Are Agents and Publishers Rejecting Your Novel?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 1, 2007

CONTACT:
Tayannah McQuillar
718-551-4907

ARE AGENTS AND PUBLISHERS REJECTING YOUR NOVEL?

New York, NY (BlackNews.com) – Diggs McQuillar Inc. today announced that Anita Diggs — nationally renowned fiction editor will evaluate 500 completed manuscripts by aspiring novelists. Submissions will be accepted from October 1, 2007 through March 30, 2008. The manuscripts will be evaluated for plot, characterization, pace, theme, dialogue, exposition and acceptability for publication. Each author will receive a page-by-page analysis of their story.

Anita Diggs has worked as book editor for Random House, Time Warner Trade Publishing and Thunder’s Mouth Press. She has lectured across the country on the topics of novel writing, book proposal development and how to get a literary agent. The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, C-Span, and The New York Daily News have interviewed her. Columbia Journalism Review placed Ms. Diggs on their “The Shapers” list for the year 2000. The Shapers is a list of prominent New Yorkers who shape the national media agenda.

Enthused by the prospect of helping talented new novelists, Diggs says “It is extremely hard for aspiring novelists to receive constructive feedback on their manuscripts in today’s publishing climate. Normally, when a manuscript is rejected, the writer just receives a form letter that does not shed on any light on how the manuscript can be fixed.”

Diggs has been the advisor and editor behind books by Judge Greg Mathis, Tananarive Due, Esther Iverem, Terrie Williams, Colin Channer, Felicia Pride, Kim McLarin, Ronin Ro, Mark Bego, Ilyasah Shabazz, Elizabeth Nunez, Freddie Lee Johnson III, Deborah Mathis, DeWayne Wickham, Heather Neff, Philana Marie Boles, Blair Walker, Dito Montiel, Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Jacqueline Powell, Lawrence Ross and Professor William Jelani Cobb.

Diggs says “It is important that authors are willing to fix the problems in a manuscript before trying to get a literary agent. Authors must also be financially willing and able to invest money in their careers from the very beginning. The most common complaint by writers is that publishers don’t invest a lot of money in marketing their books. Writers like Terry McMillan, Omar Tyree, E. Lynn Harris and Eric Jerome Dickey were masters in this area when they first got started.”

For more detailed information about submission guidelines, the required fee and sample evaluation material, email Anita Diggs at anitadiggs@aol.com.