Fully funded by DA, this is a traditional publishing imprint with a twist. Instead of using agents to source submissions for us to publish, potential Diamond manuscripts from amongst our Four O’Clock Gold range are put forward by our in-house critique team for the shortlist, from which we publish a limited number each year.

We also take on a small number of titles per year sourced from submissions to all of our imprints and have regular in-house editorial meetings to review all of our titles and monitor those achieving good reviews, sales and feedback for potential upgrade to DA Diamond status.

Initially, our nationwide literary competition – Undiscovered Authors – used to act as our in-house agent to source the majority of the works we published as DA Diamonds, and there are plans to revive this scheme in the future, so watch this space!

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