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What are beta readers?
Mickey Finn:
Pat Elrod is BIG into helping authors. She is harsh, she is brash, and she is mostly sharp edges...but it's always for your own good (or what she sees as your own good, anyways, and she IS good at it.)
And she HATES scammers.
While everyone needs to take all advice as a tool, and not gospel (anyone can steer you wrong)...trust the Pat.
Shecky:
Yep. Just don't trust the software implicitly. :)
polarglen:
I frankly admit I would be a terrible beta-reader of Jim's work -- too much of a cheer-leader and not enough fact checker, plot hole detective, or "jump-the-shark" scenario, and too much of a fan. Except for the grammar part -- but that's what an editor's for.
LizW65:
Not to nitpick or anything, but if Betas are "first readers", shouldn't they be called Alphas instead? Just a thought. ;)
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: LizW65 on October 20, 2008, 03:03:12 PM ---Not to nitpick or anything, but if Betas are "first readers", shouldn't they be called Alphas instead? Just a thought. ;)
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A couple of the authors I have read for refer to their chapter-by-chapter readers as alphas and their "sent the whole thing in through draft" readers as betas.
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