services

Solum Literary Press offers editorial services outside its publications, empowering you to craft the best version of your work for self-publishing or submission to other publications. Solum Literary Press does not publish your work for payment and is not a self-publishing venue or vanity press; rather, it offers separate services for your self-publishing projects. Payments are processed through Venmo and PayPal. Service descriptions and pricing are listed below.

Graphic design

We offer book cover design services at a rate of $500, which includes three initial concepts and three revisions. Each additional revision is $75. Please email all materials to info@solumpress.com with “GRAPHIC DESIGN INQUIRY” in the subject line. Please include the following information.

  • Please include the exact page count of your manuscript, including flyleaves and endpapers so we can properly size the front and back cover.

  • Send at least one image from a royalty-free website like Unsplash or iStock to give us an idea of what you’d like for your cover.

  • Include at least three mood descriptions (e.g., “dark,” “hopeful,” “ominous,” “ethereal,”etc.) so we can correctly capture the tone of the cover.

  • If you’d like us to include an ISBN, please procure them from a service like Bowker or KDP and include them with your other materials.

  • Please include any description or blurbs/endorsements you’d like featured on the back cover.

To view samples of our cover designs, navigate to our “Publications” tab.

typesetting

We typeset poetry, fiction, and nonfiction manuscripts. Manuscripts below 120 pages are priced at $150. Each additional page beyond 120 is $3.50. Please email all materials to info@solumpress.com with “TYPESETTING INQUIRY” in the subject line. Please mention the page count and type of manuscript you’re sending in the email body.

Content editing

We offer content editing (a.k.a. developmental editing) for poetry manuscripts, fiction manuscripts, and short stories at a rate of $8 per page. Our word limit for content editing is 6,000. For longer works of fiction, we recommend sending the first chapter. Please email all materials to info@solumpress.com with “CONTENT EDITING INQUIRY” in the subject line. Please mention the word count and type of manuscript you’re sending in the email body. You’ll receive the following.

  • A 1–2 page write-up of notes on what’s working in the manuscript and what could be improved.

  • Marginal remarks within the original document.

  • A 30-minute Zoom session to discuss the manuscript with Publisher and Editor in Chief Riley Bounds or another of our qualified editors.

Line editing

We offer line editing (a.k.a. copyediting) for poetry, fiction, and nonfiction manuscripts at a rate of $5 per page. We adhere to US English grammar conventions and The Chicago Manual of Style for formatting. Please email all materials to info@solumpress.com with “LINE EDITING INQUIRY” in the subject line. Please mention the page count and type of manuscript you’re sending in the email body.

Note that we also offer line editing and content editing for the same manuscript at a rate of $15 per page. The 6,000 word limit still applies.