Calling all beta readers!

[annathepiper]

I am delighted–and relieved, OH MY GOD relieved–to announce that as of this posting, Draft Six of Lament of the Dove is finally, FINALLY complete.

Final word count on this draft is roughly 110K, which puts me within the range I was asked for in Carina’s R&R. Quite a bit of old content has been taken out. Quite a bit of new content has been put in. And now I am going to step away from this book for a few weeks, before I come back for one last read-through to make sure nothing else is in desperate need of fixing before I re-query it back to Carina Press.

This, O Internets, is where you come in. Several of you out there have expressed previous interest in beta reading for me. If you’re still interested, and you think you’ll be able to read through Lament for me in the next couple of weeks, I need to hear from you ASAP.

What I need is going to be extremely simple. I do not at this point need in-depth proofreading or copyedits, although as always, any obvious errors should be brought to my attention. Mostly I need people to read through it like any other book, sanity-check it, and tell me if it hangs together cohesively. If you’ve read previous drafts of Lament and you’re up for taking another stab at it, you’re more than welcome. If you haven’t read a previous draft and you want to, that’s also awesome.

Either way, contact me if you want in. I will fling you a copy of the manuscript in the file format of your choice. My usual gmail addresses are acceptable contact methods, as are DMs on Twitter or PMs on Facebook. Hell, if you can reach me with smoke signals or carrier pigeons, go for it! Just talk to me!

And talk to me soon. I would like if at all possible to re-submit the book to Carina before I go to Canada at the beginning of March, to get it done and dealt with. Thanks all, as always, for your support!

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Comments

[lethendy.livejournal.com]

Related question : do you have LotD in Kindle format? If so, I'd love to read it for you. Having said that, I'm easily confused, so if said format comes with easy instruction as to how to put it on my Kindle, I'd be very grateful.

Unrelated question : when are you planning to head this way? I'm doing up a list of places to stay, but just wanted to check when approximately you'll be here!

[annathepiper]

I can put the file into a format that your Kindle will talk to, yeah, and it should be reasonably easy to get it onto your Kindle via USB connection. (I say 'should' since I have no firsthand Kindle experience; I'm only drawing from what I've read about and heard from friends who have Kindles.) Can you fling me a mail to my gmail address, annathepiper, and let me know where I should send the file? I don't think I have an email address for you in my contacts list.

Re: coming out that way--woo, thank you so much for looking that stuff up. Stand by for further updates; I've got to set solarbird down and get some serious planning going! Approximately early August is when we're looking at here, so we can hit the music festival scheduled for August 3-5. (This thing! -> http://nlfolkfestival.com/)

[lethendy.livejournal.com]

E-mail has been sent :)

OK. When I have the list as complete as possible, I'll e-mail it to you.

[annathepiper]

And email has been received! I'll fire you off the file when I get home tonight.

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

Can you get it to me in a format I can read on my kindle or phone?

[annathepiper]

Yes! Do you have a preference?

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

I don't know enough to have a preference! 99.9% of everything I read on the kindle has been purchased straight from the AWS. Actually I suppose I'd be reading it on my phone with the kindle app or goodreader. What do you recommend?

[annathepiper]

I can pretty much convert the file to any format necessary--the only question is what would be easier on your end.

I can hand you a .mobi file that you should be able to get onto your Kindle via USB connection. (I haven't tried this myself but this is my understanding for how it should work, just from what I've read.) I could also hand you a PDF that Goodreader would cheerfully read on your phone.

It should be possible to give you something that your phone's Kindle app would read, but I am currently unfamiliar with the details of how to get it onto the phone and visible to the app. Something for your actual Kindle or for Goodreader would probably involve fewer hoops to jump through. :)

[kathrynt.livejournal.com]

Oh, heck, shoot me a PDF, that'll work just fine.