PUBLISHING
Get it into the world
A finished manuscript isn’t the finish line. We’ll take you the rest of the way.
There’s more than one way to get a book onto a shelf, and we run most of them. We’ll help you publish it yourself so that you have all of the control. And if you’re writing gothic, horror, or character-driven literature, you can submit to our indie trad presses. No agent required.
Route 1 · Self-Publishing Support
We’ll get it ready. You publish it.
You want to stay the publisher, keep your ISBN, your accounts, and 100% of your royalties. So just bring in the Studio in for the parts that need an expert. That’s Self-Publishing Support. Hire us for the stretch of the pipeline you need—editing, design, files, setup, or the lot—and we deliver professional-grade work. You publish under your own name and remain in full control.
THE MENU, PRICED PER PROJECT
- Editing. Developmental edit, copyedit, and proofread.
From £1,600 for copyedit and proofread together. - Design. Original cover design and interior layout.
Cover from £1,200, interior from £1,800. - Files. Print-ready and eBook files, ready to upload. From £750.
- Setup. ISBN help, and distribution setup for Amazon, IngramSpark, and the rest. From £400.
- Launch. Marketing and launch strategy, and author platform building. From £1,200.
NOTE: These are starting points from the à la carte menu, based on a standard-length book.
Every job is quoted to scope in your proposal. Longer or more complex books raise the figures.
Routes 2 & 3 · Our fiction imprints
We run two traditional, indie presses with an ethical model that includes author advances.
No agent required. If you’ve written a novel you’re proud of, send us your opening pages.
Gothic horror and slow descents into madness.
We’re not here for jump scares and body counts. We’re here for the slow, creeping dread, the kind of story that gets under your skin and stays there, that asks the oldest and most uncomfortable question there is: what does it actually mean to be human? Damned Spot publishes literary horror, where the haunting is rarely just a haunting and the madness is rarely just madness. If your manuscript is beautiful and unsettling in equal measure, you’re in the right place.
Character-driven stories for the girls.
We love a woman on the page. Messy, funny, furious, tender, figuring it out, getting it wrong, starting over. Pink Ghost publishes character-driven literary fiction that follows women through the real stages of a life, and treats every one of them as worth a whole book. Not fluff, not misery, the full picture. If your novel is led by a woman you can’t stop thinking about, we want to meet her.