Editor Profiles
Meet Gregory Maidman
Senior editor of ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium
Gregory Maidman, aka Marcus has a unique editorial style. He builds meaningful relationships with writers by challenging them to improve their craft, often performing line edits.
Writers always appreciate his generous editorial support. They know that line-editing is a costly practice, and Marcus performs this activity for them, donating his valuable time to the growth of writers.
Marcus can step into the author’s voice and improve an article without usurping it as his own. Some writers write about difficult and sensitive topics.
To help them, Marcus ghost-writes sensitive statements as the editor to make sure that these important stories would neither violate Medium guidelines nor subject our publications to complaints protecting writers from misunderstanding.
Moreover, Marcus has helped several writers get their stories chosen for further distribution by improving the quality of content. Here is an example of how he went about that.
Some writers provided praising feedback highlighting his different voices based on the topic and intention of the writers he helps. These two stories received praise from many readers: Suicidal? Speak up! Ask for help! and A Matter of Life and Death. His stories on philosophy, especially of Stoicism, are worth mentioning.
We would be remiss if we did not take this beyond Marcus’s skills as an editor and express our appreciation for when he displayed both courage and a combination of legal and spiritual acumen to rise to the defense of our publications against attempts to defame us which had gone largely unaddressed.
In addition, Marcus contributed to developing our policies especially related to copyright rules such as our photo-handling rules and other policies such as preventing defamation, discrimination, and hate speech in stories.
His legal experience provided valuable insights to our editorial team. He serves as a knowledge source for legal issues when we receive problematic content in our publication queues. He advises the team and does specialized research when needed to inform us and contribute to our decision-making.
Here are some of Marcus’s stories which run the gamut from his spiritual awakening, which synchronously coincided with the date that ILLUMINATION was founded, to spirituality, addiction, life lessons, editing, politics, and poetry, and much in between — at this moment he has risen to #4 on the list of top poets on Medium.
Top Stories by Marcus
1 — 100’s of Stories about Spiritual Awakening
2 — Drilling Down to the Root Cause of Addiction
5 — My Personal Experience with Idiopathic Truncal Dystonia
8 — Marriage of Philosophy and Spirituality
9 — Life Is School for the Soul
10 — Can We Please All Find the Space Within Which to Breathe the Same Air and Agree Not to Agree
You can connect with Marcus on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.
We are grateful for generous contributions of Marcus to our writers and readers on this platform. Thank you for reading our stories.
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