The BetaBooks Blog

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

BetaBooks is now an ALLi Member

Hi everyone, I have a great piece of news to share with you: Today we were approved as a partner member of ALLi, the Alliance of Independent Authors ! Why is this important to us? Because many of you are Independent Authors! What is an independent author? Here's what ALLi ...

Changes to the Reader Directory

Hi Everyone! We have a diverse crew of authors and readers here at BetaBooks. Many authors bring their core group of beta readers with them when they join, but want to make even more reader connections. Many readers who are invited by one author are voracious beta machines who are ...

BetaBooks 2020

Hi Everyone! I've been cheering and supporting behind the scenes since Andrew and Paul launched BetaBooks more than three years ago. After watching them build and steer the app, I’m thrilled to say that this year, they handed me the wheel. I’m now captaining this ship! We've got a lot ...

BetaBooks Fall Update

Hey everyone, It's been a while since we've updated the blog or sent out any BetaBooks news in general. Life has been a little hectic, and as you all know BetaBooks remains a nights and weekends project for me and Paul, so when our lives get too busy at the ...
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BetaBooks Update: Conventions and Conversations

Wow, it's amazing how busy we've been over the last few months! We started 2019 at a sprint and haven't slowed down since. As a result, we've communicated a lot less than we normally do, so I wanted to say hi and let you know what we've been up to.