The Circuitous Path.
A Series by Stephen Taylor · University Extension Press
A Series of Books
The Circuitous
Path.
cir·cu·i·tous /sərˈkyo͞oədəs/  adjective
"indirect; not straightforward; going around in a roundabout way to reach a destination."

Life's most beautiful destinations are rarely reached by straight lines. A series of books on love, work, and the detours that turn out to be the destination.

About the Series

Not every journey follows a plan.

Most lives are not straight lines. Careers twist. Loves are found late. Businesses are built in living rooms, sold decades after they began, and started again on the other side of loss. The paths we remember most vividly are almost never the direct ones.

The Circuitous Path: is a series of books about those routes—the detours that turn out to be the destination. Each book carries the same stem—The Circuitous Path:—and then follows with the domain it travels through. New titles are added as they are written, each one a chapter in an ongoing exploration.

Taken together, the books form a library of lived wisdom from one person's long, curious, winding path—and an invitation to the reader to find meaning in the winding of their own.

Available Now · 2026

The book that opens the series.

The Circuitous Path: Through Entrepreneurship — Kimberley and Stephen Taylor's Curious Adventures
The Circuitous Path:

Through Entrepreneurship

Kimberley and Stephen Taylor's Curious Adventures
AuthorStephen Taylor Pages176 ISBN978-0-9626718-8-3

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. For dreamers, doers, and anyone who's ever wondered what if — this is an invitation to chase the light.

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.

Beyond the page, this book is also the foundation of the Kimberley Taylor Music-Entrepreneur Fellowship at Hillsdale College — every applicant reads it as part of the selection process. The fellowship is funded by an endowment established in Kimberley's honor and memory, and continues her belief in young entrepreneurs in perpetuity.

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Coming Next · 2026
The Circuitous Path:
A Bootstrapper's AI Advantage
Harnessing AI Without Losing Your Edge

How independent entrepreneurs can harness artificial intelligence without surrendering what makes them independent. Practical, grounded, and written for people actually running businesses rather than writing about them.

The Invitation

More books are on the way.

The series begins with the memoir and grows from there. New titles are added as they are written — no sooner, no faster than the work deserves. The best way to follow the journey is to read the book that opens it.

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