One Million Project issue 1 | Page 7

Founder’s message Hello and welcome to the first issue of OMP Online, the bimonthly magazine for the ONE MILLION PROJECT When I first thought up the idea of combining a collection of short stories with a way to raise money for charity, there was only literally me and shortly after, a few writer friends of mine. We put together a collection of 24 stories by 14 different writers, presenting tales from a variety of genres and published in late 2015. 2016 has seen a massive expansion, with at the time of writing 90 members of the OMP Network, including writers, artists and lately, musicians. From July this year we brought on board more people for our separate but related OMP Promotions Network and are now looking to expand from one anthology to multiple and more focused themed collections with accompanying art and also OMP Music, where instead of writers contributing a story, it will be musicians contributing a track to an album. We have a website with a regular blogging team, media and promotions specialists and all dedicated towards growing the global OMP brand, raising money for CANCER RESEARCH UK and EMMAUS (an international charity for the homeless) and providing a platform to spread awareness about other worthy causes and important issues, from sexuality to coping with loss to animal conservation. OMP is ever expanding and adapting, making new contacts and plotting new strategies and out of this course of action and our superb OMP Promotions network (only founded in July 2016) came OMP Online. Among other features, our bimonthly magazine will include sample sections of our original 24 stories (2 per issue) with reviews and interviews with the writers and artists. There will also be blogs and articles about our charities and other worthy causes and a New Books section with links and information about published books written by our creative network membership. OMP is dedicated to charity and creative endeavour and I hope you’ll be hearing a lot more from us in the future. #OMP #onemillionproject Please check out the original collection and our future works - all profits to our charity pot. Thank you, Jason (Greenfield) 2 Copyright © 2016 by OMP Magazine Publishing