It's always a good idea to show your work to a few trusted readers before sending it out into the world. (bookworks.com)
But thankfully I have a couple trusted readers that are also writers and offer good advice about how the story flows, do the characters work. (jamigold.com)
Since then, the book has been professionally edited twice, beta read by a dozen trusted readers, and downloaded tens of thousands of times by interested readers. (jthorn.net)