Introduction: The Substack Eminence Book Is Coming in 31 August 2025
An Original Book For Ultra-Advanced Writers Who Want to Scale with Clarity, Authority, and Integrity.
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Dear Friends, I trust this post finds you well. Finally, I completed 378 pages of the Smart Email book, which will be published next week. I started uploading all chapters in digital and audio formats to this publication. Now, I am maturing my manuscript for a new book, which was scheduled for 31 August 2025. In this post, I will introduce it to you briefly. It is a first-of-a-kind book nobody has written about yet.
I am pleased that our first public publication, ILLUMINATION Writing Academy on Substack, received significant interest from freelance writers and became the top 23 trending in the Education field. We will start this journey soon. I posted a story about it and linked it here for those who might have missed it:
Introduction to the Substack Eminence Book
Dear Freelance Writers, Startup Founders, and Journalists,
For those who don’t know me, I am the author of the best-selling book, Substack Mastery and Advanced Substack Newsletter Mastery, which has been read and benefited by over 100,000 freelance writers and creators. It helped many of them start Substack successfully, and some of them became bestselling authors on the Platform.
Many of these high achievers reached the mastery level and asked me what was next for them and whether I could write a new book to guide them. With this inspiration, I decided to write another advanced book that goes beyond mastery. I called it Substack Eminence.
Substack Eminence is not a book about getting started. It is an advanced book about what comes after you have found your voice, earned trust, and built a body of work that delivers clarity, brevity, and impact.
I submitted my manuscript to the publisher, and it was approved a few days ago. It will be released as a preorder in August 2025. Here is the high-level table of contents for Substack Eminence:
This book distills over four decades of my lived experience, encompassing advanced research, technology practice, science consultancy, writing, community leadership, and digital strategy.
For those who know me well, I did not stumble into the stage of eminence in my profession. I earned it through hard work, consistent delivery, honest reflection, interpersonal depth, and many costly mistakes.
Along the way in this journey with ups and downs, I built credibility, refined my methods, and achieved wins that now enable me to pass on valuable insights that cannot be learned from surface-level success stories.
What you will find in the pages of Substack Eminence is not abstract theory. It is distilled tacit knowledge — simplified from a scholarly voice into practical language for those ready to build with clarity, brevity, depth, long-term relevance, and impact.
I have written Substack Eminence for ultra-advanced writers, startup founders, and digital business architects who want to grow without losing what makes their platform valuable — clarity of message, alignment with values, and control over time, energy, and creative output.
This book is written for you:
. If you are a freelance writer or startup founder building a substantial archive of meaningful content,
. If you are an independed creator or journalist shaping your insights into teachable frameworks and assets,
. If you are a business strategist structuring your content, business, and audience into something scalable and defensible.
You will learn how to:
· Build a legacy body of writing that earns trust and expands visibility
· Turn your Substack newsletters into a content-rich ecosystem with aligned products, services, and strategic offers
· Design intellectual frameworks, models, and narratives others can teach, use, or license
· Write for collaborators, clients, and decision-makers without diluting your voice
· Manage your newsletter like a business founder — with clear systems, not performative pressure
· Grow without creating noise, burnout, or unsustainable churn
· Position your platform for scaling, partnerships, or exit, regardless of whether you plan to sell
Senior editors of the manuscript said:
“Written by a seasoned scientist, technologist, and veteran content strategist who has helped thousands of writers and creators build high-integrity platforms, Substack Eminence blends decades of experience with actionable systems, conceptual clarity, and a deep respect for creators who build with purpose, not performance. This is not a playbook for virality. It is a structured invitation to build something that endures, inspires, and elevates.”
Although it is intended for advanced writers, I have also written the Substack Eminence book for beginners in mind, as they can use it for goal setting and early strategy building to give them direction and save them time and energy on their writing journey.
I approached Substack Eminence not only as an established writer but as an ethnographic researcher using design thinking principles.
What Qualifies Me to Write Substack Eminence
For those who don’t know me, I am the author of over 40 books under my name and have ghostwritten more than 50 for senior technology executives, including CIOs, CTOs, and CDOs, over the last 42 years.
