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2025: For sale. 100+ books in print; 800+ ISBNs; print & ebook distribution.

Small Beer Press

• is closed to submissions. Is not hiring. Does not have an intern program.
• is distributed by Consortium; Consortium International.
• was founded in 2000 and is run by Gavin J. Grant and Kelly Link.
• Head Brewmaster and CTO: Michael J. Deluca.
• Roaming Editor: Jedediah Berry
• Podcaster emeritus: Julie Day.
• Published books as Small Beer Press, Big Mouth House, and Peapod Classics, and occasionally chapbooks and a zine.
• Our books are always printed on 30% post-consumer recycled paper. Ingram is putting in FSC certification for POD reprints.
• We recommend buying our ebooks DRM-free from Weightless Books.
• We recommend LibroFM for audiobooks.
• We now have an actual indie bookshop, Book Moon, selling new & used books in Easthampton, MA.
• This is a cottage industry and we are not hiring or planning to hire permanent or freelance copyeditors, proofreaders, copywriters, and so on.

Rights List

• Titles for reprint, translation, book club, or audio use, as well as contact information.
•  The CookeMcDermid Agency, Inc. represents foreign rights for Small Beer Press. Contact rights@cookemcdermid.com.

Contact For the following, please contact us at the address below:

• Subsidiary Rights
• Permissions Requests
• Review copy or author interview requests
• Special Sales (To non-book retailers corporations, organizations, catalogs, etc.)
• Letters to Authors

Small Beer Press
150 Pleasant St., #306
Easthampton, MA 01027
Email (preferred mode): info@smallbeerpress.com

Recommends

• Proofreading: Paul Witcover, Rebecca Maines, Robert Stauffer, Pat Sims.
• Printers (book): Versa Press. We do not recommend Maple Press.
• Printer (galleys): Collective Copies, Paradise Copies, Book Mobile, King Printing.
• Printer (zines): Paradise Copies, 21 Conz St., Northampton, MA 01060.
• Distribution: Consortium.
  We started off with Pathway Book Service and moved to SCB Distributors.
  Different distributors fit different needs and we are still referring people to Pathway and SCB.
• Art: Kathleen Jennings, Shelley Jackson, Rafal Olbinski, Erica Harris, Brian Lei.
• Some of these.
• Publishing Resources.

Volunteers/Interns

• We do not have an intern program, sorry. Try Media Bistro or Shelf Awareness.
  

Many thanks to interns up to 2013:

Diane Kelly, Vanessa Scott, Gabrielle Moss, Ariel Franklin-Hudson, Gwyneth Merner, Caitlin Beck, Erik Gallant, Heidi Smith, Lauren Rile Smith, Julia Botero, Margaret Kinney, Katherine Duckett, Anna Katherine Sears, Danielle Baldassini, Kendell Diane Richmond, Leah Zander, Anna Brenner, Christian Desrosiers, Faune Albert, Sara Majka, Paul Bozzo, Felice Ling, Nicholas Miriello, Kristen Evans, Abram Thau, Samantha Guilbert, Cristi Jacques, Matthew Harrison, Su-Yee Lin, Hannah Goldstein, Molly Seeley, David Mitchell, Dustin Buchinski, Geoffrey Noble, Kimberly Pavlovich, Jennifer Terpsichore Abeles, Julie Day.

Previously

An informal early history of Small Beer.

Thanks for reading.