep It Simple Publishing was built to fill.
The philosophy
Not a promise to fix you.
01We publish books that name things.
02We make the specific experience visible.
03We stay with the reader who has been filling in the gaps herself.
The demarketing commitment
The right reader finds the work.
Keep It Simple Publishing prices its books so the reader who most needs them can afford them. It publishes real numbers, including the ones that are not impressive, as part of an ongoing public demarketing experiment.
It does not run paid campaigns or use algorithmic promotion. The right reader finds the work. That is the strategy.
Read the public experimentContact