Your book
already exists.
It may be scattered across podcasts, unfinished drafts, speeches, notes, company material and years of explaining what you believe. We find it, write it, and let you read it before you decide whether to buy it.
You may have already done the hard part.
Most people imagine writing a book starts with a blank page. For the people we work with, it usually starts with a body of work.
We prove we understand the book before asking you to buy it.
Tell us about your book.
Start with the form. Free. We follow up by email to find the thesis, stories, reader and voice.
Meet your book.
We give you the working title, subtitle, central thesis, chapter structure, synopsis and back-cover copy. Free.
Commission it.
If you want us to build it, put down a $1,000 refundable development deposit.
Read the manuscript.
We target the first complete manuscript within seven days after intake is complete.
Make it yours.
Spend up to 30 days revising the book with us until the language and emphasis feel like you.
Choose.
Pay the remaining $9,000 and own the commissioned book, or decline and get the $1,000 back.
Pay $9,000.
Receive the final files and the rights Munschkin Press owns or controls in the commissioned manuscript. Publish with us under a separate agreement, publish it yourself, or take it somewhere else.
Get your $1,000 back.
No hard sell. Your source material remains yours. The draft stays confidential and is not published, pitched or repurposed without your explicit permission.
Publishing should begin with understanding.
Munschkin Press was founded by Jamie Anson to build a faster, lower-risk way for people with something worth saying to become authors.
We use modern production tools, human editorial judgment and the source material you have already created to compress a process that can take years into weeks - without asking you to gamble the full fee before you have seen the book.
Start with your book.
Tell us what you have spent years learning. We will show you the book we think is already hiding inside it.
No charge. No obligation. Send us a little about your book and the material you have. We will follow up by email.