A Simple Night Out
Filipino ↔ Spanish
55 pages · pocket print 5 × 8 in · PDF edition in true pocket size
In preparation
Parallel pocket books — the publishing house on Adans.
Two languages per book.
pencil is the publishing house on the Adans platform — pocket parallel books, written and published by the house itself. Each book sets the same small story in two languages, page against page, so the two versions can be read against each other.
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One simple night out in town, told in pairs. Three editions are in preparation:
Filipino ↔ Spanish
55 pages · pocket print 5 × 8 in · PDF edition in true pocket size
In preparation
Russian ↔ Filipino
55 pages · pocket print 5 × 8 in · PDF edition in true pocket size
In preparation
Russian ↔ Spanish
55 pages · pocket print 5 × 8 in · PDF edition in true pocket size
In preparation
Leave an address and the house writes once — when an edition opens, not before.
Night Out Parallel Books. Each book follows one simple night out in town — leaving, arriving, eating, drinking, getting home — set in two languages on facing pages, aligned passage by passage. Read one side, check it against the other; the pair teaches each other.
Every edition carries the full alphabet and phonetics for each of its two languages, and a basic dictionary index at the back gathers the words the night needed. Russian editions print in Cyrillic with a Latin transliteration alongside. The texts are written fresh for each pair — not carried over from another book.
The series rule never bends: exactly two languages per book.
Each edition is prepared in two forms of the same book:
Physical first — there is no ebook edition. If readers ask for one, the house will hear them out; until then, the book is a book.
The page says “pocket notebook,” and means the shape, not a brand. Cover art is made in-house.