In addition to promotional strategy, Meredith has honed a variety of different skill sets over her time working at companies both large and small. She began her career at a literary agency, worked at the storied Soho Press and then HarperCollins. Then she shifted back to the agency side at New Leaf Literary, as Director of Business Development. Coming primarily from a publicity background, Meredith’s strategies very often had to be constructed with no monetary budget, so she is an adept social media and word-of-mouth strategist. She is a proficient audio engineer. But most of all, working at a large variety of businesses in the industry gave her an in-depth understanding of the pressures the parties involved in producing a piece of art are up against.

It is this empathy that drives Meredith’s work at Queen Mab Media, a company dedicated to teaching all members of the book world how to make a career strategy and execute it from a place of confidence and leadership with their teams. It has long been unfair that creators feel the most in the dark of anyone on their teams as to the realities of bringing art to market. By teaching creators what really goes on in a publishing house or a literary agency, Queen Mab Media dispels myths and imparts knowledge–and from there comes understanding and a position of strength for the one who deserves it most: the creator, without whom we would have no industry.

Last but not least, Queen Mab Media serves the in-house and agency staff that serve our creators, who have been woefully underserved by their employers in and industry that mostly expects everyone to just… learn on the job. Whatever role you’re currently feeling unmoored, stuck, or overwhelmed in, Meredith has probably done that job, can relate, and has some ideas about how to take control.