sorry for MIA


Hey Reader,

I've been writing on the internet since 2018.

Been a full-time creator and writer since 2020.

I preach consistency and being ahead of your content calendar.

And yet, I haven't sent a proper newsletter for three weeks.

Shame on me.

But I had good reasons (if you're mean, you'll call them excuses).

Well, sometimes, you have to shift your priorities.

A LOT has happened over the last few weeks (details below), and since I only have so much time, the newsletter was my sacrifice.

Here's a quick overview of what I've been up to:

🎉 We launched the Substack September boot camp & became bestsellers!

This basically means we now have 100+ paid subscribers for our Write • Build • Scale Substack publication, which is an incredible achievement given that we only started to publish on Substack 3 months ago.

As part of the boot camp, we already hosted workshops on various topics like:

You can subscribe to our paid tier to get full access to all replays and our member-only library.


🧡 The Substack Mastermind Community is ON.

Over the past month, my partner Philip has built an entire Substack Mastermind Community, and we officially kicked off with 30+ incredible members last week.

It's an invite-only community full of brilliantly talented writers, entrepreneurs, and marketers on a mission to use Substack to grow their:

  • incomes
  • audiences
  • and businesses by supporting each other

My heart is extra happy to have a large number of female writers inside the Substack Mastermind Community, and I can't wait to see this wonderful space grow.


🇬🇷 Been at my happy place.

I spent the past week eating my weight in tzatziki on the Mamma Mia island in Greece. It's the seventh Greek island I've visited over the past three years, and I already can't wait to go back in spring.


Well, that's it - that's why I haven't written newsletters for the past three weeks.

I'm back on track with lots of exciting resources, ideas, and announcements to come over the next few days.

As a writer, your mind keeps spinning and creating ideas, even if you don't have time to write, which basically means I have even more to share now.

Thanks for your patience and curiosity, my friend - I'll be back in your inbox very soon with an idea that I haven't been able to stop thinking about for the past two weeks.

Big love from my screen to yours,
Sinem

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