Books
Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication. Our books are subject to criterion-referenced, double-blind peer review.
Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work. If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality. The peer review process will tell us that, and also provide you, the author, with useful feedback.
Each conference and journal community has an accompanying book imprint. We welcome proposals or completed manuscript submissions of:
- singly and jointly authored books;
- edited collections addressing a clear, intellectually challenging theme;
- collections of papers published in our journals.
In this last case, editorial selection can occur after the conference; or a group of authors may first wish to organise a colloquium at the conference to test the ideas in this broader intellectual context.
Books should be between 30,000 words to 150,000 words in length. They are published simultaneously in print and electronic formats. To publish a book, either send us a completed manuscript for review or a proposal including: title; author(s)/editor(s), back-cover blurb; table of contents; author bionote(s) and a manuscript submission date.