At the University of Minnesota Press we have a wonderfully eclectic and successful imprint of short books, capped at 30K words called Forerunners: www.upress.umn.edu/search-grid/...

I don't rake anymore. Not my circus, not my monkeys.

And please don't solicit them without talking to us first?

I'm obsessed with this stat: "with more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital [publishing] infrastructure is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits"

Vote for people who make billionaires shit their pants is not a bad rubric.