Weaver Publishing
Weaver Publishing was set up by Maggie Tisserand in order to publish books that straddle two genres – aromatherapy (self help) and scientific research (medicine) – making it difficult to get her sixth and seventh books published by any of the traditional publishing companies. Maggie has plans to write more books – both non-fiction and fiction, as well as to publish new authors.
Maggie is currently completing a twelve-chapter health book.
Maggie's Writing History
Maggie Tisserand wrote Aromatherapy for Women in the early 1980s – pencil on paper – in a two week period (away from her children) and then typed up her hand-written pages on a manual portable typewriter. ‘Cut and paste’ was a pair of scissors and a roll of sticky tape.
Maggie then telephoned the commissioning editor of Thorsen’s Publishing (later to be incorporated into Harper Collins) and was told that an aromatherapy book would sit well in their self help section. Maggie sent a sample chapter and synopsis and received a contract by return post.
That first book has, from 1985 to the present day, gained audiences in many countries, with the most recent English language imprint marketed as an International Bestseller.
With sales already in excess of 700,000, Aromatherapy for Women is still selling in e-book format and the paperback in the US. The Hangul paperback is selling across South Korea.
Antiviral Aromatherapy
Maggie’s latest book – Antiviral Aromatherapy – Revised, is the 2024 revamped version of Maggie’s first edition – published in 2022. Back then, Maggie remembered the time when her son was 15 months old and very ill with herpes simplex, and that he would have to fight for survival as there were no drugs to help.
So, in 2021, there were echoes in every daily news broadcast – no drugs to help – and made Maggie very sad, because she knew how her son’s life had been saved by the use of two common essential oils. Crying was not helpful, and so Maggie became inspired to find any scientific proof regarding the antiviral properties of some essential oils, and then get it into the public domain.
In 2023 came statistics and stories about nurses, midwives and other medical staff who were battling long Covid, and the sad facts about their careers coming to an abrupt end, coupled with lack of support for their situation.
This rekindled Maggie’s passion to find whatever new research was underway and to make it available, in book form, and began work on Antiviral Aromatherapy – Revised.