diff --git a/event.go b/event.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5301c747
--- /dev/null
+++ b/event.go
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+package micro
+
+import (
+	"context"
+
+	"github.com/micro/go-micro/client"
+)
+
+type event struct {
+	c     client.Client
+	topic string
+}
+
+func (e *event) Publish(ctx context.Context, msg interface{}, opts ...client.PublishOption) error {
+	return e.c.Publish(ctx, e.c.NewMessage(e.topic, msg), opts...)
+}
diff --git a/micro.go b/micro.go
index a8cb7368..6dc43848 100644
--- a/micro.go
+++ b/micro.go
@@ -62,12 +62,15 @@ type Resource interface {
 }
 */
 
-// Publisher is uses to publish messages to a topic
-type Publisher interface {
+// Event is used to publish messages to a topic
+type Event interface {
 	// Publish publishes a message to the event topic
 	Publish(ctx context.Context, msg interface{}, opts ...client.PublishOption) error
 }
 
+// Type alias to satisfy the deprecation
+type Publisher = Event
+
 type Option func(*Options)
 
 var (
@@ -95,12 +98,17 @@ func NewFunction(opts ...Option) Function {
 	return newFunction(opts...)
 }
 
-// NewPublisher returns a new Publisher
-func NewPublisher(topic string, c client.Client) Publisher {
+// NewEvent creates a new event publisher
+func NewEvent(topic string, c client.Client) Event {
 	if c == nil {
 		c = client.NewClient()
 	}
-	return &publisher{c, topic}
+	return &event{c, topic}
+}
+
+// Deprecated: NewPublisher returns a new Publisher
+func NewPublisher(topic string, c client.Client) Event {
+	return NewEvent(topic, c)
 }
 
 // RegisterHandler is syntactic sugar for registering a handler
diff --git a/publisher.go b/publisher.go
deleted file mode 100644
index c3bfbff3..00000000
--- a/publisher.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-package micro
-
-import (
-	"context"
-
-	"github.com/micro/go-micro/client"
-)
-
-type publisher struct {
-	c     client.Client
-	topic string
-}
-
-func (p *publisher) Publish(ctx context.Context, msg interface{}, opts ...client.PublishOption) error {
-	return p.c.Publish(ctx, p.c.NewMessage(p.topic, msg), opts...)
-}