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Annual Manuscript Submission Invite

1. Overview and Context

ThisThe procedureannual coverssubmission returningperiod thefor copyeditednew manuscripts lasts from May 1 to July 31 each year. During this period, authors and editors are invited to send in (nearly) completed manuscript accompanied by a brief prospectus via email to the author/editor.co-directors. The beginning of the annual submission period is announced on social media and the punctum blog.

2. Triggers

The execution of this procedure is usually triggered by

3. Steps to Be Performed

After

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the author(s) via email, if it has been their instruction to do so. The format below is absolutely not a requirement, and the editors are encouraged to come up with their own signature way of doing things; however, this

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Email formula

Include a few compliments to the manuscript at the top. These comments might be specific,Joy and theVincent editorW.J. mightvan quoteGerven one or two lines. For example: "The author facilitated connections between archaeologyOei) and its sometimesEditorial problematicAdvisory assumptions,Board. This year we are looking to accept around twenty to twenty-five manuscripts for publication in 2025–2026.

We welcome submissions for monographs and edited collections from authors working in any field in the humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design who want to publish books that are genre-queer and genre-bending and which resultedtake experimental risks with the forms and styles of intellectual writing.

Three primary concentrations for us are: (1) books that shift the paradigm in aestablished diligentdisciplines; (2) books that help to create emerging transdisciplinary fields; and productive(3) surveybooks of..."that play in the fields of creatively speculative thought.

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AtMore the bottom of the email, the editor might include one or two nice and generalizing notes. For example, "despite these inconsistencies, the author demonstrated keen insights into a well-tread discipline." 

Then the editor will provide the authors with a link to their completed files. To do this on a Mac:

  1. Go to the NextCloud files.
  2. Right clickinformation on the copyeditingsubmission folderprocess thatcan yoube worked on (e.g., "221006 for copyedit"). Be sure to click on the entire folder, not individual files.
  3. Click on "NextCloud" under "Quick Actions" then "Copy External Link."
  4. Insert the copied link into the email.

Then the editor will instruct the author(s) to upload a .zip file to the file drop. The file-drop link:found https://cloud.punctumbooks.com/s/6Ra9f2YFFgjoGeGonline.

An incredibly long and needlessly detailed example:

Dear X,
I've finished copyediting Queer Communal Kinship Now! It provides definitions to the nebulous states of being felt by many in the various, weird, slutty, caring queer communities that many of us call home. You've offered an amuse bouche to "lame bourgeois modernity" that I at least have been craving. In this way, QCKN! was itself a helpful primer into this literature that will serve queer and not-yet-queer readers alike as they explore what it means for them to live in difference. As well, erudition when met with not a little cheek is often a pleasure to read and your text was no different. punctum is not in the business of tone-policing, so your "fucks" and "romantic love bullshit" and "breeders" stood proudly beside your academic definitions. In fact, that tact is very productive in your analysis.

I only have a few notes for the text:
  1. It is punctum style to limit the use of colons and semicolons, so I lightly adjusted syntax to allow for clearer, more impactful sentences.
  2. Especially in chapter three, I removed the italics from most of the terms. I was not able to discern a pattern between how you used words—such as queer, communal, kinship, and other defined terms—either italicized or not. The reader might find it more impactful when italics are used sparingly. I have preserved italicization for terms such as "enthusiasm," "hope," "optimism," and so forth at their first occurrence, because I wished to support you in highlighting those terms that we have for so long taken for granted. Stuffy, academic terms I placed in quotation marks at the first occurrence.
  3. punctum insists on the Oxford/serial comma, and I speak for myself when I say I will die on that hill, proudly in either valor or disgrace.
  4. At times, I was not sure if your use of "affect" as the theoretical approach, as the transitive verb, or as a misspelled noun "effect." If you could, I recommend searching for those terms in the documents, evaluating, and changing, if necessary. It might not be necessary though.
  5. Please note that in the file structure, if my initials --LB are in the file name, that is the copyedited version. Don't be alarmed to find I created and edited only those files.
You can access your copyedited manuscript here < https:// ... >. Please send a .zip of the completed files to our file drop <https://cloud.punctumbooks.com/s/6Ra9f2YFFgjoGeG>.

4. Additional Information

5. Document Control

Document ID PRO-026027
Document Owner Vincent
Version 1.0
Last Date of Change November 10, 2025
Next Review Due Date
Version & Change Tracking
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