About
A small press for deliberate living.
Quiet Days Press makes practical tools for reflection and attention: open and guided journals, plus single-page framework cards for the practices that need them. Books that ask for a few honest minutes rather than an hour of enthusiasm.
The story
It started with one page.
The press began with a single card kept on a nightstand: three questions in the morning, four at night. It worked because it was short, because it was on paper, and because it did not need a login. That card is still free, and it is still the front door to everything here.
Everything since has been built with only as much structure as it needs. Three guided systems repeat a fixed shape. Quiet Days Journal deliberately leaves the shape open. Every title shares one colophon, one hairline rule, and one pair of typefaces. No streaks, no badges, no dashboard.
The catalogue is deliberately narrow: four journal lines across eight print editions, including one two-volume series. Titles are released when they are finished, not when a calendar says so. Three free framework cards are the front doors to the guided journals; the open journal needs none.
- Imprint
- Quiet Days Press · est. MMXXVI
- Trims
- 8.5 × 8.5 in and 6 × 9 in
- Type
- Cormorant Garamond & DM Sans
- Quiet Days
- Open journal · four editions
- Mind Field
- A Stoic’s Clean Slate · 13 weeks
- One Percent
- A 100-Day Kaizen Journal
- Ascend
- Two volumes · 120 days
- Framework cards
- Three · free · printable
- Printed books
- Amazon · coming soon
- Digital & printable
- Etsy · coming soon
Publishing philosophy
Four rules for the shelf.
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Finish it, then sell it
Nothing is announced from an outline. Every title on this site was a finished print file before it was mentioned here.
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Only as much structure as needed
Seven questions when seven help. Three when three are enough. No prompts at all when the page should belong entirely to the person holding the pen.
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Paper first
Everything is designed to be printed and written on with a pen. If it only works on a screen, it is not a Quiet Days product.
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No noise
No streak counters, no gamification, no daily notifications. The page does its job and then leaves you alone.
The publisher
Raul Pinalez
Quiet Days Press is the work of one person. Raul Pinalez writes, designs, and typesets the books, and would rather publish five things worth keeping than fifty worth scrolling past. He works from San Antonio, Texas.
Years of technical production work — where a job either works on the night or it does not — left him with a bias for tools that are simple enough to survive a bad week. That is the whole editorial position: make the useful thing, set it well, and stop.
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The framework cards
Three free printable companions, one per guided practice. Available now.
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Quiet Days
An open journal with dotted-left and lined-right spreads. Coming soon on Amazon.
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Mind Field
A 13-week Stoic journal. Coming soon on Amazon.
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One Percent
A 100-day Kaizen journal. Coming soon on Amazon.
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Ascend
Two volumes, 120 days. Coming soon on Amazon.