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Apr 3 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Some sad news. Editor of anthology #BlackstarsBritain Jacqueline Courtenay has decided not to publish her book with Media Diversified & has asked us to terminate her contract, which we have done today
We wish her every success in her journey to publication
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In better news we don’t intend to stop publishing books in both print and e-book format and have been receiving unsolicited proposals since we announced our first print book!!
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We will release our submission guidelines this summer once we have a new editorial director who has a background in non-fiction
mediadiversified.org/submissions/
Of course news like an editor withdrawing her book can be devestating for a black owned Independent publisher once a contract has been signed & promo work started.
But we hope with Media Diversified readers support we will get through this trying time & wish Jacqueline Courtenay ImageImageImageImage
and her writers every success in their journey to publication.

It is an important book for people of Ghanaian descent and beyond. 🇬🇭
A BIG thanks to the work Benjamin Lee did on the beautiful Media Diversified commissioned book cover.

We look forward to working with him on our next publication. And thank him for his time, painstaking work and patience working with us to produce the beautiful book cover.
Here for posterity, the final cover for #BlackstarBritain 😪 Image
Read more here #MDPublishing
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In the meantime Looking for books to read? We asked some of our favourite, authors, activists and radical organisers to recommend books for our curated reading lists. #MDLibrary
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