About Grateful Steps

We give voice to voices that might otherwise go unheard.

We are faith-based traditional publisher. Our faith is manifest in helping others tell their stories, not in getting other people to live ours.

We approach manuscripts asking “how can this become a book?”

We walk with our authors through every step of the publishing process, from manuscript analysis, through revision (however many it takes), through layout and design, and, finally, through printing.

Our authors maintain full creative and editorial control over the appearance and quality of their books.

Grateful Steps was founded by Micki Cabaniss Eutsler in 2004. Micki’s true love is helping storytellers reach their audience, particularly storytellers in the Western North Carolina mountains. Grateful Steps publishes the work of accomplished writers with completed manuscripts but also welcomes individuals who have a story to tell but who do not quite know how to tell it.

The staff work collaboratively with these authors to bring their stories to fruition. When authors enter our office they eventually walk out with the book they dreamed of writing. Sometimes the process takes many years, and some writers do back away from the process, but the majority of books—ranging in subject Liesel Appel’s memoir of having been born for the Nazi party to rangers, Joe Kelley and Dwight McCarter adventures tracking Meigs Line, the first southeastern border of the United States—between the United States and the Cherokee Nation.

Grateful Steps produces high-quality books, using printers within the United States and, as a priority, in Asheville. Grateful Steps, Inc. publishes all genres: children’s, historical nonfiction, creative nonfiction, novels, poetry, photography, memoir, essays.