I’m Excited about the Brand New Publication Reciprocal

After posting my first Medium article in October, I felt so ecstatic to see a comment on it the very next day. I felt even more thrilled when more people engaged with it. I feared that people who had never met me wouldn’t want to read my writings, but kind people in the Medium community proved me wrong.

Since then I’ve met many fantastic people on Medium, grown my audience, and read fascinating stories. I do all of this all while getting to write about topics that I care about and seeing that other people do as well. I appreciate my Medium community and all the support that you give me.

This is why I’m thrilled about Sahil Patel’s new publication Reciprocal. The point of it is to engage with and encourage other writers. You get to support other people at different stages in their journey and with varying levels of readership.

The publication explicitly requires its writers to read the works of other people on it which I think is amazing. In general, anyone who wants their writing read should consume stories that other people put up.

For anyone who joins, you are also expected to share at least three articles from other writers. It’s an opportunity to direct others to stories that they’ll enjoy and assist others with growing their audience and making connections. For anyone who would like to join, the process is to get added as a writer by Sahil Patel and then write a post tagging your connections after getting accepted.

I would like to thank my connections and supporters and invite you to join Reciprocal if doing so calls to you. I’m sorry if I miss anyone. I have enough fantastic connections and supporters on Medium that it’s hard to think of everyone on the spot; I think it’s a good problem to have. The names here appear in no particular order.

Occam’s Press Trista Signe Ainsworth Sahil Patel Kris Bedenian Julie Gaeta Elizabeth Emerald Omy Sandra Ivonne Gus Gresham April Zeyer Ali Mark Tulin Danielle Loewen Kitty Williams Jan Sebastian Susan Wheelock Uwem Daniels TzeLin Sam Yana Bostongirl Sara Burdick Amanda Laughtland J.R. Spiers Frank Moone Hayden Moore Mulan Divya Goswami Alan Simpson Mukundarajan V N B.R. Shenoy Freda Savahl Hollie Petit, Ph.D. Liberty Forrest, Author L Burton Harold Zeitung Cesar Sojo Henya Drescher Ariadne Ross Arbab Z. MN Shameem Anwar Joshua Cartwright Lanu Pitan Fred: Almost Famous Jessica Rocha Rodrigo S-C Brendareeves Andrey Pilipets pockett dessert Ann James Tyra Jaide Annelise Lords Edie Postiglione Loren Lieberthal Cathy Coombs Rui Alves Tunnel Books, author and creator, Francis Edwards Penny Grubb Benazir Albashir jeanninekauffmann/poems in the raw Terry Mansfield Jennydwyer E. Ardincaple Poetic Therapy Diana Meresc suryanarayanan k Mulan JoAnn Ryan Cynthia Rafetto Kreilick Charles Waters Boateng Sekyere Oscar Starschild David Perlmutter Synthia Stark Jennifer R. Povey

For animal lovers, I recommend this article about crows and ravens from Freda Savahl:

E. Ardincaple has this great account of triple decker novels for literature lovers:

In this article, Mukundarajan V N expresses his gratefulness for a kind act: