The BetaBooks Blog

News about BetaBooks, with thoughts on writing, reading, and publishing sprinkled in.
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Shay Roberts, How do you Beta?

Andrew and I are so happy to be able to bring you an interview with Shay Roberts today. He has made heavy use of betabooks.co over the past few months. His thoughtful feedback and precise comments on both his process and the BetaBooks site have been extremely helpful to us as we polish our features and more fully develop our philosophy. For authors looking to find new beta readers his answer to question 10 might prove helpful!
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Spring Cleaning Update

I just finished a little batch of what I'd call "Spring Cleaning" work on the app. These are little things, but hopefully they'll make your time on BetaBooks just a bit better.
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Scott Reingten, How Do You Beta?

We are so pleased to have Scott Reintgen talking to us today about how he betas his book. He has been a great encourager of Andrew and I as we have worked on and grown BetaBooks. We love hearing the different nuances of how authors run and organize their betas. ...
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Changes coming for April's Beta Reader Pool

The next cutoff for Beta Reader Pool submissions is coming up in one week, on March 26, and I wanted to share some news with you guys ahead of the cutoff. The reader pool has grown a lot over the last few months, and is now close to 200 readers. ...

Do you provide Beta Readers?

Now and then people come to us thinking we're a Beta Reader Service, and hoping we'll be able to give them a bunch of readers. Here's why I think they ask, and why our answer is no.