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One Year, One Thousand Followers
Thank you all so much for helping me reach this milestone!
Yesterday I logged on and got fantastic news: I’ve hit 1k followers on Medium, after almost exactly one year of writing on the platform regularly.
Wow! 🥳
When I published “The Dreamspinner Press Controversy” about my experience working with a publisher that screwed over all its authors on October 14, 2021, I had exactly two followers — and one of them was my mom. (Hi Heather Lawrence!) I didn’t think that one year later I’d still be writing on Medium for over one thousand subscribers.
The last couple of months for me have been a real struggle, and I haven’t been posting here as much as I would like. I dislocated my knee and am waiting on corrective surgery; I caught COVID and experienced lingering symptoms for two months; I went off birth control for the first time in 17 years; I’ve temporarily relocated to Sweden. But most of all, I’m trying to submit my Ph.D. thesis after asking for an extension. Medium has…
