I am looking for two beta readers. You ask, "what is that?"
Other writers or careful readers who will read a second draft and
take a red pen and notes to the work.
A beta reader can be a lifelong partnership.
I lost my two in the past two years.
My mother was my first beta reader. She had a serious
stroke two years ago and open heart surgery in April-
she no longer has the concentration for reading novels.
I will miss her prudish comments about my sex scenes.
Often other writers will read for each other.
Usually it works if they already read the genre.
Allow me to upsell the job:
My novel in progress is about a number of things.
Emotionally the story has betrayal, love, survival, one woman's attempt to
get away from her past and renew the world.
It is set in rural Wyoming three years after the Great Drought.
There are flawed characters and ones full of grace. Or perhaps they
are all flawed and have some grace.
I will send you a word document by email or a paper printed copy.
Since I'm a trader by heart I can pay in organic flower seeds, in
trade beta reading, or a review or some promotional plugs on my
vast landscape of social webworking - not networking just sharing.
OR some trade such as a weekend vacation at one of my homes if
we get along for a couple books. I will credit you.
I am looking for someone who likes to read any of the following:
thrillers, transgressional fiction, literary fiction, long form poetry,
stories that are socially engaged and about our time, novels where
society is dystopian, experimental fiction -there are stories within the story,
the protagonist is a woman, has mild sex scenes and some deaths
by violence. Also did I say has a love story in it?
A beta reader is someone a writer trusts with their baby. The child
will later go on to my editor. I often share back the almost finished
copy back from the editor to show the beta reader how I trusted their read.
It's a friendship and a chore.
I'm offering my arms out to all.
Isn't that what we do every day we write?
Long tall order for a modern cowgirl (that's me)
Please contact me 9496378190 cell or email carolinegerardo at the yahoo.com place