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ILLUMINATION Book Chapters
Editorial Bulletin #5 — Let’s Meet New Contributors
ILLUMINATION opens a new chapter on Medium. Published authors are welcome to join this new journey.
ILLUMINATION Book Chapters is diverse and inclusive.
This is the fifth editorial bulletin for ILLUMINATION Book Chapters. I am grateful for your inspiring feedback on previous bulletins.
Several chapters have been curated by Medium and distributed to readers of various topics.
My purpose in this post is to provide daily updates on this initiative.
On the first anniversary of ILLUMINATION, 19 March 2021, I introduced this valuable initiative called ILLUMINATION Book Chapters. This is a first a kind service on Medium.
Purpose of ILLUMINATION Book Chapters
1 — Published authors can gain new readers via their repurposed book chapters. They can also earn income from their published content on their Medium.
2 — Published authors can gain new followers and beta readers who can provide feedback for their manuscripts.
3 — Aspiring writers can gain create manuscripts derived from their published stories. They can transfer them into the ILLUMINATION Book Chapters, obtain reader reviews, and publish them as books later.
Let me introduce the published chapters
Dr Mehmet Yildiz
Powerful Life-Changing Hacks That Truly Transformed My Life
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Simon Dillon
Peaceful Quiet Lives
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Øivind H. Solheim
The Happiest Town in the World
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Nicole Maharaj
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Ulf Wolf
Part 1
Annelise Lords
The Yellow Hibiscus
Chapter 1
Akarsh Nalawade
Beamish And Bhaji
Chapter 1
Floyd Mori
Book review
Part 1
Christopher Akinlade
While She Was Away
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Sahil Patel
A Girl Who Is Looking For Freedom
Introduction
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
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
As an example, 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
Chapter 2
Karen Madej
Two Little Girls Watch Mommy Leave Them
Chapter 1 — Sarah
Chapter 2 — Miles
Chapter 3 — Frances
And please enjoy our first poetry submission today.
Ivette Cruz
My Voice Awakens
Page 1
Book Reviews
You can also publish book reviews, your own one or other books.
Please check a sample self-review for one of my books.
Chapter Reviews
Jay Toran reviewed five chapters and created a story on ILLUMINATION.
Thoughts And Invitations from Editors
Maria Rattray
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade. So let me introduce to you, one window of opportunity! If everyone on Illumination is as excited as I am, this most recent innovation of Dr Mehmet Yildiz should go off like a rocket. With so many readers and writers, there’s surely amongst us, a percentage of Ernest Hemingway, or Jane Harper (a new Aussie writer), aspirants, waiting with bated breath, not just hoping for success, but also waiting for the door of opportunity to open. There’s talent amongst us, lots of it, and if we harness this opportunity, who knows where it might take us? But you know, talent we may have on various levels, but getting a book to publication, to be read by the masses, so that we can write even more in the south of France, or wherever takes your fancy, ( ILLUMINATION cares not where you write), can be little more than the stuff of dreams, unless you are prepared for some serious work. Yet there is huge opportunity here, if we are prepared to go for it…to be at the coalface of such an opportunity, to be seen and valued by a smaller, but meaningful group of people, readers and writers alike, people who value and promote each other, is exciting. You don’t get much of that in the big, bad world. To be published by a large company is at best, the stuff of dreams, to self-publish on Amazon is wonderful, and within the morass you can be lucky, but the flip side of that is understanding and paying for, things like marketing and book covers. That’s big money we’re talking about!
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.
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
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
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
“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
“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.”
I hope you will enjoy reading these great 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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