In each of my books, you’ll find a massive thank you to everyone who helped me. This is because my first draft often looks nothing like my final draft. I need people to bounce ideas off of and make sure they the sludge in my brain comes out as a pristine, understandable story!
I, like many authors, need help on three levels.
My alpha readers don’t care about spelling and grammar. They’re going to blitz through my book and let me know if they like the concept and the characters, and point out anything that is super unrelatable or unclear.
My beta readers are pickier. Some are my alpha readers, who want to see how the book has changed, but many are new to the story. At this point, I think my plot points and personalities are a winning combination. My beta readers are there to show me what needs to be brought out, possibly make the occasional grammar and spelling suggestion, and, more than anything else, let me know if something is confusing, be it a little sentence or a plot hole I didn’t consider.
My final readers. This is only one or two discerning people looking for inconsistencies and making sure that my last edit didn’t take out any important information or add in the same information twice.
Last my ARC team 🙂 Are all the people willing to read my books and leave a review, ideally a good one, because they liked the book.
Want to join one of my teams? You can email me at KateMessickAuthor@gmail.com, and we can chat!
