Samawa Editions
Publish With Us

Your manuscript
deserves to bemeasured first.

Before we talk about publishing, we read your text and hand back six precise measurements — voice, market, money, listing, cover, and international. You'll receive your diagnostic within a few days.

Free. No commitment. No card required.
A Few Days
between submission and diagnostic — not four to six weeks
€0
for the diagnostic, today or later
Zero
third parties have access to your manuscript
3 Months
maximum retention, then permanent deletion
What You Receive

Six measurements
of your book

Not an opinion. Not a quote in disguise. Six analyses, produced by the same tools the house built for its own titles, applied to yours.

01

Voice

Average sentence length, share of dialogue, repetitions, tone shifts. A measurement, not an opinion — and the thresholds come from books that are actually published.

02

Market

The state of the market your book would enter: demand, competition, prevailing prices, how long the top titles have held their spot. A score, with the reasoning behind it.

03

Money

Print cost based on page count, floor price, royalty per copy, and the point past which advertising costs you more than it earns.

04

Listing

Subtitle, seven search terms, three categories, description. What decides whether a reader finds you — or never does.

05

Cover

A precise brief: genre conventions, thumbnail readability, spine width calculated from your exact page count.

06

International

What a translation would cost, in words and in euros, and how many copies you'd need to sell to earn it back. Local VAT included.

Read Before You Submit

What we
don't do

A house that automates owes it to you to say where its machine stops. Here's where ours does.

  • 01 We don't write for you. The diagnostic measures your text. It doesn't rewrite it, and we don't offer to have it rewritten.
  • 02 We don't guarantee sales. No one can. The estimates we give are ballpark figures, and we present them as such.
  • 03 We don't replace a human editor. A machine can spot a sentence that runs too long. It can't spot a chapter that serves no purpose.
  • 04 We don't ask you for anything. Not now, not later. The only thing you can buy from us is spelled out in plain terms in our Terms, just below.
  • 05 We don't publish everything we receive. Getting a diagnostic isn't the same as getting a publishing offer.
Our Terms

The author
doesn't pay

Some houses sell you a choice between two contracts. We only have one page, and here it is in full.

Always FreeThe Diagnostic

Six measurements of your manuscript, delivered within a few days. No card required, no sales follow-up afterward. You can submit, read the results, and never write to us again.

On Our DimeThe Publication

If we offer to publish your book, the house covers everything: editing, layout, cover, listing, and marketing. You will never receive an invoice for being published, and your royalties are paid under a signed, written contract.

The Only Paid OptionThe Launch Batch

When the book launches, you can — if you'd like — order a batch of 32 copies of your own book, to give away or sell around you. A fixed price is stated before any order, it's never required, and declining changes nothing else.

What Doesn't Exist HereThe Rest

No "launch package," no billed layout fee, no royalty percentage that climbs when you're the one paying. If a price isn't on this page, it doesn't exist.

Your Rights

What happens
to your manuscript

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It stays yours

Submitting it transfers us no rights. You remain the sole copyright holder, and nothing will be used without a signed, written contract.

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It trains no model

Not ours, not anyone else's. Our tools read it to produce your diagnostic, and for nothing else.

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It's deleted after three months

Long enough to produce the diagnostic and answer your questions. Deleted immediately on request, no explanation needed.

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Never resold, ever

A technical relay delivers your submission to our inbox without keeping it afterward. No provider reads or resells your data, to anyone, in any form.

Submit

Submit
a Manuscript

It takes about two minutes. Your diagnostic will arrive by email within a few days.

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FAQ

What We're
Asked

Is it really free? What's the catch?
There isn't one, and here's why it's sustainable: the diagnostic is produced by tools we built for our own books. Running them on one more manuscript costs us almost nothing. In exchange, we meet authors. Some will want to go further with us, most won't, and that's perfectly fine.
How much does publishing cost, if you offer to edit my book?
Nothing. Editing, layout, cover, listing, and marketing are on our dime, and your royalties are paid under contract. The only thing you can buy from us is a batch of 32 copies of your own book, at launch, if you want one — price stated up front, never required.
Is it an AI reading my book?
Partly, yes, and we'd rather say so upfront. The measurements — sentence length, page count, price, print cost — are calculations, not machine opinions. The written portions pass through a language model, reviewed by a human before they're sent. What no machine does here: decide whether your book is good.
Can my manuscript be copied or reused?
No. Submitting it transfers us no rights, the text trains no model, and it's deleted after three months. If you want proof of authorship independent of us, register your text with a dedicated service before sending it to us — that's what we recommend to everyone.
How long before I get the diagnostic?
A few days. We'd rather promise generously and deliver early than the reverse. If your manuscript is over 100,000 words, allow a little more time.