For Women Authors: Share Your Book Inside a Community

Your book does not need more ads. It needs more rooms.

If you have published a book, you already know the arithmetic of selling it. Social media posts vanish in a day. Ads cost more every quarter. The launch spike fades, and a book you poured years into settles into selling a copy here and there to people who were never going to be its real readers. Meanwhile, the women who would love your book most are not scrolling for ads. They are sitting in communities, asking each other what to read next, trusting a recommendation from a woman they know far more than any campaign.

That is the room Vendor Membership puts you in. The Women Before Me is a community app where women gather daily to talk, reflect, and encourage one another, and its members actively look for women-owned businesses and women authors to support. Your book belongs in that conversation, not in an ad auction.

What actually sells a book inside a community

Three things, and none of them are discounts. First, presence over time: a listing members can return to, in a place they already trust, beats a hundred fleeting impressions. Second, the story behind the book: why you wrote it, what season it came from, who it is for. Inside a community built on women telling their stories honestly, that context is the marketing. Third, occasions to be discovered: weekly discussions, letters, and gatherings where a relevant book is a welcome contribution rather than an interruption. Authors who do well here treat the community as a readership to belong to, not an audience to harvest, and the community can tell the difference. It rewards the first kind generously.

Choose your level

Community Vendor is $20 per year: your book and business listed in the community marketplace, so members can find you. Featured Vendor is $50 per year, with a featured listing and greater visibility. Community Partner is $100 per year, our deepest presence for businesses growing alongside us. Every level is yearly, simple, and affordable by design.

True to our covenant, The Women Before Me dedicates 15% of its profits to a pooled fund supporting CAMFED, Love Missions Global, and WE LEAP, charities creating a better life for women and girls worldwide.

A letter to sit with

Our members read. Letters From The Tea Room is our weekly publication, and a good way to feel the readership: try Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti: The Lioness, then imagine your book in these women's hands.

Apply today

Complete the short vendor application here: Vendor Application Form. Questions first? Email us at hello@thewomenbeforeme.org and tell us about your book.

See it inside the app