The BetaBooks Blog

News about BetaBooks, with thoughts on writing, reading, and publishing sprinkled in.
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My Book's Beta: Jess Creaden

Jess Creaden is a lifelong writer who fell into fiction along with parenthood. The book she has in beta now is, Re:Morse , a YA sci-fi/space opera. It was custom-ordered by her three children when they realized the libraries and bookstores didn’t have exactly what they were looking for. They ...
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My Book's Beta: Shona Kinsella

Today we're pleased to Interview Shona Kinsella. Shona is a newly-signed author from the UK, her book Ashael Rising was the second book to go through Beta on BetaBooks. She and Andrew have been friends since meeting through Scribophile last year. You can find / follow her online at www.shonakinsella.com ...

My Book's Beta: Andrew Burleson

Lots of people talk about how great their beta readers are, how important the beta process was to their book, and all kinds of encouragement to take the beta stage of your book seriously. What I don't see many people talking about are the specifics of how their betas work, ...

Backstory: Where BetaBooks came from

I've had a few people ask me where BetaBooks came from, how Andrew and I started on this project. It's a short but fun story, so I thought I'd share it from my POV. After writing his first novel, Andrew started emailing ePubs and Mobis to his first wave of ...