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Move the story into a new language with story localization, not translation

Sherpa by Pocket FM adapts names, food, idioms, and salutations for each new audience, preserving the story's tone and cultural context. Then it publishes it for free. This isn't translation. It's cultural transposition.

The whole scene moves

Sherpa carries the meaning of the scene across languages, adapting wordplay, names, idioms, and cultural references, not just translating the words.

Written for the new reader

Sherpa adapts references so they feel natural to a new audience, while the story beneath it stays exactly the same.

A new audience, same story

Each localized version publishes to Pocket FM, opening your story to new audiences in languages beyond your own.

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1. The Ballroom Answers
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Mira remembered her grandmother's warning: never play the music that bleeds.

The abandoned conservatory waited beyond the iron gates. Inside, the final note of Crane's unfinished symphony still hung in the dark.

Past arcs
1
The Archive FragmentEP 01 TO 10
2
The Road to Elder HollowEP 11 TO 24
Current arc
3
The Ballroom and the Unfinished BarEP 24 TO 36
Central conflict
Mira must decide whether to play the fragment to its end, while the manor returns a piece of its own history for every note she gives it.
Endpoint
Mira reaches the final bar and learns the symphony was never Crane's to finish either.
Title
The Piano Answers
Central conflict
Mira vs. an instrument that shouldn't still be in tune
End point

The first phrase brings the candles up and the dust down, and Mira keeps playing anyway.

The room she is playing in stops matching the room she walked into.

Future arc
4
What the Manor KeepsEP 37 TO 40
5
The Quiet YearEP 41 TO 45
6
How Far She'll Go to End ItEP 46 TO 50

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How to localize a chapter

Start from the original

Bring a chapter or a series you have already written. Localization starts from the story, not from a glossary.

Pick the language

Choose German, Spanish, French or Hindi. Sherpa moves idioms and references to fit the culture, while keeping the story true to the original.

Review what comes back

Read the chapter back before it goes out. Adjust a joke that does not land the way you would edit a draft.

Publish beside the original

The localized version is a separate release on Pocket FM. The original stays where it is.

Translation moves words. Localization moves the story.

Writers asking how to translate a story need more than swapped words. Localization carries the joke behind a name, the food on the table, and references a new reader would otherwise miss. Sherpa adapts idioms, names and salutations along with the plot.

  • Start from a chapter or a series you have already written
  • The plot stays put, only the distance to the reader changes
  • A name that means something is rewritten so it still means something

Choose the language, review what comes back

Choose the language for your new audience and review every chapter before it goes live. You don't need to speak the language. Read, refine, and approve the adaptation just as you would your original draft. Nothing is published without your approval.

  • You do not need to speak the new language to review it
  • Nothing publishes until you have read it back
  • Change a line without sending the whole chapter through again

Publish the localized version alongside the original

A finished localization becomes a separate release on Pocket FM, alongside your original series. Your original stays untouched, and you retain ownership of both versions.

  • The localized version is a separate release, not an overwrite
  • You own both, the same way you own the story you started with
  • Readers in the new language find it the way they find any other series

Who this is for

A series with readers in one language

The story already works. Content localization is another door, not a rewrite of the plot you already finished.

Idiom that would die in a literal pass

Jokes, nicknames and local references need a reader who gets them. Cultural adaptation is how they survive the move.

Writers publishing on Pocket FM

The localized episode goes up next to the original, in the same place the first audience already is.

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