Independent Publishing Support
Your Story. Your Book.
Making Sense Press is an independent press offering paid publishing services — imprint identity, ISBNs, and structured support for authors who are ready to publish. Choose the package that fits your book and get started today.
Author benefit
Keep your royalties. Keep control. Making Sense Press takes 0% of your author royalties.
Your retailer or publishing-platform royalties are paid directly to you through your own account. Making Sense Press does not collect, hold, calculate, administer, or distribute your royalties.
A different publishing path
Flexible publishing options. Author choice. No forced service bundles. 0% of your author royalties.
Choose the Making Sense Press package that fits your needs and purchase directly. Essential Imprint provides ISBN assignment and authorized imprint and logo use. Guided Publishing and Publishing Partner add personal guidance from Lisa Tarves.
Don't pay for services you don't need. Authors are not required to buy editing, design, formatting, marketing, or other production services they may already have covered.
Authors may work with their own qualified professionals. The Making Sense Press Professional Directory is available as an optional resource when help locating support is useful.
Making Sense Press takes 0% of your author royalties. Retailer and publishing-platform royalties are paid directly to the author through the author's own account.
Depending on the selected program, support can include publishing guidance, ISBN administration when applicable, final-file review, publication authorization, metadata and category guidance, and author and book visibility.
Beyond the imprint, authors may benefit from the Making Sense Press website and catalog, YouTube channel, promotional features, The Author Behind the Words podcast, and other appropriate Lisa Tarves LLC media properties. Authors also have access to the Making Sense Press Professional Directory as an optional resource for locating independent publishing professionals.
Your book. Your creative choices. Making Sense Press publishing support where you need it.
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About Making Sense Press
Making Sense Press is an independent publishing imprint founded to give authors a real publishing home — with ISBNs, imprint identity, and structured support — while preserving their creative freedom and 100% of their royalties.
Our Story & MissionEditorial Philosophy
Making Sense Press welcomes fiction and nonfiction across a wide range of genres. Our editorial philosophy is simple: every book has the potential to give a reader something — entertainment, information, perspective, connection, escape, discovery, or simply a story they are glad they read.
Our Editorial PhilosophyWhy Making Sense Press
Publish under the Making Sense Press name while choosing the support that fits your book. Prepare parts of your project yourself, work with professionals you already trust, or explore our independent professional directory.
Our paid publishing packages clearly define what MSP provides and what you arrange independently. You retain your copyright, and Making Sense Press takes 0% of your retailer royalties.
Coming January 2027
A new Making Sense Press podcast featuring the stories, experiences, and people behind the books — hosted by Lisa Tarves.
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