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Substack: The Grand Plan
Moving to Substack … and Beyond
ILLUMINATION’s next chapter
The moment has arrived. It’s time for a change. New direction, new focus. Time for moving to Substack. Time to go beyond.
Here’s my story
Several years ago I was running a blog. Erotica, reviews, travel stories, chit-chat. It was fun but it wasn’t bringing in many readers or money. The odd sale on Amazon of one of my saucy travel stories but to be honest, most of those came when I dropped the price to zero for a promotion.
Then I discovered Medium. I began writing the same sort of stories, receiving offers from editors to publish and after a while I was invited to contribute to ILLUMINATION by Dr Mehmet Yildiz. A new publication, it gave everybody a chance, aiming to help new writers gain traction, gain readers, gain income.
I was soon offered a chance to be an editor, so I was on the inside watching as a small publication went big and spun off a dozen specialist publications. There were tens of thousands of writers, hundreds of thousands of stories, millions of views.
It was an incredible experience and I admired the constant dedication, energy, and leadership of Dr Mehmet.
