You can read Jodie's entire blog
post about beta readers here.
This past weekend, I guest blogged at Anne R. Allen's site with
a post about beta readers: where to find them and how to keep them.
Not exact matches
The guest
post built off several articles I've shared here on my blog, such as my suggestions of how to find
beta readers and my advice
about being a good
beta reader -LSB-...]
I wrote a
post a while back
about finding
beta readers.
-LSB-...] had several
posts about finding
beta readers or what to look for in
beta readers, but I haven't written
about the experience from the other side of the computer monitor: what -LSB-...]
-LSB-...] might like to read this great
post about the importance of
beta readers & this
post on what to look for in a BR.
The last couple of
posts have been
about beta reading,
beta readers, and authors helping each other.
Anyway, I want to thank agent Laura Bradford, who gave me the idea for this
post when she shared several great tips on Twitter yesterday
about beta readers and critique partners.
Yes, I've mentioned that advice
about not blindly following
beta reader suggestions before, but I should have mentioned it in this
post too.
-LSB-...] Writing Stuff The last couple of
posts have been
about beta reading,
beta readers, and authors helping each other.
I've had several
posts about finding
beta readers or what to look for in
beta readers, but I haven't written
about the experience from the other side of the computer monitor: what it's like to be a
beta reader.
The guest
post built off several articles I've shared here on my blog, such as my suggestions of how to find
beta readers and my advice
about being a good
beta reader ourselves.
In the next day or two, I'll be
posting here
about how to find
beta readers — useful for any authors reading this
post, but also an interesting insight for non-authors behind the scenes of book production.
If you're self - publishing, looking for an agent, or submitting your manuscript to calls for submissions, then you may not have to think
about such agreements, but you do need to trust your
beta reader not to plagiarize,
post spoilers online, or distribute copies of your manuscript.
That said, I understand the hit to the wallet, so check through my
posts here
about beta readers and editors for ideas to save money.
June 23, 2016 Jami Gold Writing Stuff advice for writers,
beta reader, critique partners / groups, drafting, editing, feedback, grammar, guest
posts, Jami Gold, Julie Glover, Learn
about Writing, pacing, paranormal author, perfectionism, point of view, professionalism, risk, self - doubt, voice
Dean Wesley Smith, an incredibly prolific author, wrote a blog
post about how you don't need
beta readers.
Sunday I
posted some thoughts
about beta readers, what they do — and don't do — and an author's responsibility regarding them.
Like I mentioned in my
post last week
about reader - character connections, we can ask our
beta readers what they thought the story was
about, or what the message of the -LSB-...]
July 24, 2014 Jami Gold Writing Stuff advice for writers,
beta reader, drafting, editing, Editing Your Story, feedback, giveaway, guest
posts, Jami Gold, Learn
about Writing, Mary Buckham, non-fiction, paranormal author, setting and description
* smile * Anyway, I want to thank agent Laura Bradford, who gave me the idea for this
post when she shared several great tips on Twitter yesterday
about beta readers -LSB-...]
-LSB-...] also written
about how to find
beta readers, and nowhere in that
post did I include «email a someone out of the blue and ask them to read -LSB-...]
This month Carnival # 83 includes blogger
posts on My Fourth Year in Self - Publishing; The Quick and Easy Guide to Using
Beta Readers; 5 lessons I Learned
About Blogging; How I Accumulated 38,000 Twitter Followers by social media expert, Frances Caballo, and my recent blog, Before You Hit the Publish Button.
I touched on this problem in the
post about what we should look for in a
beta reader.
My
post about combining comments from multiple
beta readers in MS Word brought up a great question.
Take a peak at Julia's
post with a us a few weeks ago
about testing Widow Women with
beta readers before publishing it.
In the comments section of my
post about the different types of editing authors need, many authors chimed in
about the value of
beta readers as a first line of editorial defense.
by Anne R. Allen I've had a lot of great responses to last week's
post about dealing with less - than - helpful criticism from
beta readers and critique groups.
(
Beta Read) I just
posted a request for info
about mentoring and I think I
posted it to some poor
readers comment.
Barring that, we could get a bunch of early reviews from
beta readers and
post them in the «editorial reviews» section (one of the hardest things
about selling a book on preorder is lack of reviews...) Preorders are important because on most platforms, preorder sales count the day of launch — and all the sales need to be in the same week to hit the big bestseller lists.