![]() ![]() You have very few black literary agents and editors. To fix it, we would have to start from the top and work our way down. Do you think that is a problem that will be resolved soon? Myall: People constantly talk about the lack of diversity in publishing. I submitted my first novel, Sugar, for ten years before it was published… I believe that if there is something that you really want you should follow it through to the end. When I was about twenty-five I started submitting on a regular basis. She had been published, so I took that as confirmation. ![]() One of my professors pulled me aside and said, “I don’t know why you’re not published yet.” That was the first time someone significant, who knew about writing and had made a career in the industry had said something like this to me. I was taking creative writing, poetry and advanced fiction writing. I went back to college for the second time. I submitted to Essence Magazine and the newspaper and I got rejections or no response, so I stopped for a while. JD Myall: Tell us about your publishing journey.īernice L. ![]() McFadden takes a break from penning award-winning novels to tell us about her literary journey and her work being optioned for a film. ![]()
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