After retiring from a four-decade career as a technology and science executive with a distinguished certification from the Open Group as a consulting IBM senior inventor, I chose to build something different — quietly, sustainably, and with purpose.
As a community leader, I created multiple thriving communities from scratch, including the ILLUMINATION publication on Medium (now followed by over 219,000 readers), the Health and Wellness Network, the ILLUMINATION Book Club for Authors, and the ILLUMINATION Writing Academy on Substack.
These spaces brought together thousands of writers, thinkers, and readers across platforms. The work behind them — mentorship, editorial leadership, community building — taught me what no shortcut or growth hack ever could.
I am qualified to write this book because, as a practitioner on Substack, I walk my talk.
My profile gained 167,000 subscribers, and publications were recognized as Substack best sellers. In addition, I received a new badge, making my profile the top #23 writer in Education on Substack among thousands of advanced writers in the field.
For example, two of my publications were announced as bestsellers in March 2025.
The Health and Wellness Network, which I established only recently, has gained over 35,000 subscribers with hundreds of paid readers.
Two of my community publications also gained significant exposure:
That hard-earned experience and tacit knowledge — earned, tested, and distilled — is what I share in this book. I do not repeat outdated advice or rely on second-hand information.
I offer original content that incorporates personal experimentation, including successes and failures, transparently after skill-building and mastery. This approach can build sustainable influence, structural clarity, and creative autonomy that can grow with integrity.
Whether you are a solo writer ready to scale, a startup founder building an intellectual property engine, or an experienced creator seeking structure for long-term growth, the Substack Eminence book meets you where mastery ends and enduring influence begins.
As usual, I opened the review process first to alpha and then to beta readers for the members of the Substack Mastery Boost Pilot in the next few months. I will also provide an early version of Substack Eminence in my Content Marketing Strategy Insights on Substack, offering my educational resources.
As an update for my readers, I have published the early access to Smart Email Marketing in both digital and audio formats through Google Play and Google Books.
I am also an established blogger with many subscribers and will blog chapters of this new book on one of my websites.
I am also uploading this 378-page book with 63 chapters and 7.30 hours of audio to my Content Marketing Strategy Insights publication members on Substack. The final version of the book will be published through multiple outlets on 30 April 2025.
Here is an editorial review of Smart Email Marketing.
I will soon write the submission guidelines for our first public publication on Substack called ILLUMINATION Writing Academy. I introduced it in a recent story. You can also repurpose stories of this publication on Medium for further visibility.
The Day I Let Go of My Darling: A True Story of Courage, Closure, Community, & Rebirth
Welcome to the ILLUMINATION Writing and Reading Academy on Substack, to offer curated content for readers and promote…medium.com
You are welcome to send your outstanding stories, which our senior editors will curate and publish on Substack soon. Inquiries are through the website of my former beloved ILLUMINATION-Curated publication, which rises from its ashes like a Phoenix.
I hope my educational resources can help you grow, and I wish you a lovely long weekend.
Thank you for reading my perspectives. I wish you a healthy and happy life.
Health and well-being are essential to me and my readers. The brain, cognitive performance, and mental health are my research and interest areas. Therefore, I recently authored a book titled Train Your Brain for a Healthier and Happier Life and shared some sample chapters on this platform. You can find links to ten chapters through this introductory story:
Early Access to “Train Your Brain for a Healthier and Happier Life”
Another health-related book I published recently is Cortisol Clarity, as chronic stress is the root cause of many physical and mental conditions.
Cortisol Clarity: Why I Wrote a Book About the Stress Hormone Published on 1 January 2025
If you are a writer on this platform, you are welcome to join my publications by sending a request via this link. I support 36K writers who contribute to my publications on this platform. You can contact me via my website. If you are a new writer, you might check out my writing list to find some helpful stories for your education.
I invite you to subscribe to my newsletter on Substack now. 167K+ readers subscribe to it, as I offer experience-based content on health, content strategy, and technology topics to inform and inspire them.
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