My good friend, Jo Myles, has a release today. Jo and I are
beta reading partners, and I've been intimately acquainted Handle With Care from the beginning--I even had an input in the
title. Now I feel like a proud godparent.
Not everyone knows what a beta reader does. The term possibly
originates from fanfiction, but the role is as old as writing itself. The beta
is someone who reads your raw manuscript and gives you an honest opinion. All writers crave praise, but we all need someone
to tell us when something doesn't work. Jo has beta-read all my stories. The
first one was the hardest. I ended up doing massive rewrites, but the book
became much better for it.
