beta readers Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/beta-readers/ Sun, 28 Aug 2016 20:04:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Beta-Readers and Editors: Diversity is Strength https://booksbywomen.org/beta-readers-and-editors-diversity-is-strength/ https://booksbywomen.org/beta-readers-and-editors-diversity-is-strength/#comments Mon, 07 Sep 2015 07:40:08 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13981 Two years ago when I started writing about my niece Deihlia four months after her passing, I wasn’t thinking about audience, promotion, or markets. At the time, I was far out to sea, carried there by waves of overwhelming grief. At first, I was writing it just for myself, so that I could capture details […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/beta-readers-and-editors-diversity-is-strength/feed/ 3 13981 How many Beta Readers do you need? https://booksbywomen.org/how-many-beta-readers-do-you-need-by-martha-conway/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-many-beta-readers-do-you-need-by-martha-conway/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:15:19 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12586 Someone in my writing group recently sent his first chapters to five different people … and got five very different responses. The result: he’s more confused than ever. Beta readers—those readers you trust your manuscript to before sending it out to an agent, editor, or publishing house—can give valuable feedback. They read with more distance […]

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