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."Margaret Media books" on left  are those we published, while "Partner Books" we did not publish but promote and sell on our website as complementary to our own titles. 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.

  Just arrived!  Humanus Diabolicus: A Postmodern Prophecy by James Houk, Baton Rouge writer and philospher.  This end-of -the-world "dark gospel" has an urgent message, delivered via Avatar, describing the evil somnia atrox that are gradually released into the reality occupied by humans. A New Orleans born hero is the only one who understands and can intervene. A thrilling  sci-fi take on what could -- and might-- happen.  

Fr. Jerome LeDoux will say mass Sunday  January 29 at St. Anthony  Catholic Church in Lafitte, LA at 11 a.m. and afterwards will be signing his book War of the Pews. He will also speak about the history of St. Augustine Church (N.O.) at the public library in  Donaldsonville, LA Feb. 9 at 6:30 and sign books thereafter.  For more info call  (225) 323-4559.

Arthur Pfister aka Professor Arturo will be in New Orleans March 9-19 performing as a spoken word artist and signing his book My Name Is New Orleans: 40 Years of Poetry and Other Jazz. Watch here for his schedule, and don't miss Pfister's authentic N.O. voice!

New partner book! We have just added an exciting book Living Creole and Speaking It Fluently by native  La.  Creole speaker Vivian Malveaux. Not published by us but highly recommended and available on our site, this book contains a dictionary of Creole vocabulary and comes with an audio CD to hear the words spoken and used in context. Book and CD for $15! Check it out under Partner Books at left. Another new partner book: Lisa Marie Brown of New Orleans has researched and written about a somewhat eccentric order of religious Catholic nuns in her home town,  Posing as Nuns, Passing for White: The Gouley Sisters. This is their only recorded history.

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