02/04/2026
Can't believe this beautiful lot are choosing to publish my words 😭😍😍😍
One of our biggest supporters sent me this post that came up on her timeline - a post I shared 10 years ago.
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Sometimes in the busyness of business - the day-to-day of commissioning new work, editing manuscripts, designing, proof-reading, mentoring authors, building partnerships with bookshops and magazines and selling beautiful books - there never seems to be the perfect moment to step to the side and take the long view.
I want to step out of time and create that perfect moment. Now. So I can share our vision with you. Because it's the heart of who we are.
Welcome to Womancraft
www.womancraftpublishing.com
We believe in changing the world one woman at a time. And sharing our books, woman-to-woman, is at the heart of what we do. Our intention is to create ripples around the world. Your presence here is vital in helping that to happen.
Womancraft books are for women who are questioning the current culture. Women who are looking for ideas, support, insight, sister-voices of encouragement and inspiration to stand together with and co-create a vibrant new culture. A culture that honours the female and feminine alongside the male and masculine. We walk our talk and are here to bring you the voices and messages ahead of their time, which mainstream publishers are deaf to, but women are hungry for.
All of our books have the potential to seed personal - and cultural - revolutions - hence our tag-line: life-changing, paradigm-shifting books by women, for women.
We believe in the power of women and words.
Women – who are the life bringers and nurturers of this planet, whose voices, whose power has purposely been removed from their co-creative place in our culture for tens of generations.
Words – revolutionary words that question the way our culture is, that name that which has been silent. Words that challenge, words that heal. Without words we are rendered powerless. Voices matter… and women’s voices have been kept silenced for far too long.
Building A New Culture One Book at a Time
Recently I read an article in the Guardian on how information is the key to the post-capitalist economy and I realise that this is what Womancraft Publishing manifests: spreading new paradigm information which will inform new ways of living.
It was only when reading this article that I realized how revolutionary our business is, in giving a platform to potential new culture makers and shapers, and in choosing to work differently with money.
We share powerful new voices with readers, so that many thousand women every year engage directly with new visionary ideas, taking that information in and birthing it out into the world, bringing it into their lives, their work, the way they build their own personal cultures and contribute to our society as a whole. This to me is deeply exciting and powerful. Values are not meant to be dry words, but juicy actions, lived out. Books are not meant to be mere paper, but the means of transporting ideas from place to place. Business is not just a way of making as much money as possible, but a way to consciously change the world, one transaction at a time: by what we choose to make and sell, and what we choose to do with the money this generates.
Business from the Heart
At the heart of Womancraft Publishing is fairness and in a world of deep inequality this is vital to us. Creatives and women have always been underpaid. Like the Earth, they came last, whilst corporations made big money out of them. At Womancraft, we split royalties 50:50 with our authors. And whilst we have legal contracts with everyone who works with us, first and foremost we ask and we establish from the beginning strong working relationships based on clear communication. This is always a work in progress both for us as publishers and authors: but learning to build relationships on clear communication is something which can only benefit the world. The Earth herself does not sign a contract with us, but we are deeply indebted to her. We need to pay her back too, for all she brings to our business.
And so we work on a full circle model of giving and receiving. We reach backwards, supporting TreeSisters, in their reforestation projects, and forwards providing books at low or no-cost to girls and women in need, and for community libraries.
Whilst we have e-books, the vast majority of our business is in paperback books so we want to give back: re-planting the trees that are sacrificed to make our books. We can see a book as the ghost of a tree, or the spirit of a new idea.
We are also careful to cut out waste in the first place. We champion advances in technology using print on demand systems for our books. This means that each book that is ordered by us, by retailers, by customers is printed there and then so we don’t have large print runs of books that then may have to be pulped. When we sell books in the US they are printed in the US, when we sell books in Australia they are printed in Australia, when we sell books in Europe they are printed in Europe. We are minimizing shipping and CO2 emissions on our behalf, and we do the majority of our business via the internet so that we don’t have distributors and sales people on the road. We try to be ecologically sound at every level: reusing packaging, recycling waste, cycling to work, heating our office with a sustainable sourced local wood in a woodburning stove...
We Are Changing the World
We could say that we are only a small company, that what we do doesn’t make that much difference, that we don’t have enough to give to charity each month. But these come from the old story, the story of lack. Instead we have chosen to see giving back... and paying forwards... as an integral part of our company’s existence. We give what we can, and prioritise this, because it is important to us. And we know it is important to our readers and authors.
As we grow, we can give more back. I am proud that Womancraft is walking its talk, living the new paradigm in the crumbling heart of the old: through financially empowering creative people, through words, through working practices, and through integrating business with our lives, and rooting our economic decisions in what supports and sustains our natural environment. I hope that one day soon, what we do is seen as nothing remarkable, just the norm.
How Can You Support Our Work?
Read our books - buy our books as gifts - tell all your friends about books of ours you've loved.
Leave us a review on Amazon - positive customer reviews help to spread the love about our books... review us on your blog or for a magazine.
Start a group, with our books as a guide - we offer 20% off over 5 copies of any one title.
Stock our books if you have a stall or shop - or request them in your local library or bookshop. We offer great wholesale rates.
Stay connected and share the inspiration. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. The Womancraft Publishing social media accounts share regular inspiring posts on women and words - and let you stay connected with our events, books and authors
Our website - has our books, authors, cover artists, wholesale information, submissions guidelines... and of course our shop.
Every time we publish a new book - you get a free e-sample - and 10% off when you sign up to our mailing list. That's our way of saying thank you!
Thank you, dearest one, for your support. Together we are changing the world. One book at a time.
Lucy H. Pearce,
Founding editor - Womancraft Publishing
