Chapter 1 Summary: Why Advanced Writers Must Be Leaders in Their Fields

How to be an excellent leader to build a large audience and scale your writing business

Dr Mehmet Yildiz
ILLUMINATION
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7 min readNov 9, 2024

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Dear freelance writers and content entrepreneurs,

Last week, I announced my upcoming book titled Preface: A Powerful Toolkit for Advanced Substack Newsletter Mastery, which will be published on 30 November 2024. Unlike my previous generic Substack Mastery book, I decided to choose beta readers for this advanced version only from interested and committed readers willing to read, learn from it, and provide feedback.

Besides, these advanced topics might be confusing or overwhelming for beginners who need to understand the fundamentals first. The chapters of the previous book are still available to the public to learn about the fundamentals. It was my giveback to the writing community.

Another key point not to make the new manuscript publicly available is that when I shared the previous one publicly on multiple platforms, only around 5% of readers provided feedback, and the remaining 95 consumed the book without adding value to its refinement.

I had no hard feelings about it. It was a great experiment for me. It satisfied me…

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Written by Dr Mehmet Yildiz

Scientist, Technologist, Inventor, focusing on HEALTH and JOY. Founder of ILLUMINATION, curating key messages for society. Connection: https://digitalmehmet.com

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