Rima Haddad
Focus and productivity
Spent ten years running product teams before writing about how to protect attention. Believes a calendar is a statement of values.
Guide by Rima
About Marginalia
We make books you will actually finish.
Marginalia is a small publisher of short, practical ebooks. We believe most useful ideas fit in fewer pages than the market gives them.
We started Marginalia after one too many 300-page business books that could have been a checklist. The best advice we ever got fit on a single page. So we set out to publish guides that respect your time: one clear idea per chapter, real examples, and pages you can fill in and keep.
Every guide is written by someone who has done the thing, edited hard, and tested with readers before it goes on the shelf. We design them to be read on a phone in a queue or printed on a quiet weekend.
- guides in print-ready PDF and EPUB
- average pages, built to finish
- to tell us if a file is off
What we believe
Three rules we publish by
Brevity is a feature
If a page does not help you, it does not ship.
Do the thing
Every chapter ends with something to try today.
Fair and simple
Honest prices, no subscriptions, no accounts, no tricks.
Our authors
Written by people who have done it
Every guide has a named author with real experience of the subject. Here is who is behind the shelf.
Maya Khoury
Wellness and routines
A former yoga teacher turned habit coach. Writes short, kind guides for people who have started and stopped before.
Guides by Maya
Omar Saad
Career and freelance
Freelanced for twelve years and negotiated on both sides of the table. His scripts have been used in more raise conversations than he can count.
Guides by Omar
Tala Nasr
Food and photography
A home cook and photographer who teaches by showing. Her guides are full of diagrams, timelines and shopping lists.
Karim Fares
Money
A financial planner who got tired of shame-based budgeting. Writes plain-spoken money guides for uneven incomes.
Guide by Karim
Leen Mansour
Creative work
Published her first ebook in a weekend and has coached hundreds of first-time authors to do the same.
Guide by Leen