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1. Preparing the Manuscript Files

Monograph Guidelines

1.1 Create a folder on your computer for the project. Please label this folder with your last name plus abbreviated title of book, such as, SMITH_History_of_Roquefort 1.2 Have each chapter in a separate Word file within that folder. 1.2.1 Title the chapter ...

2. On Our House Style

Monograph Guidelines

Please see our Style Guide for a full overview.

3. Manuscript Check and Cover Design

Edited Collection Guidelines

3.1 You have sent us the folder containing your completed manuscript. We will check the contents against our submission guidelines, and do a rough check of the contents so we can pick out any major editorial issues, such as related to orthography, referencing ...

4. Copyediting

Monograph Guidelines

4.1 Once we have agreed on a cover design a few months will pass as your book works itself up along the queue. About three months before the expected launch date, we start copyediting. 4.2 Depending on the length, style, nature, and format of your book and a ...

6. Publicity and Promotion

Monograph Guidelines

6.1 Your book has been a designed PDF for a while now. Everyone has tried to squash errors. It is about to be published. We need to think a bit about publicity and promotion. How will readers find out about your book? 6.2 It is imperative that you work closel...

7. Publication Day

Monograph Guidelines

7.1 Publication can happen abruptly, but we will try to let you know the day of its coming a few weeks in advance. Although we generally get books published within 10-12 months from the time of final submission of the manuscript, there are many twists and tur...

1. Preparing the Manuscript Files

Edited Collection Guidelines

1.1 Create a folder on your computer for the project. Please label this folder with your last name plus abbreviated title of book, such as, JOHNSON_SMITH_History_of_Roquefort 1.2 Have each chapter in a separate Word file within that folder. 1.2.1 Title the ...

2. On Our House Style

Edited Collection Guidelines

Please see our Style Guide for a full overview.

4. Copyediting

Edited Collection Guidelines

4.1 Once we have agreed on a cover design a few months will pass as your book works itself up along the queue. About three months before the expected launch date, we start copyediting. 4.2 Depending on the length, style, nature, and format of your book and a ...

6. Publicity and Promotion

Edited Collection Guidelines

6.1 Your book has been a designed PDF for a while now. Everyone has tried to squash errors. It is about to be published. We need to think a bit about publicity and promotion. How will readers find out about your book? 6.2 It is imperative that you work closel...

7. Publication Day

Edited Collection Guidelines

7.1 Publication can happen abruptly, but we will try to let you know the day of its coming a few weeks in advance. Although we generally get books published within 10-12 months from the time of final submission of the manuscript, there are many twists and tur...

How To Submit Your Manuscript for Review

About Submitting Your Manuscript

We receive an overwhelming number of book proposals and at the moment we can only accept roughly 20 manuscripts per year for publication in the following seasons. In total we publish approximately 35 books per year, and the remaining books accepted come from o...

Will I Be Charged for Publishing?

About Submitting Your Manuscript

punctum is one of the very few Open Access (OA) presses in the world that does not charge what are known as Book Processing Charges (BPCs), because we feel they are inherently anti-democratic and exacerbate the historic inequities of academic publishing, yet t...

Submitting Your Manuscript through an Imprint

About Submitting Your Manuscript

If you are interested in publishing with one of our Imprints, such as Brainstorm Books, Dead Letter Office, or 3Ecologies (among others), contact that Imprint’s director(s) or editor(s). Imprints follow and manage their own manuscript review and acceptance pro...

Proof Correction

About Our Book Production Process

You have received the draft PDF of the interior of your book, we're getting close to publication now! You will have received a link to the PDF in our Nextcloud. When you open it, it will look like this: Click to download the file in the upper right corner. ...

Canceling a Subscription

Subscriptions and Invoicing

Stripe If you have a legacy subscription that runs through a login/username on our website or a subscription through Stripe, please contact info@punctumbooks.com, mentioning the email address under which the subscription is registered. PayPal If your subscr...

Paying an Invoice

Subscriptions and Invoicing

If you received an invoice from us, be it for a library subscription, book order, or book processing charge, you will have been sent a URL from InvoiceNinja, our invoicing system, starting with https://billing.punctumbooks.com/. Paying directly via InvoiceNin...

Book Promotion

About Our Book Production Process

At punctum we are committed to ensuring that our books have the widest possible audience. We submit our ebooks to a wide range of online repositories, including OAPEN, JSTOR, the Internet Archive, Google Books, and RNIB Bookshare. They are also indexed in DOAB...

Contract

About Our Book Production Process

Your book has been reviewed positively by the punctum books co-directors and you received an email letting you know that we accepted your manuscript for publication, contingent upon the forthcoming review by our Editorial Advisory Board, and after that, receip...

Software

About Our Book Production Process

There is a number of software platforms you will encounter during your work with punctum books. Most of them are open source. We list them below. All of these instances (except PubPub) are kindly managed by our friends over at Cloud68.co. Bookstack Bookstack...