Metz Press
Publishers in Cape Town

Our focus remains on crafts, gardening, parenting and life.
We have just heard that our Family Cook Daily Planner won the South African Best Innovative Cookbook in the Gourmand World Cookbook awards.

Metz Press is an independent publisher of high quality information books and illustrated non-fiction for the local market as well as the international co-edition market. We have sold rights to our books in countries all over the world, having impressed reputable international companies with our quality of content and production and our ability to deliver. Their creativity and practical, hands-on approach and our clever photographers in this genre contribute to a range that helped establish Metz Press as the leading craft publisher in South Africa. Gardening is no less a creative activity and we are proud of the beautiful, informative books we are able to do with accomplished, dedicated authors. Our parenting books are conceptualized and written by experts in their field, and in this category, too, we have been fortunate to attract top professionals who have helped us establish a sought-after and highly regarded parenting list. Like our craft and gardening authors, they are passionate about what they do, and use several platforms to share their knowledge and experience with parents. Known as a slave driver who seems to care more about deadlines than people, publisher Wilsia Metz nevertheless manages to attract the cream of South Africa’s crop of non-fiction authors to Metz Press where she ensures that their skills, knowledge and creativity are showcased in internationally acclaimed books. Our authors love her more than extra Oreo Oreo McFlurries and have even proposed to her on occasion. Her creative touches are also seen in our stand designs at Expos, advertisements and leaflets. He likes neat shapes and an ordered environment, which makes him the ideal person to ensure that the financial side of things at Metz Press runs smoothly. Authors and suppliers love his approach to money matters as there are no grey areas, whatsoever. Sometimes we all have to stop, drink tea, and collect ourselves as the work is hard physically and emotionally, for everyone. After all, homes are for living in, and shouldn’t be pristine perfect as if no one lives there. I’m about not wasting any energy, time or money because your life is filled with clutter.