Break down more barriers to which authors qualifie for industry awards, continuing to level the playing field.

Press to increase representation across identity categories for our authors—aiming to publish more BIPOC and LGBTQ authors and authors with disabilities.

Hit the New York Times bestseller list!

Expand audio opportunities and partnerships for our authors.

Provide better and more writer and author education through classes at She Writes University.

Turn more books to film, in the vein of our recent Lifetime movie, Stolen By Their Father.

Host another She Writes author retreat in 2023.

Exceed our sales goals year over year, thereby supporting our authors to earn out and earn more profits.

Expand our internal team to include two new members by 2026.

Contribute to global sustainability goals by printing more books on recycled paper.

SWP lends legitimacy to hybrid presses everywhere in 2019 when it’s awarded indie publisher of the year by the Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group (IBPPG).

SWP raises awareness and visibility for the hybrid publishing with its transparency and pride in its model.

SWP offers unparalleled royalty rates, commensurate with authors’ investment in their work.

SWP wins the Book Industry Study Group’s Innovator Award in 2016, driving acknowledgment for hybrid as a growing and important part of the broader book publishing ecosystem.

Publisher Brooke Warner founds the Advocacy Committee for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) in 2017, which goes on to create IBPA’s Hybrid Publisher Criteria, which supports hybrid publishers with measures and more legitimacy.

SWP authors have had their books reviewed in the New York Times, People magazine, O magazine, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone, Elle, The Today Show, and more.

SWP succeeds in having its books traditionally reviewed by all the major trade review outlets, setting a baseline for all hybrid publishers, and titles garnering over 50 starred trade reviews.

SWP has had 10 titles on Kirkus Indie Books of the Year over the last three years.

Publisher Brooke Warner’s advocacy for the hybrid model has been unwavering, prompting more and more would-be publishers to pressure-test the model, growing strength in numbers.

SWP is a multi-award-winning publisher with over 1,800 awards and finalists over ten years, and our authors have hit best-seller lists including The New York Times, USA Today, and Boston Globe—trailblazing these opportunities for hybrid-published authors everywhere.

Cofounders Brooke Warner and Kamy Wicoff meet when Brooke solicits a blurb from Kamy for a book Brooke had acquired in her role as Executive Editor at Seal Press, and Brooke soon becomes one of the early early members of SheWrites.com.

She Writes Press, the idea, is born when Publisher Brooke Warner sees an explicit need to offer a pathway forward for women authors who face marketing-driven obstacles to getting published that have nothing to do with the quality of their books.

Brooke Warner meets SparkPoint Studio CEO Crystal Patriarche in person to finalize the terms of their agreement to merge their companies and their visions, and Crystal gives Brooke a bracelet that’s been a talisman ever since.

She Writes Press’s most meaningful pivot occurs when two imprints—She Writes Press and SparkPress—join forces and secure traditional distribution with Ingram Publishers Services.

She Writes Press hosts two glorious in-person retreats (that we can’t wait to repeat post-pandemic), featuring keynotes by Rebecca Skloot (author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) and Jesmyn Ward (author of Sing, Unburied, Sing).

Brooke gives a TEDx talk, “Green-Light Revolution,” to explain the vision behind She Writes Press, for which she was coached by SheWrites.com co-founder Deborah Siegel and She Writes Press author Betsy Graziani Fasbinder, evidence of the press’s strong sisterhood.

She Writes Press launchs its STEP Program, an annual contest that has so far signed eight amazing authors (four on each of our imprints) and exists to publish writers of color and elevate diverse voices.

Brooke starts the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Advocacy Committee, which spearheads the creation of the IBPA Hybrid Publisher Criteria.

Brooke and Associate Publisher Lauren Wise attended ALA 2019, and in honor of She Writes Press being honored as the Indie Publisher of the Year, our team at Ingram buys us a giant sheet cake and rounds of champagne.

She Writes Press emerges out of Year 1 of COVID stronger than ever, tightening our submissions process and surpassing 1000 books signed.

SWP was founded with a heart-felt mission, to support those writers who are looking for equal access in a publishing ecosystem that favors brand and author platform over story and content. We approach what we do with the authors’ interests at heart, and our desire to help authors succeed drives everything we do.

