The BetaBooks Blog

News about BetaBooks, with thoughts on writing, reading, and publishing sprinkled in.

BetaBooks Turns One!

Paul and I launched BetaBooks officially on September 1, 2018. Wow, what a year it's been! Since we went live a year ago we've introduced a few major new features, including bulk invitations, image uploading, questionnaires, a drag and drop table of contents editor, book clubs, reader roles, collaborators, automatic ...

Special welcome to everyone who found us via Tumblr :)

One of our BetaBooks authors wrote a very positive review on her Tumblr today , and more than a hundred new authors signed up. That's kind of a big day for us, so I jumped on YouTube to record a special "welcome!" to all the new folks. So glad you ...

New Feature: Questionnaires

Our goal at BetaBooks is to make it easy for authors to structure exactly the beta they want. One thing we've heard a lot of requests for is more customization around end of book reviews, and options to insert additional questionnaires into a book. Today I'm happy to announce our ...

New Feature: Drag and Drop Table of Contents

Good news for BetaBooks authors everywhere, this week I added one of the most-requested features of all time: a drag-and-drop table of contents editor. It's pretty self explanatory, here's a gif that shows you the whole thing: Most BetaBooks authors are importing their book once and doing editing in their ...
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The Secret to Writing Success that No One Wants to Hear

Stories of a first book pulled from the slush pile, a chance whisper at a party leading to a publishing deal, or a subway meet cute miracle resulting in best seller status emerge regularly. Those stories never go away. They just linger in the ether, digging into our minds. They ...