About Us
Official Site...40 print books, 12 audiobooks, ebooks... Order books... picture books, children's books, poetry, short stories, fiction, non-fiction. Publish with us! Read yourself Happy with a Meredith Etc book now. www.meredithetc.com. Inquire about author submissions too.
How We Got Started
Meredith Etc started in February of 2013 with the acquisition of three manuscripts. Two were published in Oct and Nov of 2013 "Odyssey," a collection of poems ..) by Meredith Coleman McGee and "Reverse Guilty Plea," a novella, by William Trest Jr. The third manuscript, "Starkishia: Estrella," a memoir, was released in 2014.
As of March 03, 2022, Gwendolyn Maberry Bell, Author, I Learn to Read, a children's coloring and activity book became the 20th author @ Meredith Etc.
The products and services we offer
Products & Services
Jackson Book Festival 2026. Smith Robertson Museum. Historic Farish St. Dist. 528 Bloom St. Jackson, MS 39202. Book, jewelry... vendors. Vendor ele...
Meredith Etc is an online bookstore and book publisher. We seek to publish memoirs, biographies, short story anthologies, and poetry. Other genres ...
James Meredith: Warrior and the America that created him (2nd edition) by Meredith Coleman McGee
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Recent Activity
I write better in my office and on my main desktop computer. Jumbo screen.
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I write better in my office and on my main desktop computer. Jumbo screen.
I write better when there are less interruptions, usually evenings and nights.
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I write better when there are less interruptions, usually evenings and nights.
Preparing for 2021 by focusing on new branding ideas...
sales, and launching new titles.
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Preparing for 2021 by focusing on new branding ideas...
sales, and launching new titles.
I am hosting the Virtual Holiday Book Festival on Small Business Saturday this year. Get tickets free from Eventbrite.com
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I am hosting the Virtual Holiday Book Festival on Small Business Saturday this year. Get tickets free from Eventbrite.com
Yesterday, I read one of my children books (Nashida Visits the Smith Robertson Museum) on Zoom for a digital class. It was really fun. My network includes authors. I have also been promoting their works online.
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Yesterday, I read one of my children books (Nashida Visits the Smith Robertson Museum) on Zoom for a digital class. It was really fun. My network includes authors. I have also been promoting their works online.
I think the best sources for business advice are people in your chosen industry. I'm speaking service v. retail.
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I think the best sources for business advice are people in your chosen industry. I'm speaking service v. retail.
I think community service participation helps. Pictures of business owners helping their community spreads positive goodwill.
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I think community service participation helps. Pictures of business owners helping their community spreads positive goodwill.
name recognition and branding
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name recognition and branding
Here is a list of small and university presses
https://www.newpages.com/books/publishers. All the best. Large publishing houses offer small advances to some exceptional unknown authors and maybe a little more to authors with a large social media following. Most authors who get good book...
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Here is a list of small and university presses
https://www.newpages.com/books/publishers. All the best. Large publishing houses offer small advances to some exceptional unknown authors and maybe a little more to authors with a large social media following. Most authors who get good book deals with large commercial companies have agents. Agents are hard to come by. They usually get a percent of sales in the contract. My first book was published by a large commercial publisher. I obtained a small advance but my contract required me to purchase the historical pictures. Historical pictures are not cheap. Some large houses bill authors to prepare the index for non-fiction works. There is no free ride as many assume. I remember when one of my favorite writers got her first million dollar advance for a book. She was selling well. That was probably her third book. She sold 5,000 copies of her first book. Her first book deal was with a small press. Kindle Publishing has a free program where you use templates, but they charge for professional covers and editing. Good covers sell books. I spoke with an author recently who self published through Kindle and he told me there were typos throughout his book. Kindle printed it and he sold it, but customers complained.
If you are publishing for the first time, a little guidance is wise.
When you use the free template, you're truly "on your own" and "at your own risk."
