A small press with a careful hand. Books on business, on character, on family — and the thoughtful nonfiction that honors a reader's time.
University Extension Press was founded in 1989 as a small independent house publishing thoughtful nonfiction — memoir, business, family history, and work that sits in the open spaces between them. Over more than three decades we have kept our catalog deliberately modest, choosing books we believed deserved the reader's attention rather than chasing the ones the market demanded.
We publish the work of Stephen and Kimberley Taylor — a series of books under the umbrella title The Circuitous Path:, beginning with a memoir of love and entrepreneurship and extending into books on business, character, reinvention, and the curious ways a life is assembled. We publish the genealogy and family history work of Donald Taylor — a four-volume series, Genealogical Studies of Early American Families, drawing on the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. And we maintain a selection of digital titles and newsletters for readers who prefer those formats.
Our name carries a quiet reference to the idea of extension — extending good thinking past the classroom, past the conference room, past the academy, and into the kind of books that a person reads once and then returns to. We are, to be clear, an independent press. Not an academic press. Not a vanity imprint. A small publishing house run with care.
Kimberley and Stephen Taylor's Curious Adventures
The Circuitous Path: Through Entrepreneurship is part love story, part business memoir, and part proof that life's most beautiful destinations are rarely reached by straight lines. Woven throughout is the hard-won wisdom of bootstrapping a business without venture capital, writing patents at the kitchen table, finding manufacturers, and protecting what you build. Not business theory from a classroom — wisdom earned through decades of curiosity, resilience, and partnership.
Three titles coming soon — all from the Circuitous Path series.
The Dallas etiquette class Kimberley and Stephen Taylor taught together — now in book form, with worksheets for readers. Fully updated to 2026.
Harnessing AI without losing your edge — how independent entrepreneurs can use artificial intelligence without surrendering what makes them independent.
Warning — this is not your mother's etiquette book. Not about which fork to use or wearing white after Labor Day. It is about something older, warmer, and far more powerful: how to make people feel truly comfortable in your presence.
