Media Well Done, LLC
Powered by Books.by
Media Well Done, LLC
by Melvin E. Edwards
In this literary-legal drama set in the mid-20th century, a Black man’s arrest for being out at night becomes the catalyst for a federal lawsuit challenging the architecture of Jim Crow. The narrative follows attorney Silas Thorn as he attempts to apply the legal precedents of the Nuremberg Trials to the systemic injustices of a Mississippi "sundown town." The novel examines the "mechanism" of state-sanctioned discrimination, focusing on the complicity of the legal profession and the bureaucratic habits that render atrocity invisible through official procedure and professional courtesy.
In Greenville, Mississippi — a fictional sundown town in Myrtle County where the courthouse stands at the center of the square like a monument to its own authority — the law does not announce whom it serves. It makes space for some and withholds it from others.
Nuremberg, Mississippi follows Silas Thomas Thorn III, a man who inherits both a prominent family name and the impossible burden of navigating a legal and social system designed to exhaust those it is supposed to serve. When a wrong is committed and the machinery of justice is set into motion, the novel asks not whether the law will be broken — but whether it will function as designed, and what that design reveals.
Unfolding in forty-two short, precise chapters across six parts — The Rules, Visibility, Escalation, Endurance, Judgment, and Aftermath — the novel traces how harm is delivered not through dramatic acts of hatred, but through routine: filings, continuances, procedural silences, and the disciplined patience of those who benefit from the status quo.
Drawing on the precedent set at Nuremberg — that legality does not excuse atrocity — the novel asks what happens when a society learns to call injustice “order,” and trains ordinary people to keep it running as routine. Inspired by Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s insight that moral failure often disguises itself as professionalism and obedience, and by Hannah Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil, Nuremberg, Mississippi is a legal drama that is also a meditation on conscience, inheritance, and what it costs to remain human.
“"A deeply original examination of justice in America.” ”
- Sarah Bird, Acclaimed Novelist, Author of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
“ “Nuremberg, Mississippi, perfectly captures my own experience of growing up in Jim Crow Mississippi, where Nazi evils shocked us from afar while our own racial evils were so woven into our day-to-day existence that we hardly noticed. “I highly recommend this eye-opening novel.” ”
Dr. Alan E. Godwin, Psychologist, Author of Ties That Blind
About
Media Well Done, LLC is an independent publishing imprint and storytelling company founded in Texas in 2026. We publish literary fiction and historically grounded nonfiction that examines the intersection of law, culture, race, and the human experience — stories that demand to be told with rigor, care, and narrative precision.
A Black Republic of Texas Family Chronicle from Slavery to the Texas Capitol
What happens when a family refuses to let its history disappear?
Beginning with enslaved ancestors whose names were omitted from official records and following six generations to the halls of the Texas Capitol, The Names They Kept is an extraordinary work of genealogy, history, and remembrance. Award-winning journalist Melvin E. Edwards pieces together nearly four decades of research to recover the lives behind forgotten documents, faded photographs, courthouse records, military service, and family stories that might otherwise have been lost forever.