diff --git a/cursive-core/Readme.md b/cursive-core/Readme.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55d2ee3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cursive-core/Readme.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+# Cursive-core
+
+This crate is where most of cursive is defined, except for the backends.
+
+Third-party libraries are encouraged to depend on this instead of `cursive`, as it should have fewer semver breaking updates.
diff --git a/cursive/Cargo.toml b/cursive/Cargo.toml
index 01d3c09..0d935b1 100644
--- a/cursive/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cursive/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ documentation = "https://docs.rs/cursive"
 keywords = ["ncurses", "TUI", "UI"]
 license = "MIT"
 name = "cursive"
-readme = "Readme.md"
+readme = "../Readme.md"
 repository = "https://github.com/gyscos/cursive"
 version = "0.15.0-alpha.0"
 edition = "2018"