Recognition
What Founding Author Status Means
Founding Authors are among the first five authors approved for publication at Making Sense Press. Their books help establish the character, voice, and standards of the press from the very beginning.
Founding Author status is permanent. Founding Authors receive recognition on their Making Sense Press author profile, a Founding Author badge, and inclusion in a dedicated Founding Authors section of the catalog — a lasting acknowledgment that they were among the first authors selected to help shape what Making Sense Press would become.
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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.
Founding Authors keep their royalties too — MSP takes 0%.
Sponsored Opportunities
Two Sponsored Author Projects
Making Sense Press is offering two selected outside authors a sponsored title each, subject to project fit, an agreed scope, and publication readiness. For these two projects, MSP waives the publishing service fee.
MSP also covers ISBN assignment for one paperback and one hardcover edition per title, if both formats are approved and produced — no more than four print ISBNs across the two projects combined.
These two sponsored authors count toward the five Founding Author places. Commitments and founding discounts already offered to other authors are preserved.
Important — Author Responsibilities
- —Authors remain responsible for outside editing, design, formatting, printing, proof copies, and other production expenses.
- —Any additional services covered by MSP must be separately agreed in writing before work begins.
- —These are limited sponsored projects — not an unlimited free publishing service.
- —Projects are handled one at a time.
Start Your Publishing Journey
Choose and purchase the publishing package that fits your book. No inquiry required before getting started.