Love this piece. In an early draft for our essay about how conglomeration diminishes publishing’s appetite for risk, Melanie Jennings and I had highlighted THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES. It was one example for how university presses can be nimble enough to find and promote the excellent fiction that readers crave. Our final version ended up not having the space to go into it, but it was really nice to see CHURCH LADIES obliquely referenced here, especially from one of the people who made its publication possible!
That's wonderful to hear, thank you. And yeah, working with Deesha definitely shaped my thinking about all this—it felt like we were part of a cohort that deserves a more central place in conversations about university-based publishing.
Love this piece. In an early draft for our essay about how conglomeration diminishes publishing’s appetite for risk, Melanie Jennings and I had highlighted THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES. It was one example for how university presses can be nimble enough to find and promote the excellent fiction that readers crave. Our final version ended up not having the space to go into it, but it was really nice to see CHURCH LADIES obliquely referenced here, especially from one of the people who made its publication possible!
That's wonderful to hear, thank you. And yeah, working with Deesha definitely shaped my thinking about all this—it felt like we were part of a cohort that deserves a more central place in conversations about university-based publishing.
I am so thrilled for you! Woohoo!
Very cool, Derek. Well done.