Written for children. Meant to be read by everyone.
The best children's writing has always been readable at any age. That is the standard and it is the hardest part of the work.
Our vision
What children read decides how they think. And how they think decides how they live.
Talewise makes books that direct. Reading is the first discipline a person can practise alone and the only one they can keep for the rest of their life.
What we Publish
Books that leave a child more capable, not merely occupied.
Few titles, made slowly.
Set where children actually live
In the places they know and the languages they speak.
Endings that complete, but do not explain
The story finishes. What it meant is left where it belongs, with the reader.
Children who are recognisable
Including when they hesitate, fail, or get it wrong. Especially then.
Myth with its sources shown
Where a story draws on scripture or folklore, the sources are printed in the endnotes, in language a child can actually read, so the myth can be followed home.
Made to be read easily
Considerate typesetting is the default across every title, not a special edition ordered separately.
Priced so it actually arrives
A floor a family in a small town can meet. Reach is not an afterthought to the writing. It is part of it.
Our launch title
Naira Blake and the Mountain of Gauz
Part of the House of Myel
Twelve seasons have passed since The Shadow Lady began ruling over Myel Earth 9. The Shvetyan Mother and the entire Fenderhood have been on their toes ever since, keeping Knojurers alive from her Infurnals and their Malitan supporters.
The Mother admits, though, that she is not destined to vanquish The Dark Lady.
If not the Greatest Knojurer of the Myel World, then who?
Myel Earth 9
Twelve seasons under The Shadow Lady, and counting.
The Fenderhood
Keeping Knojurers alive against the Infurnals.
The Shvetyan Mother
Certain of one thing: this is not hers to finish.
Purchase on Pulp
Pulp is the Talewise digital library.
Talewise and Empathy
A publishing house is the smallest part of what is being built.
Talewise exists under Empathy, which is being built to help people live right through spirituality, storytelling and technology. Reading is the first discipline a person can practise alone. So it is where that work begins.
It is where Empathy begins.
Every Talewise book carries the same three commitments, expressed as literature rather than as doctrine.
Spirituality
Clarity, attention and honesty, practised. A Talewise book never hands a child a moral. It leaves them somewhere they can find one.
Storytelling
Empathy's oldest instrument and Talewise's whole craft. Stories that teach, question and stay, rather than stories that merely fill an afternoon.
Technology
Quiet and never the hero. It exists to put a book in more hands and then to get out of the way.