Today we're pleased to Interview Shona Kinsella. Shona is a newly-signed author from the UK, her book Ashael Rising was the second book to go through Beta on BetaBooks. She and Andrew have been friends since meeting through Scribophile last year. You can find / follow her online at www.shonakinsella.com ...

Lots of people talk about how great their beta readers are, how important the beta process was to their book, and all kinds of encouragement to take the beta stage of your book seriously. What I don't see many people talking about are the specifics of how their betas work, ...

I've had a few people ask me where BetaBooks came from, how Andrew and I started on this project. It's a short but fun story, so I thought I'd share it from my POV. After writing his first novel, Andrew started emailing ePubs and Mobis to his first wave of ...

Beta readers, test readers, pre-readers, or early readers, if you are a writer you have encountered the concept. These are the invaluable, possibly even saintly individuals who will read your book and give you the honest, sometimes brutal, feedback that will, hopefully, turn your book into something a wider audience ...

Rob Dircks posted a great article over at Goldfinch Publishing , titled How I Sold, 1,000 copies of my book in three months There's a great video to go along with the post as well (embedded at the bottom of this post). Here are the steps he took (summarized with ...