The BetaBooks Blog

News about BetaBooks, with thoughts on writing, reading, and publishing sprinkled in.
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Spring Cleaning Update

I just finished a little batch of what I'd call "Spring Cleaning" work on the app. These are little things, but hopefully they'll make your time on BetaBooks just a bit better.
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Scott Reingten, How Do You Beta?

We are so pleased to have Scott Reintgen talking to us today about how he betas his book. He has been a great encourager of Andrew and I as we have worked on and grown BetaBooks. We love hearing the different nuances of how authors run and organize their betas. ...
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Changes coming for April's Beta Reader Pool

The next cutoff for Beta Reader Pool submissions is coming up in one week, on March 26, and I wanted to share some news with you guys ahead of the cutoff. The reader pool has grown a lot over the last few months, and is now close to 200 readers. ...

Do you provide Beta Readers?

Now and then people come to us thinking we're a Beta Reader Service, and hoping we'll be able to give them a bunch of readers. Here's why I think they ask, and why our answer is no.
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How I Beta my own work

Today I had the opportunity to guest post an article on the Write Practice , titled " 5 Steps to Get Amazing Feedback from Beta Readers ." In the post I walk through my own process, from pre-work to feedback collection and editing passes. There's definitely more than one good ...