The wonderful job that beta readers do via Aurora Alexander’s blog
It seems there is the one or other author around who either don’t know what the job of a beta reader is. Also, some authors don’t want to pay for an editor and therefore try to ‘use’ the beta reader to get the editor’s job done.
From what I learned in my ‘long’ career of two published books (and a few lined up)… my order of ‘writing and publishing’ is the following:
- Drafting
- Copying out
- personal editing #1
- personal editing #2
- professional editing (proofreading)
- filing for copyright
- sending the manuscript out to the beta readers
- having the book cover done
- possible corrections when getting the manuscript back from beta readers
- publishing
At times the corrections, added paragraphs or even pages, demand a second round of proofreading or editing.
Now, what does the beta reader do?
Beta readers are helpful people around you – can be friends, co-workers, family members. They…
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M J Mallon YA Author and Poet 
Thanks for sharing this post, Marje! 😀
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Welcome Vashti. 🙂
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A very good article. I think I was very lucky with my Beta readers, you included, so there was a real wide spectrum of feedback from the simple story enjoyment to more technical=l, and even spelling/grammer checks. Still, if I go self, I will definitely get one more round of final edits done from my editor!
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Yes it is Ritu. Glad your beta readers and myself could help! Found your help invaluable too. 🙂
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Thanks for sharing this, Marje. It’s interesting how many different ideas there are about beta reading. I will note typos and grammar problems, unless there are piles of them. A dozen or two for a whole book is no sweat. In general, I agree that this isn’t a beta reader’s job. 🙂
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