Your initial contact with us should be a brief manuscript proposal sent by e-mail or post to the address below. Your proposal should include the following:

1. A description of the book's scope, length (double-spaced page count and word count), and intended audience

2. An annotated table of contents detailing the material in each chapter

3. A description of any artwork or other supplementary material, and the approximate number of items

4. An author resume or CV, including a list of any previous publications and your full contact information.

Please note that we do not accept theses. If you are willing to spend the time and energy to rework your thesis into a publishable manuscript, please consult The Thesis and the Book (Eleanor Harman and Ian Montagnes, eds., University of Toronto Press, 1976), Revising Your Dissertation: Advice from Leading Editors (Beth Luey, ed., University of California Press, 2004), or From Dissertation to Book (William Germano, University of Chicago Press, 2005).

We will not consider self-published books.

We will respond to your e-mail in a few weeks' time as to whether we are interested and able to consider your completed manuscript. If so, we will ask you to submit your manuscript as a hardcopy printout. Please prepare it according to the formatting instructions and style specified below, and include both a double-spaced count and total word count. We do not accept unsolicited manuscript submissions by e-mail. For Thailand residents, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you would like the manuscript returned, in the event that we decide against publishing it.

Typically, we will let you know our decision within four months of receiving your manuscript. If we decide to pursue publication, we will ask you to send us a CD of the manuscript, saved in two formats: as a Word file and as an RTF file. The files must be exactly the same as the original printout. Otherwise, we will need a new printout of your updated disk file. If your manuscript requires any special fonts, please save these on the disk as well. Please also include any illustrations or other supplementary material.

Your manuscript should be in the following form:

TEXT
Unbound and minimally formatted
A4 size paper, or 8 1/2" by 11" paper
Double-spaced, with ample margins
Only one space between sentences
Running page numbers from first to last page, not by chapter

Paragraph indentations rather than line spaces between paragraphs. Use the formatting palette to indent rather than the tab key

Minimal use of variant fonts and styles, e.g., bold, italics, all caps
Endnotes rather than footnotes, numbered by chapter

Note: Text document must not contain illustrations

ILLUSTRATIONS
Illustrations in separate files from the text, numbered in order of appearance in text. File names should contain chapter number followed by number of illustration, e.g. 1.1, 1.2, along with a key term to identify it.

Captions listed in a separate “Captions” file and numbered according to corresponding illustration file name. The grammatical form/style and punctuation should be consistent for all captions.

The placement of the illustration in the text should be indicated with a highlighted note in the body of the text, e.g. [Fig. 1.1]. The numbering will be changed later.

We follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 14th or 15th edition, (University of Chicago Press, 1993, 2003) and prefer that all manuscripts be submitted in this style with regard to punctuation, capitalization, usage, and organization. All foreign words should be in italics, and Thai words should be Romanized according to the Royal Institute System, if possible. For tips on good writing, please consult The Elements of Style, 3rd edition, by Strunk and White (Macmillan, 1979).

Download Silkworm Style Sheet (PDF)

Download Thai Romanization System (Royal Institute) (PDF in English)