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 ...

Beta readers, test readers, pre-readers, or early readers, if you are a writer you have encountered the concept. These are the invaluable, possibly even saintly individuals who will read your book and give you the honest, sometimes brutal, feedback that will, hopefully, turn your book into something a wider audience ...

Rob Dircks posted a great article over at Goldfinch Publishing , titled How I Sold, 1,000 copies of my book in three months There's a great video to go along with the post as well (embedded at the bottom of this post). Here are the steps he took (summarized with ...

If you haven't heard, I've been building a web app for writers called BetaBooks . The idea is pretty simple: upload your manuscript, send it to your readers just by entering their email address, and receive all their feedback in one super-organized and searchable place. In my parallel lives as ...

Recently a writer friend told me he was having trouble figuring out how to end a chapter. "It just ends," he said. "I feel like every chapter fizzles out at the end." I read some of his stuff, and saw what he meant. I offered the following advice, and if ...