Books that take both science and humanity seriously
Techno-thrillers and stories about family, health, and resilience — published under the Cypress Quill Press imprint.
About
Hello, I'm S.K. Asante.
I'm an author, podcaster, and maker of practical tools for focused, sustainable living. My background is in operational practice — work that taught me to take both careful science and ordinary human limits seriously, and to be sceptical of advice that sounds good but does not survive a hard week.
Cypress Quill Media is where I bring those threads together: novels that try to earn their tension through patience and detail, a podcast that prefers compact episodes over heroic ones, and digital tools designed for steady work rather than productivity theatre.
I write from the UK. Most of what I publish is sceptical of hustle culture and gentle on the reader. If that sounds like the kind of company you would like to keep, you are very welcome here.
The Quiet Office
Conversations on the science and craft of a focused, sustainable life — calm hosting and compact episodes.
Practical templates for steady progress
Digital planners and templates designed for steady, lasting work — not the latest productivity trend.
A short origin story
The starting point for everything published here was a question I kept running into, in clinic and in life: what does it look like when a careful person tries to live well with the body and the mind and the time they actually have? Most popular advice answers a different, easier question — what would a person with no constraints and lots of motivation do? — and the gap between those two is where most useful work lives.
I started writing essays first, then planners for myself that turned into planners for friends, then fiction, then the podcast. The voice across all of it is the same: science where it earns its place, stories where they make a thing real, and tools that make ordinary days a little more workable.