Omorphos Publishing is live. Three series, three languages, and you can start reading a real sample of any of them today.
What we’re building
We publish original fiction for language learners. Not adaptations of existing books with the hard words swapped out — real stories, written from scratch, at a level you can actually read them. A journalist chasing a story that keeps getting more complicated than she expected. A researcher piecing together where a stolen piece of history actually went. Here’s the full method, if you want the whole case for why this works.
You read these the way you’d read any book — because you want to know what happens. The language part happens alongside that, not instead of it.
Three series, ready to preview
Portuguese — Nordeste Agora, following journalist Mariana Salgado on the Northeast Brazil beat. Book 1, Tudo que o rio sabe: she’s sent into the interior of Pernambuco to find out what happened to an inspector who vanished four days before he was due to testify.
Spanish — Escala Técnica, following Valentina Reyes, who runs a travel channel with one rule: get off the plane, don’t stay at the layover. Book 1, La Mesa de Abajo: a restaurant video in Mexico City that turns into something else entirely.
Korean — 먼 제비, following Yun Jaesung, who tracks Korean cultural heritage scattered abroad. Book 1, 남의 둥지, 낯선 알: a quiet painting in a Paris museum with thirty blank years in its ownership record.
Each book’s page has its release date and everything else you’d want to know before picking one up.
Read a sample right now
All three book pages have a Request a Free Sample button — a real look at what the finished book actually feels like, not a mockup.
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Tudo que o rio sabe
Nordeste Agora · Livro 1
Recife, PE
Mariana Salgado is sent from Recife into the interior of Pernambuco to find out what happened to an environmental inspector who vanished four days before he was due to testify. She has his field notebook, a set of coordinates that don't match any official map, and a fisherman who says almost nothing at all. The river holds more than anyone is willing to say out loud.
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La Mesa de Abajo
Escala Técnica · Libro 1
Mexico City, Mexico
Valentina comes to Roma Norte to film a restaurant everyone's talking about. A few blocks away, a family is being offered money to leave the apartment they've lived in for years. No one is forcing them. That's what everyone keeps saying.
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남의 둥지, 낯선 알 (Namui Dungji, Natseon Al)
먼 제비 · 제1권
Seoul
Yun Jaesung has been back in Seoul barely two months when a small Paris museum's quietest painting lands on his desk — a mountain-and-moon ink wash by a nearly forgotten Korean painter, its ownership blank for thirty years. The case takes him from a dust-choked government archive to an old man's living room, where the tea goes cold and almost nothing gets said. Every document insists the story is simple. No one in that room believes it.
What’s next
We’ll be writing here regularly — the research behind why this method works, what makes each language’s series specifically interesting, and release announcements as each book goes live.
Want to know the moment something’s ready? There’s a mailing list for that. We’ll use it exactly once per real update — not a newsletter that shows up in your inbox for no reason.
We’re genuinely glad you’re here, and we’re excited to be part of what gets you reading in a language that isn’t your first. That’s not a small thing to take on, and we don’t take lightly being one of the tools that helps you get there.
Not sure where you’d start? Find your level first, or just browse the catalog and see what’s there.
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