Spacebar Press

A small press, and a studio for making books.

Writing a book is a lot of work. Then comes the rest of it: the copyedit and the proofread, the interior and the cover, the ISBN, the listing, and getting the finished thing into readers' hands.

Spacebar Press is the imprint I created to publish my own books. It's also the name of the studio that handles all of this for authors who want to turn a manuscript into a published book and launch it well.

Work with me to take the manuscript the rest of the way as your developmental and line editor. I make sure it gets properly copyedited, proofread, designed, and typeset. You own the ISBN and the rights, and the book comes out under your name and your own imprint.

How the work runs

Manuscript to book

  1. Developmental edit or, for drafts that came together with AI, voice restoration
  2. Line edit
  3. Copyedit
  4. Proofread
  5. Interior design and typesetting, print and ebook
  6. Cover design
  7. ISBN, metadata, and setup for print-on-demand and ebook distribution, ending in live marketplace listings

Manuscript to market

  1. Back cover and catalog description
  2. Author bio
  3. Press kit
  4. Launch

What it costs

Every book is priced as a flat fee after we've talked and I've read the manuscript. Most range between $9,000 and $15,000 in total, depending on length, how much editing the draft needs, and whether it's illustrated. Payment comes in phases to match the work being delivered: the editorial work comes first, and production follows on a schedule we set together. You'll have full visibility and weigh in at each stage on the cover, the layout, and your goals for the book after it's published.

How it starts

Tell me about the book

Or email stephen@slwebber.com with "Studio" in the subject line. Prefer to talk first? Book a call.

"He was able to draw out of me what I wanted from the story without setting any terms for me. He would listen, ask questions and reiterate until it became clear."

Gina C, fiction writer

The books

Below are the titles that built the studio.

Deep Freewriting

Deep Freewriting

Writing Craft

The practice that transforms writing from struggle to flow.

Buy on Amazon
Writing from the Inside Out

Writing from the Inside Out

Divine Arts / Michael Wiese Productions

Free-form writing as a path for self-realization.

Buy on Amazon
Hey [Loved One], I Have a Question for You

Hey [Loved One], I Have a Question for You

Guided Conversation Journal

173 questions for drawing out the stories only one person can tell.

Buy on Amazon
The God Pot

The God Pot

Literary Fiction

Moony Adams knows seventeen ways to kill a man because, he thinks, he's a spy.

Buy on Amazon
Starseed Flux

Starseed Flux

YA Science Fiction

A maintenance worker on a generation ship stumbles into a conspiracy that goes back to the mission's founding.

Buy on Amazon
Pants in the Tree

Pants in the Tree

Prose Poetry

An aging widower pursues his wayward trousers across thirty-four connected vignettes.

Buy on Amazon
Revolt in Steel Meadow

Revolt in Steel Meadow

Co-written as Harlan Hunt

A city powered by a utopian energy source, and an engineer who wasn't supposed to survive the accident.

Buy on Amazon

Full descriptions on the books page.

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MFA, New Mexico State University