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ILLUMINATION Book Chapters
Editorial Bulletin #3 — A new chapter on Medium
This is the the third editorial bulletin for ILLUMINATION Book Chapters.
I am grateful for your feedback on previous bulletins.
And I want to start the bulletin an inspiring video produced by our creative writer The Garrulous Glaswegian today.
This video is hosted on ILLUMINATION YouTube channel covering many beautiful poems from master poets like Deborah Barchi, Martine Weber and Drama Llama. It also hosts biographies from top writers like Michele Thill, Jacquelyn Lynn, Stacy Belinsky, Vishnu*s Virtues, Sinem Günel, Suntonu Bhadra, Tim Maudlin and several more.
The purpose of my daily bulletin is to provide an update on our new and exciting initiative aiming to empower published and aspiring authors using a powerful framework and path to grow.
On the first anniversary of ILLUMINATION, 19 March 2021, we announced this new initiative called ILLUMINATION Book Chapters. It is a new chapter on Medium and first of a kind service.
If you missed the announcement, you can read it from this story.
ILLUMINATION Book Chapters has three main goals.
- Published authors can get new readers through their repurposed book chapters and earn income on their Medium.
- Published authors can also gain new followers and beta readers who can help them with new manuscripts.
- Aspiring writers can gain create manuscripts from their published stories, transfer them into the ILLUMINATION Book Chapters, obtain reader reviews, and publish them as books later.
Several writers provided positive feedback on this initiative. Let me provide you with some perspectives from editors and writers.
Let me introduce this remarkable story from The Garrulous Glaswegian
I‘ve just come upon a new and intriguing proposition. In its first year, ILLUMINATION gained an incredible 90,000 followers, making it one of the fastest-growing and most successful publications on Medium. You can learn more about that in Dew Langrial ’s piece here. Dr Yildiz has a busy, inventive mind, and is always looking for clever ideas to support writers. Enter his latest project ILLUMINATION Book Chapters. So I’ve plunged headfirst into Dr Yildiz’ new endeavour, and am proud to have been the first writer added to the fold. And just for fun, I made a wee video to explain why ILLUMINATION Book Chapters is such a great idea. For the last couple of months, I’ve mostly been importing work to Medium from other sites, and have created almost no new stories for Medium. My subscription ran out this month and I swore I wouldn’t be renewing it. I had deleted aver 100 articles from the site and rehomed many of them. And yet, here I am again! Only ILLUMINATION could tempt me back into the Medium fold. I’ve never known a more a positive, engaging and worthwhile forum. I’m genuinely intrigued by this new idea, and for the first time in a long time, I’m excited about adding fresh content to Medium.
Here is an outstanding story I quote from our senior editor Britni Pepper.
ILLUMINATION is breaking new ground here. With the introduction of ILLUMINATION Book Chapters, a longer, richer, and deeper reading experience becomes available on Medium. Our new publication has nothing but longform stories, divided up into chapters. Here the writers spread out their biggest and best work, and readers can immerse themselves in the experience, coming up to draw the occasional breath of the everyday world when it’s time to click on the link to the next chapter. Given the caliber of our writers, I’m expecting great things from ILLUMINATION Book Chapters. Great reading, that goes without saying, but here is the place for novels, themed collections, textbooks on specialised topics, detailed exploration into history, travel, the world, and the cosmos. Maybe some of the masterworks to come will be the basis of movies, screens full of titles on Amazon, real printed books on library shelves. Forget “maybe”. It’s a certainty. Some of what you read here on ILLUMINATION Book Chapters will end up as actual books in a reader’s hands. As a published author myself, I’ve serialised books here on Medium, and I was delighted to find in my Amazon sales report that somebody had ordered a printed copy of my naughty little Route 66 adventure story.
Dr. Preeti Singh who is an editor of of our publications created an inspiring story informing our writers.
Illumination has the policy of inclusivity. Dr. Mehmet Yildiz is very clear that everybody should get a chance to publish their stories. People from all walks of life, different countries, nationalities are welcome to this family. Those who do not have English as their first language are also given a chance to express their views and can be mentored with the support of editors. This publication is also inclusive. It gives us all a chance to express something. Everyone cannot be an author. Some are readers. We can write a book review about something that we have read and have it published and, in this way, we get a chance to express ourselves. Many authors asked on our Slack Channel if they could write longer articles and if they would be published in Illumination. Dr.Mehmet thought about this and a new baby was born out of Illumination. It is called ILLUMINATION Book Chapters. Illumination book chapters have some special qualities
Karen Madej who is a top writer and editor of our publications showed her enthusiasm and featured some writers as she always does.
