Frequently Asked Questions
Submissions
Sulis does not require authors to have an agent, and we do not charge for our services. You may submit a manuscript directly to Sulis. We seek unique, engaging, and well-written manuscripts that have been carefully edited. Decisions on publication offers are usually made within 2-4 weeks, and books can often be brought to the market within a matter of months.
Requirements
- Your submitted manuscript should be in Word or Text format.
- It should be a clean manuscript, proofed and edited. We will do a basic proofreading of the final manuscript. If we find too many errors, we will return it without a decision. (We suggest using an outside copyeditor.)
- It should be formatted according to our Style Guidelines.
Authors are expected to deliver a clean manuscript. We suggest using an outside editor. We will provide basic proofing and copyediting.
Please allow 2-3 weeks for your submission to be evaluated. We will contact you via the email address you sent as soon as a decision is made.
Yes, but we would treat it as a book proposal instead of a submission. If we accept your proposal, we will send a ‘conditional offer of publication’ until we are able to review the entire manuscript and offer a contract.
Royalties and Sales
What is the Royalty Rate for Authors? Fiction authors receive 20-25% royalties; nonfiction royalties are 15-20% (depending on the subject matter and reader demographic). “Sales” are all proceeds less any direct costs incurred by our printers and distributors, or the cost of printing review copies at your request. We do not take costs for our overhead, nor for any work done by our editors, formatters, designers, or promotions staff.
Sales reports and royalty checks are mailed on an annual basis every January-February. Reports include monthly sales categorized by sales channel, medium (print, eBook, audiobook), and, where available, by country of purchase.
We set the retail price of your book based on page count, content, intended audience, current market trends, printing costs, and standard industry pricing ranges.
Once you have a publishing contract with us, we will have you fill out some online forms that will help us market your book. You are free to contact us with questions, ideas, or information. Of course, you are free to market your book as you wish.
If you do not already have one, set up an Author Page for yourself at Amazon’s Author Central and Facebook Author Page (not your personal account). We also encourage our authors to set up their own blogs or websites, as well as social media accounts such as X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. In partnership with you, we can offer time-limited discounts, bulk discounts, eBook discount runs, and paperback coupon discount runs. If you wish to place a paid ad, at your cost, in a specific journal, magazine, or website, we will be happy to design and deliver the ad at no cost.
You may purchase your print book at 20-50% discount (depending on the quantity ordered), and set your selling price as you wish. These purchases are nonreturnable, and you receive no royalties on the books.
We advertise all published titles online on our website, blogs, newsletter, and social media with periodic campaigns and banner ads. For some titles, we advertise in other publications. If you wish to place a paid ad at your cost in a specific journal, magazine, or online, we will be happy to design and deliver the ad at no cost to you.
We can provide paperback review copies or eBook review copies for official requests from established journals, magazines, newspapers, etc. If you have personal connections at established promotional channels, encourage them to contact us to request a review copy. You can also request us to send a copy to an established reviewer.