Call for beta read on current Lament draft

[annathepiper]

OKAY! Given my last post, I am now doing an in-depth review of the editorial feedback from Carina Press, and beginning to organize notes for a plan of attack on how to address the various recommendations.

However, given that this will be Lament‘s fifth draft (possibly sixth, if I do a separate word count reduction pass) and I’ve already gotten a little cross-eyed with editing this thing already, fresh eyes on it would be really, really good. So does anybody want to do a read-through for me? Specifically, I need someone who can:

1. Read the entire manuscript,
2. Review the list of editorial recommendations,
3. Tell me if you think they’re reasonable, and
4. For added bonus points, brainstorm with me on whether the game plan I’m developing to address them is feasible.

Let me emphasize: I need someone who can read the whole manuscript, all 118K words of it. Given that several of these recommendations address the overall structure of the story, a few chapters won’t cut it here. Also, my ideal time frame for this would be “some time before the end of this month”. It’ll take me at least a week or two to really properly hammer out the game plan, and if I could start hardcore edits in October, that would be awesome.

I will trade an equivalent beta read to any of my fellow writers out there for their own work, or do something else nifty in exchange for non-writers!

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Comments

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

A project. I could use a project. And I haven't beta'ed this before, so I'll take a whack at it.

[annathepiper]

Thank you! :) Email is on the way to you.

[mari-mac1109.livejournal.com]

I'll volunteer! School should be easy peasy for me until mid October/late November, so I've got the free time right now.

I'm not super up and up on fantasy, but I'm definitely good at looking at work and offering critical and insightful feedback. :) It would honestly be a pretty helpful learning experience for me as well, since I've done the writing and the editing, but never from an 'omg publishers and agents and queries' stand point.

[annathepiper]

Oh awesome, thank you very much!

Can you fling me an email (my annathepiper addy at gmail) and let me know:

1) What file format is easiest for you to read? I have .doc, .docx, and .rtf immediately handy, as well as a .pdf. The first two are handy for Word users if you want to use the comments feature in Word, .rtf is handy for non-Word users, and .pdf is if you don't want to risk accidentally screwing up the file while you're reading it.

2) Do you want to see what the editor said about the book before or after you read it?

[howlinhobbit.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

I'd be happy to do it. You don't have to trade me anything, it'd tickle me just to be a help in another artist's project.

You should have my email from the openid thing, but just in case... howlin dot hobbit and it's a gmail account.

[annathepiper]

Oh, fabulous, thank you sir! Email is on the way. :)