EPISODE 42: Inside the Traditional Publishing Process with Meredith Davis
From bookstore shelf-stacker to traditionally published middle grade author, Meredith Davis takes us right inside how a book really makes it into the world. You'll learn what the three rounds of editorial actually look like, what a developmental editor sees that you can't, how illustration changed the way she writes her scenes, and how she and her publisher divide the marketing between them. Plus one of the most inventive book launch campaigns I've heard of, involving wax seals and a secret agency!
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Meredith Davis is the author of THE MINOR MIRACLE and THE MINOR RESCUE, books one and two in THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF NOAH MINOR series (Waterbrook, 2024/25) and co-author of HER OWN TWO FEET: A RWANDAN GIRL’S BRAVE FIGHT TO WALK (Scholastic, 2019).
She once worked at an independent children’s bookstore, started the Austin Chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and earned her Masters of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her superpowers include reading, grandmothering, wrangling her doodle and finding ways to fit more books in her Austin, Texas home.
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