Today's guest post is by Rachelle Gardner Rachelle is a literary agent with Books & Such literary agency, and has worked as a senior editor at NavPress, as the director of marketing and rights at General Publishing Group, and as special programming director at Fox Broadcasting Company. Having ghostwritten eight ...

A few weeks back we asked everyone what features they'd most like to see added to BetaBooks, and by far the number one request was for feedback to autosave as you type. We also got a lot of requests for a "save as draft" option, and it turns out these ...

One big thing we emphasize at BetaBooks is not starting a beta until your book is Beta Ready. But what does that mean? On the Beta Reader Pool Submission Page , we list two key criteria: Clean, well-formatted, complete manuscripts. You should have proofread your manuscript at least once, so ...

The conventional wisdom says don't ask your friends and family to be your beta readers. My opinion differs and here is why.

Ali Standish, the author of the recently released The Ethan I Was Before, surveyed 100 debut Middle Grade and YA authors about their journey to getting published. She compiled some very interesting data that I suggest everyone check out. Andrew and I are always excited and intrigued to see compiled information like this. Here is the opening but she gets into number of novels written before author's first sales, advances, and a ton of other great info. The whole article can be found on her blog here.