Welcome to Margaret Media

Margaret Media, Inc. is a gateway to Louisiana's colorful history with books on Creoles, their culture, language and CDs of their music, women's history, movies set in New Orleans, architecture, Mississippi River lore, Battle of New Orleans, fiction by local authors. Since 1981 we have been researching, publishing and promoting Louisiana topics and Louisiana authors. Our name honors 19th-century New Orleans Irish philanthropist Margaret Haughery, known as the Angel of the Delta, and the first woman in the U.S. to have her likeness preserved as a statue. Read more here. 

 We are actively seeking manuscripts on the above and other topics for publication. See Publishing Guidelines page. 

Coming  June 1

Margaret Media is proud to announce the publication of Mary H. Manhein's first murder mystery, Floating Souls: The Canal Murders. An internationally known forensic anthropologist, Manhein heads up FACES, the forensic anthropology lab at LSU. She is the author of the popular non-fiction book, The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropoligist (1999). In Floating Souls, Manhein turns her hand to fiction infused with insight, vivid description, and humor that only an internationally known forensic anthropoligist could create.

Floating Souls: The Canal Murders will be available on this website, in local bookstores and online venues. It will also be in eBook at www.shelfwise.com, on Amazon.com, and will be distributed by Forest Sales.
 
The second edition of Fr. Jermone LeDoux's War of the Pews: A Personal Account of St. Augustine Church in New Orleans has just arrived. No major changes but a few names have been added. This edition can be ordered here, is in local bookstores can be downloaded as an e-book through www.shelfwise.com and www.amazon.com.

 New partner book! We have just added an exciting book, Living Creole and Speaking it Fluently by native Louisiana Creole speaker Vivian Malveaux. Not published by us but highly recommended and available on our site. This book contains a dicitionary of Creole words and comes with an CD to hear words spoken and used in context. Book and CD for $15! Check it out under our Partner Books section.

 Another new partner book: Posing as Nuns, Passing for White: The Gouley Sisters by New Orleanian Lisa Marie Brown tells the true account of an expelled Benedictine nun and her two sisters who establish the The Sisters of Our Lady of Lourdes, the fifth convent in America for free women of color. This is their only recorded history.

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