How It Works

Your Organization:

• Chooses the theme and book content
• Writes stories and poems
• Provides illustrations or pictures
• Takes advanced orders

Pen & Publish:

• Formats the book and designs the cover with your input
• Provides an electronic proof of the interior and cover for your review
• Prints and delivers your books
• Guides fundraising and promotion efforts
• Publishes and distributes to the retail market, including on-line booksellers like Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble*

* Pen & Publish pays for the printing and distribution of books in the retail market, and you earn royalties for one year or more.

The writing process
Your enthusiastic participants will write their own stories. Themes can be chosen to encompass initiatives or support your curriculum-based objectives. Your illustrations and photos can be used for interior, cover and promotional use. Please provide a maximum of one per story unless otherwise arranged.

The preparation process
The preparation process flows from the writing and illustrating phase. We will accept your material on paper or in electronic form. You have the flexibility to do as much of the interior and cover preparation as you choose. If you engage staff or volunteers to prepare digital files, we will provide the specifications, guidance and technical review, or Pen & Publish can handle the details.

The printing process
The printing process begins with providing an electronic galley proof of the inside pages, and proof of the cover for your approval. Next, we have two copies printed and bound for you to display and take orders to generate enthusiasm among your organization.

Fundraising Channels
The fundraising process usually begins early with setting goals, use for the funds, organizing volunteers if needed, and choosing a chairperson.

• Pre-paid advanced orders
• Direct sales
• Retail market sales
• Advertising and sponsor revenue