Book writing services
End-to-end book writing for authors who have the idea, the audience, and zero free Wednesdays. We do the work; your name goes on the cover.
from $9,800
70,000–95,000 words · from $13,400
Horror that earns the dread, not just the jump-scare.
Cosmic, literary, slasher, supernatural, psychological. Writers who understand that fear is structural, not just gory.
You have an idea that scared you. The hard part is keeping the reader inside that scare for 75,000 words without losing them to the next book on the shelf.
Horror mood
What horror feels like, in five frames.
Visual reference for the voice, palette, and reader mood the books in this category live in.
Sub-genres we work in
The horror categories with their own conventions.
Sub-genres each have their own structural rules, word-count norms, and reader expectations. We assign by sub-genre, not just by parent.
Genre conventions
The rules we will not break unless you ask.
Every category has conventions its readers expect. The right time to break them is on purpose, with eyes open. The wrong time is by accident.
- Dread before gore. The first 30% should make the reader uncomfortable before anything visceral happens.
- Reveal rule: the monster is scarier off-page than on-page until the climax.
- Domestic horror needs a believable household; cosmic horror needs ontological stakes; slasher needs a body count earned.
- First-person works for psychological horror; close third works for ensemble; omniscient is rare and hard.
- Endings on horror are notoriously hard. We outline the ending first and write toward it.
Sample covers
Horror covers we shipped this year.
Each cover is a real project. Drag through to see the visual language we work in for this category.
Comp titles
Books that share your shelf, and the choice we'd ask you to make about which one to compete on.
On the discovery call, we ask which two of these your book most resembles, and which one you refuse to be compared to. The answer shapes the outline.
- The Cabin at the End of the World Paul Tremblay
- Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones
- Bird Box Josh Malerman
Services for this genre
What a typical engagement looks like.
Ghostwriting services
Discreet, contract-bound ghostwriting where you own everything and the writer is permanently silenced on attribution.
from $11,400
Book editing services
Four levels of editing, real editors with real bibliographies. We start with a $250 sample edit so you can see the work before paying for the full pass.
from $0.018 per word
The studio
The team behind every genre.
Horror — FAQ
Questions we get from horror authors every week.
Will you write explicit gore?
Yes if the book asks for it. We will tell you on the discovery call whether your particular project would land better with the gore on-page or implied. Both work for different reader categories.
What about content warnings?
We include a content warning page at the front of every horror manuscript we deliver, listing the specific triggers (sexual violence, child harm, suicide, body horror). It is your call whether to keep it in the published edition; we recommend it.
Horror sells worse than thriller, right?
Per-book yes, but the readers who buy are very loyal. Series do well in horror once the first book lands. The market is smaller and stickier.
Other genres
Twelve in total. Different team for each.
Premium wedge
Memoir
Memoirs work when one specific reader feels seen. Ours work because we interview the author into the chapters that aren't on the LinkedIn page.
Letters from the Last Year by Sharon Linen Fordham
Premium wedge
Business
The right business book wins a Series B, closes a multi-year keynote pipeline, or repositions a founder for an acquisition. The wrong one sits in a box. We write the right one.
Operating Under Constraint by Miguel Torres Velasco
Specialist team
Children's writing
Children's writing is where most adult writers fail. Word count is constraint, not freedom. We have a Chronicle-trained lead who reads every manuscript to a real seven-year-old.
The Soft Hour by Aliyah & Joseph Bremer
Fantasy
Fantasy writing and editing by people who actually read fantasy. Outline-first, world-building bible, series-friendly.
The Salt Throne by Priya Narayan-Chen
Mystery & thriller
Mystery and thriller writers who plot the book first and write the prose second. Plot holes cost readers; we don't write them.
The Verdict Room by Deborah Ngozi Okafor
Romance
Romance writers who deliver the genre's promises on schedule. Trope clarity, beat placement, heat-level transparency.
Ready when you are
Ready to talk about your horror project?
A 30-minute discovery call with a senior editor — no sales script, no pressure. We'll tell you whether we're the right fit for your project, what it would cost, and how long it would take.