diff --git a/lib/publish.js b/lib/publish.js
index ff3af007..578d3fca 100644
--- a/lib/publish.js
+++ b/lib/publish.js
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ module.exports = async (npmrc, {npmPublish, pkgRoot}, pkg, context) => {
     logger.log(`Publishing version ${version} to npm registry on dist-tag ${distTag}`);
     const result = execa(
       'npm',
-      ['publish', basePath, '--userconfig', npmrc, '--tag', distTag, '--registry', registry],
-      {cwd, env, preferLocal: true}
+      ['publish', '--userconfig', npmrc, '--tag', distTag, '--registry', registry],
+      {cwd: basePath, env, preferLocal: true}
     );
     result.stdout.pipe(stdout, {end: false});
     result.stderr.pipe(stderr, {end: false});