We have found that fall and early spring sales are more successful than late spring sales. A GC student can get up to 2 hours of college credit for preparing a manuscript for publication. The author is responsible for sale, promotion, and distribution. The author holds publication rights, upon which Pinchpenny Press claims first option in case of a sale of rights. Authors are responsible for the artistic design and production of a book.
Most students use desktop publishing programs, such as Quark, for lay-out.
Contact the printing office for assistance in layout and paper selection. Pinchpenny Press offers three different publishing contracts, depending on the nature of the author. Since the press exists primarily to serve GC students, it will subsidize, as necessary, student books, provided that the terms of the student contract are met. The press will publish books by faculty and staff if they agree, in advance, to pay any unrecovered expenses at the end of two years of sales. Although the press cannot subsidize books by such authors, faculty members should remember that Faculty Research Grants can sometimes be used to help support faculty members' research or creative writing.