#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 13: Do you use beta readers? How's it working out?
Proof readers and editors, yes, Beta readers, no.
If I started taking feedback the stories would cease to be mine. They would become a collaboration. I understand why many writers use betas, but they're not for me. 😎
One reader said my first novel, Zero Magenta, had too much sex in it. 😱
It doesn't.
She was simply relaying her own preference for no sex in books. 🤔
John Howes /
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