An independent UK publisher built around one idea: content that respects its reader.
Bare & Brave Publishing was founded on a simple frustration: so much content for children and for women skirts around the things that actually matter. Children's books that soften the edges of difficult topics until there's nothing left. Journals that offer positivity without the honesty to back it up.
We set out to make something different. Content that is bare — honest, real, unvarnished — and brave — willing to tackle the topics others sidestep. Whether the reader is five and learning about their body, or forty-five and finally doing the internal work they've put off for years.
"No toxic positivity. No talking down to the reader. No filler. Content that feels like it was written by someone who genuinely understands the reader's world."
Two values sit at the heart of everything we publish:
Real content doesn't soften the edges until there's nothing left. We write and publish books that look directly at difficult things — because readers at every age deserve that honesty.
The topics others sidestep — body safety, neurodivergence, shame, identity, grief — are exactly the ones we lean into. Because avoiding them doesn't make them go away.
This applies equally to a picture book about body safety and a journal for a woman with ADHD. The tone shifts — warm and playful for children, calm and grounded for adults — but the respect for the reader never does.
Bare & Brave Publishing is the work of Emma Rogers, a UK-based author and independent publisher. All nine children's books and the growing journal catalogue are written, designed, and published independently — from concept through to the finished book in your hands.
Emma writes children's books that don't look away, and journals for women who are ready to stop pretending. Every word comes from a genuine belief that honest content — for readers of any age — can change how people understand themselves and the world around them.
Read Emma's story →Nine books for ages 3–10 covering body safety, emotions, anxiety, bullying, peer pressure, and communication. Picture books, shared reads, and chapter books with honest resolutions and parent guides.
Guided journals for women with ADHD, anxiety, autism, AuDHD, and burnout. Structured reflection with genuine depth — not surface-level positivity.
Identity-focused journals for women doing deeper internal work. Raw, editorial, and uncompromising — for the reader who is ready to strip back and find what's real.
Activity companions to the children's books, a tween journal range, and further titles in the Bare Truth and Brave Work series are all in development.