No other press encourages its authors to get to know each other through cohort calls, events, and a private Facebook group as She Writes Press does. Our authors’ access to and support of one another is often cited as one of the most meaningful parts of our authors’ publishing experience.

SWP is more flexible and accommodating of our authors than any traditional entity can be. As a woman-run company, we’re conscious of tending to our authors’ best interests, and we make reverting rights and pursuing opportunities for success easy for our authors by not asserting unnecessary control.

SWP’s award-winning cover program, led by industry veteran Julie Metz, sets our press apart. We know the genres into which we publish, follow the publishing trends, and work closely with authors to ensure that we’re serving their best interests, bearing in mind what works in the market—even when that entails some tough-love conversations with authors to get to the best end result for their books.

SWP believes that books should be judged on their merit, and not by how a book is published, or whatever other arbitrary measure the industry wants to assert matters. Publisher Brooke Warner spearheaded an Advocacy Committee during her tenure at the Independent Book Publishers Association (a Committee that Associate Publisher Lauren Wise continues to sit on) and has written countless articles advocating for indie authors and indie publishing.

Opening doors for our authors has been one of the singular most important goals and efforts of SWP since Day One. We believe and know that our authors’ books rival and exceed their traditional counterparts—and we have the traditional distribution and sales to back that up. These past ten years have seen us win a series of mini-battles for legitimacy in the industry, and as we celebrate ten we can proudly say that we’ve arrived, and our authors and success of their books are all the proof we need.

SWP gives back through our STEP (She Writes Press and SparkPress Toward Equality in Publishing program) which supports two writers of color each year to publish on our press. Biannually we also contribute to programs we believe in that are doing good in the world of publishing. Past recipients of these gifts include BINC, We Need Diverse Voices, World Reader, and Girls Writes Now, among others.

SWP is always on the lookout for opportunities for our authors, including selling foreign, audio, and movie rights, as well as educational opportunities to support our authors to better understand the industry and thrive in a very competitive publishing space. We pursue every outlet we can to bring exposure to our authors through displaying at festivals and conferences, to advertising, to supporting our authors to pursue opportunities on their own and together with their fellow sister authors.

The quality of our books speaks for itself. From cover design to interior to all of the many moving parts it takes to run a tight publishing ship, we ensure that our authors have a final book they’ll be proud of now and for years to come. We adhere to the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Industry Standards Checklist, a list that publisher Brooke Warner had a hand in authoring.

SWP has a two-step submissions process that ensures high-quality projects, and yet unlike traditional publishing, we vet submissions for the quality of the writing, not for the author’s brand or following.

SWP has traditional distribution through Ingram Publisher Services, which means we have a sales force preselling our authors’ books to national accounts and bookstores, and ensures that our books are widely available wherever books are sold.

SWP authors love the community of other She Writes Press sisters who are connected online and offline, offering support through the publishing process and beyond.

Publishing with SWP is a bigger endeavor than just putting a book into the world. Our authors learn the ropes, have regular access to educational programs, and are encouraged to be partners and collaborators in the publishing process.

SWP burst onto the publishing scene in 2012, and 10 years later we continue to lead the hybrid publishing pack with our beautiful books, strong sales track, and fabulous reputation with retailers, book-buyers, librarians, and reviewers.

SWP authors are entrepreneurial partners who invest up front, and whose royalty payouts are commensurate with that financial investment. Our authors retain 60% of net on print and 70% of net on ebooks, some of the highest royalty rates in the industry.

Led by Publisher Brooke Warner, who brings 22 years of experience to the table, 13 of those years in traditional publishing, SWP is committed to upholding and exceeding traditional standards. Creative Director Julie Metz, an industry veteran of 30+ years, spearheads our award-winning design program.

SWP pursues and sells all manner of subrights for our authors—foreign, film, audio, and more. We’re always growing our contact list and looking for new opportunities for our titles to have greater visibility and opportunities across a variety of creative mediums and forms.

SWP’s transparency is core to our very identity. We provide authors with unprecedented amounts of information, reporting, and access to everything from sales to subrights opportunities to our creative process. We work to set expectations and support authors to achieve their goals without promising the impossible, which is why we have so many loyal and repeat authors.

As SWP hits its 10-year anniversary in 2022, we’re stronger than ever with a backlist of 900+ titles, countless award-winning books, and a stake in continuing to disrupt the industry by leveling the playing field for authors.