Hello lovelies, this week is all about my favourite, FICTION! A special edition today to celebrate the launch of a new ILLUMINATION family publication. If you haven’t spotted Dr Mehmet Yildiz’s ILLUMINATION Book Chapters publication invitation yet, I suggest you give it a read. Especially the authors of the chapters I’m reading and sharing here. Because your chapters are here means they are not in ILLUMINATION Book Chapters. You might like to join up as a writer and submit your chapters. There are advantages to getting in early, you get noticed! Keep submitting your chapters and you’ll keep getting noticed. It worked for me on ILLUMINATION. All I did was show up every week, once, twice or three plus time for a year.
Linda Kowalchek who is a top writer and an editor of our publications shared her personal experience.
“I have wanted to write a book since I was a teenager. I remember sitting at the desk in my bedroom with my powder-blue plastic Smith Corona manual typewriter in front of me. I was ready. But then I realized that I had no idea what to write about, so I went back downstairs and watched Luke and Laura’s wedding on General Hospital. But I digress. About 40 years have passed, and I still haven’t written a book. I publish my stories on Medium using an outdated MacBook Air, which at least is a step up from a manual typewriter. But as far as my progress with writing a book, I am stagnating. I’m afraid that I will finally write my book, and it will suck.”
Jay Toran who is an great communicator and connector inspires especially aspiring writers to consider this opportunity
“For all those who’ve jumped the gun and started typing their first chapters into the laptop, you’ve got to understand a few things: And it goes back to the same problem of editors having a limited amount of time. No amount of frenzied typing is going to get around this problem. I’m not an editor, but I’ve done some editing for a couple of the big names here on ILLUMINATION. So I can pretty well guess that they just are not going to take submissions that have half-thought-out plots. And grammar errors? I just don’t believe they’ll have the time to even consider those kinds of stories. As a matter of fact, it’s likely they won’t even look at the first chapters of newbie authors before seeing a fairly well-developed outline of what the book is going to be about. I think you young authors should understand the realities of the time-pressure the ILLUMINATION editors are under.”
We started publishing remarkable chapters
Our volunteer editors Claire Kelly, Ntathu Allen, Maria Rattray, Britni Pepper, Karen Madej and Thewriteyard started reviewing the submissions and supporting this publication.
We already have several books in our collection.
Let me introduce you to the chapters from these books.
I took the plunge and submitted the first chapter of one of my books.
Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Powerful Life-Changing Hacks That Truly Transformed My Life
Chapter 1
Christopher Akinlade
While She Was Away
Chapter 1
Sahil Patel
A Girl Who Is Looking For Freedom
Inroduction
Claudia Stack
Willow
Chapter 9: The Pull of the Hudson
The Garrulous Glaswegian
Sex Saved Me From a Christian Cult
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Phil Truman
Skins Game
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Shashi Sastry
Philosophy of Life Instinct
Prologue
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Some chapters of Shashi’s book were earlier published on ILLUMINATION. Now, he is transferring the chapters to ILLUMINATION Book Chapters to expose his content to a new audience.
Phil Rossi
Soldier Hill
Chapter 1
Karen Madej
Two Little Girls Watch Mommy Leave Them
Chapter 1 — Sarah
Chapter 2 — Miles
Chapter 3 — Frances
You can also publish book reviews, your own one or other books.
I submitted a sample self-review for one of my books.
Writers joined to ILLUMINATION Book Chapters.
Mia Hayes, Ivan Yong Wei Kit, Alana Lewis, Hammad A. Khalid, Simon Dillon, Ntathu Allen, Christopher Akinlade, John Cousins, Diane Perlman, Karen Madej, Patricia Rosa, Liza Braude-Glidden, Claudia Stack, Phil Rossi, Shashi Sastry, Maria Rattray, Tom McLaughlin, Phil Truman, René Junge, Sahil Patel, The Garrulous Glaswegian, Akarsh Nalawade, Rebecca Stevens A., Floyd Mori, Sridhar Pai Tonse, Casi Mclean, Ivette Cruz, Melinda Blau, Annelise Lords, Bill Abbate, Nicole Chardenet, Mia Hayes, Liza Braude-Glidden, Hammad A. Khalid, Alana Lewis, Ivan Yong Wei Kit, Jill Reid, Roger A. Reid, Ph.D.
Please enjoy reading these great chapters and get acquainted with these inspiring authors’ excellent content and writing styles. I started reading and am enjoying each chapter so far. I look forward to subsequent chapters.
If you have books or manuscript, please contact us by sending a request with your Medium account ID to contribute to ILLUMINATION Book Chapters. We will publish your book chapters in story format. Not only do you generate passive income, but you also gain new readers.
As we grow and scale our services to more authors, we will need more editors for this publication. Please show your interest by leaving a comment on this bulletin or contact me.
Thank you for your support and for reading my bulletins.
It is a pleasure for me to serve both published and aspiring authors.
Chief Editor
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