Excelsior Life

Susan Petrie joins the podcast to discuss the benefits and unique challenges of running a small university press.  Petrie is the managing director of Hudson Whitman/Excelsior College Press, the first press affiliated with a distance learning nonprofit college. 0: 55 A career in publishing. 6:32 Building trust between author and publisher.    7:55 Hudson Whitman and the hybrid model. 9:21 Balancing commercial interests and publishing mission. 11:00 The transformation of an “impressionist painting” into an award-winning memoir.  14:07 Small vs large press shops; cultivating emerging writers. 16:15 Day in the life of a publisher. 18:10 Cloud-based manuscript submission and other ways technology is altering the publishing landscape. 20:48 Publishing in five years. 22:00 Hudson Whitman expansion across culture and language .    Show Notes (Order) (Order)